‘What fellowship can light have with darkness?’

THE Amish set themselves apart from nearly all modern things — electricity, cars, movies, television and computer games. Most of all, they abhor violence.

But in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, an outsider burst into a one- room school and opened fire, killing four girls and a teaching assistant. And when he did, he brought violence to a place that considers it evil.

“I don’t even know if I could begin to comprehend how this might affect those people,” said Steve Scott, an Amish expert at Elizabethtown College, 30 miles west of the village in Lancaster County where Monday’s shootings occurred.