RE: We English Could Learn A Thing Or Two From The Amish
howdy toolanm! thanks for getting back to me. I agree with you 110% of course about equality.
But my point that I was making is that if you were an Amish woman in the community and your husband was a wonderful and Godly man, I didn't say a "decent" man. But if you were living in their system and your husband was wonderful and Godly it would be, or at least should be, much better than the average marriage there.
why? Because a Godly man is NOT going to treat his wife like a second class citizen, he is going to honor, cherish, respect, protect and support her like the Bible commands.
Online there are many books giving first hand accounts both good and bad about their lifestyle. If you want to understand their official rules on things like shunning, divorce, etc you can go to amishamerica.com. But of course that site just gives official doctrine and rules but not things like how women are treated.
thanks so much for reading and commenting!
Okay, I hear you. thanks for taking the time to reply.
It sounds like women need to rely on pot luck as to the character of the husband if they are to be treated well or not.
I'm curious if Aimish women are allowed leadership roles, equal to their male counterparts, in the community.
Howdy toolanm! I highly doubt if the women are allowed leadership roles but that may be spelled out in the information on that website, amishamerica.com. But then again, it depends on what settlement they're in and what the men there decide!
That's one reason why there is alot of confusion.
Someone sent me this link about a lady who researched about the Amish women and wrote an article about it. There should be a ton of information between referrences here and the amishamerica.com website. Here is her fascinating article: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2017/05/stop-romanticizing-the-amish/
Thank you
Howdy back toolanm! Let me know what you think if you go to the tolovehonorandvacuum.com site, I didn't have time to read all of it yet but it sounded pretty shocking!