Question #3: What was your view of Christians as an Amish person? Do you feel these expressed feelings are typical of most Ami

What was your view of Christians as an Amish person?; Do you feel these expressed feelings are typical of most Amish?

1. I believed the more hard-core Amish a person was, the closer he was to being a Christian. Christianity was fully based on parental and church obedience, outward appearance, and separation from the world.  I would say that most of the Amish I knew and still know would believe what I just stated.  We were not sure what God thought about the English people, but we did know that we were born Amish and must therefore, in order to please God, remain Amish our whole life.
2. I thought Christians or "Free people" were strange.
3. I thought Christians were perfect people. 
4. I actually looked at "Christians" and agreed with them since I never fully believed everything my Amish church taught. I know many thought the same thing I did. Stricter Amish groups, on the other hand, thought Christians believed the right thing but that there was more asked of Amish; we had to work a little harder than the rest.
5. I thought Christians were "holier than thou"; Yes.
6. I believed Christians had a lot of show with no real fruit; Yes.
7. I thought we were all a church of god.
8. I thought to be Amish meant to be "Christian," and I know that’s what most if not all Amish believe too. I thought ex-Amish people, who were "Christians," were deceived; I thought if you were born Amish, you needed to always be Amish in order to be saved. Also, I thought their loving ways and righteous sounding words were just a cover-up or that they were trying to convince themselves that they were good people. When they acted happy, I thought they were just trying to show us how right they were when in reality they were sad and had no peace.
9. I thought Christians were humble, obedient, full of good works, separate from the world; absolutely!
10. I didn't understand what made a Christian, so if someone asked me if I was a Christian, I became very uncomfortable; I felt the answer should be yes, but I never could actually get myself to say that I was. This fear came from always being taught that one had to hope he kept the rules well enough to get to heaven, and getting into heaven was what made a person a Christian. I don't think this is typical of all Amish, but possibly for the most part.
11. I was aware of the term Christian, but it was rarely used in referring to other people or people groups. I knew very little about English church people and was generally encouraged to avoid spiritual dialogue with them; I believe this is a fairly typical thought process for other Amish as well.
12. I didn't really give it much thought. 
13. I always felt like I was better than non-Amish Christians; I don’t know if other Amish feel this way or not.
14. I didn't view them as Christian people; they were just English people. I don't think I even knew what Christian meant.
15. Very judgmental; Yes
16. I thought Christians were people who went against God’s way.
17. I thought a Christian was defined by how much good honest & hard work you did. I didn’t think Christians were allowed to have fun (My idea of what fun was anyway); I believe these feelings are typical among the Amish but very rarely expressed.
18. I believed Christians were people deceived by wrong doctrine; Among the the Midwest Amish communities this is largely the view, but I'm not sure about the East.
19. If I had to describe "Christians" in one word, I would say skeptical. Growing up, I felt the Amish were the ones who had the 'way.' I believe this is a widely held view within the strict Old Order Amish groups. 
20. I was so sure that the Amish were the only Christians in the world; my mom used to tell me that when I was a little boy. If you are a nice little boy, then you can go to heaven.
21. I always appreciated Christian folk but didn't understand how they could be Godly yet dress worldly at the same time. I think that's the hardest part about witnessing to the Amish; they put so much focus on appearance that they have a hard time talking "church stuff" with a worldly looking person. 
22. I saw "Christians" as worldly. I would say this typical of most Amish.
23. I didn’t really know any Christians other than Amish and Mennonites. The ones I did know were nominal, shallow Christians that went to church on Sunday, but I didn’t really see anything different about them than anyone else.
24. I saw Christians as people that thought they would get to heaven by living their way of life, but because we had the privilege of being born Amish, we needed to remain Amish to get to heaven; yes.
25. I viewed Christians and being more worldly then us since they had stuff we wished we could have. As far as faith, theirs was no different than ours; if you believed in God as your savior, you were born again.
26. As a child, I thought of it as "us and them". As I got older, I knew that we did not have a corner salvation and that others were able to be in right standing with God too.
27. Unless a person was dressed and lived like we did, I viewed their Christianity as doubtful.
28. I thought we were just like them, only we have to live our Amish lifestyle because we were born into it.
29. I saw Christians as people who thought they knew they were saved, but truthfully you could only hope to be saved.
30. I saw Christians as hypocrites; yes.
31. I thought Christians were nice people.
32. I thought most Christians were lukewarm warm or indifferent about the instructions in the Bible.
33. I felt that Christians were people who had something we didn't have.
34. I saw Christians as people filled with wonderful love.
35. I was taught/believed all non-Amish were going to hell
36. As an Amish person, we were taught we were the Christians, and everyone else was of the world.
37. I viewed Christians as people who were lost and just don't know any better.
38. The fact that Christians were so confident in their eternal destiny came across sometimes as being judgmental and made them appear as being a perfectionist; Yes, I believe these feelings are common, among most Amish.
39. That Amish are “the chosen,” and anyone outside the Amish was worldly and playing with hell fire.
40. I kind of had the feeling that the Amish were "better" than other Christians. Non-Amish could be Christians without following all the Amish Church rules because they were not raised that way and didn't know better. This was a pretty typical thought process in my area, so assume it might be the same for many other areas.
41. I considered our culture a Christian culture. My view of "Christians" outside the culture would have been to question in my mind whether they are true Christians because I did not understand that salvation is by grace alone; I thought that their salvation depended on their works, and because they weren't following the Bible as interpreted by the plain culture, I questioned whether they would go to heaven.  The only exception is that they weren't taught what we were, so possibly God wouldn't judge them for that.  However, I still felt they were in a very dangerous place.  I come from Old Order (horse and buggy) Mennonites, who are very similar to Amish and have the same basic beliefs; I think what I believed is very typical of most Old Order Mennonites.
42. When I was 18, someone asked me if Amish are Christians, and I said I don't know; this was when I really started thinking about it. I asked my mother the same question, and her answer was "well, we're Amish." I think that is the way most Amish think. Although they may consider themselves to be Christians, they first hinge on the fact that they are Amish. 
43. I believed Christians were being good by doing Godly things to justify their lifestyle. It was an "us and them" attitude, and we thought they just didn't know better or know what we knew. Also, that they were privileged to do things we could not and didn't know how too do; Yes, this is probably typical thinking for most of them.
44. Christianity to me meant being as good an Amish person as I could be; I’d say at least 80% of the Amish I knew personally believed this way.
45. As a Mennonite, I believed that even in the "English" culture, there were people who were Christians, but it was hard to understand why they didn't live the Bible in the same way we were taught. I think most plain people have more grace for those who have never been taught their way of life than for those who know it and reject or leave it; Amish reason they were never taught better.
46. I saw Christians as people that follow the teachings of Christ and love unconditionally; they strived to become like Christ.