Why do a huge group of 340,000 people "willingly" deny themselves cars, electricity, computers, televisions, and many other modern conveniences? And why do the Amish bishops demand from them, lives of extreme deprivation and hardship? Why is disobedience to the church rules punished with harsh shunning which shatters family ties between parents, children, relatives, and friends within the Amish church? How have the bishops, for centuries, almost totally controlled the minds and lives of these pe.
Why do a huge group of 340,000 people "willingly" deny themselves cars, electricity, computers, televisions, and many other modern conveniences? And why do the Amish bishops demand from them, lives of extreme deprivation and hardship? Why is disobedience to the church rules punished with harsh shunning which shatters family ties between parents, children, relatives, and friends within the Amish church? How have the bishops, for centuries, almost totally controlled the minds and lives of these pe
