For that matter, when you think of the Amish and the other “Swiss Bretheren” religions, why do you think “Pennsylvania” rather than “Switzerland and neighboring countries”? A sect that had to cross oceans to find a state promising religious freedom is our best example of humans’ high tolerance for diversity?
Yes, that’s a good point, although now that I think about it I don’t actually know what happened to the ‘original’ Amish. The Wikipedia Swiss Brethren mentions a lot of persecution, but it also says they sort of survive as the Swiss Mennonite Conference; regardless, they clearly don’t number in the hundreds of thousands or millions like they do in America.
For that matter, when you think of the Amish and the other “Swiss Bretheren” religions, why do you think “Pennsylvania” rather than “Switzerland and neighboring countries”? A sect that had to cross oceans to find a state promising religious freedom is our best example of humans’ high tolerance for diversity?
Yes, that’s a good point, although now that I think about it I don’t actually know what happened to the ‘original’ Amish. The Wikipedia Swiss Brethren mentions a lot of persecution, but it also says they sort of survive as the Swiss Mennonite Conference; regardless, they clearly don’t number in the hundreds of thousands or millions like they do in America.