Ghandi said that he thought he would like Christians but had yet to meet one.
Big Valley Dry Goods seems to reflect this behavior. It offers Amish dry goods in a store that appears to be lit by natural light alone. It is run by plain people based on their clothing. While I greatly like many of their materials (cooking tools, games that the Amish play, including board games, toy guns (!), canning supplies, interesting books), their team was adamantly not wearing masks nor was the one customer.
Not wearing a mask and pretending that the governor has not put up a mask mandate or that it does not apply to them because "they do not like the governor" is not being Christian as I practice it. To ignore science and to ignore government is not just irresponsible but unChristian, and it not following the Bible that presumably many working and shopping there profess to read and to follow.
I'll be back post-pandemic, but I lost some respect for them and for the religion they represent through their clothing, materials, and the design of the store.
It is a matter of respect. I don't care if you call me sir, but I do care that you will clog the hospitals with uncessarily sick folks, to the extent that other sick people can't get treated, and that we wear our health care system with a disease that is easily avoided through simple behavioral changes. read more