As with nearly all small, defunct sects, the usual disclaimers apply: Most of what we know about the Adamites comes from writers who had every motivation to paint them in the worst possible light. That said, though, we can say a few things about them with a fair amount of certainty.

The Adamites believed themselves to have achieved a sort of sinlessness like pre-Fall Adam — they could be naked because they were innocent like Adam and Eve before the talking-snake incident. Beyond that, we don’t know much, but several contemporary writers accused them of having endless debauched orgies, because, well, what else would naked people be up to? According to Lawrence, the Adamites practiced free love, and when the inevitable pregnancies happened, they were said to have been “conceived of the Holy Spirit” (via Medievalists.net). At the other end of the spectrum was Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), who acknowledged their promiscuity but wrote that no Adamite was allowed to “take a lover” without the consent of “Adam” (their chief elder).

Regardless, the Adamites didn’t last long, mainly because the Taborites still had it in for them. First, they accused the Adamites of raiding their supplies (strange choice for a sect that didn’t believe in private property, but we digress), and then used it as a pretense to invade, burn their leaders alive, and wipe them out. So the new Eden had one more thing in common with the old Eden: it was done in by petty human nature.