Those shiftless Mennonites

I'm on the road at the moment, travelling the eastern US. On the way from Washington to Boston we passed through Pennsylvania, including Amish country. We stopped at Lancaster, a region particularly renowned for the Amish and visited a Mennonite info centre that we were told would explain something about their common Anabaptist culture. We paid for a tour of their Tabernacle which was described to us in minute detail. But as the guy was talking (with many a sharp S) I was trying to work out how ancient Jewish practices related to Anabaptists more than other Christian. Then at the end of his sermon he explained that the Bible says that when Jesus was crucified (or was it a couple of days later, when he was resurrected?) the curtain behind which God hides was torn in half. That is, Anabaptists (like other Christians) don't do any of that Jewish stuff anymore because God no longer lives behind a curtain in a tent.

I was really pissed off that we had paid money to hear a sermon and see a reconstruction of what they don't do anymore! We learnt nothing about Amish, Mennonites or any other Anabaptists.