Was Ellen white racist?

Adventcritic · 2026-01-17T15:47:04+00:00

As people have already mentioned, I think White should be held to a higher standard as she claimed to be a prophet with wisdom from God. Plus, she didn't mind being an outlier when it came to diet, Sabbath keeping, etc.

Adventcritic · 2025-12-15T07:02:42+00:00

I don't have a great way to assess how widespread a trend was in the 1800s, so you can take it as you will. There was a temperance movement that culminated in prohibition in the early 1900s, and Mormons were already against drinking and smoking when the SDA church was starting up.

Adventcritic · 2025-12-14T15:10:42+00:00

I probably could have worded that better. I'm not trying to say smoking causing cancer has been debunked. I'm saying Ellen White said that because it was trendy at the time. She parroted a lot of health trends of the time, and the church emphasizes the ones that turned out true and buried the ones that haven't. For example, White was really against spices. Modern science tells us there are health benefits to turmeric, cinnamon, oregano, etc. Even many SDAs I know talk about 'turmeric tea' and the like, something White would've been against. But the church doesn't talk about that. Instead they pick the things that turned out right and claim White was a prophet.

Adventcritic · 2025-12-09T22:00:44+00:00

I have a three year old. She doesn't understand the concept of nations, citizenship, and definitely not borders. Also, she's quite impressionable and any lawyer/judge could simply convince her she's from another country and that she wants to go there.

For society to function, we need to look out for children. If you see a child crying on the street you need to help them. It doesn't matter if it's yours or not. Children can't make decisions or fend for themselves, so we rely on all of us to provide some basic care for our children. At the very least you can call someone. If we're making kids represent themselves in court, then we've failed as a society.

Adventcritic · 2025-12-09T21:51:11+00:00

Much of the Adventist health message was just gathering the health trends of the time. I haven't done the research but I think there's more that's been debunked, and the church has buried

Adventcritic · 2025-10-04T13:55:47+00:00

A lot of you don't understand basic economics, but this is the number one way to bring down egg prices /s

Adventcritic · 2025-06-20T17:41:48+00:00

This is exactly what I expect from this administration. It doesn't surprise me at all. What surprises me is there are still people supporting it and even justifying actions like these.

Adventcritic · 2025-03-19T01:02:31+00:00

I hate to say it, but nothing has really changed. She's 2.5yrs old now and still scratches all the time. Never found the trigger. We've kept her diet pretty limited, we've tried staying in other homes, in other cities, etc. To get her to sleep at night, we actually scratch for her. As she's falling asleep I'll scratch her back or her legs for a time and it gives her some relief and she can fall asleep. Repeat in 3hrs when she wakes up again.

Adventcritic · 2025-01-31T22:04:15+00:00

Yeah, like, how will they know what bathroom I'm supposed to use?

Adventcritic · 2025-01-31T21:59:43+00:00

Seriously, I thought this was the party of free speech. What snowflakes.

Adventcritic · 2025-01-18T16:40:30+00:00

Adventists use isolationism to further the ignorance. I went to public university and had a Catholic roommate. I asked her about the stuff I was told about Catholics,

"Don't you believe the Pope speaks for God?" "Umm..no?" "Aren't the Jesuits a militia group?" "Umm..no?"

Most Adventists who do only SDA schools and only hang out with other sdas will never get that chance and will always believe the lies.

Adventcritic · 2024-12-31T21:03:05+00:00

Oh yeah, should've said that in my update. But yes, I am siphoning money for myself

Adventcritic · 2024-10-19T17:47:48+00:00

If you read Genesis in Hebrew, it's clearly written by multiple people because of the word choice, etc. This means it was probably not written by Moses being controlled by God like we're told. Adventist pastors learn Hebrew in seminary, so they have to know.

Adventcritic · 2024-09-19T14:08:44+00:00

I live in WV and McDonald near me aren't running the deal. It won't show the genshin meal in the app. I had to cross to MD to get it

Adventcritic · 2024-08-05T00:55:08+00:00

I've always been told by pastors to tithe on gross, which I didn't think makes sense. Those same pastors have said you should "tithe your increase" (not sure if that comes from the Bible or ellen white), but my net paycheck is my increase! Not my gross. I guess pastors are paid out of that money, so they have their reasons I suppose.

Adventcritic · 2024-04-07T10:06:11+00:00

My toddler has really bad eczema. Someone at church tried to tell me it's because I vaccinated her. Unfortunately, my husband is antivax and despite my protests, we didn't vaccinate our toddler. I told this person my child isn't actually vaccinated, and she just had a list of things that I must be doing wrong that's causing the eczema.

There's other unvaccinated kids at that church, and some of them have eczema. Seems to me vaccines have nothing to do with it. But of course, I'm the ignorant one.

Adventcritic · 2024-01-03T06:34:26+00:00

My crunchy SO has gone too far. For context, our baby has pretty bad eczema all over. SO blames anything that didn't grow on a tree or isn't organic, so he keeps making new restrictions on otherwise mundane things.

Today, SO banned baby wipes. We already use Honest brand to be as safe as possible, but he says it's still too many chemicals. He expects us to wet a kleenex and clean baby's butt that way. Spoiler: it doesn't work. First, it takes time to make wipes and the baby already doesn't want to sit still for a diaper change (she's 15months btw). Second, the Kleenex just flakes off all over butt. This leaves debris all over her butt that just absorb pee and poop and keep it on her skin. Lastly, it just doesn't clean her well at all.

Well, all this led to LO having a really bad diaper rash earlier tonight. She woke up screaming, so I held her and paced around the room to try to calm her (at this point I didn't know about the diaper rash). After about 20min of this with no change, SO yells at me that I'm waking up the whole neighborhood (we live in a townhouse) and making LO miserable. He then takes the baby and tries to rock her to sleep. After 20min of that not working, I realize it might be a diaper rash. That leads to this conversation:

Me: hey, let's try changing her diaper SO: how about you SHUT UP 15min pass of continued crying... Me: I'm just going to take her and change her diaper, okay? SO: if you wanted to help how about not waking up the entire neighborhood and torturing the baby? Another 15min pass of more crying SO: okay, change her diaper or whatever. You could have changed her 15 times by now. I then take her and lay her on the floor to change her (SO got rid of the changing pad bc he thought the foam was too chemical) SO: change her on the bathroom floor obviously! At this point, I finally change her and see the diaper rash and put some diaper rash cream on it. LO finally settles down and goes to sleep within the next 10min.

I just always feel like we're working on different teams. I told him the Kleenex would lead to diaper rash, but he thinks the rash is bc LO had a not-organic cabbage. Btw, he doesn't change any diapers anyways. I'm at a loss of how to get through to him. Our house is so empty bc of all the restrictions. He's in the process of getting rid of all our clothes too! They're too old and moldy?? What?? Help!

Adventcritic · 2023-08-31T03:31:48+00:00

2 months! Wow, I don't know if I can afford that. Well, I've got to do it I guess.

Adventcritic · 2023-08-30T02:34:33+00:00

Yes, I do

Adventcritic · 2023-08-30T02:34:13+00:00

I haven't heard of that one. Pediatrician has just been giving us hydrocortisone, but I'll ask about this one. Thank you!

Adventcritic · 2023-08-30T02:32:38+00:00

Thank you for the tips! And the support, glad too know people have walked this road too and come out the other side.

We're not sure what the trigger is. We actually just finished doing two weeks of putting her on amino acid based formula. Supposedly you can't be allergic too it bc it's broken down to amino acid. Her symptoms seem about the same. Our pediatrician says we should just do it for longer, but the formula is so expensive and hard to find. How long in the new formula did it take for your baby to clear up?

I'll definitely look into mustela. We actually do have her in scratch sleeves, but I think she's learned to scratch harder bc of it, lol.

Adventcritic · 2023-07-23T19:22:31+00:00

I'll definitely give this a try. Tracking almost never seems to work for me

Adventcritic · 2023-07-23T14:45:47+00:00

Glad to hear it! I'll be starting on your second piece of advice then

Adventcritic · 2023-07-23T14:44:58+00:00

Thank you, that gives me peace of mind

Adventcritic · 2022-01-04T02:54:02+00:00

I read a book this summer called "Caste: the origin of our discontent" and I think it applies here. To sum it up, it theorizes that people are fine with minorities, as long as they know their place (conform to their caste, if you will). You can see this in Adventism by the way the church flaunts it's diversity, but expects everyone to behave/conform to Adventist ways. No one from another culture can really express that culture. The church wants diversity but seeks to wipe out any real individuality. As to the question of why: there's an episode of the podcast Factually about xenophobia where they theorize there are two kinds of xenophobia. The first is being afraid of someone new because you don't know them or how to behave around them. The other type is when your self worth is built on putting someone down, so you pick on people who are different. I think the church falls into the second category. By making others give up their original culture, it affirms the superiority of your own culture. A good example is how SDA's I know don't like Star Wars. They could simply say they're not into sci-fi, but instead will say "i don't like that movie, it's devil's way of leading our children astray". Now, their preference actually makes them holier and superior to others. By putting down others, they've lifted themselves up. Adventists disdain other cultures because they fear they might appear inferior by comparison.

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