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| Amish Confidential: The Bishop's Son Shatters the Silence | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Burkholder
Publisher: Argyle Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 541522
Media: Paperback
Pages: 214
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0977268004
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.7092
EAN: 9780977268009
ASIN: 0977268004
Publication Date: December 22, 2005
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Product Description
SCANDAL ROCKS AMISH CLAN: MURDER, SEXUAL DEPRAVITY. Forget the images of 19th century farmers, close-knit families, and hard-working craftsmen immune to the stresses of our modern times. The Amish find themselves facing ever-greater scrutiny as reports of polio outbreaks, child abuse, rape, incest, and bestiality grab the headlines. Once the symbol of better, simpler times, the closeted world of the Amish is now in the spotlight and at the center of growing controversies. Chris Burkholder, the son of an Amish bishop, has shattered the silence. At the cost of being excommunicated and ostracized by his own father, Chris reveals what it is like to grow up in a world where brainwashing, terrifying violence and sexual depravity are commonplace. In Amish Confidential: The Bishops Son Shatters the Silence, Chris Burkholder shares his harrowing tale of abuse and reasons that compelled him to leave his family and faith in search of a new life among the sinful and condemned world of the rest of us Americans.
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 This book is so real and truly the best October 5, 2008
This book is one of the best true stories of the life of the Amish, and yes it may sound harsh at some parts but it is for real and really very good. No one wants to hear what isn't true and were not in a hurry to put them down. I feel they need prayer
Thank you for your open heartnest I know it had ot be very hard to write. Thank you again for your book
 This is not about Amish, this is sick, perverse confession April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wouldn't reconmend this book to ANYONE. I live in a conseritive Mennonite community and have New and Old order Amish friends. From my experence this would never be condoned, and delt with by the Staff and the community. As in most socities, we humans are pron to error, and things do accure,as in most socities, but certianly not the norm. I feel the author was gaining some sort of sick pleasure discribing the abuse and could have brought the issue to light with out the graphics.
Disgusting March 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was one of the worst books I have ever read. I'm not saying the abuse & happenings in the story didn't take place, but this does not account for all Amish people & the Amish community. The book portrays all Amish folks are evil & wicked people. There was so much devious sexual behavior & so explicit, I couldn't even continue reading some of the pages. I think a teen-age is capable of knowing right & wrong, and yet Chris continued with these horrid sexual acts. To show such cruelty to poor helpless creatures & torture animals the way he & others did, sickened me. Again, I could not read the details. How this man could go on to marry a girl & have children without professional help from his past, is beyond me. I would have great hesitation before I would marry a man with all that he did & how he hurt helpless animals. I have many books on the Amish & Mennonite people & this is the worst I ever read.
I am very familiar with Amish people, as we have personal friends who are Amish. We know them & all their extended families as well. We've been in their homes, sat at their tables for meals, gone on outings with them & never once encountered any kind of this sick behavior. In our own society, we have good & bad in all kinds of people. Folks suffer physical & mental abuse every day. You don't have to be Amish to suffer the abuse & violence portrayed in this book. It happens every day and in many families. I'm sorry I wasted my money on this book as it was pure filth in my eyes and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I just hope everyone does not think all Amish folks are like this becasue there are many warm, caring & God loving Amish folks like the ones we know. I have to think many of the abuse that does occur, are isolated cases. I don't recall reading, Chris ever being remorseful for all the wrong doings he did. In my opinion, this book should go right to the trash bucket & stay there. Does not belong on any bookshelf at all. Didn't realize there was comments to review because I would have read that first before purchasing this from Amazon. Now I know better & where to search for comments.
 Graffic Account of Child Abuse January 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes, I agree this book is graffic and I had a hard time reading certain parts and needed to put the book down. But it addresses a serious epidemic we as a society need to be aware of and address and that is Child Abuse. The author experienced traumatic experiences no human being deserves and I applaud the author for coming forward and more for changing his life when he became an adult. He is reaching out and trying to create awareness which is a good thing! I thought the book was well laid out and written and would of given 5 stars if it had not been for the graffic nature. I wish this Author well and hope he achieves his mission with this book.
Makes me sick!! December 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aside from the fact that this book is very poorly written, the author tells us of the abuse that he inflicted on others (human and animals). He doesn't give the reader any indication that he was ever sorry. The account of drowning the kitten made me have to stop reading. I can't imagine that this book has a happy ending.
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