Hereditary monarchy or any form of monarchy is highly outdated.
This is the current reality and has been for some time in global political terms.
"Currently there are 44 nations in the world with a monarch as head of state."
WIKI.
Points that people forget are --
- Any form of monarchy makes a secular state and religious liberty more difficult.
- Anglicanism in its present form can only give succour to Monarchy and hence in itself mars secularism and religious liberty in any state of the World.
- Anglicanism could be said to be a non-democratic and anti-democratic force; whereas Christianity should not really be a anti-democratic religion!
Also, it must be said that Papism is also a very old form of Monarchy in a religious context.
By the way, I do not regard "Papism" as an inadmissable term of hatespeech.
Far from it. If one thinks about it - it is a very tolerable term to refer specifically to Roman Catholicism.
"PAPA" - simply meaning "Father" - was in origin a nickname for the Bishop of Rome which evolved into the name of a religious leader that simply was given too much power.
Anglicanism was helped to be made possible by Papism. They are both, strictly speaking, idolatries.
The fact that there was a powerful head of the church at all - allowed for it to simply be replaced by the English Monarch!
Now, what would we do instead of Monarch or Pope? Well, this is clearly something we need to discuss. But, in my opinion, Monarch as head is unacceptable.
Perhaps Christianity needs a figurehead.
But not a Monarch - since Christianity is not a country or a State!
Perhaps this could be something like the Papacy. But the Pope should not be the religion!
But given the "Errors of Romanism" - so many of which stand uncorrected - if it were to be the Pope, this would obviously take time.
There is only one Papacy - the Roman one. One is bad enough and it would be immoral to contemplate others. But that is what Papism could involve, if applied logically.
By the way - this is not relevant to anything really but - the full form of Papism is, historically speaking, German in origin; and Anglicanism is obviously very much, historically speaking, English in origin.
This is the current reality and has been for some time in global political terms.
"Currently there are 44 nations in the world with a monarch as head of state."
WIKI.
Points that people forget are --
- Any form of monarchy makes a secular state and religious liberty more difficult.
- Anglicanism in its present form can only give succour to Monarchy and hence in itself mars secularism and religious liberty in any state of the World.
- Anglicanism could be said to be a non-democratic and anti-democratic force; whereas Christianity should not really be a anti-democratic religion!
Also, it must be said that Papism is also a very old form of Monarchy in a religious context.
By the way, I do not regard "Papism" as an inadmissable term of hatespeech.
Far from it. If one thinks about it - it is a very tolerable term to refer specifically to Roman Catholicism.
"PAPA" - simply meaning "Father" - was in origin a nickname for the Bishop of Rome which evolved into the name of a religious leader that simply was given too much power.
Anglicanism was helped to be made possible by Papism. They are both, strictly speaking, idolatries.
The fact that there was a powerful head of the church at all - allowed for it to simply be replaced by the English Monarch!
Now, what would we do instead of Monarch or Pope? Well, this is clearly something we need to discuss. But, in my opinion, Monarch as head is unacceptable.
Perhaps Christianity needs a figurehead.
But not a Monarch - since Christianity is not a country or a State!
Perhaps this could be something like the Papacy. But the Pope should not be the religion!
But given the "Errors of Romanism" - so many of which stand uncorrected - if it were to be the Pope, this would obviously take time.
There is only one Papacy - the Roman one. One is bad enough and it would be immoral to contemplate others. But that is what Papism could involve, if applied logically.
By the way - this is not relevant to anything really but - the full form of Papism is, historically speaking, German in origin; and Anglicanism is obviously very much, historically speaking, English in origin.
