Posted on 08/02/2012 5:51:11 AM PDT by daniel1212
A new census of the Amish population in the United States estimates that a new Amish community is founded...about every 3 ½ weeks, and shows that more than 60 percent of all existing Amish settlements have been founded since 1990.
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 and the vast majority...remain in the community as adults baptized into the faith, starting their own families and sustaining their religious beliefs"...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
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.
exactly, just robbed a bank locally.
The Amish aren’t entirely averse to voting. If you recall, George Bush actively campaigned to the Amish and was fairly well received.
If we could bring them into the tea party fold, we might actually have a chance to return true conservatism to the GOP.
Well...they are exempt from a slew of onerous Federal and state regulation...including ObamaCare....so I suppose its not terribly surprising.
I too have seen Amish in northern Minnesota going home in their buggies at-26 not including the wind chill with as my wife commented nothing more than horse farts for heat. However, I have also seen three Amish men fishing in a small rowboat with their horse tied to a tree in the shade at the side of the lake. I had to admire the peace and simplicity of their fishing trip.
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...
Amen to that! Great neighbors and great people. If we could only get the vast majority of them voting. It is not just their numbers, it is where they are located: heavy concentrations in swing states like Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Depending on what their church district allows, those buggies have battery operated heaters in them.
They can also heat bricks and take them along.
One very strict group in Ohio does not allow ‘topped’ buggies, which means the people are in the open regardless of the weather.
There are dozens of people who make their living driving the Amish. Their white 15 passenger vans are too numerous to count in Holmes county OH. They are quite busy when it’s cold.
There are a lot in Michigan as well.
They aren’t likely to come out for tea party events but they do understand the need to oppose oppression.
There were a lot of Amish at Assateague Island this summer. They are in full garb, but they have the whole enclave with them in vans. They cook on the beach in designated areas and stay the whole day. It was the first time I’d seen them in such numbers and so often.
Do you know why God put Mennonites on the earth?
It was to give the Amishman a ride to work...
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