There are times where I'm glad to be a Seventh-Day Adventist....this ain't one of them.
The TL/DR: Barbara O'Neill is an alternative health care practitioner and member of the SDA church in Australian who...how can I put it simply? Ahh, yes: she's a crank... (O'Neill's health claims, Australian criminal investigations) ..enough of one that the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found multiple substantiated complaints agst. her, enough to where in Sept. 2019 she was given a prohibition order banning her from putting forth the info she was giving.
Didn't stop her though; she kept right on and also went full-on anti-vax (far more so than even RFK Jr. at his worst ever did)...everything built up enough to where Adventist Health Ministries, the in-house health group of the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists officially advised member SDA churches and organizations (i'll get to them in a second) not to have her speak at their churches or organizations.
Enter one of those aforementioned SDA organizations, Amazing Facts. HQ'ed in Granite Bay, CA and led by Granite Bay SDA Pastor Doug Batchelor, AF is one of the major unofficial SDA organizations in existence (along with 3ABN, Voice of Prophecy, Hope Channel, 2CBN in Africa and so forth)...they're a powerful outside voice w/in SDA circles and Batchelor is one pastor who I really, really respect and admire...
...and yet, according to the video above and a recent article in Adventist Today, they invited Ms. O'Neill to speak at Sacremento Central (Sac Central) SDA church (according to their FB page, the week's run of shows is booked solid).
Yeah, You and me both, Jesus.
Now, I'm relatively new to Adventist (it'll be three and a half years since I first began attending my local SDA church here in Morganton, NC) but if there's one thing I keep seriously it is the Adventist health message, something I do principally because its' a commonsense health message, especially the diet part - no, I'm not a vegetarian or vegan; I'm more of a flexitarian in my eating habits. I also take a more focused approach to my health, especially given all of my past health issues mental and physical.
Part of that is paying attention to the best advice of medical professionals on both medicine and vaccinations....which makes me wonder what in the holy kernals is Pr. Batchelor doing bringing a crank and oddball like Barbara O'Neill to the 'States to peddle her crap?
She's no "health educator" (with all due respect to Mr. Batchelor) she's a Down Under crank. Period, end of story.
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