The Amish refuse to use modern toilets – and the people who came after them.

The Amish refuse to use modern toilets. For religious reasons, they use an outhouse. This is all very normal for the Amish family, who are farmers. This practice is part of the commitment to avoid “the lush of the world”: phones, electricity and septic systems.

An Amish man explained: “God knew that man was going to have feces and he made soil to absorb that.” The health department had received what one officer called “a large number of complaints” about the Amish. The department gave them seven days to comply but the Amish refused.

What do you support? Religious persecution or religious freedom?

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Sidewinder · 36-40, M

I'm not Amish, but I am in my own limited way, a history nerd.

That being said, I've studied the Amish and their anti-technological way of life as a way of gaining a historical perspective on some of the aspects of early pioneer living from the days of English colonization of the Americas in the early 1600's all the way up to the Western Movement of the mid-to-late 1870's.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Sidewinder

That being said, I've studied the Amish and their anti-technological way of life as a way of gaining a historical perspective on some of the aspects of early pioneer living from the days of English colonization of the Americas in the early 1600's all the way up to the Western Movement of the mid-to-late 1870's.

Can you expand on this? What is the cultural rationale informing the Amish way of life? Do you see real value in terms of human well-being and it is not spiritual superstition.

Ohplease47 · F

@sree251 try looking at my answer.

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@Sidewinder Read my statement I wrote, I do not study them I live and I am friends with and live around a large Amish community.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@WillaKissing

Read my statement I wrote, I do not study them I live and I am friends with and live around a large Amish community.

Even skunks can live around Amish folks. The Amish people are pacifists.