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The Old Ways - Why The Amish Community is Booming
 [Guardian] Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing aside my questions as we sit talking around the dining table with his wife, five of his eight children and one grandson. "I am not proud of that," he says. "I went against my parents’ wishes."But this one-off incident, many years ago, speaks to the reasons why this 52-year-old sold his thriving Ohio clothing business, one that supplied hundreds of stores across North America, and moved his family to this idyllic farm in upstate New York three years ago. Daniel is Amish ‐ a member of a community famed worldwide for their plain clothes and use of horse-drawn buggies ‐ and he fears the impact of modernity and the temptations of technology on his children, his church and his traditional Christian world. "Our values are different and we chose to safeguard them," he says. "But if our people get lax and rub elbows too much with the world, then the world may not look too different ‐ we become like the people outside." Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-15 |
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