#for the adventists

[sunsetofdoom]

no no no you didn't hear me right I said do the Jedi have SECTS. shut up I SAID do the Jedi have SE-

[detectivehole]

i attended a memorial service for a distant relative a few months ago, held in the local megachruch, and ive been thinking about it regularly since then. while i knew that i found the place and the very idea of the church fascinating,* the main emotion ive felt on reflection has been disappointment, and i didnt know why. but i figured it out;

the building is massive, the services must be huge and grandiose, and yet the pastor spoke of God in the most boring, uninspired way, and the whole church is industrial mid century modern. it was all just so bland and dispassionate and uninspired (the empathy and love on display for the dead was very genuine, im referring to the Rest of it). the place clearly feeds from the faith of its patrons but seems uninterested in inspiring them in turn

no ounce of me is religious, but i know for a fact the very idea of God can be much more beautiful and imposing and comforting than that. theres way to much blood and paint in its history for that not to be true. you have a huge congregation and all this money and youre selling one of the most captivating stories in human history and this is its presentation? this is sufficient? not only to the pastor and the church staff but to the people attending worship? i knew itd be strange and modern and absurd in there but i guess i expected at minimum a slightly-charismatic pastor and accompanying staff. or at least one with a confident and well presented knowledge of the bible

i felt disappointed cause it was disappointing

[simply-x-living]

So I might be joining that Catholic Church…

Been doing a lot of research on the different types of Christian faiths and Catholicism just makes the most sense.

[iscariotapologist]

hi, sorry if this is too personal but if you dont mind, will you let us know why did you leave SDA?

sorry i took so long to answer this, i've been trying to come up with a better answer but i think i will just be blunt: i value science and facts that are true in real life and not pulled completely out of someone's ass or their awful fundamentalist interpretation of the bible, and i don't appreciate religion being used as a tool to subjugate and instill fear. it was extremely fucked up to grow up wanting to die asap because i was taught the sunday law was imminent and i would be tortured and killed for going to church on saturday if i wasn't "lucky enough" to be dead first. i was barely educated as a child and when i went through the sda education system in high school and college it left gaping holes in my knowledge and cost exorbitant amounts of money to do so. "the health message" destroyed my relationships with food and (aided by lethal levels of misogyny) my body. they barely let women preach much less be ordained. i couldn't act normal about saturdays until recently. also i'm gay. also the constant pushing of missionary bullshit is evil. dude you get the side eye for wanting to drink coffee or use black pepper or eat pickles. they will go to the ends of the earth to "prove" the world is 6000 years old. why would you stay

[catgirltoes]

I just saw someone say that Mormonism and Scientology were the only two major US-originated religions. Which, like, how wrong can you be? Do you know how many Protestant movements originated in the States? Is the Great Awakening nothing to you?

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

ellen g white, modern prophet of the SDA, again

[spurgie-cousin]

if you're still interested in seventh day adventists, knowing better on youtube just put out a nearly three hour video on their history. i'm about two hours in and have found it really interesting.

i will check that out, thank you for the recommendation!! i'm definitely still interested, but because they're a smaller church it's definitely been a little bit harder to find ex-SDA stuff just compared to some other groups.

[queenlucythevaliant]

My first time getting a visit from the JWs. Idk why, but it's always so funny interacting with the various Christian cults?

[rabbitprayer]

The urge to visit every single church in my city just to find out what's going on in there.

[ofpd]

i said to someone that i like being friends with non-jews because it reminds me that not everything is about the jews and they were like "yeah but everyone is obsessed with jews" and like yes but no one is obsessed with jews as jews are

[inhissteps777]

Every step of the way, when you fall, and you have your shortcomings, He’s right there. When you have your victories, He’s right there. Give yourself grace, give yourself time to grow and appreciate it, because He’s growing with you. Every individual out here is experiencing a human life, a human experience and God is experiencing it with you. So when you go through things, He’s going with it. He’s right there with you. He’s talking to you. All you gotta do is talk back. I’ve walked on the beach every day, and I’m talking to God, I’m just talking. Like He the homie, I swear to God, I put that on my grandmama grave, I talk to Him. Next to me, like the homie, just like the people that you grow with. I don’t care if you gotta curse, you gotta cuss, you talk to Him as if you known Him since you was born, the way He knows you. It’s the truth. It’s the truth. - Kendrick Lamar

[siobhanromee]

ok i like that post and i wasnt going to put it into the tags, but Catholicism is Christianity. Separating Christianity that way bugs me personally bc the sentiment echoes anti-Catholic biases of the past. A more accurate term would be Protestant and Catholic.

[fairiencarnate]

I hate when christians try to christian-splain me as if I didn't spend 18 years devoting myself to it and believing nothing else. Like quote any bible verse at me and I'll tell you 5 different interpretations bitch. But also don't cause you're wasting my time and energy

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

ellen g white, modern prophet of the SDA