7th Day Adventist.

[The Tariff King]

Never really knew much about this church.

However a political refugee I work with from Burma, whom was granted asylum by the US 6 years ago, recently started going to their church. Firstly he goes for 7+ hours every Saturday, even threatened my owner that he would quit if he was scheduled to work on Saturdays moving forward.

That's not the troubling part however. People give a lot of **** to muslims for saying a lot of them here are Anti-American, but I was absolutely shocked to find out what he was "learning" at his church.

I spoke with him, and he told me how his church is teaching him to hate America and that America is the enemy. And that Obama and the Pope are conspiring to outlaw all Saturday religious congregating and make it exclusively for Sunday. When I tried to reason with him that it was America that give him asylum and saved him from military persecution in Burma, he said "I don't care, America is no good they tell me". There were also some more bizarre and alarming things he said that they were teaching him that troubled me. Not that I think this guy is going to be a domestic terrorist (he does love working and making money), I just find it crazy there are people that can be convinced of such things like this.

Maybe a religious scholar like Bedell could give me more insight on why the 7th Day Adventist church is teaching this type of Anti-American hatred and propaganda?

 

[Metaphysicist]

I'm not super familiar with them, but I would imagine that's not the general "7th Day Adventist" position, but rather some more particular to that congregation. I mean, you can surely find some "Baptists" that think Obama is trying outlaw Jesus or whatever, but that doesn't mean that's that what the Southern Baptist Convention is teaching.

 

[The Tariff King]

Didn't want to imply that this was the theology of the entire sect. Just saying I have heard some not so positive things about 7th day adventists before.

 

[BedellBrave]

Mossy is SDA I believe.

Yeah, that sounds congregation specific (the anti-America rant). Most SDAs I know are cool. Their big thing is observance of Saturday as Sabbath, and that the church has gone astray in it's general observance of Sunday as a Sabbath or Lord's Day. Mossy can further elaborate if he'd like. They also are millennialists, but of a type that's some different than your more common Dispensational varieties. The hold to soul sleep too, I believe. And I'm not sure if this is a required practice, but several that I know are vegetarians.

In the past, and Mossy please pardon me when I say this, but I would have viewed the majority or SDAs as cultic, particularly as their views at the time verged more in a works-oriented righteousness. I still don't agree with several of their points, but I think they are generally orthodox in their views on Christ, etc. In my opinion, Donald Grey Barnhouse (former pastor of 10th Presbyterian in Philadelphia) had a good influence upon many back during the later part of the last century. Again, mossy, I say all of the above with respect.