The Amish?

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FindTruth7 said:
Lancaster Pennsylvania. I don’t have time to tell about the Amish now, but I can later, or you could look through this post, or google. They’re my favorite Protestant group out there, if I were a Protestant, I’d join them 🙂
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Lots of Amish in Ohio, upstate New York, Iowa and Michigan. The communities are growing and spreading because they have big families and lose only 25% of their children to “the world.”
 
deborahaz said:
i agree. i would be all for living that way. the amish have their own way of dressing. they dress very immodest in old style clothes which they make themselves. they do give their kids a chance when they reach a certain age to go out into the world and make their decision which life they want.
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Amish people are not permitted to “join the church” until they are 16 years old. That way, they are considered old enough to make an informed decision.
 
don’t forget pennsylvania. i was thinking there was even an amish community in mexico, but maybe that is mennonite or another religious sect.
 
swariffin said:
Dear brother,

Could you tell me more about the Amish? Which part they live in the US, which cities/county? I am interested more about their community.

In the deep of the depleting jungle of West Java, there live an “Old Banten” society. They live very traditionally, rejecting modern technology including electricity and battery powered equipments. Cultivate the land without modern machinery. No modern transportation. They are not associated with any religion too. But, remarkably they never experience any drought as other places of Java have, and never be lack of food. One of their representative was sent to our government in Jakarta to pass their voices to the politician. He went to Jakarta on foot with traditional sandals, and took 2 days reaching Jakarta. Uniquely, he only eat and drank the meal and water brought from his village. He used to took a rest in open spaces, usually under a tree. They don’t recognize money or any modern ways of payments. They don’t speak the lingua franca of Bahasa Indonesia, but and old dialect of Sundanese. Modern Sundanese usually can understand them, though not 100%. They live in a collective society. They store their harvests in a common traditional storage places (not individuals). No stealing nor cheating among them. The only modern thing is the fabric which they taylored their own clothing. Still, there is no modern clothing style. No blue jeans nor designer style of clothing. While the government try very hard to limit birth rate, they had no problem with that. Their population is stable. Their village can only be reached by foot (don’t take any helicopter to land there).
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The “Old Banten” sound like a primitive society in Indonesia. I can’t remember their name, but 60 Minutes or one of the other news programs had a report about them. Because of their closeness to nature, none of them were killed during the Tsunami that killed so many people. They likewise are a collective society.
The Amish, on the other hand, are a Christian community coming out of the Anabaptist tradition. They reject infant baptism in favor of an adult Believer’s Baptism. To be “holy” is to be “set apart.” They choose to live a life of simplicity that is not encumbered by the concerns of the world. They are also known as the Plain People because of the simplicity of their clothing. They reject the latest technology and “worldly show.” They do select elders who are responsible for many of the major decisions of the community.
When I lived in Wisconsin, there was a community close by. They would be generally be hired to help tear down buildings that needed to be demolished. As with the Mennonites, they are known for their pacifism and refusal to serve in the military.
This link should help.800padutch.com/amish.shtml
 
FindTruth7 said:
They may be a bit radical, and I may disagree with them on many theological doctrines, but I respect EVERYTHINGT they do.
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I do too. If things continue in the world the way they are, Christians will have to nest together in lay Christian communities in order to survive. I’m surprised it’s not happening on a larger scale.
 
peary1 said:
I do too. If things continue in the world the way they are, Christians will have to nest together in lay Christian communities in order to survive. I’m surprised it’s not happening on a larger scale.
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We don’t yet have a common house, but it is an aim of our lay Confraternity.
 
BarbaraTherese said:
Howdy FT7…I didn’t realize that you had started a thread on Amish people and rather fell over it accidentally, and it will take a bit of time for me to internalize and try to educate myself more than I am now by reading the posts…not that this is any loss (my absence in a thread) to anyone on CAF who even remotely knows me:D …but am looking forward to finding out more about Amish people…
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HI BARB tackles and hugs 🙂

Yeah I started this thread back when I was in Lancaster 🙂
 
FindTruth7 said:
HI BARB tackles and hugs 🙂

Yeah I started this thread back when I was in Lancaster 🙂
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Howdy FT7…Yep, I picked up reading this thread that you probably had commenced it when still near the Amish. I am still to answer your post to me in the other thread. I read your poems but want to read them again and then will catch up with you in the other thread…

Blessings and regards…Barb:)
 
deborahaz said:
i agree. i would be all for living that way. the amish have their own way of dressing. they dress very immodest in old style clothes which they make themselves. they do give their kids a chance when they reach a certain age to go out into the world and make their decision which life they want.
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I think you mean modestly. 😉

Although Wikipedia is a notoriously unreliable source, the article on the Amish is fairly accurate. The article doesn’t mention that the Amish fled Switzerland because they were persecuted by Catholics and Protestants.:twocents:
 
BarbaraTherese said:
Howdy FT7…Yep, I picked up reading this thread that you probably had commenced it when still near the Amish. I am still to answer your post to me in the other thread. I read your poems but want to read them again and then will catch up with you in the other thread…

Blessings and regards…Barb:)
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No big deal about the poems. I wrote them a ways back when I felt closer to the Lord than I do now, and I don’t know, just thought I’d share them. I posted them on CA actually last year in hopes to inspire and maybe have others inspire me. Though back then I was known as another name I now abandonded.
 
FindTruth7 said:
No big deal about the poems. I wrote them a ways back when I felt closer to the Lord than I do now, and I don’t know, just thought I’d share them. I posted them on CA actually last year in hopes to inspire and maybe have others inspire me. Though back then I was known as another name I now abandonded.
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You might like joining the discussion on “Why Pray?”
 
FindTruth7 said:
I am simply wondering, what are Catholics views about the Amish? I am currently in an Amish town as I speak. Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL country! I do not agree with some of their (in my opinon) “radical” practices, like no faces on dolls, no electricity, plain old clothing, BUT I do respect it to a degree. I just do not like when they start saying that their way is the most “Biblical,” that electricity is, or could possibly, be sin.

What I DO like is their community with one another. Oh it’s so amazing and friendly! So friendly! How they take care of each other and care not for the government telling them what to do.

Has there ever been a Catholic community like that? And what does the Church say about the Amish?
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I think it’s funny that you say they say that their way of life is the most Biblical because, where I live, there is a very large Amish population and I know many of them and they are surprisingly secular in nature.
 
FindTruth7 said:
I am simply wondering, what are Catholics views about the Amish? I am currently in an Amish town as I speak. Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL country! I do not agree with some of their (in my opinon) “radical” practices, like no faces on dolls, no electricity, plain old clothing, BUT I do respect it to a degree. I just do not like when they start saying that their way is the most “Biblical,” that electricity is, or could possibly, be sin.

What I DO like is their community with one another. Oh it’s so amazing and friendly! So friendly! How they take care of each other and care not for the government telling them what to do.

Has there ever been a Catholic community like that? And what does the Church say about the Amish?
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I just wanted to comment on the Amish. I feel very sorry for them.

I went to PA and visited the Amish. All women/girls are forbidden to have buttons or zippers on their clothing - they must secure their outfits with plenty of straight pins. So they often get pricked depending on how they move or if they try to hug their mom or daughter. The men however are able to have buttons.

Women are required to wear black after they marry - although that’s understandable, I would mourn too for the rest of my life if I had to be married to an Amish man. Generally young women are given in marriage to old/older men.

I found that the Amish men were very rude to women (unless you had money to give them - then they were just civil).

It’s such a sad culture built on extremely bad theology.
 
Skip_Wiley said:
I think it’s funny that you say they say that their way of life is the most Biblical because, where I live, there is a very large Amish population and I know many of them and they are surprisingly secular in nature.
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Biblical means whatever Protestants want it to mean.😦
 
I have never experienced rudeness from any member of the Amish community, either male or female. It is possible that what is being interpreted as rudeness is the reserve that they display.
 
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