The Last Christian Monarch?
What’s left to be said about the death of Queen Elizabeth II?
Quite a bit, actually.
While much is made of her 70-year reign over the United Kingdom, much less has been made about her profound Christian faith...
Increasingly, serious Christian discourse among the British is becoming a rarity. To many Britons, the God their national anthem invokes to “save the Queen (or King as it happens)” may simply be a sincere-yet-fleeting sentiment, perhaps more anchored in national loyalty than in a deeply rooted Anglican or otherwise Christian faith.
Just a supposition, though...
That said, as in the U.S. and other derivative nations, British intellectual traffic flows mainly through the secular thoroughfares of either pseudo-scientific dismissal along the lines of a Richard Dawkins kind of sneering putdown of religious faith (particularly Christianity) or simply through the broader channels of cultural indifference to the faith that has so assuredly shaped and preserved the British culture over the millennia.
These realities are both understandable and lamentable. Christianity in the UK is less important today than in the past. In 2019, just slightly more than one-third of Britons described themselves as Christian, and Anglican church authorities have warned that the Church of England faces extinction.
That sober prediction prompts the question: “Will newly elevated King Charles, a devoted disciple of the World Economic Forum and environmental protagonist, exercise his solemn duty as Defender of the Anglican Faith?”
One hopes so, but it remains to be seen.
What does not remain to be seen–or heard–are the vile words coming from the reptilian tongues of the Woke mob expressing their nasty glee in the Queen’s passing.
Professional idiots such as Tirhakah Love, senior newsletter writer for New York Magazine said, “he was looking forward to dancing on the queen's grave,” while Uju Anya, a critical race professor from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
These are but two examples of the howls of execration that come from the intellectually bankrupt and morally inverted thralls of Wokery. But then, such is the low and clawing nature of benighted minds and desiccated souls. What’s more, their venal pronouncements remain as common and dull today as they have over the past several decades.
However, to her great credit, despite the headwinds of such political and cultural mediocrities, Queen Elizabeth II was neither disrupted nor diluted in her dedication to forwarding the Christian message and exercising her faith. She even went as far as producing a book, “The Servant Queen and the King She Serves” to elucidate her understanding of her role as the Defender of the Faith in the service of the United Kingdom.
But one need not even read that book to understand her dedication to her very singular mission as Sovereign leader of the United Kingdom. As she expressed in her 2000 Christmas Message to her country: “For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life.”
In those and other terms, has there been a greater Sovereign on the throne than Queen Elizabeth II?
Perhaps, Queen Victoria or Queen Elizabeth I?
In either case, she stands in great company indeed.
R.I.P Queen Elizabeth II.
