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Category Archives: Adventist
What Happens When You Ordain Women?
A friend writes: “Yesterday we visited a SDA church where boys and girls and men and women led in equally effective and comfortable ways. I was ashamed as I simultaneously watched this and thought about the thousands of pages and … Continue reading
Relies Are Beaut, Mate
I don’t have any relies (relatives) in America, not close ones anyway, but I have relies all over Queensland and it’s beaut, mate. I don’t often run into people in America who look like me and think like me and … Continue reading
Gays Go After Black Seventh-Day Adventist Doctor Eric Walsh
Report: He was appointed the public health director for the city of Pasadena. But once he was offered a gig to speak at Pasadena City College (just after our favorite twink-chaser Dustin Lance Black was temporarily turned down as a … Continue reading
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The Pope Is The Anti-Christ
This is normative traditional Seventh-Day Adventism, the religion in which I was raised. Not all Adventists believe this, but most of the traditional ones do. In my experience, I’ve noticed that blacks tend to believe in conspiracy theories at a … Continue reading
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Successful Racial Integration
The most examples of successful racial integration I know are in religious communities. Jews of different races get along fairly well, though they still divide along the lines of Ashkenazi, Persian, Sephardic and may have very little to do with … Continue reading
What’s The Point Of Group Pride?
Many of my friends say they don’t get racial pride. Why be proud of an accident of birth? I get it. I too felt disgust for “white pride” and “black pride” and “brown pride” and “gay pride,” though I did … Continue reading
I’m Fascinated By The JFK Assassination
For a long time, I was open to the conspiracy theories about the killing. As a teenager, I probably read half a dozen books in this vein. I attribute my early interest in conspiracy theories to my Seventh-Day Adventist upbringing, … Continue reading
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The Day I Learned How To Make The Pain Go Away
It was a Sabbath afternoon. God, how I hated the Sabbath. We were Seventh-Day Adventists at Avondale College in Cooranbong (comes from the Aboriginal word “Kour-an-bong”, meaning “rocky bottom creek”) and you weren’t allowed to do anything fun on the … Continue reading
Orthodox Jewish Cheerleaders
Marc B. Shapiro writes: When I was in high school in the early 1980s, in the New Jersey-New York yeshiva league only the girls of Bruriah wore sweat pants during basketball games (and the boys were not allowed to attend … Continue reading
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Life In A Tribe
The tribal approach to life emphasizes your group over outsiders. When Jews are in trouble, such as when they were kidnapped for ransom in the Middle Ages in Crete etc, fellow Jews would rally around and ransom them while Christians … Continue reading