Trump in office ten days: the Seventh-day Adventist Church wrote "Keep your mouth shut".
The Seventh-day Adventist indirectly addresses current events the better to appeal to both liberal and conservative members. Day ten after Trump elected: SDAs wrote "Keep your mouth shut".
It is now four weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
(All below sources from here https://archive.ph/3WGle.)
During the first ten days of his office, President Trump signed Executive Orders (read: These are treated as laws. They can be challenged by lawsuits.) that:
pardoned over 1,500 people who rioted in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when President Trump attempted and failed a coup
brought back TikTok which was temporarily banned
renamed Mount Denali (tallest Alaskan mountain, its original Native name) to Mount McKinley
renamed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America
Trump’s Executive Orders targeted existing government organizations, programs. These orders:
ended Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in federal government
purged documents, information, history from federal websites including public health data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_government_online_resource_removals
set up Department of Government Efficiency to begin firing federal employees, dismantling federal government organizations including USAID, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security
froze federal spending on grants and loans
purged experienced leaders, installed Trump loyalists in key government leadership
President Trump removed the US from the:
World Health Organization
Paris Climate Agreement
global corporate tax deal negotiated by Biden administration
President Trump signed Executive Orders targeting trans people. Only two genders—male and female—are federally recognized now. This “others” trans people and will be used to remove more rights from trans people.
While President Trump signed these laws, a military helicopter collided with a passenger plane. Everyone died. President Trump blamed diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) in the Federal Aviation Administration for causing the crash. He had no evidence.
It takes up to a year to fully investigate the cause of an aviation crash. So far no correlation between DEI and the fatal crash has been found. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-dei-federal-workers-plane-crash-733303f2c808834f4cc4b30dfaf308a7
President Trump signed Executive Orders targeting immigrants and refugees:
ended birthright citizenship of children born in the USA to undocumented immigrants
stopped vetted, safe, legal refugees where were coming to the USA https://archive.ph/2Zhxn
declared a National Emergency on the US southern border, so US military will be used to prevent undocumented immigrants crossing the border
shut down CPB app, a legal way for immigrants to enter the US for asylum
Schools and churches used to be safe from immigration raids. President Trump ended that.
Of note, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is majority minority and 15% Hispanic. In 2014, when Seventh-day Adventist brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson went into politics, the Pew Research Center researched Adventists. Per their study:
Adventists make up 0.5% of the US population and are 37% White, 32% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% other/mixed.
Some of the 15% Hispanic SDA population will now be targeted by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Since Trump’s Executive Order, Native American—US citizens—Navajos have been rounded up and questioned by ICE. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna18920
In Denver, news reports of ICE tactics included early morning raids of private homes who had no cause for warrants, ICE blocking school buses from picking children up for school, and handcuffing a cooperative legal resident until paperwork was found showing he was legally in the USA. https://denverite.com/2025/02/12/denver-public-schools-lawsuit-federal-government-ice/
Hispanic Americans, including Adventists, will be disproportionately targeted by ICE now.
After ten days of President Trump’s law changes: The Seventh-day Adventist Church (Adventist, SDA) ordered its members’s “Keep [their] mouth shut”:
In American English, “Keep your mouth shut” is a rude saying. It ranks up there with “shut up” and “shut your pie hole”.
It’s excellent advice when one is accosted by ICE or police.
But Adventists are talking about silence in everyday life—not silence when accosted by authorities.
After all, the SDAs argued, maybe someone might say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
And—even if ICE is targeting citizens, legal immigrants, conducts raids in private homes, handcuffs innocents—well, Adventists don’t know “all the facts”.
Here Adventists pretend that this out-of-context Bible verse absolutely proves that if someone sees something, they should not say anything. Because they don't know everything.
I don't know what fallacy the Adventists are showcasing in that post of theirs. It’s a doozy.
Adventists are not to say anything that will damage someone’s reputation.
Of note here, Adventists don't say that it’s ok to tell the truth even if the truth damages someone’s reputation.
Nope, Adventists imply even truth must be silenced to preserve people’s reputations.
Here, Adventists attack stressed people rightfully angry over wrongs done to them.
Those people must be silent, say Adventists.
Adventists use an out-of-context verse about short-tempered people with “evil devices” to prove their point.
Except, stressed people rightfully angry over wrongs done to them are not whom that verse is talking about.
This verse is about spreading lies and gossip.
The Adventists claim it actually means “shut your mouth or you will damage friendships”.
Adventists say to remain silent. That will bring safety, they say.
Here, Adventists ignore Bible verses like when Jesus:
called out the crimes of the money changers
called the Pharisees whitewashed graves
warned anyone who harmed a child that it would “be better a millstone be hung around their [the person who harmed a child] neck, and [that child-harming person] be drowned”
In part because Jesus was not silent, he was crucified. Perhaps this cherry-picked Bible verse used by Adventists to silence is correct there. Maybe if Jesus had remained silent, he would have “kept himself out of trouble”.
Of note here, Adventists are not telling people to follow Jesus’s example. Jesus spoke up. Adventists are shaming their believers into silence.
And the Adventists tell viewers of their misinformation, scripture-twisting post to spread their misinformation further.