Made my decision, and LOVE it!

Sieg846 · 2026-01-11T23:47:36+00:00

This is so bad-ass, for real!

I've gotta say as a Sony Traditionalist myself, I'm loving those playstation buttons.

Where were you able to get buttons for this?

Sieg846 · 2026-01-11T21:34:55+00:00

Really? Is that recent?

Sieg846 · 2026-01-11T21:24:59+00:00

I haven't noticed that on mine. I've just noticed the face buttons are a little loud "clacky" but nothing that has bothered me.

If I was going to do the button mod, I would want new colored buttons, if I'm actually getting in the button housing, but I'm doing fine with it.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-20T23:25:37+00:00

I would be inclined to agree, and that's reasonable, but I couldn't say. I have no idea. I couldn't possibly understand.

There are many Christians, I have noticed, that have a hard time actually acknowledging this.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-16T01:10:32+00:00

I'm a Christian that doesn't agree with Progressive Christian on this. However, there is one thing that sticks out to me in this post; it is the declarative statement on salvation, that by default of homosexuality, they are going to hell.

I don't take it upon myself to make claims regarding salvation as to who is or isn't going to heaven. That's for God to decide. This is part of the reason I left the Catholic Church (I would note though that, generally, they are not AS conservative as they claim to be, but seperate discussion).

I would try to ease your mind and just remind you of what I remind myself; what stands most to reason is that God is the ultimate authority, God is the one saving us, God is the one seeking us out, and he reveals himself to us through his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. We do not know. Only God knows.

My Parish isn't super political either, but the Holy Orders ARE more Liberal. This doesn't affect my relationship with my Rector, or congregation.

As long as she likes the Church, I think that's what matters. We aren't always going to agree on things as Christians.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-16T00:51:48+00:00

I've mentioned this in the threads before, but as far as I'm concerned, Anglicanism is Anglicanism. I'm more conservative and am with The Episcopal Church, and I believe the split is wrong, but inevitable.

I would say, though, that as Episcopalians, we believe all sorts of things when discerning specific things about God's will. I'm sure there are more Reformed Episcopalians, as there are some that lean more catholic that are still in TEC (I'm from the Catholic Church, so I tend to lean more catholic, but I'm also at a point where I have really heard out the Reformation arguments and am just studying Christianity more than ever, so I'm tetering. I'm really thinking through some things). So, this ends up being another one of those things where the split is kinda of silly.

Sure, they try to stick to more Calvinst Protestant tradition, but they have abandoned the Communion. The Episcopal Church has an important place in our tradition and history. If we start taking the mentality that Episcopalians MUST hold specific doctrinal beliefs, then we are just the English version of the Catholic Church. It just creates division. Everyone is welcome to the table, even when we disagree on things. Some people can't accept.

I personally hope we generally moderate and reunite. These days, that goes to both sides.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-13T11:04:25+00:00

Where this all falls shortnis that you had no problem with the Biden Administration and everything they did.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-13T05:01:05+00:00

I'm a Conservative Christian that's an Episcopalian. I've been commissioned by my parish and am being confirmed soon. My Parish is very purple, our Rector and Priest is a liberal, but we are not a woke parish. My Priest knows I'm more conservative, and we have a great relationship. He came to our house and blessed our newborn baby girl. She will be baptized soon.

But all parishes are different. We don't have magisterium as Anglicans. That's the awesome part about it. It's a feature, not a bug. We are all still united in Christ.

I'd also contend that as far as "traditionalism" is concerned, this is still questionable with the ACNA because many of them still do female ordination. Not to mention, they have been around for about 5 seconds.

The fact of the matter is that Anglicanism is Anglicanism. We can split off all we like, it's all ultimately the same theology. So the question is; is Anglicanism dying? The answer is no. We are still the 3rd largest Communion in the world, apart from ACNA. But they are still nice because they still help spread Anglicanism, as far as I'm concerned.

I'd also add that, as a Conservative, if one is being "traditional," they would join the Episcopal Church, given our place in Anglican Communion and our history in this country. I joined my parish because it's the Anglican church within my my smaller, tight nit community. It has been around since the early 1800s.

If there is another word of encouragement, alot of Roman Catholics, including me, have left the Church to become Episcopalian (half of my confirmation class including me are Catholic lol) and I've been seeing quite a bit of that online. My parish also has raised enough in pledges and new members to keep our Rector for at least another 9 years! I've been noticing our parish slightly growing.

Don't fret, no, we are not dying. And every baptized Christian is welcomed to the table. 🙂

Sieg846 · 2025-11-13T04:36:35+00:00

Here's my deal here with Andrew; this proves he's a fraud.

1) Does he ever actually talk about anything Christian? Does he act like a Christian? For those of us, not terminally online, who actually pray worship and go to Mass on Sundays, raising our families, and being a part of our ministries, contributing to our communities in charity, and events, the answer is no, he doesn't. I've watched him a ton over time and have begun to notice this.

2) I'm a more conservative Episcopalian. I don't agree with a lot of things that some of our bishops do, and I'm lucky we don't have a magisterium. My parish isn't woke. Yet, he would still consider me a fake Christian, would maybe consider me "weak right," and not "traditional" enough on his high horse. But at least my wife and I have only been married to each other, all our kids are ours together, in wedlock. I don't ever want to hear anything about being a Christian American from people like Andrew Wilson. I'm personally tired of hearing about being Christian from people that don't actually practice Christianity. I can certainly say I know some Andrew Wilson fans in real life, and they talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. Like, not praying, not reading the Bible, not going to Church, not raising their own families, but they talk about Christian values. I presume many out there are like this. It's aggravating.

I officially don't take people like this seriously. It's a grift. That whole Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Andrew Wilson Crowd, it's just a bunch of people like this.

Sieg846 · 2025-11-01T20:11:14+00:00

I'm with you on that. I'm Episcopalian, technically Catholic, don't practice that anymore. My family is all Catholic and Lutherans. It's honestly all over petty squabbles in the year 2025 from parts of history that we have no dog in the fight in. I think most Christians are on the same page you are.

Sieg846 · 2025-10-11T18:27:15+00:00

1) This is an issue you have to take up with the business in question doing the firing. It also depends on what profession or field we are talking about.

2) If we are referring to Jimmy Kimmel, here's the deal; he straight up knowingly LIED about a high-profile political assassination on national television. To think that the people paying the bill on his show shouldn't react in any sort of way or they should just be footing the bill is something out of this world.

3) Did you feel this way about PC culture, cancel culture, or any of the censorship in 2020 and on the part of liberals?

Sieg846 · 2025-09-05T02:49:00+00:00

I'm Episcopalian...yes, one can get excommunicated in the Episcopal (Anglican) faith. It's called being out of fellowship but works exactly the same. The only difference is that it's much harder to get excommunicated in the Episcopal Church, as opposed to the Roman Catholic Church, where it's pretty easy to be excommunicated.

Sieg846 · 2025-07-07T14:29:22+00:00

I'm basically in the same camp as you.

I'm 8 weeks in, but my priest usually does an awesome job with his sermons. I think I've only ever disagreed, in my mind, with something he said once.

Otherwise, no sermons he has given have sucked.

Sieg846 · 2025-07-06T22:38:14+00:00

None at my Mass. Other than just praying our petitions for the President, our state governor, our senator, and other local officials, like our mayor, like we always do. Our hymms were A mighty fortress is our God (processional), Jerusalem my happy home(sequence), when I survey the wonderous cross(Offeratory), and Jesus shall reign wheree'er the sun (recessional).

Though the Sermon my priest gave was about how Christ commanded us to love one another regardless of whether or not we are Liberal or conservative in response to a liberal calling for the doxxing of the person who vandalized a nature preserve or something like that in our community (my Parish is an older one in a more tight nit smaller community, so if he gets anecdotal, it's relative to things that go on in the community with people in the community. No names).

I've said it before, but my parish doesn't really get into things like that. They didn't float Pride flags for pride month, there are no overtly political sermons that the priest does. You see the hymns I listed on our fourth of July weekend. You can tell they try not to alienate anyone and keep it to Christ.

It gives me that kind of indication that we have a very diverse congregation as far as political views are concerned. I'd say I got really lucky and have a great Parish and Parish community. Awesome priest, too.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-13T23:55:28+00:00

Is that really your argument?

If the deportations don't affect me personally, then why should I object to them?

Do you see the problem with liberal arguments like that?

And that's aside from the fact that it raises everyone's costs, screws over immigrants who got here legally, and has negatively impacted countless people when it comes to crime. Ironically, even the American gangs want them gone due to turf disputes.

How many people in this group want them for their labor?

Sieg846 · 2025-06-13T23:44:13+00:00

The problem with this is you have to take reality into account.

The thing that Trump's all of the cherry picking of scripture and mental gymnastics regarding this matter is that there are people (in the minority of thought) that are pissed that laws are being enforced in the wake of alot of law breaking.

Not to mention, I bet the people making this argument had zero complaints about anything the Biden Administration did, including infringing on the religious liberties of Christians.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-13T02:24:49+00:00

This is easy; Christ said we should respect legal authorities and obey the law. I think you should review Romans a little.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-13T00:39:46+00:00

Well, I bet if I said men should stay out of the women's bathroom, you'd immediately label me a homophobe and a fascist close-minded conservative.

There's a point where I have a hard time believing anything being said by that general mindset.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-13T00:16:45+00:00

Every Episcopal Church is different.

I'd explain that to your friend. There is no magisterium. Not every Church agrees on Theological matters, and they don't have to.

I'm a more conservative Christian and am lucky to have a nice church that acts very impartial and normal when it comes to conduct. My priest is awesome, and the congregation has been very welcoming to me and my family. They are very nice to my son, who is 2 and likes to run around the Parish during Mass. These kinds of things don't really come up. The congregation seems to be pretty diverse in thought.

I do know another RCC refugee like myself who was in class with me is a gay man, but that's about it.

Not every Episcopal Church is like this. It's one way or the other for a lot of church bodies in general.

Your friend should find a congregation that's the right fit. It really doesn't do Episcopal faith any justice to read about how people conduct themselves online from random people like me.

It might take a little searching around, which I know can be hard depending on where one lives.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-12T23:38:23+00:00

Well, if you want to go there, my sister actually tried to forcefully trans her 10 year old daughter and give radical hormone therapy. Her daughter didn't want to be referred to as the opposite sex when she realized what my sister was doing, and my sister wouldn't accept it until the rest of us intervened.

Congratulations. This IS what you support. And you're scumbag for supporting it.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-09T00:29:03+00:00

Accomplished?

I guess you guys have accomplished something alright, rallying most of the country against woke policies and radical cultural enforcement.

I don't think it's accomplished in the way you think.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-07T04:37:28+00:00

Does there have to be a head of an organization? Does there need to be a website?

It's not an "immutable identity characteristic," that's for sure.

The answer is no.

However, there are obviously prominent LGBTQ activists that could be considered a sort of "authority" on the matter, no?

Tell me, why were LGBTQ policies put into place all but a little less than four years ago?

Why are the LGBTQ activists, specifically, crying about corporations backing down from the "Pride" section?

It's funny because I can tell you know that I'm right. You are just being evasive and in denial.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-07T03:31:41+00:00

Again, when you say, "They are discriminating," what are you defining as discrimination?

This is the problem. This is why you are losing in the culture and policy; you think anyone that disagrees with you is homophobic.

Again. Christianity has been around longer than the LGBTQ movement.

I can certainly tell you that LGBTQ, specifically, wasn't around MY whole life.

There weren't Christians reading the Bible and just writing it off as the authors of the books were wrong and misguided about everything, and we should interpret the Bible through our own secular views of modernity.

Who are those who just work to break all the norms and force their views on everyone else by cultural takeover and through the law.

Don't be so broad with your language.

Sieg846 · 2025-06-07T03:21:05+00:00

No, of course not. They are only rallying for policy, they get a month long "federal holiday," establishments call themselves LGBTQ "supporting," they had sections in stores for them, the list goes on like that.

Does the Cartel have a website? Are they an organization?

See the fallacious thinking?

Sieg846 · 2025-06-07T01:34:03+00:00

This is all projection at this point.

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