U.S. emergency alert reportedly caused several Amish people to be “shunned” by exposing them for owning phones

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Yesterday’s U.S. emergency alert reportedly caused several Amish people to be “shunned” by exposing them for owning phones.

An ex-Amish man on TikTok has shared that a few current members of the Amish were “shunned” after the US Emergency Alert went off on phones they had smuggled into the community.

In most, if not all, Amish communities across the United States, its members cannot have modern technology like cars, computers, and cell phones.

But what happens if you smuggle in a cell phone, and the US decides to send a nation-wide emergency alert test without the ability to find out about it ahead of time?

Amish members shunned after US emergency alert test

He said: “Several Amish men got shunned by the Amish Church for having smart phones in their pocket when the emergency alert system went off.”

Eli went on to explain that the day of the EAS test in the US, three of them replied to Eli stating that they would have to lay low for a while due to getting caught with the device.

The ex-Amish man added: “Now he’s getting shunned for both. Whatever they were after to shun him and also the cell phone.”

Getting shunned can vary from each Amish sect, but Amishbaskets says that getting shunned “involves a painful separation of a person from their community.”

In the stern, self-regulating world of the Amish, those who act out time and again by wearing the wrong clothing, going to movies or otherwise flouting the church’s doctrine can find themselves utterly alone.

Fellow Amish in rare instances won’t break bread with them at the same table, won’t work with them and won’t worship with them under the religion’s centuries-old practice of shunning. In stricter settlements, shunning can break apart families, cutting off all contact between parents and their children.

Saloma Furlong was shunned, or ex-communicated, after she left her church the first time over a family issue, and she was barred from attending her cousin’s wedding after she returned home. “It was a very lonely two weeks,” said Furlong, who eventually left behind her home in northeast Ohio for good and was permanently shunned.

The Amish take the tradition so seriously that most churches won’t accept someone who has been shunned until they make it right with those who’ve disciplined them.

At the root of Amish hair-cutting attacks in Ohio and the federal hate crime trial that followed, prosecutors say, was a dispute over religious differences and a decision by Amish bishops to overrule the leader of a breakaway group who had shunned his former followers. Amish scholars say taking away a bishop’s edict was unheard of and stunned communities far and wide.