THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY HOAX II &

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The purpose of this document is to bring to light serious issues the S.D.A. Denomination is facing, issues that no Christian Denomination should have to be consistently dealing with. In addition, this document's purpose is to get the laity involved with speaking up against these things and to effect a change for the better in the S.D.A. Church. It is very sad that Part II of the Religious Liberty Hoax had to be written. Since the first hoax was written the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership has sued the Jewish Adventist Society, the Creation SDA church, and others. In addition, administrative corruption seems to have gotten worse and many members in the church have no idea of what's really going on. Over one thousand Religious Liberty Hoax document warnings were sent to Conference officials in 2005 and things have not gotten better. The General Conference of SDA and the Local Conferences need to make a serious turn around or God will be forced to step in and let the whole world know and embarass them publicly like He did ancient Israel and the Jews in the past . They use special tactics of exciting people and getting them to join the church and then pull the wool over their eyes hiding from them the great corruptions they’re running, their abuse of religious liberty, a proper history of the development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the doctrines, and Ellen White. As a matter of fact the leadership of the SDA Church has become so power hungry that any church that wants to be affiliated under the name Seventh-day Adventist must sign over the deeds to the conference even if the church has paid every penny to build or purchase their church. Unfortunately like everything else religion has become big business. These facts will be made plainer later in this paper with references. Has The Seventh-day Adventist Church become an embarrassment to religion and the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

These points are being presented sort of as a last resort. They show that organizations, like people, once left uncontrolled, can become very dominating, persecuting, and even cultic. Feel free to read section by section at your own pace investigating and checking out each section for yourself.

The following is an article written by Bruce Burks, a non Adventist, in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette(Little Rock,AR)February 17, 1990, Saturday

I hesitate to write this letter because it involves a religious organization that I believe to be as close to God as any. But since local and national leaders who are aware of this problem refuse to inform their people, I have no other choice.

The organization is the Seventh Day Adventist Church not the members but the national headquarters, referred to as the General Conference. The problem concerns huge amounts of money being invested in stocks and bonds of companies whose products or services are in direct conflict with what the Adventist members believe.

Some of these products include jewelry, coffee, tea, other caffeine beverages, missiles, military fighter planes, as well as stock in the largest producer of fresh pork in the country. This will not mean much to most of you but to a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church it's devastating.

I have found these people to be some of the most sincere Christians I have ever met. They are also the most giving with what they have. For this reason, I believe they deserve to know where their donations are going. It should come from their leaders but for some reason they will not tell them.

These funds amount to over $550 million set aside just for investments. Most would find this wrong in itself. These funds come from such avenues as the tithe, special projects and a yearly event called in-gathering. Interested persons can request a portfolio of investments from the General Conference. But don't expect a quick response. The officials want to check out your standing in the church first.

It’s a shame that outsiders know what the leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist church are investing in and their very members don’t know. What more evidence can one want to show that these leaders are taking the people for a ride? You judge the situation for yourself.

Between 2002 and 2004, 60 pastors and 28 office workers were laid off from the Florida Conference, you can see this in the Florida Conference President – Michael Cauley’s report. Yet they went and purchased yachts and pleasure vessels for recreational purposes costing over $200,000. All of this can be seen in the documents In the Circuit Court Of The Eleventh Judicial Circuit In And For Miami-Dade County, Florida; North Miami SDA Church Vs. Florida Conference Of SDA, CASE NO: 05-09454 CA 24.

We quote Michael Cauley “It is believed, by individuals close to the situation, that in the Florida Conference made risky investments with conference funds in an effort to improve the financial status of the church. But no one thinks that moral turpitude was involved (theft or something else).” Where these risky investments went we do not know!

“The General Conference filed a lawsuit Nov. 24 against The Federation of Jewish Adventist Society to force the San Diego group to stop using the word in its name.

The GC alleges trademark infringement and unfair competition in the suit, filed in San Diego federal court.

It argues that use of the word "Adventist" by any other group creates confusion.

But the Federation's leader, Rabbi Ben-Hayil Yellen (pictured), said the suit violates his religious rights.

The Jewish group has hired an attorney, but he said they don't have the money to fight a suit he called "unjust."

At his rural North County home on Wednesday, Yellen said that the Hebrew meaning of the word "Adventist" is central to his group's spiritual beliefs.

Yellen and his wife, Heidi, said that the word, when spoken with a different pronunciation, "AD-vent-ist," is an old Hebrew term referring to an earthen pot, as opposed to the often pronounced "ad-VENT-ist" by Adventists.

"No matter what happens, our religious identity is with the word 'Adventist' ---- and we cannot just give it away," said Yellen, adding that he is a direct descendant of King David.

The suit is "taking away our religious freedom to identify ourselves with the prophet Moses," Heidi Yellen said.”

"A legal dispute between an international Christian church and a small Jewish group based in Valley Center regarding the use of the word "Adventist" appears to have ended in a settlement agreement this week.

The bottom line: the little guys have agreed to stop using the word in their name, the attorney for the small group said Friday. And money, she said, is at the root of the decision to give up the fight.

"It became very clear the costs would be prohibitive to take it to court, to fight this very, very wealthy church," attorney Diane Beall Templin said. "The defendants didn't pay me anything to defend them. They didn't have the finances to proceed."

Until the suit arose, the North County church called themselves The Federation of Jewish Adventist Society. But the Maryland-based leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church sued the local group in November, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition. It argued that use of the word "Adventist" by any other group creates confusion.

Both the local group and the international church filed a motion in federal court on Thursday to dismiss the case.

“GUYS, Tenn. — Members of Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church watched Tuesday as a sign company stripped the letters spelling the name of the church from their building just across the state line on Old Highway 45 in Guys, Tenn.

Under the supervision of a constable, the sign company removed all signage from the old gas station-style canopy and then used spray paint to cover what remained. Religious materials were also confiscated, and several church members stood by holding signs of protest.

It all stems from a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church against the Guys congregation which resulted in an injunction barring the church from using the Seventh-day Adventist name. The Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church formed 19 years ago and has been at its Guys location for about eight years.

“For us, it’s a matter of religion and conviction to use the name,” said Lucan Chartier, assistant pastor. “For Seventh-day Adventists, that name, using it is actually part of the religion. Both we and the church that is suing us believes that.”

In 1991, the Creation church notified the Seventh-day Adventist Church of its formation, its name and reasons for separating, according to Chartier.

Chartier said the larger church’s similar action against other churches prompted the formation of the Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church. He said the church used the trademark of the name to “try and shut out any religion that resembles theirs from using that name. We couldn’t be members of a church that was doing that. We couldn’t give our tithes and support to an organization that we thought was forcing people to violate their conscience.”

- Suit against Florida Conference By North Miami SDA Church, Pastor Oliphant and Elder Clark.

“OnApril 30, 2005, the President of the Conference, Michael Cauley, spoke at a local church meeting called by the Conference. At this meeting he stated that the Conference would take action within the next several weeks to close the Congregation’s Church and displace the Parishioners. Several Board Members and Elders of the Congregation were present at this meeting and heard Mr. Cauley’s imminent intention for the conference to seize the Congregation’s Church property and ‘ kick the Congregation out on the street’” Attention Members of North Miami Congregation of The Florida Conference Association of Seventh Day Adventists – This was an article passed out by the board of the church

After learning of the Florida Conference’s intention North Miami Church was forced to file suit against The Florida Conference, a suit which they lost and the result of which they had to leave after the property was locked down against them by The Florida Conference. The reason they lost is because of an issue which will be discussed later and that issue is every church’s forced submission of their title, deeds to their respective conferences!!!

February 9, 2012|By Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel

Four Adventist Health System hospitals in Central Florida will pay $3.9 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Florida Hospital Orlando, Florida Hospital-Oceanside, Florida Hospital Fish Memorial and Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center — all affiliates of Altamonte Springs-based Adventist Health System — were cited for claims related to a spinal procedure called kyphoplasty.

The settlement includes a total of 14 hospitals in seven states, which collectively will pay more than $12 million to the government, according to a justice department statement. More than a third of that tab belongs to Florida facilities.

Three other Florida hospitals also were part of the settlement: Gulf Coast Hospital, in Fort Myers, will pay $173,000; Lee Memorial Hospital, in Fort Myers, will pay $160,000; and Cape Coral Hospital, in Cape Coral, will pay $73,000. Other hospitals involved in the settlement include two health-care facilities in New York, and hospitals in Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana and Missouri.

Officials for Adventist Health Systems could not be reached for comment. The settlements resolve allegations that these hospitals overcharged Medicare between 2000 and 2008 when performing kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive procedure used to treat certain spinal fractures that often are due to osteoporosis. In many cases, the procedure can be performed safely as a less costly outpatient procedure, but the government contends that the hospitals performed the procedure on an inpatient basis to increase their Medicare billings.

'Patients want reassurance that their health care provider is making treatment decisions based on the patient's best interests, not an interest in maximizing profits,' said Tony West, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Division, in a statement. 'By recovering taxpayer dollars lost to improper billing, this settlement will help support the vital public health care programs we depend on.'

All of the settling facilities were named as defendants in a whistleblower lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act, which permits private citizens to bring lawsuits on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of the proceeds. Two former employees of a company that provided spinal surgery equipment and consulting to hospitals blew the whistle, and will receive more than $2 million from the settlements.

The Department of Justice gave out a noticeThursday, October 28, 2004 #723:10-28-04 it is quoted as follows:

“ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM, HOSPITALS, AMBULANCE COMPANIES
TO PAY

U.S. MORE THAN $20 MILLION TO SETTLE FRAUD CLAIMS

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Winter Park, Florida-based Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation, three affiliated hospitals and a management company that administered ambulance operations at the three hospitals have agreed to pay the U.S. $20.3 million to settle allegations that they overcharged Medicare, the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services announced today. The government alleged that the charged were for ambulance transports for patients which were not medically necessary.

The government further alleged that Regional Emergency Services and the hospitals created false physician certifications regarding the medical necessity of ambulance transports operated by the hospitals and submitted or caused to be submitted claims to Medicare. The suit alleges that the false claims were submitted during 1993 through 2000 in the case of Florida Hospital Waterman and Metroplex Adventist Hospital, and 1993 through 1997 in the case of Huguley Memorial Medical Center.

"This settlement again demonstrates the United States’ commitment to protecting federal funds from fraud and abuse," said Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division…” www.usdoj.gov

This appears to occur on the heels of an $8.7 million settlement involving the same hospitals announced on December 8, 2000

WASHINGTON,DC - Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation and three affiliated hospitals have agreed to pay theUnited States $8.7 million to settle allegations that the hospitals overcharged Medicare, the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services announced today. The government alleged that at different times from 1992 to 1999 Adventist and its facilities submitted cost reports to Medicare that included inflated management fees for the ambulance services operated by the hospitals. " The lawsuit is filed in the Middle District of Florida as United States ex rel. Mark Thornton v. Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation , No 6:97-CV-146-ORL-31C.

What Godly policies are in place to prevent such occurrences of embarrassment to the Adventist Church? They say they believe in Ellen White as their messenger and prophet but are her writings helping them? Where is the apology from the SDA Church? Why haven’t the members been informed? Didn’t the Bible say if you make public offence you should make a public apology? It seems like this system is worse than other systems that make no such claims.

“…On August 10, 2001, Cumberland and Legacy entered into a series of agreements, which included the purchase of Legacy’s assets, a consulting agreement, and an equity payout agreement. As soon as the three agreements were signed, Cumberland took control of Legacy’s operations and accounts receivable (all money owed to Legacy), withDouglas retained as manager. But Cumberland failed to pay Legacy for the facilities, thus breaching the Asset Agreement and Equity Payout Agreement. Thus, according to the suit, SCC, through Cumberland, took over Legacy without paying for it…” www.sdadefend.com/MINDEX-S/SCenConf.pdf

It is stated in the document that high ranking officials used monies for personal advantages. Monies that could have went into paying some of the money owed to Legacy. All this and more was happening while officials in the Church said nothing. The article also alleged that

“In addition to other excesses, the previous conference president loaned large amounts of money to ministers to purchase homes. The church members are deeply upset because they had been faithfully giving to the church. The crisis has deepened to such a point that the conference office has been placing second mortgages on many large local buildings, without telling the members.” www.sdadefend.com/MINDEX-S/SCenConf.pdf

In order to safeguard denominational property it is necessary to have the title vested in a corporation created by a conference organization according to the laws governing in the locality where the property is located. Title to all local church properties should be held by the conference corporations. When properties are acquired for the use of local churches or conference organizations, the titles should be held by the corporate organizations.

All legal documents, including insurance policies, church property deeds, abstracts, and trust agreements, should be filed for safekeeping in the office of the corporate organization.

The church, its related buildings, and their furnishings should always be kept in representative condition. Funds for this purpose should come from the church-expense budget or from special contributions. Under the direction of the church board, this work is generally supervised by the deacons.” SDA Church Manual pp 225,226 Revised 2005 17^th Edition

It is incredible that the Levites of today gobble and hoard up everything and the people have nothing. The administrators and ministry has life insurance, medical coverage, etc but the people in the church, whose money maintains things, have nothing. The church does not provide a system of coverage for them. The Levities of the past did not even have any land of their own but relied on the donations of the people. It is not plausible to take ownership of something that someone else paid for, that is stealing!!! All of this while the local churches still have to pay for any local expenses to upkeep the building, insurance, etc. That’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard. The conferences have their administrative buildings let that suffice. The local churches belongs to that locality but if you were an existing system before and then join the Seventh-Day Adventist Church you must sign your deeds over to them!!!

This system is so strange that even the presiding judge in the North Miami Church case, previously mentioned, remarked upon how unusual it was. The potential for abuse in this setup should be obvious to even the casual observer. The SDA administration can use the local church as collateral for loans without the members’ knowledge or consent, leaving the members saddled with the burden of paying a second mortgage they neither created nor asked for. In fact, this has happened in the past.

“That fall [1986], amid increasing rumors as to what the Lake Region Conference officials had done, Dr. Joseph met with the Shiloh [SDA-Chicago] church, the largest church in the conference. He explained that it was true that the Shiloh church property had been mortgaged by conference officials without approval of the church board to launch the Continental Plaza project. But he argued that the conference holds title to church properties and is not legally obligated to secure a congregation’s permission before mortgaging the land on which a church has been built. However, Dr. Joseph admitted that he should have consulted with the church prior to executing the mortgage on Shiloh.” - Spectrum, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 24.

The problem is that the SDA Church has become extremely bureaucratic and radically centralized. They cannot see a simplified efficiently balanced system. They are doing this to avoid the scenario where if there is a disagreement that local church can pull away and take the assets but if they paid for it shouldn’t it be theirs to take away if they want? Let God handle the results, as humans we can only do so much. Furthermore it is reported that some of the conferences have been taking second mortgages on the churches and the people not knowing!!! Where does this insanity end? How far will these abuses go on before the people begin to revolt? Does administrative position give you the right to do whatever you want?

“On November 26, 1933, the Nazi state banned the small denominational churches. Among those prohibited were the Seventh-day Adventists. The Seventh-day Adventists decided to seek legal advice on what to do about the ban and within two weeks, the ban was lifted on the Adventist denomination.[25] After this, it was decided within the denomination that “positive” Christianity meant support for the Nazi state. To show their support for the Nazi state, the Adventists sent a letter to the “Nazi Ministry of Interior an official memorandum on Adventist teachings, church organizations, social activities and attitude to the government.”[26] The Adventists also informed the Interior that there church “members hold ‘German attitudes.’”[27] Pointing out that the government’s suspicion and concern should be to a “rival schismatic group, the Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement, whose attitudes, the Adventists insisted, were far from ‘German.’”[28] It seems that the Adventists were more concerned with holding German attitudes then holding Adventists attitudes.

It was because of this letter that the Nazi government noticed the Reform Adventist denomination. In trying to distance themselves from the Reformers, the Adventists led the Nazi government to them. The government investigated the Reformers and decided that they held different views from the acceptable Seventh-day Adventist denomination.[29] The Reformers were then banned on April 29, 1936.[30] The Seventh-day Adventists believe in religious liberty, but instead of voicing their outrage over the persecution of the Reformers and the Jews, the Adventist leaders decided to take action against these two groups. The Adventist leaders “issued directives to prevent the Reformers from joining the Adventist Church.”[31] And they expelled Adventists who had a Jewish background from the Church.[32] The Adventists were unwilling to even protect their own members if they thought the Nazi government would disapprove. The state was able to control the Church because there was no religious liberty. This is not to say that individual Adventists did not help Jews or other undesirables. The Adventists were notable, for the private and individual help they gave to Jews, for not only were Jewish converts cared for and hidden, as they were in some other sectarian and church circles, but help was also given to unbaptised Jews with whom Adventists happened to come in contact.[33]…

The German Adventists continued to believe they had done the correct thing by compromising with the Nazi government. The survival of the church was what was important to the German Adventist leaders, and in order to survive they needed to compromise. Only in May 1948, did the General Conference take a closer look at the German Adventists’ actions during the Nazi regime. The reason why the General Conference took interest was because of a letter written by Major J.C. Thompson, chief of the Religious Affairs Section of the American Military Government in Berlin.[78] The letter wanted to know why the Adventists had not removed all the Nazis from their leadership positions within the denomination.[79] It also compared the Adventists to the Catholics, saying that the Catholics did not have to remove many people because of their strong opposition during theNazi regime. There was no opposition from the Seventh-day Adventists.” www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/Proseminar/corrieschroder.htm

Think this is made up? Hear The Seventh-Day Adventist’s own confession in an article entitled “Church Leaders Say ‘We’re Sorry;” as follows,

“’We not only kept silent, but we also published things we never should have published. We published anti-Semitic ideas that, from our perspective, weren't really needed,’ Pöhler said in a telephone interview.

‘We had to realize that one wrong statement, one wrong move by a person meant he could end up in a concentration camp," Pöhler said of that era. "[That was the] reason why we excluded and disfellowshipped Jewish-born Adventists from our midst: If a local church had not done this, [the Nazis] would have closed the church, taken the elder to prison, and it would have meant the whole church would be forbidden.’” www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=92

The following is found in an article quoted from the Miami Herald Thursday, February 20, 2003,

“Pastor, his son found guilty of genocide Tutsis Hilled inside church By Surdasan Raghavan Knight Ridder News Service

NAIROBI,

Kenya – A U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday convicted a Rwandan pastor who fled to Texas and his son of genocide for orchestrating the slaughter of hundreds of ethnic Tutsis who had sought refuge in his church compound in 1994.

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 78, the former pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist complex, is the first church leader convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for

Rwanda…

Tribunal found that Eliazaphan Ntakirutimana drove the Hutu militias to locations where Tutsis were hiding.”

His son took part in attacks on Tutsis in the area near the church, including killing an accountant, the tribunal found. Eliazaphan Ntakirutimana fled to Laredo, Texas, where one of his children lived, shortly after Tutsis rebels infiltrated

Rwanda and took power.”

The reason that Points six and seven are mentioned is not for slander. It is to show that historically when organizations are left like this without intervention they can end up cultic. Sometimes when things in the climate change so do people and organizations. An organization that claims to be following Truth one day may become the worst persecuting power the next. Religious organizations that have fallen into worldliness and modernism have hardened hearts and make them resistant to reproof and hostile to differing opinions.

We are sad to report that the Adventists’ church record of dealing with dissenters is horrible. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church does not any more promote healthy investigative discussions and arguments. If there are any disagreements they just brush it off and in some cases say they will get back to it and never do. In many cases they have dealt brutally with several brethren. They have even gone as far as to get restraining orders from the police station to keep certain brethren they do not like away from the church grounds. Here are just a few examples, there are hundreds of cases,

1933 – A former Sabbath School teacher though causing no disturbance of any kind was man handled and severely beaten at a Seventh-day Adventist church inLos Angeles California.

1933 – A certain brother was standing by a window listening to the Sabbath School class and had a glass of water dashed in his face.

1935 – One Sister Hendricks was punched in the stomach for asking for a basin to partake in the Lord’s Supper. Testimony found in Symbolic Code Vol. 1 No. 9 pp. 1,2.

1937 – Police called on a sister quietly sitting in church after she refused to leave when they told her to get out.

1989 – Bro. Johnny was lifted up to be thrown over a six-foot fence after refusing to leave church grounds in Florida at the request of an elder.

1992 - Upon entering a church inTallahassee, Florida, a brother was grabbed by the neck in a "sleeper hold" and subsequently dragged from the building. The brother had not attended this particular church for five months prior to the incident.

2000 - One Bro. Eduoard was grabbed and choked at a Haitian SDA church near Pompano Beach,Florida. I heard this testimony given by the brother himself of what happened to him.

We have personally seen what the church is capable of doing. We have seen some violent and crooked things by this organization and we wouldn’t be surprised if some people start receiving death threats from them, directly or indirectly. The church in their blind rage may not know that they’ve left themselves open to heavy lawsuits because of the actions their leaders have inspired the people to commit. One brother Mueller cannot attend any church in the whole state of South Carolina because the General Conference persuaded an unsuspecting judge to issue a very unfair restraining order against him in court. May the church wake up and reverse their actions before this matter gets too far out of hand and their case becomes eternally fixed.

Our 2nd Appeal

"The conviction is gaining ground in the world that Seventh-Day Adventists are giving the trumpet an uncertain sound, that they are following in the path of worldlings." Testimonies to Ministers, p.86.

It is with broken hearts that we have undertaken the necessary task of assembling this information for viewing by the public at large. Though many in the Adventist administration and membership know of the truth of these things, they have completely failed to act in the correction of these matters. The time for avoiding the discussion of these matters is over. It is time to finally deal with "the pink elephant" in the center of the room.

The newly elected president of the General Conference has placed emphasis on the need for “revival and reformation.” Just what this actually means remains vague and ill-defined at this point. What is clear is that “reformation signifies a reorganization, a change in ideas and theories, habits and practices.” – Selected Messages, bk. 1, p.128

The practices enumerated in this document have done incalculable damage to the message we claim to have for the world. Only on Judgment Day will we fully realize the catastrophe set in motion by what has been done. If we are to be serious and make tangible, concrete steps toward “reformation” as an organization then, in addition to the demands listed in Religious Liberty Hoax Part I, the following will be done:

2. Return all the property deeds of the local churches and complete the legal transactions to have the deeds placed in the names of the

respective local churches in North America and wherever else is applicable(that the congregations paid for and maintain.)

3. Cease and dismiss all trademark lawsuits in connection with the terms Seventh-day Adventist, SDA, and Adventist.

Any actions short of this will reveal that our desire for revival and reformation is merely cosmetic.

The Lord and the world are watching. Let us not disappoint them by our inaction and hard heartedness. May God help us to arise with healing in our wings and return to truly representing the principles given to us by Him through the pioneers of this great denomination.

Coming in the future, Lies the church has spread concerning Ellen White, The Pioneers, and 1844. Documented facts that will show we have been given a partial story. Reason being, to maintain the status quo and continued control over the people.

The bottom line: the little guys have agreed to stop using the word in their name, the attorney for the small group said Friday. And money, she said, is at the root of the decision to give up the fight.

"It became very clear the costs would be prohibitive to take it to court, to fight this very, very wealthy church," attorney Diane Beall Templin said. "The defendants didn't pay me anything to defend them. They didn't have the finances to proceed."

"4 Adventist hospitals to pay $4M in Medicare fraud settlement

Our 2nd Appeal