There is a lot of hypocrisy within the Amish Mennonites (Old Order and New Order), just as there is in other religions. There are families of the New Order around here, nice enough people, who own farms and car repair shops and a shed-building operation. I must say they take better care of their farms than most of the other farmers do. In the local cafe, some of the regular farmers grouse that "the Amish have all the best land", but the Mennonites (as they call themselves) are also just about the only ones that make a point of improving their soil, which fact tends to escape the other farmers.

In the Midwest many of them have gotten into the puppymill business, unfortunately.

I knew a woman in San Jose who had escaped an Old Order upbringing, and she said there is a lot of sexual abuse there. She's the first one I've met who used the word 'hypocrisy' with this religion. They won't own cars, but they can pester neighbors to drive them somewhere, or to use their phones.

Oh, well, they still don't keep knocking on my door like the LDS and the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Sue