ADAMITES
Circa 2nd century AD
(Possibly an emanation of Simon Magus.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_love, Free love, “History of free love movements”:
An early Christian sect known as the Adamites—which flourished in North Africa in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries—also rejected marriage. They practised nudism while engaging in worship and considered themselves free of original sin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamites, Adamites:
Theodoret (Haer. Fab., I, 6) held this view of them, and identified them with the licentious sects whose practices are described by Clement of Alexandria. Others, on the contrary, consider them to have been misguided ascetics, who strove to extirpate carnal desires by a return to simpler manners, and by the abolition of marriage.
St. Epiphanius and Augustine of Hippo mention the Adamites by name, and describe their practices. They called their church "Paradise", claiming that its members were re-established in Adam and Eve's state of original innocence. Accordingly, they practiced "holy nudism", rejected the form of marriage as foreign to Eden, saying it would never have existed but for sin …
Adamites being rounded up by men with guns
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01135b.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia), Adamites:
They called their church Paradise; they condemned marriage as foreign to Eden, and they stripped themselves naked while engaged in common worship.
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Various accounts are given of their origin. Some have thought them to have been an offshoot of the Carpocratian Gnostics, who professed a sensual mysticism and a complete emancipation from the moral law. Theodoret (Haer. Fab., I, 6) held this view of them, and identified them with the licentious sects whose practices are described by Clement of Alexandria. Others, on the contrary, consider them to have been misguided ascetics, who strove to extirpate carnal desires by a return to simpler manners, and by the abolition of marriage.
http://encyclopedia.edwardtbabinski.us/wiki/index.php/Adamites, Encyclopedia - Adamites:
they imitated Adamic simplicity in going without clothing while at worship