Any group that legally avoids paying taxes to a Federal government that funds the abortion industry has my admiration.
I’ve known a number of them who work as builders and framers. They are many things, but stupid is not one of them.
An Amish framing crew is usually four guys. Three have beards and straw hats, one wears a Nirvana or some other rock concert T-Shirt.
He’s the non-Amish grunt, gofer and driver.
They usually have great tools. One day I was talking to one and his phone rang. It was a standard household cordless phone. When I asked how that worked, he told me that he had a landline in a shack 100 feet from his house. It had a cellular converter that converted landline to cell signal. He had another converter in his trailer that converted the cell signal back to landline signal. Like I said, anything but stupid.
As far as the religious aspect, Amish are pretty far from the true Gospel. I have a friend who’s ex-Amish who explained much of that to me. Their religion is totally based on works and not on the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.