They do speak to non-Amish people who visit their communities.
Fictional books about the travails of Amish life fill the shelves of Christian bookstores making things falsely idyllic, and Mennonites speak with Amish people from time to time. Mennonites would use the web. And there are non-Amish people who do join them from time to time.
Would you want anyone to be brought into or kept under this bondage to human rules? Perhaps in time, the fallacies they live by can be communicated to them - over time - can make a difference.
Why live a life of mega-legalism?
“Would you want anyone to be brought into or kept under this bondage to human rules?”
As far as I know, their rules are a voluntary covenant of the community, so I wouldn’t call it “bondage”. I wouldn’t choose to live under their rules, but I also am not going to begrudge them their choice.
Some Mennonites would use the web, others wouldn’t. The kind that would seem to be fairly liberal leaning, at least that I have observed in my area. I can’t recall ever seeing someone who claims to be Mennonite on FR, but of course that doesn’t mean they aren’t here by any means.
Old order Mennonites and Amish haven’t accepted divorce and remarriage or birth control within marriage to my understanding, it would be interesting to get their point of view on those debates when they come up on FR.
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