PoliticsUK Jubilee Debates: "Only in the UK do people worship a living god in the form of a monarch"

Steven Preece

Only in the UK do people worship a living god in the form of a monarch so willingly and without question in a seriously antiquated manner.

· · · Sunday at 20:09

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- Jim Buntin Wordhip? Where you getting your info dude?
  Sunday at 20:12 ·
- Joel Zumokuta Hall Such as who? I've never met anyone who worships the Queen.
  Sunday at 20:12 via Mobile · · 1
- Steven Preece Thousands of people cheering and celebrating an individual or institutions sounds remarkably like worship to me. May not be on all fours but concept is the same IMO
  Sunday at 20:14 · · 5
- Joel Zumokuta Hall Much like the US president, the French Premiere, etc if fact. Hardly worship...
  Sunday at 20:19 via Mobile ·
- Jim Buntin That may be your 'concept' of worship Steven but it certainly isn't mine. Next you'll be saying the likes of Take That are pseudo gods as thousands of their fans scream etc. at them.
  Sunday at 20:24 ·
- Steven Preece Well, we could say celebs are worshipped in a strange yet true way
  Sunday at 20:25 · · 2
- Anthony Adshead Bill Bailey hes like a god lol
  Sunday at 20:28 ·
- Jim Buntin lol, I'm off to listen to Black Sabbath & pray to my lords of darkness. ;p
  Sunday at 20:30 · · 2
- Anthony Adshead pmsl :)
  Sunday at 20:30 · · 1
- Drew Walker People, the Monarchy vs Republic debate will run on. Leaderships are obsessed with pursuing their ideology, They want to be right all the time..Great leaders do the right thing.
  Sunday at 20:43 via Mobile ·
- Julie Nelson I am off to worship at the feet of Lord Sugar, now there's a man that came from nothing and deserves his place in the Lords if anyone!!!!!
  Sunday at 20:44 · · 1
- Jim Buntin Nice one Julie, think we're all guilty of a bit of T.V worship at some point. ;)
  Sunday at 20:46 ·
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  Sunday at 20:47 · · 1 ·
- Michael A. Davies ‎@Steven Preece. Are you sure you're not confusing the British with the Japanese/Chinese, who have worshiped their Emperor(King) as a living God.
  Sunday at 20:54 via Mobile · · 1
- Michael A. Davies ‎@Steven Preece. With a few exceptions the British tended to believed in a monarch's divine right to rule. So please can you add some addition info to your 'worship' claim
  Sunday at 21:00 via Mobile · · 1
- Joel Zumokuta Hall Actually the older terms such as 'appointed by God' meant being hereditary.
  Sunday at 21:05 via Mobile ·
- Anthony Adshead The pope believed that he was the link to god on earth then when this country split with Rome at the time of Henry VIII he then took that job on. The Egyptians kings believed they were gods on earth. Caligula thought himself a god It seems to be a royal trend to link themselves to gods or divine.
  Sunday at 21:21 ·
- Joel Zumokuta Hall
  Actually the Pope is the direct successor of St. Peter, and therefore believed by Catholics to be the closest human link to God by Jesus. Rather than simply a belief the Pope has himself. The idea of infallibility and holiness of the Pope s...See more
  
  Sunday at 21:41 via Mobile ·
- Anthony Adshead no but he took that job on when he bacame the head of the church
  Sunday at 21:43 ·
- Joel Zumokuta Hall Which job? As I'm sure you are aware, the head of other churches is very distinct from the catholic ideas, and the differences between catholicism and protestantism were more than simply allowing divorce, one change of which is that the head of the church is not a direct link to God as nobody else. This is why acts such as intercession are rarely if ever practiced outside of Catholicism. I'm not a Christian and I know this.
  Sunday at 21:56 via Mobile ·
- Anthony Adshead Henry the VIII when he because head of the church of England, after the split with Rome, through some dodgy woman trouble.
  Sunday at 22:02 ·
- Joel Zumokuta Hall The Pope vs Henry VIII, was basically the 15th century EU vs British Parliament...
  Sunday at 22:05 via Mobile · · 1
- Anthony Adshead whilst protestantism as a faith was also being formed around the same time, alot of these ideas came across from Germany and were adopted as you into the English church as you probably know.
  Sunday at 22:07 ·
- Joel Zumokuta Hall No doubt offsprings from Lutherian churches I'd imagine. However, the decision to break with Rome was a political rather than religious decision.
  Sunday at 22:20 via Mobile ·
- Jock Campbell I think that's overstating things just a weeeeeee bit Steven!!!
  Sunday at 22:23 ·