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How the Queen – the ‘last Christian monarch’ – has made faith her message
Guardian ^ | Dec 24 2017 | Catherine Pepinster

Posted on 03/11/2018 10:22:26 PM PDT by WilliamIII

o the royal household, it is known as the QXB – the Queen’s Christmas broadcast. To millions of people, it is still an essential feature of Christmas Day. To the Queen, her annual broadcast is the time when she speaks to the nation without the government scripting it. But in recent years, it has also become something else: a declaration of her Christian faith. As Britain has become more secular, the Queen’s messages have followed the opposite trajectory.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europeanchristians; faith; royals
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1 posted on 03/11/2018 10:22:26 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

I’m an AMERICAN, but even I can say GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.


2 posted on 03/11/2018 10:27:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: WilliamIII

It’s not so much that Britain is becoming more secular, it’s that islam is filling the void.


3 posted on 03/11/2018 10:36:23 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 5th MEB
She is Queen of England and Great Britain but she is more American than Obama. Indeed she is more Christian than Obama.
 
4 posted on 03/11/2018 10:37:51 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And she is “less Muslim” than her idiot son and heir Charles. Indeed, God Save The Queen.


5 posted on 03/11/2018 10:42:37 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: 5th MEB
"I’m an AMERICAN, but even I can say GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

I get the point but we shall never forget 1776 and the immaculate Revolution .

UK needs God's grace and help in the realm of a miracle as the Union Jack is facing the sunset permanently and the Monarchy going into exile.

6 posted on 03/11/2018 10:52:49 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: WilliamIII
The first stories of the Islamic faith entered England with the Crusades, but what is known of Elizabethan England’s longstanding encounter with the Islamic world? From trading initiatives to foreign policy, historian Jerry Brotton investigates…

8 March 2018 - Saudi Arabia and UK hail multibillion-dollar alliance

Queen Elizabeth II greets Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, during a private audience at Buckingham Palace on March 7, 2018 in London, United Kingdom.

7 posted on 03/11/2018 11:55:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The Ambassadors (1533) depicts the French ambassadors who came to London that year to broker the alliance.

15 Facts About Hans Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'
Look closely at the dagger held by Dinteville, and you'll spot a 29 on its ornate scabbard. Similarly, the book under Selve's elbow has "25" written upon its side.

8 posted on 03/12/2018 12:09:17 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Elizabethan England’s relations took a different direction under the new King James VI and I, whose Treaty of London in 1604 made peace with Spain and curtailed the need for close commercial and diplomatic ties with the Muslim world. But the trading companies established by Elizabeth I continued to thrive, including the East India Company (founded in 1600). While the great flowering of Elizabethan relations with the Islamic world came to an end, they left an indelible mark on English culture that remains with us today.
2018 - Brexit
9 posted on 03/12/2018 12:32:38 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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As Berlin Freeper points out the ties between England and the islamic world are deep
  1. The British (along with the French) stopped Russia from making Constantinople a Christian city again in the 1800s
  2. The British in their Empire did not spread Christianity -- this is in contrast to the Portugueuse and Spanish. That is why the majority of Christians in India today are Catholic and next to none are Anglican
  3. The British and Churchill in particular in WWI attacked the Dardanelles instead of targeting Antioch and thereby fracturing the Ottoman world into the Turkish and the Armenian-Arab worlds
  4. The British sponsored and aided the Wahabbi Saudis to take over the Islamic world
  5. They aided and abetted these well into the 90s
  6. They flattered and encouraged the Pakistani islamic republic

10 posted on 03/12/2018 1:01:39 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

I tend to agree with you. Her reign has witnessed the Islamization of Britain.

The failure to free Constantinople from Islamic hands with the desecration of Hagia Sophia and aiding the enslaving, Christian murdering Turks against Christian Russia was unforgiveable. They put the Wahhabi lunatics in charge if Mecca and Medina instead of the more moderate Hashemites.

The Brain dead Windsors-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha- House of Hanover inbreds have cornered one of the biggest fortunes in history while their subjects are disarmed, victimized by primitive imported savages and subjected to infringements of free speach and third rate medical care.

Their horses are the brains in the family.


11 posted on 03/12/2018 1:36:49 AM PDT by ZULU (End the Obama/Holder "Promise" program, FIRE Runcie, the $335,000 Broward Co. Stupidintendent of Sc)
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To: Cronos
The British in their Empire did not spread Christianity

As a generalisation, that's highly questionable. Well, more than that, it's wrong. It's true that Christianity didn't make much headway in India: but elsewhere, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean, it's a different story. The history of 19th century British colonialism and its key figures is as much a catalogue of missionaries as of soldiers, administrators and entrepreneurs. Those missionary efforts tended to be more successful in cultures with animist or other unstructured religious traditions than those with systematically formalised religions like Islam or Hinduism.

Also your point 3 -

The British and Churchill in particular in WWI attacked the Dardanelles instead of targeting Antioch and thereby fracturing the Ottoman world into the Turkish and the Armenian-Arab worlds

The Mesopotamian Campaign, which lasted throughout WW1, hardly fits that thesis.

12 posted on 03/12/2018 1:52:36 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: WilliamIII

The UK needs prayer. Many lost souls.


13 posted on 03/12/2018 2:24:08 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: WilliamIII

Well the,”queens” kid Chuck is a mooselimb loving a-hole.


14 posted on 03/12/2018 3:27:21 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: 5th MEB

The one who stripped “defender of the faith” from her Royal title? The one who will allow Muslim nobility and PMs, but not Catholics? The one who has responsibility for appointing a Druid has head of the Church of England? If the modern world is falling away from Christ, surely England is leading the retreat, and with the audacity of conquerors, not deseryers. And QE2 wields every bit of her crumbling yet massive power against those still advancing from the rear.


15 posted on 03/12/2018 4:41:07 AM PDT by dangus (.)
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To: Winniesboy

I won’t blame Churchill in WWI for that, when plainly the UK and French fought on the side of the Muslims in the Crimean War.


16 posted on 03/12/2018 4:43:54 AM PDT by dangus (.)
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To: Winniesboy

Also, o would credit American Christians, not Brits, for the Christianization of English Africa.


17 posted on 03/12/2018 4:45:47 AM PDT by dangus (.)
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To: WilliamIII

Good. The queen is a beautiful symbol of the greatness that once was Britain. May she live long, because in her absence Britain will rapidly embrace the violent, world-domination ideology that is cleverly disguised as a religion.


18 posted on 03/12/2018 5:35:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: WilliamIII

Elizabeth II has never been known as much of a Christian in terms of deep faith. She likes the pomp and circumstance of some Anglican ceremonies and is still officially the head of the Anglican Church - which in itself shows she’s not serious about Christianity. She pays lip service but refuses to stand up for Christian morals in any serious way.

She, and her family, are some of the greatest reasons for the failure of Anglican Christianity in the U.K. Millions of souls have been lost and she is partly responsible.


19 posted on 03/12/2018 6:39:52 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Cronos

Although Roman Catholicism is the largest denomination in India, numbering around 12 million, the Church of North India and the Church of South India, which are Anglican/Episcopalian have a combined membership of around five million members.


20 posted on 03/12/2018 6:52:19 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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