While traveling on Amtrak to Pittsburgh two months before the November election, I encountered an Amish family from Lancaster in the train’s café car. But this was no ordinary Amish family. The father also happened to be the leader of a large Lancaster Amish community. He was a loquacious fellow, chatting with one of the Amtrak engineers and another passenger who sat at a separate table with coffee and an open Bible. A young Amish couple — a ginger-haired farmer in a bowl haircut and his demure wife in wire-rimmed glasses — joined the group not long after I sat down.
The man with the Bible was talking about the deterioration of the Church of England and the rewriting of Scripture by woke Christian denominations so they could blend in with secular society. The topic very quickly switched to politics. I joined in the moment the leader mentioned his community had just registered to vote.
“I hope you didn’t go for the party promoting gender ideology and abortion,” I said.
I knew there was no chance that would be the case but I wanted to show solidarity. The leader said the Republican Party offered the only hope for America. For him and for all the Amish — as he explicitly stated — it came down to Biblical values and family. As he talked I could see he was thoroughly up to date on the multitudes of woke aberrations in the once-great party of John F. Kennedy.
Fast forward to Election Day when photos of the Amish in buggies with Trump flags going to vote went viral. Talk about a unified religious community. No such political unity exists in the world of Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or evangelical Protestantism, although it should if one were to look at the specific doctrines of these Churches and how these doctrines organically align with Republican rather than Democrat policies. […]
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