Replacement Theology, Mormons & the Amish

“We are here to say we are sorry. We no longer want to reject you or look at you as not being God’s people. You were God’s people long before we were.” – Amish Bishop Ben Girod, during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem
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I now have one more reason to love Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Last month dozens of Amish Christians from the U.S. and Switzerland made a pilgrimage to Israel for one purpose: to apologize to the Jewish people. Arutz Sheva reported that Bishop Ben Girod submitted an official apology to the Western Wall Rabbi for his religion’s past anti-Semitism. This gesture was apparently so important to the Amish travelers that they temporarily set aside their faith’s restrictions on use of modern technology in order to fly to Israel and drive around the country.