Posted on 09/12/2022 9:18:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Britain’s King Charles III was formally proclaimed king and “Defender of The Faith” in a weekend ceremony, and in his first speech affirmed his “particular relationship and responsibility towards the Church of England,” even as he pledged to serve the citizens of Britain and its realms, “whatever may be your background or beliefs.”
In a ceremony accompanied by centuries-old pageantry in London’s St. James Palace, an official known as the Garter King of Arms proclaimed that:
“… the Prince Charles Philip Arthur George is now, by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege lord Charles the Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other realms and territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of The Faith, to whom we do acknowledge all faith and obedience with humble affection; beseeching God by whom kings and queens do reign to bless His Majesty with long and happy years to reign over us.”A longstanding advocate of interfaith dialogue, Charles as heir to the throne sparked debate when he suggested that “Defender of Faith” would be a more inclusive and all-embracing title, although in an interview seven years ago he sought to lay the controversy to rest. “The Faith” refers to the Church of England, the country’s state or established church.
In his first public speech as monarch, King Charles recognized that, when his mother became Queen Elizabeth II seven decades ago, Britain and the world were “still living by the conventions of earlier times. In the course of the last seventy years, we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths.” …
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With defenders like this, who needs enemies?
And apparently all in on the “Great Reset” designed to make the world a desolation.
Hang, draw, quarter and disembowel!
One World Religion, among other things.
He’s going to be a hot mess. SMH.
The apostasy of King Henry laughably puts inbred seculars, kings,.in charge of church.
That’s a joke, on it face... no matter how dumb or secular you are. This inbred green-lefty douche is mo more a legitimate king than his inbred dwarf mom was a queen.
Nice and gracious lady, but a produxt of fraud, sentimentalism, and King Henry’s lost and murder. A fraud who did and said nothing while her nation fell onto a modernist, godless sewer.
Obama agrees with you.
he’s a traitorous tampon
BTW, as far as the queen doing “nothing”, as I understand things, even using her reserve powers to veto an act of Parliament would have resulted in a revolt against the monarchy. Very large blame to be put upon the elected (and unelected) representatives in Parliament.
The Church of England as it became (until recently) is more due to Elizabeth I than Henry VIII, BTW. And there’s a reason why the USA is more Protestant.
Yeah, but what faith is he defending ?
Faith…Another subjective and hackneyed term by the modernist. Certainly not the faith of our fathers.
The USA is in the post-Christian era, never to return to any semblance of God fearing.
Why never?
Right; the title was awarded by the Catholic Pope in return for support against the Lutherans - then revoked by the Pope and re-instated by Parliament...
You can’t compare the constitutional monarchy of 2022 to that of four centuries ago, but there are some disturbing parallels between the succession to Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II. In both cases, a beloved, patriotic and sensible queen was succeeded by a pseudo-intellectual weirdo with supranational pretensions and no judgment. The main difference is that in EII’s case, the weirdo is her own son!
You mean Islam?
Yea, like Pope Francis...a very bad man.
The nation once know as the USA is on an irreversible course to destruction. Whatever emerges from the ashes will be some other entity.
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