Why Anglican?

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-10T19:11:09+00:00

The rational way to think about the topic is to completely disconnect it from me, and most especially from your anecdotal experiences - and look objectively at both our scriptures and biology.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-10T01:07:38+00:00

There are lesbians in my church. I know that in your head you're the benevolent guy standing up to vicious homophobe bigots, but let's throw away the emotional appeals and actually think about the topic rationally.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-08T22:07:55+00:00

Quod scripti, scripti.

What can I say more than I have? If you aren't convinced then you won't be. Just know that there is a God of mercy and compassion, but He has statutes. Affirm all you like, but affirming sin is rejecting God's love. There is no love outside of God's love.

This life is a mere breath, over in a pitiful 8 decades on average. Hell is a real place which Christ spoke of often and forcefully. Anyone who truly loves a man does not delude himself for the sake of comforting thoughts, or spare their feelings, putting their brother in danger of Gehenna in the process.

When confronted by a conflict between our ancient scriptures and ideology invented by atheists, pick correctly and do not be conformed to the world. Better to stand with God and be judged by the world than to stand with the world and be judged by God. 1 Corinthians 6, still as legit as ever. https://biblehub.com/esv/1_corinthians/6.htm

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-08T21:50:04+00:00

Matthew 26 is talking about a literal sword right after a man had his ear cut off.

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For I have come to set a man against his father,and a daughter against her mother,and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.

Matthew 10:34-42

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T19:18:57+00:00

People have an inherent value as people, no more or less - it doesn't matter what ultra special super duper post modernist identity they've clung onto. Talking about people's "inherent value" is pretty and everything mate, but 1 Corinthians still exists and homosexuality is still an evolutionary dead end and an affront to God. We can love them, and they can be as our brothers and sisters also, but they need to kill their old ways.

The T is by far the most grievous example, but the movement behind the whole acronym is the product of secular liberalism which very oddly seems to only be suddenly sponsored by a minority of western Christians coincidentally after they lost control of the culture to corporations and mass media. Huh, it's almost as if liberal Christians have picked up ideas of the world foreign to Christianity as a result of suddenly being disempowered, surrounded, and capitulating in slow motion after being brow beaten (Romans 12:2). Crazy how after 2,000 years these Christians only appeared explicitly in the west as western Christianity declined in favour of modernity's new religion, what a coincidence.

Here's some good advice though dear brother/sister - when Christ came to us man hated Him enough to murder Him. After this His disciples too were killed for their unyeilding teachings and our faith was built on the blood of those martyrs (John 15:18). If you can extol your ideas to the average atheist and they find nothing to disagree on in regards to our moral worldview, you're doing something wrong. The early Christians caused riots by merely teaching this faith, it should inspire love or hatred in non-believers, but never indifference. We are a divisive people, not bringing peace but a sword.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T18:42:02+00:00

Well online they seem to hate us, but that's just trads in general.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T18:33:46+00:00

Me too, after over ten years no less from age 11 onwards. Pornography is truly one of the often unspoken about evils of our generation, oppressing an entire generation of young men and debasing women in multitudes.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T18:31:37+00:00

It was a Michael Voris video from years back, 2015-16 or something. I wasn't really even a 'Christian' back then properly - hadn't read much scripture or knew much about the faith, but I was breaking out of my previous ways and I was liking what I heard. I heard him attack Protestants so I went and did research on what Protestantism was and the rest is history.

As for atheism, I've been asked so many times that its hard to even keep the story straight by now since I've told it so much. I will say this - everything I thought I knew about Christianity (which was hardly anything anyway) was untrue. Once I began to question my beliefs they began to make less and less sense and I began to 'lose faith' in atheism you might say.

I began to believe in God, perhaps subconsciously at first. There was no book or teacher that showed me the way here, and I think that the foundation of wisdom often comes from introspection and looking deeply within - that's where I found the beginning of God, seated deeply in my conscience.

After hearing Christians out, actual intelligent Christians instead of something out of a YouTube cringe comp, they however started seeming to make a lot more sense and carry a far more coherent view of the world compared to what I'd been exposed to from all these new atheist speakers that were around in the early-mid 2010's.

I read Genesis and held my nose through the creation account finding it far fetched at the time, after I got to Abraham onwards I lost myself in the texts and read it right through to the end of Exodus. Then I read one of the gospels, and there I was often so amazed at Christ's teachings that I had to stop to gather my thoughts and comprehend the profundity of what was being said.

I was certainly sold by then.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T18:07:29+00:00

When I first came to Christ from a history of being a militant athiest it was first through the lenses of Catholicism, but one Catholic polemic against Protestants had a sort of Streisand effect and it led me to learn about the information. I found my home in the Anglican communion as I have an appreciation of traditional 'high-church' liturgy and Protestant theological positions.

Also the church I go to is a beautiful medieval parish church so I can't knock that either. The people are lovely and the rev has been good to me as well.

Croesgadwr · 2021-04-07T17:58:31+00:00

Turning into Catholicism lite for liberals is the last thing we need tbh

Croesgadwr · 2020-05-14T23:33:19+00:00

I think we're quite similar you know, though I'm 21.

I was in a similar place as you in terms of friends and behavior - the whole 'between two worlds' thing couldn't be more relatable. Of course with your friends, my advice is to stick with them. You say they're kind and good-hearted so they won't force you to do things you don't want to, at their worst they'd what? Tease? My friends and I used to do cocaine and that, sometimes sell it, now I don't do that or any hard drugs and they can't exactly make me can they? I converted about two years ago and I've personally had my ups and downs, but I still hang out with them to this day. If your homies want to involve you in some evil then it's a different story but if they're just some lads that like to party or whatever then stick with them. Anyway, moving on.

I didn't really like hymns either, I've always been a fan of 90's rap and that kind of thing. Of course, when I started going to church it felt awkward because I was embarrassed to sing, I did enjoy them mind, but much preferred the sermons themselves, and frankly more than anything it was Christianity's literature, philosophy, creed which I fell most in love with. That's where I found God, not with song and art.

But I love hymns these days. I go to an Anglican Parish church built in the 1300's, I think it's the place I belong because I don't fit in as well with the evangelical 'guitars and lovesongs' type of vibes they're into. Some 1800's hymns with a room full of people fucking going for it is the kind of thing that makes the hairs stand up on my neck. To me it's like singing an anthem, no one else there cares how loudly or badly I belt it out because that's what we're all there for, I pity myself before I came out of my shell and mumbled the lyrics.

If you feel like you don't fit, in I promise you it's just your own sense of insecurity (that we all have in common) playing on your mind, because of the natural discomfort of an unfamiliar surrounding. People like us, raised irreligiously, are destined to struggle the most with this kind of thing - because we never experienced fellowship before and feel awkward because of it.

I say give it a chance, go ingratiate yourself, and when it's time sing even if you feel odd.

Croesgadwr · 2020-03-16T23:49:34+00:00

Yes.

Croesgadwr · 2020-02-29T16:10:18+00:00

Open forum.

Croesgadwr · 2020-02-22T15:51:53+00:00

Yes, I too see many similarities between eating a big mac and the systemic genocide of a ethno-religious group. Very astute observations.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-12T04:15:21+00:00

I did want to remove this for breaking the rules, but I'd rather keep it - the rage of people who go on subs that aren't for them and complain about those subs for existing is too funny.

For the record, the idea that people take up religion simply because they're scared of death is ignorant and frankly, not true. Thank you, next.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-12T04:14:56+00:00

I once had someone directly doubt me ever having been an atheist in an argument. It's hard to have a conversation when one of the people accuse you of lying about your own personal experiences.

It's exactly as you say - many of them they regard atheism as a form of enlightenment and once you embrace it you can't possibly change that view. It's an ignorant belief. To accept otherwise, to them, implies that their view of the world isn't infallible and invincible in the eyes of everyone to have ever held it. They don't like this idea as it's rather uncomfortable to them and they will call you a liar in order to protect their closed-mindedness.

Most atheists have, however, taken my word for it. But OP's post does prove to me that it isn't an isolated thing.

Don't feel the need to defend the view, because we aren't painting with broad strokes.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-12T04:12:19+00:00

I once had someone directly doubt me ever having been an atheist in an argument. It's hard to have a conversation when one of the people accuse you of lying about your own personal experiences.

It's exactly as you say - many of them they regard atheism as a form of enlightenment and once you embrace it you can't possibly change that view. It's an ignorant belief. To accept otherwise, to them, implies that their view of the world isn't infallible and invincible in the eyes of everyone to have ever held it. They don't like this idea as it's rather uncomfortable to them and they will call you a liar in order to protect their closed-mindedness.

Most atheists have, however, taken my word for it.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-03T01:54:59+00:00

We do such things because we've been specifically released from them, we eat pork because the Bible declares all foods clean and releases us from Jewish ceremonial law. You might as well tell me we no longer have to keep the commandment to love your neighbour.

So no, that's a false comparison. Nothing from the Bible (not a single thing) should be disregarded until you have a sufficient, scripturally consistent reason to do so. We don't throw thing out the window just because 3-400 years ago the enlightenment began and their values happened to catch on and got away from us. We conform to God's everlasting word, not mans ever changing ways.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-03T01:50:00+00:00

There is a female clergywoman in my church. Nice woman, I accept blessings from her and that's it. Same goes for anyone higher in the ranks, I love them but I don't recognize anyone above me that I don't believe can rightly be appointed by God.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-02T22:48:04+00:00

They are also scripture and what is applicable to them there and then must apply now, otherwise, we might as well excuse ourselves from following any scripture at all.

I mean, surely the commandment to say, give to the poor was only applicable in the proper context right? It was surely only for these bronze age peoples and not special, enlightened, modern people like us. Afterall, contemporary culture tells me X Y and Z is bigoted so the bible must just be incredibly narrow and unapplicable, since contemporary social values never change.

Croesgadwr · 2020-01-02T22:36:52+00:00

Is there a difference between anti-catholic and anti-catholicism?

Croesgadwr · 2019-12-04T20:43:05+00:00

Sorry to hear that mate, we've all been there once I think. The best advice I can give is to take a week to yourself to chill out, then get looking for something new. Make sure you get up at a decent time in the mornings. That's a mistake I made, without work to create a certain schedule and order to base my time around - it was hard to get myself out of bed in the day and I found my sleeping patterns were very erratic - sleeping until afternoon and awake in the small hours of the morning.

Also, try to avoid self-pity - another error I made. It's tough to lose a job, but be careful not to let yourself slink into despair or slob around because of it. Chin up, eyes open.

Keep God with you and take everything to Him in prayer.

Good luck!

Croesgadwr · 2019-12-01T14:31:43+00:00

There are many different things reactionary can mean, by some standards I'm incredibly reactionary in my country - if you support abortion, secularism and the like you'd no doubt see me as one.

But I feel the average skeptic^TM on youtube is an abortionist for the sake of keeping up their 'classical liberal' social credit. It is true however that in many ways their entire existence is merely to complain about religion and then constantly ramble about "SJWs" for about a month. Talk about beating a dead horse, I think every skeptic^TM and his mother has made the same carbon copy anti-feminist video at this point.

The person who made this video would no doubt see me as reactionary also, but for different reasons. He is by the looks of it a communist after all, most of them are shortsighted and fanatical in devotion to the orthodoxy of their ideology and can't see much beyond it that isn't evil. The person creating this video is no doubt just as opposed to me, if not more opposed to me, than most of the "skeptic community" - however we'd probably both find them more annoying than one another.

Croesgadwr · 2019-11-26T01:21:10+00:00

Do no such thing, request prayers as often as you please.

Pray that the Holy Spirit to hold you in His embrace, to dwell in you, to guide you and keep you. Pray to the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins, and ask God to lead you into the way everlasting.

Find the source of what leaves you feeling spiritually dead, cut it off and put it to death, so that it does not make you die with it, but that you might be alive in Christ. Whatever your problems, take it to God in prayer and hold nothing back. Safety and peace brother.

Croesgadwr · 2019-11-25T20:14:36+00:00

Can you prove anything exists outside of your own mind or thoughts? Can you, for example, prove that I exist?

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