Amish Show Christians How to be Christians

The tragic murders and suicide at an Amish school in the U.S. earlier this week is having at least one positive consequence. On the news this morning they said the Amish have already forgiven the murderer for his senseless act.

While the Amish certainly have their own issues, the right-wing Christian movement could take some lessons from the Amish when it comes to practicing Christianity as it appears to have been espoused by Jesus in the Bible. The Amish are said to take Christ's admonition to "love thy enemies" literally, hence their forgiving the man who perpetrated the recent atrocity on them.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. we have leaders of the religious right supporting an intolerant Republican party that seems to relish waging war against our "enemies" (so-designated by them) as well as popular figures in the movement like Pat Robertson calling for the U.S. government to assassinate the leaders of countries that he finds distasteful. Way to spread the Christian meme of love and forgiveness. Maybe they ought to have a conference witht the Amish to debate what "love thy enemies" really means.