This movie illustrate all the wrong ways to be at enmity with the world and also all the wrong notions of separation from the world.

These folks are separate physically, yet embody sins as bad as those in the world.

My main beef: They do not affect the world for good (they are not salt or light, but are hiding it all under a bushel....a handmade wicker Amish bushel at that). They have instead become laughing stocks to the world, not for their faith but for their foolishness.

Strange that rumspringa is designed to give children freedom of choice. Social manipulation abounds. Then parents turn their kids loose at Rumspringa? Now that is great parenting..make your kids totally stupid in how to get by in the world and then turn them loose and say, "Here, go have your season of sin.."

THE AMISH PLAN: The Amish set up a strict community. They keep morale high by hyping up the evils of technology and the evils of "The English" and by stressing their own holiness - on display to all due to needless external rules. To keep kids from grousing they turn them loose to be battered by sudden exposure to the world (for which their parents have made sure to keep them totally ignorant as to how to cope in modern society) until they come crawling back so that the community may allow them to enter their commune under strict rules. POOF...and the cultic atmosphere is able to be maintained.


Sorry, my rant mode is now in the OFF position...


Let's party like its 1699!

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