Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the 2002 Adventist Society for Religious Studies (ASRS) meetings in Toronto, I was interviewed as a young Adventist scholar.After talking about the situation of the Adventist Church in Romania during Communist times, one participant asked a straightforward question: How could Adventists, especially pastors and administrators, cooperate with the Communist authorities and still have a clear conscience; was it possible to cooperate with the Communists and still be a true Adventist?I offered him the shortest answer possible: it depends.Unfortunately, time did not allow me to unpack that answer.I realized that he, like many others, used a Free World mentality without realizing that people living under a Communist regime have a different worldview.I also understood that I needed more than words and stories to present a realistic and credible picture of the Adventist Church living under a totalitarian regime.I needed documents.However, the Adventist Church in Romania had only a small archive and most of the items were committee minutes.A few years later when the archives of the former secret police in Romania, Securitate, were open for public and academic research, I received accreditation as an external researcher.Browsing through some of the millions of folders and files, I discovered that Securitate had many more files and documents about the Adventist Church during Communist times than the Church did.I decided to spend as much time as I could to research the methods Communists used to influence the life and mission of the Church, and the advantages and disadvantages of the Church's cooperation with a Communist totalitarian government.This survey may help create a profile of the mentality and strategies used by a Communist regime, a profile that could be helpful for Adventist leaders when having to make decisions regarding situations in totalitarian Communist countries today.This paper presents some of the preliminary results of my research in the Securitate archives in Romania. Shaking Hands with the (D)evil: Adventism and Communism
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".