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Hoof and mouth disease can be contagious when it comes to history for some politicians.

Well, Green, you and I have both stated our positons and made our points. Everyone reading them can judge them for themselves. Extending my right hand to you to shake yours.

nobody is required to read the Barely Adventist articles. And "Fake News" is getting to be a tiresome catch-phrase, here and elsewhere. Are people really that stupid that they can't determine if a story is a hoax? (a rhetorical question) I don't think I've seen a Barely Adventist article that intentionally "poked fun at the expense of people who were genuinely hurting." Sorry for the need to inform, but life isn't fair. People *will* hurt you. Neither the church nor Christians are perfect. Hurt and insults are just going to happen. Intentionally hurting people, of course, is wrong. But much of the "hurt" that is perceived is not done intentionally by others. We live inside of ourselves. We talk to ourselves. Most of what we perceive is filtered though our own subjective experiences, thoughts and self-talk, as well as what we've unconsciously *pre-determined* might be the nature of an expected or perceived insult. We really *do* need to take some responsibility for our own hurt feelings, and not automatically assume that the Christian Insult Mafia is hiding under every rock, around every corner, in every story we don't like, and in every post with which we don't agree on a forum.

There is a big difference between "should bathe" and God showed me that everyone must bathe". One is a suggestion; the other is a command. Could it be that EGW was simply suggesting that one should bathe? I'm confused why bathing comes up in a topic about dress codes. I usually bathe naked (no clothes = no dress code). To be precise, I usually shower naked. I've never seen anything in EGW's writings that suggests what to wear in the tub on either Preparation Day or Sabbath. Am I disrespecting Sister White because I shower rather than bathe?

I've never read a fake-news parable from the Bible that poked fun at the expense of people who were genuinely hurting.

Wow. This thread is truly turning bizarre. This much angst over what one can or cannot wear to church? Wow.

The official position of the SDA denomination is that we do NOT have a creed. Nonsense! Our creed has become the so called 28 or 29, or whatever the latest is.