Posted: Mar 13, 2017 12:28 pm
Last week, there was a dedication of some memorial in London, by the queen, with all of her family there to support her. I watched it, with the clerics intoning all the religious platitudes and choirs singing, bands playing, and thought "do these people actually believe all this, or is it merely for the pomp and ceremony." I think to a degree it's tradition, and clinging to rituals that keeps people attending church, or adhering to nonsense like Lent. What happens in a society where the queen is the "defender of the faith" if that society gives up the faith? What happens with the permission of God to make war on the enemies of that world, and the religion surrounding the honouring of the people who've fallen in a war that they've gone into despite knowing that they're giving up the only life they have?