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Date: November 23, 2024 05:01PM
summer Wrote:
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> I've never quite understood the subtle differences
> between what is acceptable vs. not acceptable for
> the Old Order Amish. It looks like it's starting
> to confuse even them.
It's not "top down" like Mormonism.
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https://anabaptistworld.org/amish-embrace-solar-power/Restrictions vary in northern Indiana. Old Order groups stretching southeast to Fort Wayne and Allen County have made the technology common, as even some businesses that use large generators have switched to solar. In the Berne area, south of Fort Wayne, almost no groups use solar because of differences in bishops and districts.
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Holmes County, Ohio, is home to greater Amish diversity, creating a patchwork of allowable uses for solar. James Mast founded ARK Battery in Sugarcreek, Ohio, to respond to the need for improvements in the lithium batteries needed to regulate power fluctuations. ARK works to tailor systems to each group’s needs.
“In Holmes County we have like 15 different Amish flavors, and in the New Order group I come from there are 15 to 20 churches and definitely differences from church to church,” said Mast, who recently joined a Beachy Amish congregation. “But most of the New Order Amish in Holmes County would be OK with lighting in their houses.”