Over the decades, as the world kept failing to end, their proscription against sex became a strategic weakness.—Glenn Adamson, on the Shakers, in Craft: An American History
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Fair enough. They certainly held together longer (or at least more effectively, with less dissension) than the Rappites, the one I’m most familiar with.
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(Which itself was a celibate sect, so maybe doesn’t prove the point.)
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