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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 1:17 pm
It's an archaic and completely obselete relic of a time in this country that I'm glad I wasn't born into. If I were calling the shots it would be dissolved tomorrow. But I'm not, so I don't care.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 1:38 pm
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St Thomas Aquinas said that Monarchy is the best form of government if the King is good, but the worst form of government if the King is Bad.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 2:07 pm
I think the monarchy is a ridiculous leftover from a bygone era and we'd ideally be better off without them. Whether we'd be better off right now without them is a different question.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 3:10 pm
Trump ain't that far off the Kardashian orbit.
It comes full circle, don't it ?
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Besides, I couldn't do anything to hurt Prince Andrew!!
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 3:16 pm
In terms of religion, there is a definite connection there.
In my family growing up, we'd always joke about watching the Queen's speech at Christmas. It was never said as a joke, it didn't need to be because the idea of sitting down and subjecting ourselves to some pompous long winded parasite lecturing to us for however long it lasts was ludicrous. I never actually saw the Queen's speech for years.
And then my born again Christian brother married a Christian woman. She watches the Queen's speech and laps up the whole Christian message. She sits in front of the TV while we're cleaning up the table or going off and doing other stuff.
The royal family, like religion is a form of social control.