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Seventh-day Adventist Church (view source)
Revision as of 20:45, September 27, 2023
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The Adventists had closely followed American politics, matching current events to the predictions in the Bible. They were alienated and hostile, for the government tolerated slavery and seemed to have lost its pure [[republicanism]]. Their magazines showed the U.S. government as an ugly monster. Under White's guidance the alienation softened. Adventists by the 1890s believed that the government ''might'' become a dangerous beast (as depicted in ''Revelation'' chapter 13), but had not reached that stage yet. The graphic images of government now depicted a friendly looking American buffalo.
The Adventists had closely followed American politics, matching current events to the predictions in the Bible. They were alienated and hostile, for the government tolerated slavery and seemed to have lost its pure [[republicanism]]. Their magazines showed the U.S. government as an ugly monster. Under White's guidance the alienation softened. Adventists by the 1890s believed that the government ''might'' become a dangerous beast (as depicted in ''Revelation'' chapter 13), but had not reached that stage yet. The graphic images of government now depicted a friendly looking American buffalo.
===Politics===
Although likely insignificant in terms of quantitative composition, Adventists were a component of the Radical Republicans<ref>Bruinsma, Reinder (1994). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seventh_day_Adventist_Attitudes_Toward_R/hlkmAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&dq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&printsec=frontcover Seventh-day Adventist attitudes toward Roman Catholicism, 1844-1965], p. 98. ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</ref> due their biblically motivated support for civil rights and repulsion towards racial hatred. Adventist publications exhorted racial equality, and one of its prominent leaders, [[Ellen G. White]], vocally supported the Union cause during the Civil War, viewing the Confederates as satanically inspired.<ref>Weinberg, Carl R. (2021). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Red_Dynamite/WHwOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America], p. 61. ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</ref>
==The seventh day of the week==
==The seventh day of the week==