Unknown stories of Staphorst- Netherlands

There is a suburb in the Netherlands where people still do not believe in medicine! They do not believe in science. Blow-blow, blow-blow their life. Many do not leave the suburbs. By showing the thumbs up to modern civilization, they are living in their own kingdom.

Staphorst - The name of a village. Where people like to hold on to their roots. Modern Dutch society is famous for their wide range of social allowances, sex and drugs. But if one goes eighty miles northeast of Amsterdam, there is another world. People here refuse all forms of insurance, social benefits and interference in their destiny. It is a sin to watch television.

Ian William Stock, a spokesman for the village, said that with three hundred thousand people away from the modern revised Dutch society, the Bible Belt group formed a separate society, one hundred and twenty miles southwest, in the town of Urk in north Ostbrough. Staphorst is an agrarian village with a population of 14,000 with a strong belief in Protestantism. She is still seen walking with the men of the house every Sunday in front of the seven churches in the village after that dress.

In 1562, the pious Lutheranism discovered a mixed religion. Whose main point was to accept destiny, the believer must prove its truth by suffering. And the name of this belief is ‘Heidelberg Catechism’ with which the people of Staphorst have survived. Religion plays a huge role in Dutch politics as in other countries. In Dutch politics there is a term ‘staphorst factor.’ Political parties with radical believers always win five percent of the seats in parliament.

Stock said there were many, many Dutch villages like that many years ago. The tradition here has been going on for a long time because the residents of this village are isolated from everything. Most of the villagers are reluctant to take social allowances from the government due to old traditions. They are also reluctant to pay taxes to the government. They arrange their own financial aid for their own community. When someone's house burns down, the neighbors build a new house. When someone dies, relatives make his coffin.

The tradition of Staphorst is that when a farmer dies, his land is divided among the boys. The boys who do not inherit the land will build their own farm houses behind the lands of others. For this reason, the cultivable lands there are very narrow and long - fifteen by forty meters. Originally these were one hundred and twenty five meters wide. Farmers in the region speak their traditional low Saxon regional language. The windows and doors of this village house are all green. Most of the houses that can be seen now were built between 1850 and 1910.

Many residents of this village do not take medicine. It does not even take the vaccine! They believe that sickness is God's punishment and that healing is his reward. During the polio epidemic in 1971, Staphorst made headlines. Forty-nine people were infected with polio, most of them children. Birth rates throughout Europe have dropped dramatically already. Like other Bible shelters, Staphorst is in the process of being converted. The scene of the beautiful village like this picture is gradually changing. The residents of Staphorst are breaking the tradition and joining modern life. A hospital has already been set up in this village. Yet the predominance of the inhabitants here is in the tradition of that harsh destiny.