Submitted by DaddyBobMN t3_yg1cs6 in vermont
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Jerry_Williams69 t1_iu6yabh wrote
You can buy a family of four a Thanksgiving dinner for like $1.50 through Forgotten Harvest. $34,000 could hypothetically give 22,666 families a good Thanksgiving.
InformationHorder t1_iuaucf5 wrote
And would actually further the cause of their spiritually in a positive way in accordance with their religion.
Whompa t1_iu8qz7s wrote
What’s better nutrition, actual food or knowing about THE GREAT CONTROVERSY?
cpujockey t1_iuays66 wrote
Yeah they're supposed to be a church, they could have used that money to actually do things that Jesus did and asked us to do. Instead, these clowns waste paper and money trying to send their literature to the most non religious state in the Union. Good job. I think I hear a Jehovah witness knocking on my door...
annabeelongx t1_iud5usr wrote
Vermont is the most non religious state?
Zainda88 t1_iudhefo wrote
One of the most, the others are NH and OR.
quinnbeast t1_iu6b2hd wrote
It’s not a book. It’s a free firestarter.
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[deleted] t1_iu6h2c0 wrote
I recycled the cross. Maybe someone at Casella will find eternal life.
Vermonter623 t1_iu6jx3c wrote
Organized religion needs suckers to fill their coffers. Just like political parties, they target people who aren’t deep thinkers and refuse to question anything they are told. It’s a successful recipe proven over time
Connect_Ingenuity419 t1_iu6tpms wrote
Terrible marketing... the people they target aren't the type to pick up reading just because they got a free book
Vermonter623 t1_iu7g7cj wrote
I agree. That’s why politicians use social media. No real critical thought required
bobsizzle t1_iu96ks0 wrote
There are many intelligent people who are also religious. I don't get it, but that's just me.
Vermonter623 t1_iu9e8ya wrote
Intelligence is a broad spectrum. I’ve met people who can explain in detail how mad cow disease works but couldn’t change a tire on his car.
bobsizzle t1_iu9ivzt wrote
It's weird
Unique-Public-8594 t1_iu6dumg wrote
Not a deep dive by WCAX
immutable_truth t1_iu6v89w wrote
As per usual 😂
immutable_truth t1_iu6ve0x wrote
Can’t help but think the money invested in this could have been spent in so many other ways…I guess I’m grateful they are idiots though
chivonster t1_iu777je wrote
$113,000?
How many are struggling to afford food and necessities? How many are scrambling to find the money for heat this winter?
Trajikbpm t1_iu6w05n wrote
Kindling
SeaBear427 t1_iu72qa3 wrote
Free fire starter sheets.
clamdigger t1_iu7778s wrote
kindling
KindaPretentious t1_iu7c8cu wrote
I don’t want to bash the Seventh Day Adventists, but I don’t get how the cost of postage is worth the small number of people these wild brochures will interest.
atheistsda t1_iud7nt3 wrote
Ex Seventh-Day Adventist here. I’ve never seen the church be particularly good at marketing. As long as I can remember, most of the few people we’d attract with our crazy long seminars would leave after a few months.
That said, my dad got into Adventism (and is still in it) because someone left one of these same books at a bus stop. He’s a fan of history and conspiracy books, and this book is a wild blend of the two.
ForSucksFake t1_iueewqc wrote
r/Exadventist welcomes you. :)
atheistsda t1_iuk72b7 wrote
Thanks, it’s been great chatting with other ex Adventists!
Sensitive-Fly4874 t1_iuil5o4 wrote
As a former member of the SDA church, feel free to bash them. This book is plagiarized from multiple sources by a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury, mistook her seizures as visions from god, and taught people to hate themselves in order to be worthy of God’s love.
darthgooey t1_iu6vp2f wrote
It’s pretty good in a fire.
Revolutionary-Lie198 t1_iu9tf83 wrote
I get a STRONG "Targeting the godless liberals of New England and trying to win them over to our way of thinking" vibe from this kind of stunt.
Even if we WERE all godless liberals, what's it to them?
cpujockey t1_iuayz3i wrote
Don't worry dude, Even some of this conservatives that have faith think that this is dog shit behavior too. This is a pretty classic move by these fucks, and it happens a lot more often than you would think.
ICU4UCI t1_iu7hhwz wrote
I got mine today!!
Finally some kindling...been a wet week.
55Sansar1998 t1_iu8oo3c wrote
Dodds said “I would imagine they get a fair amount of traction, that they sparked dialogue, and a lot of people are reading, I’m quite sure of it.”
Haha, what planet is this guy living on?!
Revolutionary-Lie198 t1_iu9t9jq wrote
Planet "I Wrote A Book That's Basically The Next Bible, According to Me"
Sensitive-Fly4874 t1_iue0kav wrote
I recently read the great controversy - all 678 pages of it - and wrote my own comments in the margins. To put it mildly, I hated the book. It’s a book full of hatred toward other groups and even hatred toward oneself. It’s full of the ideas that Christians are being persecuted, the Catholic Church is evil, one of the popes will eventually become the Antichrist.
pinko-perchik t1_iu77wcp wrote
Bizarre. My friend in Massachusetts recently received a similar mailing from a different company sent to the bank they work at.
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5teerPike t1_iu9xhg8 wrote
Papier Mache material that's for sure
pikeminnow t1_iug7pk7 wrote
Almost, but not quite, soft enough to use as TP. truly the paper of the Tempter himself.
cgmidd t1_iu73f6e wrote
Woke propaganda
MattWolf96 t1_iue2zpb wrote
Exact opposite, it's made by Seventh-Day Adventists which are a very conservative Christian denomination. They are very anti-LGBT and very anti-women for example, they don't even want the women to be equal to a man in marriage.
The only "woke" thing about them is them pushing vegetarianism and veganism but you don't have to actually be one of those to be a member.
I was raised in the denomination, I'm now an atheist.
airsick_lowlander22 t1_iuegguy wrote
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
DeliciousLanguage9 t1_iufepxo wrote
r/Exadventist is this how I invite you to join?
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InformationHorder t1_iu6wf2c wrote
$34,000 to send everyone garbage they didn't ask for. How many hungry kids could be fed with that instead?