Welcome to 2025! The battle against strong delusions is heating up!

Growing up as an SDA, every time a new US president was elected, tension would build about whether he would be the one to implement a National Sunday Law. When the so-called Religious Right was flexing its muscle and getting Ronald Reagan elected, some SDAs were so sure of Sunday laws that they predicted the end of the world in the 1980s. I remember well the Sabbath in 1989 when SDA Pastor Jan Marcussen, author of National Sunday Law, came to our church and spoke with great solemnity: "Time is so short that a small child could count the number of months." Obviously, he was no better a prophet than Ellen White. Even after I left the SDA sect in 1998, SDAs continue to contact me warning me of imminent Sunday laws that will finally prove that Ellen White was correct. Usually the fear frenzy heightens around the time of a presidential election. SDAs raise the question: "Will he be the one to implement the National Sunday Law?"

The National Sunday Law scenario is a clever piece of fiction based on an out-dated end-time scenario that is used to create hysteria in the SDA sect. (Persecution paranoia is a hallmark identifier of a cultic group.) Some SDAs keep fanning the flames of fear about such a law. The time has come to put an end to this delusion. —Brother Anderson