They do not participate in systems that require the breaking of the Sabbath so they use generators and buy fuel from a company that doesn't operate on a Sunday.
Go visit an Amish community, You will see power tools and the like
People also just assume shit. Like you mention Indian, Inuit, any group of people and they picture crap out of a text book.
General cutler or whatever his name was literally paid American tribes like a dollar to wear fancy ceremonial garb to take pictures that are still used in history texts.
They destroyed all evidence of American tribal infrastructure and made it seem like they were tent people.
I mean if you’re relying on pictures in text books to paint a picture for you and not the words then that’s your problem. I learned that the natives of the Americas lived very differently based on tribe and regions. Iroquois nation used long houses and remained stationary as food was abundant and it was easy to farm, then you have tribes that used tent like structures because they traveled/ followed their food sources. Don’t blame the U.S. education system just because you require pictures to understand things, the context was in the words not the picture you fool
Every Amish buggy I’ve seen has electric hazard lights on it, I don’t think zero electricity is very common. I know someone who has an Amish landlord who has a giant tractor.
In general, they're against the "English" world. You would hear different reasoning in different areas. Just like any religion, there are many many splinter groups
If people are interested in the history of German-American/anglo-American dynamic head to Wikipedia and look up “fancy Dutch.” The separation of the German/English communities was common up until ww1/ww2 era for obvious reasons. Benjamin Franklin despised that German immigrants wouldn’t assimilate to Anglo culture and wrote some essays against them 😂 Growing up my great grandma said we were Penn deustch and great grandpa was raised Mennonite. Very interesting stuff:
There's many, many variations now. There's some out there in PA where their power tool is a Clydesdale. Others yet showed me their furniture inventory on a mobile app. In 2026 regarding Amish, there is no "they", you need to be specific to the family or branch.
There are different types. Old order, New order, and Beachy Amish. The latter being the ones that drive cars, use electricity etc. New order will use battery powered tools, solar power, and farm equipment. There are also many sub groups. What ever happened to the Amish Mafia Don "Lebanon Levi?"
Some Amish communities will consider it not needed, and thus they won’t use it. That’s just the elders though, and their interpretation of things. Lot’s use it if they generate it themselves or buy it not from the government or like you said, a company that sells on the Sabbath.
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u/TheOneWes 4h ago
They do not shun electricity.
They do not participate in systems that require the breaking of the Sabbath so they use generators and buy fuel from a company that doesn't operate on a Sunday.
Go visit an Amish community, You will see power tools and the like