5 Responses to “Darn those Amish”

1. Amish Furniture Said:
   October 20th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
   

   The Amish? Difficult? Pray how? They are probably the most peace loving people on Earth today.

2. Grace Said:
   October 20th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
   

   AF:
   I absolutely agree. The comment was meant tongue in cheek. If you click on the link (on the word “difficult”) you’ll go to the story that elicited that response from me, and you’ll see that there’s something a little comical going on.

   I’ll go ahead and say, just in case you’re new to the blogosphere, that you see that kind of thing a lot. If there’s a sentence with one word in a different color type, try clicking on it — chances are it’s a link to what the author is talking about. (If you already knew that, pardon the word of instruction.)

3. s-p Said:
   October 21st, 2006 at 9:48 am
   

   Would that more people in this country would be so “difficult”. We were discussing this the other day…as much as people claim America is a “Christian nation”, the government has taken over many of the functions that the Churches used to take care of in terms of alms, ministry to the poor and disenfranchised. The secularization of the country is evident that the Churches largely take less and less responsibility for the Gospel except in terms of “evangelism”. This is one way in which the “spirit of the age”, ie., Western democracy as a philosophy and resultant political system has infiltrated the mind of the Church and compromised it. End of rant….

4. Grace Said:
   October 21st, 2006 at 11:24 am
   

   Picking up your rant where you left off … :-)

   This is a huge problem in this country. I would’ve thought it was obvious to everyone when Katrina struck that the best hope of intelligent, targeted charity is still through the churches. But alas, everyone quickly found a way to start blaming the state, and that story was lost in the hubbub.

   Real charity is life-changing, both for the giver and for the recipient. But the sad truth is that when it becomes legislated, it becomes dehumanized. It becomes an obligation to the giver and an embarrassment or an entitlement for the recipient. I’m not saying I know what the answer is, but it seems to me that if the contribution of churches hadn’t been marginalized, we might have found a way to practice charity on a large scale and still give it a human face.

   As it is right now, I think you make a good point by saying that the biggest interest most churches have is for evangelism, to bring in more bodies. But we don’t often ask “Bring them in for what? Just to turn around and bring in even more?” For us all to be on our journey in theosis is wonderful, but sooner or later, the congregation that has started to live the faith will want to go to work in the world around it. And when it does, those invested in the nanny state get deeply offended and accuse us of bridging the gap between church and state. Ugh.

5. Deb Said:
   October 22nd, 2006 at 11:01 am
   

   Huh? Who knew there was an Amish quota for food stamps and why would do they need one in the first place? So glad my tax money is being spent wisely on ad campaingns like this one.

   Good point by S-P

   Sheesh!

   Deb

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