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Ex vs. anti SDA?

This post, by an former member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, raises some fruitful questions about religious identity:
I don’t actually view myself as “ex” anything, even though we all
are ex-something and headed onward to something else, I hope. But I
don’t shun contact with members of the church in which I grew up, and
thus I sometimes have to deal with the default identity of ex-.
Now don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of SDAs who see me as a
person apart from that one point of identity. There are even some
non-SDAs–who were never SDAs–who define me as an ex-SDA. The connection
between the church in which I grew up and my present identity cannot be
severed in their view. What they would like me to do is cut all ties as
clearly as possible and make myself anti-SDA. It’s the old “if you’re
not for us, you’re against us” approach. And of course that approach
isn’t bad if the question is good and evil, God or satan, constructive
or destructive. But for brothers and sisters in Christ, I reject that
approach.
I can illustrate this through two experiences. 

Read the rest at Threads from Henry’s Web.

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