lawrnk wrote:We are off topic. I should have said the SDA's in my wifes family. I cannot comment on them all. They are around a dozen. all clothes hand made, no TV's, playing cards are evil, absolutely no meat. So my bad, I did not mean to include every SDA. Regarding the Mennonites, I was referring to their lifestyles, not beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-da ... h_and_diet
flintknapper wrote:lawrnk wrote:SDA's are health nuts. no meat, mostly organic home grown veggies. No TV, etc. They are sorta like Mennonites.Keith B wrote:Good thing he doesn't own a donut shop!!!!lawrnk wrote: Being an organics shop he does not get many LEO's in his shop, other than holidays when they shop for their wives.
They are very anti-gun though
http://news.adventist.org/data/2001/01/ ... ex.html.en
For sake of clarity....I would like to state that the above is largely untrue.
SDA's do have a health message....and many practice good dietary habits, but roughly half of the world membership eat meat...there is no prohibition as a point of doctrine.
I do not personally know of any Adventists that do not have a TV or do not watch it. (Not on Sabbath except religious content)...but otherwise yes. Where do you think they get their news?
I will be happy to show you hundreds of Adventists who not only support your 2nd amendment rights, but own and shoot guns on a regular basis.
The link you posted is in reference to warring factions in the Solomon Islands, and has nothing to do with any position the church may have about firearms.
Lastly, they are really not anything like the Mennonite's. But that should get a good laugh at church this weekend.
Just wanted to make this clear.....I know its a bit off topic.
Well, you can find extremism in anything....thats for sure.
If that has been your only exposure to SDA's then I can understand how you might draw the conclusion.
I can tell you however, that most SDA's are pretty ordinary folks.
I am an ordained Deacon of an SDA church, but I appreciate the link just the same.
Anyway, back on topic now.