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?