SDAs Campaigning in my Area

NotFormer

Not even as active as the JWs (whom I have not seen for around a year now), nevertheless I get an occasional leaflet or other publication in my letterbox that seems to be Seventh Day Adventist in origin.

The booklet I received the other day was entitled "National Sunday Law". I also had received this book years ago when I had some dealings with the SDAs.

From Reddit: "National Sunday law involves a conspiracy theory which alleges that the United States government is on the verge of enacting a national blue law that would make Sunday a day of rest and worship. The theory depends on the idea that the Pope is the Antichrist and the Mark of the Beast is worshipped on Sunday. Sinister forces (read: the Vatican) are conspiring to enact a national Sunday law in the United States, which would be the trigger that unleashes the fulfilment of the prophecies found in the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation. In addition, this law would outlaw worshipping on Saturday, thus beginning a period of persecution of those who worship on Saturday, or Sabbath."

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/198g3cq/national_sunday_law_book_return/

The above summary, although not identical in its conspiratorial religious undertones, may sound somewhat familiar.

Biahi

Another loony sect.

Diogenesister

🤣🤣God grief, I haven't gotten around to reading the link (which I will do Not former), but my goodness, if only! Do they actually know what century they live in?!

Interesting they think a law in the USA will affect everyone the world over (again, if only😉)

But here in the Islamic republic of Europe can you imagine the outcry?! - our Mayor of London, our first minister of Scotland, our Labour leader of Scotland, our foreign secretary, our Lord Chancellor & secretary of state for Justice, our secretary of state for Energy....etc all of them Muslim or Jewish & w,ho would presumably be darn quick to enact the relevant EcHR or Equalities law to stop such a National Sunday law encroaching on their religious or cultural freedom! (I was tempted to write "Not phwyte"after each name as a reference to the speech made by Scottish first minister Humza Yusuf, a play on words to his decrying the number of "phwyte" people in Scotland!!🤦🏻‍♀️

Rivergang

I have only ever once seen members of the Seventh Day Adventist church actually engaged in a door-knocking activity. This was over 40 years ago, and - specifically - they were soliciting funds for their "missionary works".

As an aside, there is at least one country in which the SDA has a significant presence, and that is Papua New Guinea. This is a country which is proud to describe itself as being "Christian"(rather hard to believe at times, but there you go!) Most of its population of just over 10 million people is divided about evenly between the Catholic, Anglican, United, Lutheran and Seventh Day Adventist churches - each with a membership of about 2 million people.

At least in PNG, the Seventh Day Adventists are on an equal footing with the more "mainstream" churches.

dropoffyourkeylee

SDA has some obscure branches (remember Waco?), one of which is likely the culprit here.

WingCommander

I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm not surprised by this. We've got a LOT of SDA in the area, along with their schools and hospitals. Hey, at least they have them! (JW's have NOTHING!)

Anyway, as I was finally convinced JW's were a cult about 25 years ago, a much younger me started to look around at similar faiths. Of course, I looked into SDA's, whom had similar belief structure. It would have been so easy to slip right in, adapt to their beliefs, diet, Saturday Sabbath, etc.

Why didn't I? Well, once I started looking harder, I saw that it was same cult shit, different flavour. Basically JW cult cousins. Branched right off from the the Millerite "Great Disappointment", with another fruit-loop "prophet" - Ellen G. White.

You also had an Elder Body, shunning, rules out the ass, etc. It was all too familiar and cultish. I "Noped" it right out of there before I even attended (1) meeting. How? All from internet research and speaking to a few members.

Anyway, years ago by. Around 2010 or so I was the York Fair. JW's had a tent and table I believe. They do this every year now. No one comes up to them. One year, the Fair put them next to the pigmy goat petting/feeding zoo outside. I laughed my ass off at the irony of that. Anyway, further down inside a pavilion with some other religious groups, I came upon an SDA table with literature. I picked some up and browsed thru some of it. OMG!!! I was so weird, cause was SOOOOO much like JW literature. Gloom and Doom, petting pandas in Paradise ala Live Forever Book....... that I was really taken aback. What, do these cults all share the same Art Department? Makes you wonder. It was a trip seeing that stuff.

So how is a loving God going to judge people who belong to either group? How can you say 1 group is right, and the other is wrong, when they are damn near identical? It's insane to think that. A loving God would have exercise leniency and mercy. GRACE. You know, what JW's know nothing about?

Dagney

I came upon an SDA table with literature. I picked some up and browsed thru some of it. OMG!!! I was so weird, cause was SOOOOO much like JW literature. Gloom and Doom, petting pandas in Paradise ala Live Forever Book....... that I was really taken aback. What, do these cults all share the same Art Department?

^^When I left JW, I took the time to look at the different preachers on TV, and listened for a time to Xtian radio, just to get a feel for what people were listening to. I was really surprised how much it sounded all the same...gloom and doom just with a few words changed. The scriptures read were the same and used for the same purpose.

My father's family were SDA. I wish now I had asked more questions. One of his siblings stayed SDA, became an MD at Loma Linda. From recent Ancestry dot com information, his family still has the SDA links, their names associated with colleges etc. My parents became JW's in the late 30's, and witnessed in downtown LA among all the religious fervor that was happening there... Christian Science, Angelus Temple with Amy Semple McPherson, that other guy that put out a monthly magazine much like the Wat/Awake.

It's alllll the same save for a few different word changes.

WingCommander

@Dagney:

That "other guy that put out a monthly magazine" is probably Harold Camping. He was more famous for radio network. He had a good many followers. He was like another Frederick Franz, spouting off end-times nonsense ad nauseam for decades until HIS End, in 2013.

See here for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

Yes, Pennsylvania is the place where it all happened. Nice place though. Great history. I have some relatives who live there. They were never in the JW religion, thankfully.

But, I wonder though how many of Jehovah’s Witnesses realize the origin of their own religion? Probably not many because they are so ignorant.. I think at some point the JW religion will join the ranks of other religions that originated in this area that nobody pays much attention to anymore!

Dagney

(He even looks like Freddy!!! LOL)

I think that was him, but Wiki didn't mention that magazine. I can still see it in my head, they were by the newspaper stands with their own little free stand. None of this "door to door" business!

We were "trained" to be able to make a stand for our doctrine with these other religions. We had to know what they believed, even the dreaded "evil slave class." I had a call for years now that I think about it with an SDA. Why now I have no idea...le sigh.

Old Harold didn't have the accountants and attorneys the WTBS has in order to become an international real estate company!

SDAs Campaigning in my Area

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