Does this mean big trouble for the Amish community?
It might change it, I don’t think it will destroy it. There are Amish families that have been shunned, but they still live in the Amish tradition to a great extent. I wonder if the Elders were aware that many of their rules were not in the Bible, or whether they lived in darkness too, and just followed tradition. I quite admire the way they live, they have kept themselves unsullied from all the woes of modern living for all these centuries. But things are about to change if more of them read the English Bible. At the moment the penalty for reading the English Bible is shunning and excommunication. But as more and more do, who know what will happen? They can’t shun everyone. Here’s a link to a review about the Amish documentary on TV last night http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.
