I came across a post on TikTok from The Glory Whole page, love her by the way! I never knew Usain was an SDA. The religion was very important to him and he wanted to honor his parents beliefs but it made him choose between Sabbath rules vs pursuing his passion. Had he chosen his parents ways aka a false religion, he would have never been this successful today.

That makes me wonder how many Adventist kids who were great at sports, lost an opportunity to be a successful athlete. How many kids could have been NBA celebs, competed in the World Cup, gone to the Olympics, you name it! It’s really sad that one woman’s false ideas/hallucinations have prevented a lot of us from rising to our full potential.

This same idea also applies to other careers/opportunities. Adventism most definitely shuns worldly success. If you become a successful business owner, reach some sort of fame, focus on your career a lot, love sports, and anything that does not have any relation to their church and their mission, then you are not in Gods will and are not being the best Christian in their eyes.

They love to brag how they gave up amazing career opportunities for the Sabbath, gave up a sports career because of Sabbath, or how they were judged for their beliefs and stood up for their religion to others. It just triggers me a lot, and now as someone who sees the lies of this church, I cringe when I hear these people talk this way. Get a life!

Going back to sports, nowhere in the Bible does it say don’t play sports on the sabbath. Again this is going back to Ellen whites sabbath rules. The 1 million rules she added to the Bible. The Bible says if you add or take from the Bible, that is like a sin to God. The Bible just says to rest on that day, rest can be defined as anything. And in today’s world anyways, people need to make ends meet they don’t have time to decline jobs that require them to work on Saturdays.

Adventist way of life is literal hell, I could never imagine myself keeping this way of life for my future kids.

I’m a pastors kid who deconstructed and is dating someone from a different religion. We are starting to think about marriage Neither of us are religious.

Parents will never and just can’t understand constantly remind me that I’m the reason they are miserable. My dad’s saying he wants to leave ministry because of me, he’s always stressed and his health is worse coz of me. I know it’s all emotional blackmail but fuck me it hurts and I’m tired. Part of me wishes I could just force myself to believe again but I can’t. Another part of me feels so bad for my partner, coz my parents can’t see past the religion. I hate this religion

Rant over

I experienced my life change when my whole family including myself converted to Adventism becoming paranoid, strict, at some point even sheltering me and my brother from "worldly" people, even when we used attend public schools, etc.

I witnessed or heard of certain people making the dumbest life decisions like moving to a random state or country without doing any research which didn't end well for the them financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, possibly spiritually all because of fearing the Sunday Law and Pope Francis.

Half of them seem to have unusual behaviors like lacking social skills, dietary restrictions, and would seem to become superstitious towards everyday things from people of different beliefs, movie theaters, games, movies, shows, cartoons, music, more I can’t think of, seeming to base their lives on conspiracy theories.

Does anyone else have stories whether it was yourself, people or someone you know, or even a story you heard from someone else?