Amish

They make Amish bread, cookies, pastries and pies.

I think Amish people are more modern to wear a pad instead of a rag. So I think they use pads not rags. Just my opinion.

The Amish do not use modern conveniences, but that's a specific religious sect and shouldn't be used for people not of that particular faith.

A more general term (not specific to the US) for someone who refuses to use new technology is "Luddite".

The Amish are very puritanical and demure, so their view on nudity is that it must be confined to a marital relationship.

Draft horses, for farming with a renewable source of power. As for buggy horses, the breed depends upon how conservative the community is. More conservative communites would use a stockier workhorse breed. Those that are less conservative will have horses that are, more than likely, of a a sleeker breed that may well have come from the trotter tracks around the area.

The Amish came from southern Germany and northern Switzerland and were persecuted in the 17th century.

They settled in Pennsylvania, because William Penn, who was granted Pennsylvania by the king of England, wanted to establish a commonwealth with religious freedom. He urged the Amish to come to his land.

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The Amish may well have llamas (the Peruvian beasts) but are not likely to have lamas (the Buddhist type priests)

The Quakers

If a person leaves the church after joining it, the church uses "shunning" to convince the backslider to again follow the teachings of the church. If a person is shunned, you do not talk with them, nor transact business, nor do you visit them in their home, nor welcome them into your home.

If a man is shunned, his wife is not to cook for him, clean or mend his clothing, ask him to do any chores, nor share a bed. His family and hers may come to visit her and the children, but are not to even acknowledge his existence.

As you can see, it is a really rough form of discipline, not only for the one who is shunned, but everyone around him. I know of some cases where the shunning is circumvented, but it's dangerous, for if you do not follow the rules of shunning, you yourself risk being shunned. In many cases, if one is unwilling to rejoin the church, the entire family will leave the church and move away.

That genetic abnormality is not unknown among the Amish, but it's no more common than in Germans, which are the largest part of White America. (German immigrants vastly outnumber English ones.

In fact, the inbreeding in a small population brings genetic problems to the forefront, so if a genetic flaw affects the ability to reproduce (and it's reasonable to assume this one has at least some affect), it rapidly leaves the population. The Amish are thus cleaner, genetically, than most groups. Inbreeding produces individual tragedies, but it improves the population.

The Amish have a tendency to have six fingers rather than five. No big deal. The extra finger usually surgically removed at an early age, just as some children have their ears pinned back, or tubes inserted in their ears.

They may also have maple syrup urine. No, it's nothing you want to pour on your pancakes, and it is quite a serious condition. Dr. Morton Holmes gave up his life and career in Philadelphia to make it his life's work to study and treat this disorder, and his clinic in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has spawned a similar clinic in Holmes County, and will probably eventually find more clones in smaller forms where ever there are significant Amish populations.

If you've never met a saint. Dr. Holmes is one. He's also a genius mind that it takes hard work, not just sparking neurons, to be one. If you win the Powerball Lottery, please give his clinic half your winnings. Or head for the mud sale every spring, and buy a quilt at auction, to benefit the clinic.

No, the Puritans were very different from the Amish.

Puritans were very forceful with their religions and severely punished those who broke their laws. They also held which hunts and burnings to 'root out the evil.'

The Amish are pacifists and do not force their religion upon others. The Amish also were Anabaptist, meaning they did not support the baptism of infants whereas the Puritans are believed to be the ancestors of modern baptists.

Some prime examples of Puritan belief and severity of punishment is clearly shown in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

As a married couple if you meet and Amish person and want to become Amish you can. There is nothing in the Amish lifestyles that prevents people to converting to the Amish lifestyle.

No. "Thou shall not create graven images".

Note that their children's dolls have no faces for the same reason.

No.

Amish are always paid cash and cash only. They do not have bank accounts and do not work for employers who pay via check because they do not complete any yearly taxes.

They do until they get married. A beard shows that the man is married.

Yes, the Armish are a Christian group.

However, they shun modern society and modern living, and take the Bible literally. Despite their peaceful nature, Armish have been criticised reecently by many in the mainstream Church worldwide for their hard-line and unforgiving approach to those who transgress the rules of the Armish life.

The men send a friend or cousin to ask the girl out. They do not do it themselves... ( breaking 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.

Home made T-shirt

The answer is not that simple. I have been with many different Amish Women. Some of them wore a type of home sewn tight t-shirt type under garment, and others just let their melons flap freely in the breeze. But my favorite is the one Amish lady I was with who wore a tight spandex body suit under her Amish clothing. She had several body piercings and was the wildest ride I have ever had. She just used her plain outer Amish "shell" to conceal the crazy nympho that lurked underneath.

Love is sacrificial, love is love. If you truly love him, you will do the best for him. Do you want to marry? That's what people in love usually should do. Respect his religion and do not get him in trouble. If you want to marry him maybe you should turn Amish too. You cannot become Amish. He would have to leave the Amish community and live in the "English" community. Being Amish is not like being a Catholic who then joins the Jewish faith of their beloved.

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.

Yes, there are there of many Amish people.