Concerns with The Seventh Day Adventist Church with Dr. Steve Daily

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) is a widely recognized Christian organization with around 20 million members worldwide. However, many of its beliefs and practices fall under my BITE Model of Authoritarian Control, which I developed to evaluate control of Behavior, Information, Thoughts, and Emotions. To gain more insight into this organization, I invited Dr. Steve Daily, a former pastor of the SDA, to share his valuable personal and professional experiences. Dr. Steve Daily is a licensed psychologist, church historian, and accomplished author who has written 28 books, including 11 on Seventh-day Adventism and its founder Ellen G. White. He grew up in an Adventist home and received his education from Adventist institutions. In 2010, Dr. Daily left Adventism and went on to work as a psychologist at UCLA. Since then, he has become an outspoken critic of founder Ellen G. White and the Adventist Church, authoring Ellen G. White A Psychobiography. The book explores whether the accusations of fraud and pathology leveled against her over the years stand up to historical and psychological scrutiny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Steven Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum.
0:09.3	And I'm very, very interested in our guest for today. Dr. Steve Daly is a licensed psychologist, church historian.
0:23.6	I hope you don't mind Dr. Daly, and I'm going to puff, I'm going to read your bio because people should know.
0:32.6	You've authored 28 books as someone who's authored four. I'm like astounded that you're that prolific good for you
0:40.0	including 11 on 7th Day Adventism and Ellen white including two doctoral dissertations and a
0:49.0	master's thesis in history wow I did one dissertation and that was quite enough. So again, my hat's off to you,
0:57.2	Dr. Daly. You've taught in the fields of history, psychology, religion at Loma Linda University
1:05.5	and La Sierra University, which are Seven Day Adventist schools in Southern California for 24 years.
1:14.1	Your most influential book while in Adventism was Adventism for a new generation,
1:20.8	which was used as a textbook in several SDA universities.
1:25.5	But in 2010, you left Adventism and went to work as a psychologist for
1:31.2	UCLA. Your most influential books since leaving Adventism has been Ellen G. White, a psycho biography,
1:40.3	which you kindly sent me a copy of. And for those people looking at the video, here's a visual of the front cover of the book.
1:52.1	And it's the most comprehensive and well-documented work available that exposes both the fraud and pathology of the prophet founder of the
2:03.5	Seventh-day Adventist Church. Lastly, you're the founder of Keys Family Resource Center,
2:10.4	which has received more than a million dollars in grants, and Graceway Community Church
2:15.7	in Riverside, California, where you currently are a pastor.
2:20.0	And you're married to a wonderful wife for 48 years, father of three amazing children, six awesome grandchildren.
2:28.5	We're going to leave it there, but just thank you for reaching out to us and wanting to educate us about a group
2:38.8	that has millions, millions of believers still involved with it. Is that correct, Dr. Yeah. Yeah.
2:45.8	So tell us your story. Tell us how you became fascinated in this topic and what motivated you to write so prolifically.
2:56.9	Well, I'll try to be brief, but I grew up in Adventism. My parents weren't hardcore conservative
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