Whereas Brother William the Abbot prefers German, I hereby proclaim:
   Ich bin auch ein Lunatik!

I am a 4th generation SDA on my father's side.  My father was a SDA pastor.  I never heard him bludgeon anybody at home or at school or at church, with Ellen White.

When I encountered an abusive church school teacher who did bludgeon people with Ellen White, I decided to go back to the source.  So I read her book Education and concluded that this teacher was the crazy person.  And as I was to learn, he was not the only one.  But I did not nor do I now, consider him and his cohort, to be the essence of Adventism.

Finally, might I suggest that Erv's choice of title for this Opinion piece tells us more about his world-view than about Ed Zinke's?