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It's ok DarrinS, we know you're a scaredy-cat.
It's ok DarrinS, we know you're a scaredy-cat.
Are the Amish pit bulls or maybe some kind of shepherd?
Is that a reference to the Amish love of running puppy mills or something?
My impression of the Amish is that they are frugal and pragmatic. They don't bother the outside world and the outside world doesn't bother them.
Did they do something wrong?
Not at all. I was just curious what people who may have had no interaction with them thought. I was also a little drunk when I made the thread.My impression of the Amish is that they are frugal and pragmatic. They don't bother the outside world and the outside world doesn't bother them.
Did they do something wrong?
I live in an area with a large concentration of Amish. I have Amish neighbors directly to the east and to the north of me. Very nice, extremely hard working folks.
I vacationed in Pennsylvania one time and sat down to an Amish supper. My family and a bunch of people we didn't know all sat around a giant table, and I had the best meal of my life there. I ate so much I had trouble standing, and learned that I love apple butter. Got no problem with the Amish.
Not the brightest people.
They're reserved but generally nice. If you need carpentry or roof work they're top notch.
I'm not an expert on the Amish but I met some a long time when my family and I were on vacation in Iowa. They were nice and friendly to us. They gave us a jar of honey.
Profoundly hard working - and paternalistic. Was just in Smicksburg, Pa this past Saturday - where I picked up a dresser I ordered from a young Amish man starting his own furniture shop (in the past I have bought some stuff from his uncle). Both he, and his uncle are very friendly, the older generation being more stand-offish - they are also trusting. After just a couple of meetings, the Uncle sent one of his children with me and my wife in our car to show us where a neighbor of his had a finishing shop.
Also, they do not completely e shew technology; the men's workshops are VERY nice; table saws/routers/planers/jointers/drum sanders - you name it, they've got it. The only catch is; No electricity; their tools look like any other modern, high-end furniture grade stuff; but it is all run off of belts from an elaborate network over head; the belts are driven by motors (gas, kerosene or diesel). For the women? No such luck; everything in the kitchen is by hand, old school - and pretty much a bazillion children running around everywhere; who all look pretty much alike; nuclear family relation or not; there does not appear to be a very diverse gene pool in any given Amish community. The men will ALWAYS wave from their buggies as they pass you; the women seldom look up. And although they don't use technology; they are very aware of it; recognized my Blackberry, and asked which model it was, for instance.
Generally I have respect for the Amish as a people; however, as Christians, they seem to have forgotten the Great Commission entirely.
so are they going to or is it that their reward in heaven will not be as great?
That's quite the hatchet job on the Amish, presenting someone as Amish who wasn't.
Munson was a lot of things: bowler, prosthetic-wearer, degenerate, my hero ... but he wasn't Amish.
"A city on a hill cannot be hidden"...
While I would agree with the comment that their approach almost completely desregards "The Great Comission"... I would likely add that their lifestyles are "beacons of virtue" in and of themselves.
Besides, no matter how 'good' we claim to be, or how we choose to perceive ourselves against others... ultimately, none of our works gain us access into the FATHER's presence, only Christ's blood...
Last edited by Phenomanul; 08-31-2010 at 02:51 PM.
So if a murderer repents of his sins on death row, he will get into Heaven...
but a charity worker donating his/her life to help feed and clothe starving people in Africa will go to because they didn't accept Christ as their personal savior.
Yay Christianity.
But that's why he put the "good" in quotation marks. Sure, that charity worker THINKS she's doing good, but unless it's in Jesus's name, it's not truly good, just "good".So if a murderer repents of his sins on death row, he will get into Heaven...
but a charity worker donating his/her life to help feed and clothe starving people in Africa will go to because they didn't accept Christ as their personal savior.
Yay Christianity.
They are Aliens
At least that's what they implied in that old X-Files episode
right, because "good" in Christianity means belief in Jesus dying for our sins.
charity work is just "meh"
Grace not works
Works might be a sign of election but are not effective payment in the Protestant scheme.
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