Nothing screams religious trauma more than me waking up from a dream and being worried that the pastors and little us were right about us being a prophet because we dreamed California was on fire and it could be clearly seen from Nevada.

I wish we could have a normal relationship with our dreams now but years of conditioning has made it difficult.

I hate when christians try to christian-splain me as if I didn't spend 18 years devoting myself to it and believing nothing else. Like quote any bible verse at me and I'll tell you 5 different interpretations bitch. But also don't because you're wasting my time and emotional energy

Seventh Day Adventists want to be Jewish so bad but the SDA isn't ready to hear that

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I was never a doubtful child because I enjoyed being Seventh Day Adventist for the most part. I didn’t like not being able to eat certain things or go to friends birthday parties on Saturdays but by the time I was in middle school I didn’t really care about any of that. Something happened in and around the 6th grade— I don’t know if it was the change in demographic of my church which comes with a change in beliefs and practices, but i remember getting like 20x more religious somehow. I became vegetarian in the 7th grade, I decided to be homeschooled for 8th grade, I (for a short period of time) started dressing a little more modestly.

I do remember that i had an older friend form church — I think in the 7th grade she started teaching me how to use my violin which turned into weekly Bible and Ellen g white literature study. I think at the time she was in college— definitely out of high school (homeschool) so at least 20. I think that made me more religious too— feeling connected to someone and being told how I’m “different” and really kind of one of the good ones (™️) from someone who was young and beautiful and kind. She used to tell me that when she was young (so long ago) she had “lost her way” and done something bad (so bad she wouldn’t say what it was and didn’t think it was funny to guess) and then somehow in that realized she needed to come back to god and get rebaptized. I was always wondering what that was.

But yes I think that’s what it was— the church got kind of conservative overall with all these new people. We had youth meetings where we would be told that somehow drums and the vibrations / frequencies were related to Satan and the end times. How the dinosaur bones were propaganda. There was a sermon where I know I wasn’t listening because I and most other people knew it was crazy , but there was this PowerPoint slide up with 2 pictures crossed out: a pile of flour and the pope. And if you don’t know we think the pope is the antichrist. Or at least I did.

I wasn’t like 100% down with everything— a big part of adventism is arguing in Bible study so no one’s expecting you to agree with everything— but I was in as deep as I could allow because I wanted to be. My family was well liked, I had a lot of friends, and there were a lot of people who really liked me and loved to tell me I was Better than the other kids (sorry to break it to them). So it was like not even a problem— I was pretty happy like that.

contemplating making a blog for ex sda stuff, i've seen similar blogs for ex lds/how/etc. but not sda, i'm curious if that would be useful for anyone.

Eliel Cruz for Teen Vogue:

When I was a teenager in the early aughts, conversion therapists reigned supreme in evangelical Christian spaces, spewing pseudo-scientific techniques as a supposed “remedy” for LGBTQ identities. Growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist church and school system, LGBTQ identities were vilified and demonized at the pulpit and in our classrooms. The answer to our sexualities, according to the church, was to deny ourselves love or a partner, stay celibate, or to work on “changing” our sexuality so that we were no longer queer. There were groups and conferences with self-proclaimed “ex-gay” speakers providing testimonies about how they “overcame” their sexuality and therapists eager to “help” others pursue the same path.

According to a Williams Institute report, 7% of LGB adults ages 18 to 59 in the United States have undergone conversion therapy. About 81% of those individuals were in “therapy” with religious leaders, which heightened suicidal thoughts and ideation in comparison to LGB people who have not gone through conversion “therapy” practices. Across the globe, these numbers fluctuate between 2% all the way up to 34% of LGBTQ+ people having undergone conversion practices. By the mid-2010s, these groups and their influence began to dwindle as national organizations like Exodus International, one of the longest-running and largest ex-gay organizations, shuttered its doors after 37 years, admitting that not only did conversion or reparative therapy not work, it was harmful to the LGBTQ people subjected to it. Former Exodus International President Alan Chambers said: "I am sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced. I am sorry that some of you spent years working through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractions didn't change,” admitting his own attractions to men had not gone away, despite being married to a woman and having children.

The closing of Exodus International signaled the end of a decades-long push for ex-gay therapy, or so it would seem. But in recent years, as legislation has passed across the country to ban conversion therapy for youth, a new push for so-called “change therapy” has re-emerged with the same flawed premise and tactics of the ex-gays of old. A group called Changed Movement, formed in response to legislation banning conversion therapy in California, is one such group using new language to promote the same-old conversion therapy. Conversion or reparative therapy, loosely defined, is any attempt to influence and change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Often, these counselors blame trauma or violence, family dynamics, or your upbringing as the root of the deviant sexuality or gender identity. Changed Movement shares stories of individuals blaming these roots as the cause of their sexuality or gender. This assertion is false and only serves to shame the individual, often for reasons beyond their control. Importantly, ex-gay groups like the Changed Movement do not seem to reckon with the fluidity of sexuality and gender and, as proponents of this ideology typically do, seemingly view things as either gay or straight, trans or cisgender.

[...] In a report by the Trevor Project, researchers found at least 1,320 conversion therapy practitioners in almost all 50 states, including states with active conversion therapy bans for minors. Almost half of those counselors are unlicensed, and most are attached to some sort of religious ministry. While couching their language and pretending to be there to help LGBTQ people, the danger of these groups and practitioners cannot be understated.

Recently, an ex-gay group called Coming Out Ministries bought a building across from my alma mater, Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist University, intending to “work closely” with the university on LGBTQ issues “from a redemptive perspective.” Groups like Changed Movement and Coming Out Ministries see LGBTQ young people’s identities as “confusion” instead of who they are intrinsically. Their ideology stems from a theological understanding of sexuality that does not take into account science or the world as it exists around them. Anti-LGBTQ theology fuels conversion therapy, and it’s not only flawed but also inherently harmful and violent. As a queer person of faith, I reject theology and religious practices that cause harm, as it is not from God. The history and devastating impacts of ex-gay practices are clear in the irreparable damage it has caused to large swathes of the LGBTQ community raised in religious settings.

Eliel Cruz writes in Teen Vogue the changing history of anti-LGBTQ+/anti-trans medical pseudoscience practice of conversion therapy.

im interested in converting to christianism but im confused as i dont know what are the differences between christians, catholics, orthodoxes and protestants. how do i chose? how do i know which one is the correct one? i heard there are also several different bibles? i got one free "the bible" in my non-christian country christians and i dont even know which version it is

Basically speaking, the biggest crux of opposition between Catholics and Protestans is that Catholics worship Mary, pray with idols and sustain the idea the Mary remained virgin AFTER Jesus birth, when the very two commandments and Matthew 12:46-50 contradict such positions😭 They also have a whole literature called Cathechism where they establish a set of rules and you'll often see Catholics pull it out to explain their doctrine...to defend their belief system going against what Bible explicitely condemns (ex: praying for the dead, idols, saints worshipping, etc).

Protestant have their whole share of questionnable beliefs too - especially USAmerican evangelicals. They're the ones who've been managing the church like a whole business - which is ironically what they've been accusing the Catholics of doing during the Roman Catholic Empire era lel. They don't have the same concern about social issues as Catholics do (in Europe, many NGO are Catholics, and help the poor, offer shelter, etc) ; they tend to be quite hypocrite too : like they'll go off against gays and abortion but will be silent about any social injustice they'll snarkily downplay as "woke culture".....

I'm not familiar with Orthodoxy but it comes off as Catholicism lite™️

And you don't have to "choose" any denomination, anon. There are thousands of Christian denomination, which is a heresy. There shouldn't be any divison within the Church. No denomination is "correct" in the sense that there shouldn't be any to begin with.

And yes, there are countless versions of the Bible. I often see debate of USAmericans as of which version is the best (King James Version, NIV, ESV, NASB, etc.) and all of this so.....pointless and tone deaf? 1 BILLION of Christian and there you have, a handful of self centered english speaking Americans arguing over one (1) version of the bible just because...?

Real talk anon: unlike what's often being said, the Bible can be altered. Look at the Jehova Witnesses. Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons.... Even during slavery, slave owners cropped some Bible passages (about freedom) to not give ideas to slaves....

Yes, the Bible is the Word of God, but these words on a paper can be altered and manipulated. The Bible isn't some sort of magical book turning any person reading it a Christian granted you read the "right" version. Some atheists have read the Bible more than actual Christians. I knew an agnostic Christian theologian student ; she was studying the Bible while not being Saved herself. Jehova Witnesses do think that "their" bible is the real deal. Same for Mormons or whatever other Christian sect.

That's why THE HOLY SPIRIT is so important. Because while human can twist and alter words written on a book, the Holy Spirit will never lie and no one can bend it over falsehood. That's precisely why Jesus is called "the Word" "made flesh" (John 1). By PRAYING and asking the Holy Spirit for guidance, you can be set free from the bondage of falsehood and He will guide you towards truth.

I've read/watched plentiful of testimonies from former Mormons/Jehova Witness/7th Day Adventist/witches/satanists, etc, etc and guess what? Not a single one said "I read the KJV version of the Bible and realized I was wrong". It just....doesn't work this way. They instead went to a point were they got troubled in their belief, prayed, and asked for the Lord to show them the way. This leap of faith happened because of the Holy Spirit ; the change of heart that changes us from sinners to repentance comes from God, not a Bible version.

You'll be good with your random Bible anon. It's already a blessing you've got one between your hands. Just rely to the Lord, not a name stamped Bible version to build a real relationship with God. First Christians didn't have any Bible to build up their walk with God (could they even read?). Yes, the Bible is extremely helpful, but it shouldn't be the be all and end all of Christianhood.

I've seen other asks, I'm a system and ex sda as well, do you think Seventh Day Adventists do programming and ritual abuse, intentionally or otherwise? Never thought to frame it like that but I was severely traumatized by that church growing up,developed severe scrupulosity ocd :/

The Seventh Day Adventists are considered a cult. They use methods of indoctrination and spiritual control.

There are some concerns about what occurs in the church.

“Unfortunately, violence against women is also prominent and an issue in the Church. The Seventh-day Adventist Church may be, both especially prone to domestic violence cases and yet have a protective measure at the same time. This is explained by the fact that domestic violence is said to be more common in small, theologically conservative religious groups. At the same time, domestic violence is twice as likely in families where the spouses belong to different religions. Given the low rate of Adventists marrying outside of their faith, this is likely a protective barrier. However, a random sample study conducted in 2006 of 1,431 Seventh-day Adventists from 70 churches across a five state region, found that 46% of survey participants reported that they experienced common couple violence, 29% reported experiencing sexual violence, while 10% reported severe physical violence. Though Dr. Williams shared several statistical figures, he emphatically declared, “the bottom line is [that] sexual harassment is common.” Source

Finding Justice for Victims of Sexual Abuse in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Emily – Seventh Day Adventist Church

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Parents upset that kids don’t stay Christian after attending Christian school. via /r/atheism

Parents upset that kids don’t stay Christian after attending Christian school.

I attended a denominational (seventh Day Adventist) Christian school from 4th grade to 8th, and many other children did also. It was your typical Christian school. No piercings, nail polish, listening to secular music, and cafeteria food was disgusting vegetarian mush. There was also a hefty nepotism there as pastor’s kids were given special treatment. Unsurprisingly enough, almost all of the kids who graduated there have either left the church, become secular, and are just enjoying their lives as teens and young adults. My very religious mom saw one of my ex-classmates wearing makeup and jewelry and went ballistic. She began complaining about how the school didn’t do a good job at indoctrinating the girl (she’s not part of the denomination), and she still became a “jezebel.” She spent maybe 10 minutes complaining about the girl (who is a sweet, polite girl that graduated top of the class), and how she’s ruined and far gone since she doesn’t observe the religious practices of her sect. I’m so disgusted, so I decided to blow off some steam here.

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"As an sda member wtf? They were wrong."

I genuinely think it's great you're seeing how harmful my own church was but if you're sda and are staying in the church please don't comment on our stuff. Thanks.

It's not that I don't want your input it's that it makes me paranoid. Because if you saw it my own pastors or old church members might and it makes me nauseous just thinking about. I really don't want to be scared to post and it feels really weird and "they might do that but I DONT" which feels really weird to us too.

Mother Earth, Spanish Goddess Tiamat lives Bi-racial White Mother and Haitian Father in the Western Hemisphere with a 2 Syllable name Brandi

👉The Goddess Tiamat already replaced Jesus. I’m her only daughter. IMPORTANT: Jesus is replaced with another Jewish Rabbi, I need them! He must be celibate or ask for permission to have a female friend. They must not have kids.

The first wedding miracle at Cana is Tiamat and (He is from Sierra Leone) Apsu’s wedding in John chapter 2:1-12. The temple split at Jesus‘s death and that mirrors Tiamat's battle with her great great grandson the god Marduk where Jesus and Tiamat were split from top to bottom you can find this in Matthew 27:51, Isaiah 27:1, 51:9. Acts 17:24 (ESV): The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.

👉Tiamat’s tears were used to create the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, because she was crying in the battle when prior to the battle her husband was killed Apsu, her advisor MuuMu was killed, and her bodyguard Kingu was killed. She was the last one left alive until that bow and arrow struck her it was a major tragedy that moment only the power of Jesus and knowing that her only daughter had made it safely as a human could resurrect this ancient deity. She has been resurrected and replaced Jesus swiftly. They were all dragons, and Kingu’s body was used to create human beings while Tiamat’s body was used to create Pangea and then dinosaurs were put in the earth as a reflection of dragons.

For 40 years, the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, eating quail and manna. They were led into the Promised Land by Joshua. According to the Old Testament, the Hebrews wandered in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula (which is between Egypt and Canaan) for 40 years. Moses received the Ten Commandments during this time, which outlined some basic laws governing behavior the book of Exodus outlines the wilderness itinerary journey over 40 years. Tiamat fought in the battle of the Enuma Elish Creation Story for the first 40 years of my life. She was reciting incantations that you are not taking the first 40 years of my daughter's life as a human away from her! Marduk ignored her and when she lost, the goddess Sophia was ignored for 40 years in her human life path. I have 80 years of life the year that WHITE Kristin Markiewicz was born in Sydney, Australia.

👉1 Kings 3:16–28 recounts that two mothers living in the same house, each the mother of an infant son, came to Solomon. One of the babies had been smothered, and each claimed the remaining boy as her own. Calling for a sword, Solomon declared his judgment: the baby would be cut in two, each woman to receive half ---->that was Yahweh the no wife having 4th offspring of Allah, since he's gay as those Bishops. The woman with an issue of blood suffered for 12 years and she came up behind Jesus and touched the hem of his garment and that’s when he said that he felt virtue leave out of him because when I was stolen out of the Spanish goddess Tiamat she felt righteousness power and love leave her! We know that the assault that Asherah ordered on me should have lasted no more than 12 years. You can read about this in Luke chapter 8:43 through 48 and Mark chapter 5: verses 25 through 34. Matthew 9:20-22 👉The assault on the goddess Tiamat was ordered by  Asherah Allah’s ex-wife 300 million years ago because she was pregnant  with the goddess Sophia which they had already determined was Allah’s new wife 300 million years ago. Asheara is currently attacking ME as the Goddess Tiamat all day long every day in front of everyone using a slow white girl and I don’t see anyone doing anything about that slow white girl. They tell me they turned everyone into Seventh-day Adventist which is a Muslim church. Lilith (/ˈlɪlɪθ/; Hebrew: לִילִית‎, romanized: Līlīṯ) is a demonic figure in Judaic mythology, supposedly the primordial she-demon and alternatively first wife of Adam (that you know is Allah). 👉Genesis 2:22, where Adam’s rib is fashioned into the more obedient Eve. That unnamed, disappeared woman becomes Lilith. Although divorced from Adam, Lilith achieves parity with him through semantics so Asherah puts on a show and shows completely off after she is divorced from Allah.  It may be Lilith’s status as Adam’s divorcée that explains why the Lilith stories proliferated in the post-Expulsion period. Once “divorced” from Iberian soil, it became possible to empathize with other "divorcées,” even ones as questionable as Lilith who has to go and had to go 300 million years ago. Bye Bye. And please be nice!

👉Everyone sees how corny the blacks are and now you know that I was only born into that culture I’m not a black, My culture is Hawaiian, that culture is Japanese and Black. That is who I am. That is how I live my life. Sarah Jakes is not welcome here nor there for Asherah who only creates cults and assaults minds in the Bible with her Seventh Day Adventist nonsense.

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#monthofspreads Day 4

Blockage

Two of swords

What I notice: the blindfold

Feelings: confidence, peace, comfortable and joyful within solitude.

Blockage: i don’t trust myself or my intuition.

Six of wands

What I notice: the barrier of wands

Feelings: anxiety, exhilaration, adrenaline, victory.

Blockage: I see competition where there isn’t any.

I wrote pages and pages for this reading. The Lovers kind of sent me for a tail spin.

I HATE the Lovers as the rider Waite depicts it. Detail that draws my attention: the divine figure looking over the Lovers. Feelings it makes me feel: unease. Fear.

This card has so much christian imagery in it. Imagery that reflects all the horrible, incorrect, and harmful ideas I was conditioned with about gender, sex, sexuality, love, relationships, my body, etc. I just. UGH.

I use witchcraft to distance myself from my upbringing. I use tarot and magik to protect myself from that. And I never wanted to admit how much of that shit was in one of my tools. I chose to ignore the large figure looking down on them. I never really realized how weird this card was for me until I was asked to examine it honestly. It hurt.

But anyways … The blockage here is clearly that I’m still afraid of an all powerful being punishing me for gay stuff lol.

I think I might need a break from tarot for a day or two after this lol.

P.S. I have PTSD from religious trauma, DO NOT message me to say J*sus loves me or I will block you.

Important question! I know you are former SDA. Aren’t they annihilationist? Are you still Annhilationist? This is so interesting to me because I have yet to meet a Christian who is not a little bit afraid of Hellfire! You see I myself have complicated feelings about Hell. I hope it either doesn’t exist or is empty. 

eventually yes they are, but it is a little more complicated than that - in sda eschatology as i was taught, at the second coming the living wicked die (first time) and the wicked dead stay that way for the millennium (a literal thousand years) during which satan is allowed to run around on earth and plot and plan and whatever and the saved are in heaven. there, god and the saved are going over the records of everyone who ever lived to see why they were or weren't saved (this doesn't change anything it's just to see). at the end of the millennium everyone comes back down to earth and all the wicked dead are raised and join satan to try to overcome the new jerusalem/holy city, this goes as well as you might imagine and then all the wicked + satan are killed (again) forever and the saved are free to live eternally on the new earth. so yes, they are annihilated.

an important part of the sda idea of the state of the dead is that those who are dead remain unconscious until the second coming of christ. there are no humans in heaven (or hell which isn't actually thought of as a thing that exists until the end) except for those that the bible specifically names as being taken up to heaven (enoch, elijah, moses, those raised at the resurrection of jesus, etc.). this is why there's multiple alive-dead-alive again-dead again events that are important, and also part of why adventists are so weird about saints.

now, for all that growing up sda traumatized me in many ways, fear of an eternal hell wasn't one of those, and i think this is probably adventism's only not-horrible feature. however, an adjacent kind of fear was transferred to the part i skipped over where if you're a Real Christian in the end times you get hunted and tortured/killed by the evil catholic government for going to church on saturday. if you're lucky god will let you die first. also this is going to start happening Very Fucking Soon so better tell god you'd rather die now. this is a bad thing to internalize as a kid! but i did miss out on the eternal hell bit. i wasn't afraid of that, just of the government sponsored torture.

i don't consider myself christian, and i'm pretty agnostic about the afterlife, so i can't say i am afraid of hellfire. if i had to pick a belief about it, i resonate with the idea of purgatorial universalism, and the orthodox christian idea of heaven and hell not being different locations but rather being relative positions to the love of god.

Uninvite Harmful Ex-Gay “Coming Out Ministries” from Nova Scotia.

The Maritime Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has invited "ex-gay" speakers for their upcoming Campmeeting conference, taking place at Camp Pugwash in July 2018. The speakers, Mike Carducci and Danielle Harrison from "Coming Out Ministries", share personal stories involving and encouraging a process of ridding oneself of being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender through prayer and religious devotion. They describe themselves as "redeemed" and able to change through faith. Their approach is based in shame, stigma, and treating sexual orientation and gender identity as a sin, and "unhealthy". In the past, Carducci has even described non-heterosexual people as "demon possessed". These are strategies and approaches found within the harmful practice of conversion therapy. With these therapies being widely discredited and recognized as harmful, Coming Out Ministries carefully avoids this language, but clearly the intent of these speakers remains the same. Both The Youth Project and Halifax Pride have reached out to the organizers to express their concern about the harm caused to youth and adults by this process. We have called upon the Seventh Day Adventist Church to cancel the speaking engagement from Coming Out Ministries, and they have refused. We now must reach out to our community for their support in reinforcing the reality that "praying away the gay" will create inaccurate beliefs among youth, their parents and friends around ability to change sexual orientation or gender identity through dedication to faith, creating a sense of failure when this doesn't occur, and increasing the stigma and shame felt by LGBTQ2+ youth. There is significant risk to causing anxiety, distress and mental health challenges including the possibility of suicidal thoughts or actions. Please sign this petition if you do not want Coming Out Ministries to speak at this upcoming event, and if you call upon the Maritime Seventh Day Adventist Church to uninvite them. You cannot change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity, and you do not need to. You do not need to be heterosexual to have a relationship with your faith or spiritual community. You should be welcome as your whole self, and LGBTQ2+ people do not need to be shamed into changing something wonderful about ourselves. 

SIGN THE PETITION HERE. -- For further information, please read the following:

1) Nova Scotia LGBTQ groups condemn conference they say promotes the ideals of conversion therapy - without calling it that 2) Seventh Day Adventist Kinship:"Coming Out Ministries" and the Promotion of Ex-Gay Therapy in the SDA Church 3)Canadian Psychological Association position statement on conversion therapy 4) Policy and Position Statements on Conversion Therapy, Human Rights Campaign 5) Canadian Association of Social Workers Joint Statement on the Affirmation of Gender Diverse Children and Youth

I think it's really funny that my dad, an ex pastor, made me really interested in religion growing up but not in the way he expected or wanted. like instead of being a seventh day adventist I'm just a jew-ish (elaboration: ethnically jewish and planning on converting religiously when I have 2 seconds) person with a special interest in the history of religion and specifically how it evolved and how made up by humans it all is