After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on

Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:11PM (#35344411)

Protestantism in general has focused for centuries on what a person does during their life rather than what they believe (in contrast to Catholicism, which tends to focus more on the latter). The Quakers merely took that one step further (they are, after all, a branch of the Protestant subtree of Christianity) by acknowledging that a person could be good without believing (all or even any of) the things that Quakers believe.

It is not picking through or over the bones of Quakerism to grapple with and/or be inspired by this idea.

As for Stoicism, I am not sure that it is required to do anything other than, maybe, bring greater peace and understanding into the lives of those considering its values.

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Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by fsckboy on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:25PM (#35396052)

> Protestantism in general has focused for centuries on what a person does during their life rather than what they believe (in contrast to Catholicism, which tends to focus more on the latter)

no no no no no. some progressive protestant faiths perhaps, but the central tenet of most Christian and most Protestants faiths is faith, salvation comes through accepting Jesus Christ as your savior and repenting sin, for which you will be forgiven. It is a topic of debate among theologians as to what that says about works/acts but they don't generally depart from the idea that starting now you get a clean a slate, or as clean as anyone can.

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Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by kiicia on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:58PM (#35442653)

It’s a bit more nuanced, watch this video in spare time https://youtu.be/tzLS4O7YaUg

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