I was traveling and used my credit card to buy a gift at the airport.
So the lady behind the counter flips my credit card over to look at the signature and it says "SEE I.D." where my signature belonged. She asked for the I.D..
"Do you expect trouble?"
"Just being cautious. Most people actually don't even look and don't ask for the I.D.. But no, no trouble. They never turn me down, they just let me spend, spend, spend."
"Well I am a Seventh Day Adventist, and we are not allowed to have credit cards."
I noticed she never stated anything about a personal belief. She clearly had a neutral tone about what she said, neither agreeing or disagreeing with it.
I said "Well, I don't let any group decide matters for me. It is a good idea to avoid debt, but a person can keep a credit card at a zero balance."
She said absolutely nothing about it. "Thank you, have a happy new year." (It was New Year's Eve.) There were no other customers, nobody else in the store. I guess she didn't want to comment on the rules imposed on her. I wanted to say how difficult it would be to travel, rent a car, get a hotel, or purchase things like airplane tickets without a credit card, but whatever.
I cannot find a rule against credit cards by my search of Seventh Day Adventists. She might be old school. Or it might be an unwritten rule. I do notice that Adventist websites encourage donating to the church via credit cards online but discourage going into debt to use them. Maybe they have realized they need money and credit is the way to go.
Anyway, I always find it interesting when someone says "We are not allowed.." JW's pretty much have that trained out of them, but the kids do it a lot.