SoulsRain

Hello everyone im new to posting, but i love this site! i thought i would post in this thread because i have lived near amishes, i was a christian for 18yrs. I have a strong love now for hinduism and kali ma. but thats another post. the reason i think that there is so much inbreeding in the amish communities isnt because the numbers of amishes are small. there are thousands of amishes all over the midwest and easteren part of the us. the problem comes from the fact that many amishes are isolated from each other. they live in small communities of 20 to 30 families. they go to one church and marry usually within that small community. if they would just travel to other states meeting a wider variety of amishes i dont think inbreeding would be as large a problem for them. transporation becomes an issue for this to be done, because many only travel by horses. where i used to live the only neighbors we had were amishes. like all people they have problems within their communities between people and families, but as a whole they are a wonderful and genorus people. as i said i have also been a christian. christianity does not advocate incest or inbreeding. most christians believe that adam and eve are the parents of us all. i was taught growing up that in the beginning, as someone else in the thread pointed out, they were perfect therefore inbreeding wasnt an issue. but there is are verses in genesis that many christians ignore. these verses appear just before the noah story in the bible. genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose genesis 6:4 there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became might men wihich were of old, men of renown. to me this could also explain how the genetics became varied if you take the bible as truth. the differant people of the earth the bible explains by the tower of bable story. according to the bible everyone spoke the same language at this time. the story takes place after noah. the people became wicked and decided to build a tower to reach heaven. once again trying to become as great as god, or so i was taught. when god saw what they had done he had decided there was no way to restrain man because of the one lanuage. so he destroyed the tower and as it was destroyed he changed their lanuage. each getting a differant lanuage. if anyone would like to read this or anything in the bible there are many complete versions of the bible online. there is so much of the bible christians ignore. there is many contradictions and things that make no sense. because of this and many other reasons i left the church when i was 18. since then i have studied many spiritual beliefs. i found that im the most intune with hinduism. i meditate , study, and have an alter now of hindu dieties. thanks for the wonderful forum.