What is the Amish view on the use of social media?
score:5
Unfortunately, the Amish are a hard group to get a grasp on.
First you have to clarify which order of Amish. There are some super conservative groups which are more like what most people have been taught to envision when they think of Amish.
The majority of your basic "Old Order" Amish have electricity, just not on the grid, through generators, batteries and even solar. It's not present inside the home, but is often in their barns and offices. They do have phones, usually the land-line is in a phone booth outside (notice the emphasis on the home). They mostly have cell phones, at least for business, but they are cracking down on smart phones with internet.
Internet is the real key. It's access to dangerous things (primarily p**nography is pointed at) makes it the real problem with computers. Not the computer itself. Amish use "word processors" ever day at our work. They are PCs made with modified network cards so they are incapable of connecting to the internet with a browser.
Bishops are figuring out that smart phones are basically just small computers with internet, so that is being discouraged. (My Amish boss had an iPhone for business for several years up until 6 months ago, now he's back to basic flip phone, as are the others in his Bishop's district).
Obviously, no internet means no social media. However the kids have smart phones and facebook and all that and there doesn't seem to be any issue with it. Though it is family by family what the kids are allowed to do. The children aren't bound by Amish rules since they aren't a part of the church until they choose, so it's up to the parents.
Conclusion
Judging by its use by the teenagers, the Amish parents have no moral issue with social media. It's use by full members of the church would clearly not be allowed as it requires the use of the internet. But any Amish rule against something cannot be equated as an absolute moral judgment against it.
They wouldn't look down on you for your facebook, at least not any more than they would for you watching TV or driving them to the store in your car.
Most information I have given is from personal daily contact with the Amish in Pennsylvania. However this article highlights some of the things I reference: http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/the-surprising-ingenious-amish-gadget-culture#.wnob1lVjG
More post
- 📝 Is David's Love for Jonathan erotic?
- 📝 According to Pentecostals and Charismatics, what are concrete practical ways by which Christians can be filled (and stay filled) with the Holy Spirit?
- 📝 Why were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed?
- 📝 Are there any christian denominations that think having concubines is sin and why?
- 📝 How should a Christian feel inside?
- 📝 Was Mt. Sinai a volcano?
- 📝 How is 2 Thessalonians 2:3 understood by those who believe in the imminence of Christ's return?
- 📝 Have any prominent theologians written on what the ascension looked like?
- 📝 Exodus 25-27 Question
- 📝 On Inferring That the Redeemer Will Spring from the Race of Shem
- 📝 What are the "heavenly realms"?
- 📝 What action would Christian ethics guide this missionary to do?
- 📝 Identifying a source for this C.S. Lewis quote "This also is Thou: neither is this Thou"
- 📝 Looking for a passage in the Old Testament
- 📝 How do JWs reconcile the belief that Satan was cast to earth in 1914 with Job 1:7 and Job 2:2?
- 📝 What miracles were performed during the beatification and canonization processes of Mother Teresa?
- 📝 Why is there no pagan historical evidence written by authors who were alive during the life of Jesus?
- 📝 Is the register where the first marriage was registered still available?
- 📝 Was Jesus literate?
- 📝 Non-Christian/secular translation of the Bible?
- 📝 What saints were able to accurately determine what vocation God is calling someone to?
- 📝 Power, Authority and Sovereignty in the Character of God
- 📝 What evidence is there that the genealogies in the early part of Genesis refer to tribes instead of individuals?
- 📝 Why are Lussekatter served on St. Lucy's day (i.e. why cats?)?
- 📝 Is this age the only opportunity for salvation?
- 📝 If believing that Jesus is God is that important, why doesn't Jesus say it more often?
- 📝 How do young earth creationists explain the evidence for ice ages?
- 📝 According to baptist belief what do you do to be saved?
- 📝 Joseph Smith purpose of polygamy
- 📝 How was Queen Keran, wife of Leo II of Armenia, able to become a nun?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What is the Amish view on the use of social media?
- 📝 What was Van Til's view on the use and validity of historical proofs for the resurrection?
- 📝 What is the Roman Catholic view on Matthew 23:9?
- 📝 What is the reasoning behind the Amish practice of avoiding technological advances?
- 📝 What are the primary differences and implications of a propitiatory view of the atonement versus an expiatory view?
- 📝 What is the Catholic teaching on the use of animals?
- 📝 What was Isaac Newton's view of the Trinity?
- 📝 What is the earliest use of the phrase "God the Son"?
- 📝 What is the Bible and Christian view on Astrology?
- 📝 What is the basis for Lombard's view that the basis of justification for OT men was different than for OT women?
- 📝 What reasons do those who reject the JEPD view of Scripture provide?
- 📝 What is the basis of the view that Jesus was separated from the Father and Holy Spirit upon death?
- 📝 Which year did Jesus die? What is the most commonly held view
- 📝 What was Satan's view on the authority of Scripture?
- 📝 What is the Catholic view of the rapture?
- 📝 What is the difference between the Amish and Mennonites?
- 📝 What is the source for Martin Luther's quote against the use of pipe organ music?
- 📝 What was John Wesley's view of the Lord's Supper?
- 📝 Under what basis does the Catholic Church condemn the use of drugs while permitting alcohol?
- 📝 What was the difference between Ratramnus's view of the Eucharist and that of Calvin?
- 📝 What is the Calvinist view of God's sovereignty?
- 📝 What is the Evangelical view on tithing?
- 📝 What is the basis for the Swedenborgian view that the most common concept of God in Christianity (the Trinity) is a belief in three gods?
- 📝 What view of eschatology did the early church believe?
- 📝 What is the Catholic response to the Eastern Orthodox view that the Immaculate Conception remove Jesus' ability to redeem all of humanity?
- 📝 What is the Catholic view on frozen embryos
- 📝 What was St. Thomas Aquinas's view on the difference between punishment accorded to original sin and punishment accorded to individual sin?
- 📝 What is the Catholic view of the Book of Enoch?
- 📝 What was Jesus' view on the authority of Scripture?
- 📝 What is the earliest Christian use of a worship leader?
