Several of my ex-Adventist friends are so embarrassed about having been Adventist, they won't own it in conversations with anyone. Both were raised SDA, one was a minister, the other a church school teacher. In both cases they had obnoxious parents, Adventist dictators. I didn't. So I don't have the anger they do. However, when my religious background arises in a conversation I have no problem confessing my history, except for a compunction to explain what it is and that I am not longer a part of it.

It is an obnoxious belief system, a membership embarrassment, simply because the predictions on which it was constructed were false. The end time scenario turned out to be a poorly written novel, not one piece of it was real. Had it been accurate, non-fiction, an entirely different collective identity's would have been replaced by unshameful pre-Advent activities. There would have been an arrow timeline to prophecy fulfillment.