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The... only thing I think I technically agree with them on is that... the holy day should by rights be Saturday, not Sunday.
Beyond that... yeah, some of them are very pleasant, delicate people... whats his name, the guy that Hacksaw Ridge was about... basically fairly close to a real story, he was an Adventist, thus a Pacifist, refused to pick up a weapon during WW2...
Became a medic, saved I think around at least 100 soldiers lives, got a Medal of Honor.
But the flip side of this is that, as best I can tell, at least some of their Preachers/Pastors, they've been conspiracy theory crafting intricate explanations of how the Catholic Church is more or less the most heretical thing that can be, Pope is the AntiChrist, etc etc, many, many other details... been doing that for decades.
I've managed to not meet too many Southern Baptists, due to being nowhere near the South at any point in my life... but yeah, what you say about them comports with what I've heard... seen on youtube, from people covering absolute nutjob, modern fire and brimstone preachers and 'prophets'.
Dear lord that's a whole can of worms there, people and branches that make prophecies and encourage other members to... or, who claim God is directly talking to them... makes for a whole lot of dramatic nonsense real fast, such as the recent Tiktok Rapture mass psychosis event.
If we ever doubted how those old tales of things like 'dancing madness' happened, well, now we know.
Sometimes people just kind of... euphorically, collectively, snap.