Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > Here is a speculation: in the next 50-100 yrs, the average 7th Day Adventist
> > will become darker skinned. This will cause the much advertised
> > life span bonus to shrink, compared to the average population, and may
> > eventually even go negative.
> >
> I'm not sure your are correct. True, the sect(?) started in the U.S., and
> religion is highly correlated with family, but there are still a bunch of
> non-white adventists.
Very true. Now more than ever. In the future more than now.
> My dad was stationed in Fiji during and after world
> war II. He mentioned that ships could be loaded and unloaded on Sunday
> even though this was the Christian Sabbath, because the (Fijian) Adventists
> treated it as an ordinary workday.
Certainly. SDA has had huuuge success in Rwanda. We all know what happened there a few years ago. SDA lifespans were reduced sharply. {8-[ spike