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I've never been a Seventh-day Adventist, but I've spent a significant amount of time around Seventh-day Adventists and attended their potlatches. For the sake o
by blotter_paper 7y ago
I've never been a Seventh-day Adventist, but I've spent a significant amount of time around Seventh-day Adventists and attended their potlatches. For the sake of avoiding confusion for other readers I'll throw out that while vegetarianism and veganism seemed way more prevalent in that church than in the general population, neither is a universal practice within SDA. I have no idea what the numbers are, just that meat was an option at the potlatches I attended (as were many vegan and vegetarian dishes).
- TimTheTinker 7y agoThere’s definitely a range. I was a 4th generation SDA on both sides of the family - both of which were pretty strictly observant, though my parents were a little less so. Meat was absolutely off the table (haha). And I don’t know if we ever went to an SDA function where it was. Perhaps that has changed since we left 20 years ago. Buffets were really a big part of Sabbath afternoons for many of my childhood years, and we knew many other SDAs for whom it was the same. The local SDA hospital still has a Hometown Buffet nearby that hasn’t been closed yet. (We were non-strict enough to allow paying for something on Sabbath — though that would have crossed the line for many people we knew.)