Of interest:
I’m not entirely surprised. Don’t know if I could live like that. I think I could give up the television (watching less and less every day), maybe even the internet, but give up my car? No way! I feel sorry for the Amish (and their horses) when they go trotting into town in -30 weather. Of course, some do buy cars, but they just have other people drive them, which to me, seems a little silly. Go that far, might as well go all the way...
Rambling.
I like the Amish.
If we lose our fight with the Left, they will have their pacifism tested, as their faith will come under hard attack by the Left. They will have to fight or renounce their faith. Pockets of noncompliance will not be tolerated.
You know they are responsible for all the mayhem in America.
Well...they are exempt from a slew of onerous Federal and state regulation...including ObamaCare....so I suppose its not terribly surprising.
They also have independent livelihoods, rather than measuring success by how much they get paid for working for someone else.
We’ve had a bit of an Amish population explosion in Upstate New York the last few years. Apparently increases in land prices in Pennsylvania (from Nat Gas exploration) is the reason for it. Since NY will fight fracking tooth and nail, it will continue.
This pattern suggests the Amish are growing more rapidly than most other religions in the United...
"They're doubling their population about every 21 to 22 years, primarily because they produce large families...
The Amish are coming! The Amish are coming!
Great people IMO.
It is refreshing to go past their farms and see kids outside playing in the evening, women out tending their gardens and men coming home from a hard days labor. People producing food? Minding their own businesses? it doesn’t get any better than this.
Google Amish and birth control. They might be one of the few faiths that teach that birth control within marriage is prohibited and where most of them follow the teaching. The article didn’t even mention it.
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