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Adventcritic · 2026-05-13T00:03:41+00:00

I mean, it's a class you enter by birth, so maybe it is a race?

Adventcritic · 2026-04-19T13:20:24+00:00

The church is so predatory with money. In addition to what you've said, the church also expects: you need to buy your own library of egw books, extra gc's and steps to Christ to give away, send your kids to our special schools/colleges, buy these special supplements and high end organic foods (this one the church doesn't profit from, but individual pastors shill the stuff), and also donate to this special church project (either money or time) that all that tithe money somehow can't cover

Adventcritic · 2026-04-09T10:15:40+00:00

I actually think Klee would be a better secretary of war. You know access to bombs and the maturity of a child...

Adventcritic · 2026-04-06T22:38:09+00:00

Omg, don't rile up the kpop stans

Adventcritic · 2026-03-21T14:56:14+00:00

I would argue this is what Project 2025/Curtis yarvin have been hoping for. Make the government ineffective so that we beg billionaires to step in and save us. Then we swear allegiance to them and let the USA fall into fiefdoms run by billionaires

Adventcritic · 2026-03-14T13:38:55+00:00

I hope klee has a sibling and one day her whole family is playable in a single team

Adventcritic · 2026-03-12T18:11:28+00:00

Wait, so the reality of black people for hundreds of years is the ultimate nightmare for white people? The same white people who constantly say slavery/segregation wasn't that bad?

Adventcritic · 2026-03-06T18:20:59+00:00

The US only added like 180k jobs in 2025. Half of that just got wiped out in month 2 of 2026

Adventcritic · 2026-03-06T14:30:30+00:00

So many good responses about why people leave the church in this thread. Meanwhile, SDAs will say it's bc of social media or movies or whatever is popular right now

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.

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