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Originally Posted by the truth

They also burned down all the churches when a greedy king decided he wanted loads of wives, they also chased down and tortured those who attempted to write a Welsh version....Lovely people....Just the type who Christ preached against. The monarchy have disfigured the meaning of everything, even the unearned "war" medals on the duke of edinburghs chest are an insult to real war heroes

'The monarchy' and it's relation to religion is not a static and unchanging thing, the relationship and attitude towards the church has varied hugely in the last few hundred years. That's my point, that you can't just reduce it down to monarchy hijacking christianity or the bible. Like you might consider Henry VIII to have been completely against christianity, he considered himself the most devoutly religous monarch in Europe who had God's backing in everything he did. He might have closed down monasteries to increase royal power but also because a lot of them were dens of vice and corruption and considered remnants of the papacy's grip on the country which God didn't approve of etc. etc.

Kind of raises the whole point about how open to interpretation Christianity and religion is