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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Thank you everybody for your responses! I was just curious about what people thought. No better place to ask than here!
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 8:49 pm
I don't see "atheism" being a threat to the monarchy because, regardless of the technicality of CofE being the state religion of the UK, at a general societal level The UK largely behaves as a secular society. British people as a whole are highly irreligious even if most don't claim outright atheism, religion plays a very minimal role in everyday life for the vast majority, Christianity isn't really being forced on anyone at this point.
I think most Brits just see the Royals as more of a wealthy celebrity family now, rather than taking it very seriously.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 12, 2016 at 9:56 pm
I despise monarchism as a concept, all cultures. I don't hold any special or specific animosity towards the UK's current tart in a tiara.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 13, 2016 at 8:55 am
Well, the queen is technically my boss, but she really has little to do with my employment and impending redundancy, other than giving me her birthday off as a holiday. I don't really feel strongly either way tbh, while she does retain historical powers, the reality is that these are used very infrequently, except to 'rubber stamp' the activities of parliament. I'd happily break the link between the monarchy and religion, and the monarchy and government if a sensible alternative was put forward, but don't really see that the current arrangements work badly enough for a wider call for change.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 13, 2016 at 10:12 am
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I would be utterly embarresd if I was born into the royal family and I'd want to know how you would go about resigning. I find them about as silly as a group of cartoon characters walking around.
Do they have a load of royal spunk on hold somewhere in case they all get killed at once?
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 13, 2016 at 10:24 am
This is no BS, we parked 3 cars away from Kate Middleton at Tescos in Holyhead Anglesey. She's not that pretty in RL.
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RE: How do UK atheists feel about the Monarchy?
November 13, 2016 at 12:06 pm
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