The Amish, an absolutely unique minority group within the broad American ethnic mosaic, are embroiled, albeit passively, in an existential conflict with their antithesis, American vulture culture and its worship of militarism; practice of parasitism; and contempt for Christian socialism. As the negation community it is, the traditional Amish way of life not only sharply deviates from dominant American culture, it presents a challenging utopian socialist and agrarian spiritual alternative, one which is increasingly distorted, ridiculed, undermined and targeted for destruction by America's...