Defending A Cultural Adventist

[Gregory Matthews]

See:

http://atoday.org/in-defense-of-cultural-adventism-confessions-of-a-traditional-adventist-expatriate-on-being-in-the-world-but-not-of-the-world/

[CoAspen]

A very accurate and identifying description of my life experience growing up in the SDA community. 

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

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There were two kinds of people in the world, Adventists and non-Adventists; this worldview was reinforced and rewarded in Adventist academies and colleges as well. The implicit message was that it was vastly more desirable to associate with the former and fundamentally wiser to ignore or have little to do with the latter. In many ways my family and church, in effect, largely shared an insular approach to the great social realities of life, social life akin to that of The Brethren or orthodox Jews.

the above  was so true...

But I was fortunate in that my father was not Adventist when I was growing up, and I had far more interesting and diverse childhood experiences than that of my SDA friends.