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Amish = religous sect who live a simple life. AMish = AM-ish = sometime in the morning compared to PM-ish (afternoon).
There are Amish or other plain sect congregations on every continent except Antarctica.
Amish. Are you from Mrs.Kellys Class?
The Amish are a fundamentalist Christian sect. They separate themselves from the rest of society by living in their own communities and shunning many modern inventions. The Amish do not have electricity, telephones, automobiles, or modern farm machinery.
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To my knowledge all plain communites with the exception of the strict Schwartzentruber sect of the Amish allow the use of tampons and pads.
No. It's a french/flemish name, and as such is uncommon among the Amish and other plain-sect peoples. The Amish choose traditional family names for their children, which mostly means names common in the Palatine states of the early 1700s.
Mennonites have broken off of the Amish. The Mennonites have different groups and can be as liberal as any other church in the United states.
A religious group can be called a sect. A religious group can also be called a congregation when all attend the same church. A religious group might have more than one sect, or group of individuals, like the Amish.
Neither. It's not a state church; no government has given special recognition as a state church. While the Amish qualify as a sect, in that there are established doctrines and rituals, it is not a cult. It's not a new, faddish religion with obsessive adherents. It is, instead, several centuries old. and it is based on belief in the Bible as literally true, something many fundamentalist churches claim to do, although the Amish actually mean it. The Amish do not obsess on their religion, either. They tend to follow the ordnung because it was how they grew up, and do not hesitate to modify the ordnung when appropriate. When the Amish move to an area where there is no local Amish community, they tend to attend Methodist churches, which is another non-obsessive peace church, albeit a mainline one.