7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Amish

Amish spirituality recognizes basic Christian beliefs. Amish people follow the teachings of the New Testament — especially the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of Matthew. The teachings of Jesus, in the Amish view, include loving one’s enemies, forgiveness, and an embrace of nonviolence. . Key values of the Amish faith include humility, community, simplicity, and deference to God’s will. Despite similarities to Christianity, persecution by Catholics and other Protestants motivated mass numbers of Amish and their religious cousins to emigrate to North America starting in the 18th Century.