Holy Shite: Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/public-invited-to-swear-their-allegiance-as-king-is-crowned

This borders on unholy worship - sort of the thing that trump lusted after.

Members of the public watching the coronation on television, online and in parks and pubs will be invited to swear aloud their allegiance to the monarch in a “chorus of millions of voices” to be known as the Homage of the People.

People around the UK and abroad will be invited to say the words “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God”, in a declaration that replaces the traditional homage of peers.
Saturday’s service will also involve for the first time the active participation of representatives of faiths other than Christianity. Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, will give a reading from the Bible in his capacity as PM, despite Church of England law in effect barring other faiths from taking an active role in its services. “There is no issue about [Sunak’s] personal faith, we’re delighted that he is doing [this],” said a Lambeth Palace spokesperson.

The service will start with a procession of faith representatives of the Jewish, Sunni and Shia Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Bahá’í and Zoroastrian communities. Peers from different faiths will take part in the presentation of regalia, and at the end of the service the newly crowned king will receive a greeting spoken in unison by representatives of Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and Buddhist communities. This will be unamplified because of the prohibition on using electricity on the Jewish sabbath.

What - no atheists allowed? Pastafarians? Wiccans?

[Aristus]

1. Well, four hundred years ago, two different types of Christians

were burning each other at the stake. In the grand scheme of things, this is progress.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Barf. I just find no value in all of this. Of course,

I really have no dog in the fight so to speak.

[jimfields33]

3. Let england be england

We left that place to start our own country.

[erronis]

5. And look where we are now. There seems to be a group who think they are royalty

and the rest of us are their serfs.

[malaise]

4. Eff all royalty everywhere on the planet

That is all

[RKP5637]

6. Often they are parasites. n/t

[jrthin]

8. Amen! to this. nt

[brooklynite]

13. Any constitutional mnarchy is free to drop the monarch when they choose to.

[Ocelot II]

14. The Brits can abolish the monarchy by an act of Parliament

any time they want to, but so far it appears they don't want to. The monarchy may be obsolete parasites with no useful function, but one thing Britain doesn't have is mass shootings every day. If we could trade our 400,000,000 guns for Charles III and his entourage I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.

[emulatorloo]

7. It is meaningless ceremony and symbolism. I can't get my panties in a bunch over this.

As the Jim noted above, let the UK be the UK. This has absolutely zero impact on the real world.

[Javaman]

9. Just another asinine oath of fealty. nt

[Ocelot II]

10. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

If the Brits are cool with it (and apparently most, though not all, are), I hope they enjoy the show. Might watch it myself just because they're so good at ceremonies and they usually have really great music.

[Grasswire2]

12. that is true -- gotta love the bands and the horses. NT

[Grasswire2]

11. OMG and ICKY POO! I am a recent dual citizen of Canada. He's my king now LOLOL

I gained my Canadian citizenship (my father was born in Canada and never relinquished his altho he lived in the U.S. on a green card all his adult life. Canada law changed in 2009 in a way that allows me to be a citizen. So I am. It took almost two years to get the Certificate of Citizenship.

I was kind of shocked, silly me, to realize that I agreed, in an oath, to bear allegiance to the monarch. Crazy.

And so.....I guess I will watch this stuff. I hate the trappings and the endless stupid stuff of the monarchy.

[Maeve]

15. Nothing could bring out both my Irish and American tendencies so well

Fuck the monarchy.

[Ocelot II]

16. Why do you care about some other allied country's form of government?

Fuck monarchies in general (e.g., Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain and a few others), or just the British monarchy?

[Maeve]

19. Particularly the Brits, but all of them

Why? Because they teach and practice that some are entitled by birth to treat others as lesser, a philosophy that has destroyed lives for centuries. While a "benevolent monarchy" could make life better for the subjects, it tends to fall back to "power corrupts" in short order. Britain has tried to get away from that with a parliamentary government, but the class system engendered by the monarchical system still continues.
And particularly the Bits because I know them best and they have a more direct bearing on my personal family history.

[Ocelot II]

20. I'm wondering why none of the European countries that have monarchs

haven't abolished their largely powerless monarchies by an act of their Parliament, which any of them could do if they wanted.

[Maeve]

21. That I can tell you in one word...

https://m.

Sorry... one of my all time favorite musicals!

[GenThePerservering]

17. the monarchy brings far more into the country

Than their sovereign grant. There's a damn good reason they're still there.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. Pretty sure King Charles would welcome all.

He is that kind of guy.

Do some research.