King Charles’ Easter Message Accelerates Britain’s Fall

The Spectator : The King’s anti-Christian statement and mass arrests for those voicing unfashionable opinions are ugly signs of Britain’s rapid decline.

“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” - William Shakespeare, King Lear

Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World.

King Charles BELITTLES Christianity!

This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North Bridge near Lexington. No one knows who shot first, the British regiment on one side of the bridge or the Minute Men on the other. But everyone knows what came of it — the birth of a great nation and the perseverance of another.

Today, America is still rising after twice this century rejecting malevolent suicidal leadership. While Great Britain embraced it and is thus collapsing fast. But there is a difference to the current UK ruling Liberal Party — and Christians are getting the worst of it.

The tragedy affects not only the island’s population but all people like me who revere the country’s history and literature dating back a thousand years before the United States existed, indeed leading to its foundation. I’ll always have indelible mental images and lines from British fact and fiction:

King Arthur rousing his Knights of the Round Table (6th Century). Beowulf swimming deep into the lair of Grendel’s Hag mother (8th Century). King Alfred hiding in the swamp from the savage Danes yet dreaming of uniting England as a Christian nation (878 AD). King Henry II calling for the murder of Thomas Beckett (1170) — “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

King John either signing the actual Magna Carta (1215) or cursing the legendary Robin Hood. King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt or Shakespeare’s Henry V at Agincourt — “And gentlemen in England now a-bed/Shall think themselves accursed they were not here/And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks/That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

The present King of England, Charles III, had a decidedly less saintly message this past Easter, one as far as possible from Alfred’s unifying Christian vision: “On Maundy (Holy) Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon Him,” Charles wrote. “His humble action was a token of His love that knew no bound or boundaries and is central to Christian belief.… The love He showed when He walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”

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