Im still waiting for FC to cite the source of the Italian post .. or is THAT a figment of your imagination too?

Vous faire a n'importe quelle idée comment frickiin ennuyant vous êtes.

When you are raised Seventh Day Adventist, prompted to question the world around you and probe for truth, then slapped around when you find irrational and illogical statements in the doctrine you are being force-fed it makes you start to question the validity of the premise you are led into.

Perhaps they should be reminded of the historical roots of their church. http://home.earthlink.net/~jcmmsm/EGW.html

Some humorous though non-doctrinal beliefs of the church:

1. The Pope is the Anti-Christ, and Catholics are the tools of the devil who will persecute the "true" believers in the end times - the only True Believers are of course... Adventists, and perhaps the occasional fellow Protestant or two who are sadly misguided but essentially good at heart.

2. The ultimate goal of an Adventist is to travel the world saving brown babies. Apparently the only people who haven't heard of Jesus yet are Africans, South Americans, and oddly - Russians... probably because they are a bunch of heathen Commies, and Eastern Orthodox isn't real Christianity anyway.
Jesus can't come back until everyone has heard about him. Even though deeds but only faith can earn salvation... apparently we haven't finished our job just yet... He's late where is he?!

3. The end of the world is almost here... in fact Jesus is actually running late by a century or so (read the link). Come on Jesus! My Ascension Robe is getting a bit tattered, and that property in Maryland where you are supposed to show up first is about to be parcelled off for tract-housing.

4. 144,000 are all that are going to be saved... er... is it only 144,000 that are alive in the end times that are going to be saved? Or 144,000 from all of time - the earth is only 6000 years old after all, and so that isn't really that many people... Oh well, the teachers and scholars were never really quite clear with me on that point.

5. Making friends with non-Adventists is only good if you can persuade them to come to Adventist church... since that 144,000 number is pretty hard-line, they better hurry up and be extra good Adventists too! After all - you get extra credit (special glittery gems in your crown) for all the conversions you make, and since the cosmic-carpet ride is limited to ticket holders only, you better make sure you bank-roll as many converts as possible - most of them aren't gonna make it!


... Sound silly to you? It isn't all that much better in any other mystical space-magician/earth-faerie type of belief system... I checked about quite a bit before deciding to give up the Holy Ghost.


I got turned onto Ayn Rand a few years ago... wouldn't call her anything like a saint, but she makes some very good points... Since she didn't believe in an afterlife I guess I'm safe from her ghost playing tricks on me, or zapping me if I pick and choose my way through her rational points.

Oh yeah... any Adventists that might find their way into this post and be offended or disagree, well you probably aren't real Adventists anyway and I won't have to worry about you when I'm sliding down the necks of those giraffes, or petting lions, or skipping my way down streets paved with gold... That's what all my sabbath school teachers taught me anyway.

I love reading Ayn Rand's books. My favorite is, "Atlas Shrugged."