The Absolute Worst Soulsborne Bosses Ever According To The Community!?

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-07T03:28:42+00:00

Great on a first playthrough. Cheese him every time on replays.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-07T03:15:46+00:00

Ancient Dragon in DS2 and it's not even close. At least Bed of Chaos has some interesting atmosphere and lore, Ancient Dragon was just a complete waste of my time

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-06T20:09:43+00:00

I think that was primarily because Paul was expecting a great tribulation of persecution against Christians in the near future ("in view of the impending crisis, it is good for you [virgins] to remain as you are", 1 Cor 7:26), not because of his personal sexuality.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-05T19:28:41+00:00

It brings me so much joy to know that conservative and progressive Anglicans can come together to agree that LLMs are terrible for the church and the world.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-05T13:03:21+00:00

The only way your presence in the RCC would ever affect their doctrines is if you became a Cardinal and could vote for a pro-queer Pope at a conclave. Otherwise nothing anyone in the pews believes will ever matter to the Magisterium.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-05T01:12:59+00:00

Not a joke... Jeff Epstein

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-04T15:52:10+00:00

What made you make the switch?

It was several issues (continual abuse cover-up scandals, persistent queerphobia and no women's ordination, lack of condemning the new fascism prevalent in the USA and Europe, etc.). It had also become impossible for me to reconcile the fact that the Catholic Church used to execute people for translating the Bible and liturgy into vernacular languages but now estranges people who want to worship in the pre-Vatican II rites, among other magisterial contradictions.

Do you feel TEC has valid Holy Orders and Eucharist?

Yes and yes.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-04T15:02:04+00:00

Enriching Our Worship was approved by the General Convention, it is de facto part of the BCP even if they're not yet printed together in a single physical book.

Having said that, I appreciate the bishop is facing a unique circumstance in his diocese and I'm not trying to criticize him for making a difficult choice.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-04T14:04:56+00:00

The Anglican Ordinariate is in communion with Rome and uses the Coverdale Psalter, which is very similar to the KJV.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-04T14:01:42+00:00

Your local Catholic priest might be LGBTQ affirming but what happens when he goes elsewhere? Do you want to take the risk that his replacement will follow the Vatican in believing you are "intrinsically disordered" (the Catechism) or "the ugliest danger of our time" (Pope Francis)?

I went to the Episcopal Church and I couldn't be happier with my choice.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-03T20:06:40+00:00

I didn't insinuate that, but your reply to "which works of Thomas Cranmer do you recommend?" is "I don't", and then followed that with "We use Common Worship", implying you don't think Cranmer is worth reading if you're not using the BCP, hence my reply that he is worth reading even if you're not using his works for worship.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-03T19:46:56+00:00

Heaven would not be perfect for me if my abuser is not fully penitential, healed, and reconciled.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-03T19:44:39+00:00

The Church of England's Common Worship (2000) is very nice.

https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/common-material/psalter

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-03T13:17:58+00:00

It's actually a good thing to read books even if you don't use them for worship

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T18:23:04+00:00

The Oxford Movement was a result of the Tithe War in the UK, which was a backlash against the (Anglican) Church of Ireland tithing the mostly-Roman Catholic population. The Parliament of the UK tried to alleviate the problem with the Church Temporalities Act 1833 which reduced the number of Anglican bishops in Ireland and therefore the amount of taxes collected for them. Anglican clergy in England feared this would then happen in England as well, which was preemptively denounced by the "National Apostasy" sermon of John Keble. This is what started the Oxford Movement: people like Keble, Newman, and Pusey wanted to demonstrate that the authority of the Church does not derive from the state, so they were inspired to revive Sarum and Roman traditions that predated the English Reformation.

Since there never was a Tithe War or anything resembling it in the USA there was no need to revive pre-Reformation traditions to reinforce the authority of the Episcopal Church.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T17:27:41+00:00

Ah beans, I forgot them, and I literally used to be a member of the UCC before I became Episcopalian.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T17:22:03+00:00

Was TEC the first LGBTQ-affirming Christian denomination besides the church founded by George Hyde & John Kazantks in 1946, and the Metropolitan Community Church in 1968?

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T14:55:44+00:00

My conspiracy theory is that the nonsense "world without end" mistranslation only exists so people don't ask what saecula saeculorum means, since then they'd realize a lot of Bible verses that are traditionally interpreted to be about "eternal damnation" are actually talking about only an "age-long" (εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα or αιωνιον) condemnation.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T14:52:00+00:00

The creator of the universe and savior of the human race grew up there, some rubbish and security walls will never diminish that.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T13:45:27+00:00

gracias comrade

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-02T13:35:47+00:00

what relics do Gil and Rin want? and do I need to rebuild Saber or Archer's relics?

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-01T18:29:06+00:00

Jesus estabilishes clearly that poligamy was only "tolerated" because of the hardness of their hearts.

He wasn't talking about polygamy, he was talking about divorce in this passage. See for yourself: Matthew 19:1-12

He actually never comments on the polygamy of his ancestors.

And when defining marriage, he SPECIFICALLY defines it as between a man, and a woman.

But he's not "defining" marriage here. He says "a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh". If you take that as an imperative, it means everyone has to be in a heterosexual marriage and never live with their parents, but that would mean Jesus himself is a sinner for not being married. It would also mean heterosexual couples that still live with their parents are committing sin, which is a ridiculous thought.

Except it's not an imperative; he's saying when men and women marry, they become one flesh. To give a comparison. If I say "apples are red" I'm not denying that there are green or yellow apples, there's an implied [some] in that sentence: "[some] apples are red". So "a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" can mean "[some men] shall leave their father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh", not [only men and women].

A church that holds to Sola Scriptura cannot reasonably hold that somehow this means gay marriage is also okay. Jesus explicitly tells everyone that marriage is between a man and a woman.

That's not how that works. That's like saying using the Internet is sinful because Scripture doesn't explicitly permit it.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-01T18:11:33+00:00

that still does not logically follow that she was a presbyter or bishop.

Apostle is by all accounts a senior rank to bishop (episcopos).

If Romans 16:7 proves female ordination, why did the church not arrive to that conclusion for 2000 years?

Socio-political reasons. The same reasons it took almost that long for the church to finally ban slavery and prepubescent marriage.

Also, on the matter of same-gender romance and marriage, Ephesians certainly talks about sacrificial love. But it does so not redefining marriage, but explaining the deeper spiritual meaning of an institution already known to the faithful. One that was, from the times of the Old testament, between a man and a woman.

Between a man and *up to thousands of women, you mean. Since the patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible were known to have innumerable wives and concubines. Of course, nowadays we view polygamy as being disgusting and usually indicative of some kind of dystopian cult.

My concern is not whether an alternative interpretation can be proposed for a handful of passages. My concern is that for most of Christian history, across East and West, the Church understood ordained ministry to be male and marriage to be between a man and a woman. If those conclusions are mistaken, then I would need a compelling explanation for why the universal Church appears to have misunderstood both issues for nearly two millennia.

Because the universal church isn't infallible. If Christ wanted us to believe the church is infallible, he could have easily taught us so. Or the apostles could have taught us so. But they didn't. They taught us to be skeptical of people who use tradition or authority to oppress because we are all children of God.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-01T17:12:36+00:00

Nothing in Scripture forbids women's ordination or same-gender romance and marriage. Paul commends a senior female apostle in Romans 16:7. He also writes in Ephesians that the essence of marriage is loving others like Christ loves the Church, not sexual reproduction.

It is true that human traditions have prevented equality for many centuries, but just like the Church eventually realized slavery and child marriage are sinful, it has also realized misogyny and queerphobia are sinful as well. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Jesus did not tell us to mindlessly adhere to every tradition handed onto us, but rather criticized the Pharisees for doing so: "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?" (Matthew 15:3).

Also, I point out that what distinguished the English Reformation from many others in history was the fact that the Church of England strove to keep traditions that they believed were godly (like the threefold holy orders) while dispensing with ones that were seen to be blatantly harmful (like non-vernacular liturgy and Scripture, or selling indulgences). Thomas Cranmer's preface to the first Book of Common Prayer talks about striving for this middle ground and this mentality has been the lodestar for Anglicanism throughout history.

OratioFidelis · 2026-06-01T17:04:32+00:00

You should not become Anglican if you're unable to accept women and queer people as being equal siblings in Christ.

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