text: Staggering around is a symptom of drunkenness. Such is the state of institutional Adventism. Everyone knows that alcoholism is destructive. It's a form of suicide.
  
  The Adventist booze of choice seems to be "that old time religion." The problem is that the old religion has been theologically defunct, rotting in a mash-lauter-tun (beer brew tank) for one hundred forty-five years. Most alcoholics don't intend to be, they begin  innocuously and morph into creatures unrecognizable to themselves and their loved ones. Recovery isn't easy, relying on bumping bottom as the hope springboard to avoid death.
  
  Institutional Adventism's unwillingness to embrace women's equality, and modern science  (physics, biology, evolution, geology, cosmology, etc.) means it hasn't yet bottomed out.
  It is, however, hopelessly trending down. The young, the intelligent, the thoughtful, the educated are moving on. Yes, some are walking with the intoxicated, pretending they are the church. Crafty pseudo alcoholics.