Comments on: Amish are the Fastest Growing Religious Group in the USA and Canada

By: hennie laubscher

hennie laubscher — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:52:14 +0000

What ritual do they perform while baptising? Can anybody help me here

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:13:27 +0000

I saw that programme, and thought it was very interesting.

Two things caught my attention, though.

The first was the fact that the BBC used a sung version of the Salve Regina during the covert filming of people arriving in the family’s home for a Sunday service. I wonder what the puritanically Protestant sect would have thought of this most Catholic of Marian anthems?

The second was when the two parents revealed that they had been secretly baptised by people from outside the ‘old ways’ as they thought their original Amish baptism was invalid (possibly because they had now moved towards an anabaptist or pentecostal view of adult baptism?). But the father then described this second ‘baptism’, saying that they went to a river and were “Baptised in the name of Jesus”. I couldn’t help but laugh to think that this second baptism was invalid – for a valid baptism has to be made (with the right intention) “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”

I genuinely feel sorry for these poor people who base their lives on certain traditions which are man-made, as opposed to the traditions handed to the Church by the Apostles.

God bless

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:01:51 +0000

There is much to be commended about Christians who ‘return to the roots’. Not just the simpler way of life but a true focus on Christ in every part of their lives. In Russia and in the USA and Canada, there has been a resurgence not only in Orthodox Christianity but also an interest in the Old Believers – a schismatic group – who refused to go along with revisions introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66. Like the Amish,Old Believers eschew many of the trappings of modern ‘civilisation’, preferring to work on the land and derive their living from the produce of their own hands. I guess we all hanker after ‘The Good Life’ and some seem closer to it than others. Check out documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_KjiX-zPzw

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:44:18 +0000

Someone is bound to post this so let me be the first Weird Al Yankovic "Amish Paradise"