Yeah, maybe it's because I'm American, but I'll never understand it. I've researched a little bit of English history, though, and... I understand it even less. I wrote a term paper on the War of the Roses, and the gist of it was that royalty is dicks. Queen Margaret gets ousted from her kingdom? Just get a bunch of Scottish mercenaries to rape the countryside, and pay them by allowing them to loot your own people. The king taxes everyone to death, and there's a successful rebellion/civil war? Lets just let him go, I'm sure he won't seek vengeance. I mean, there's loyalty, and then there's insanity : PRiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:I spent close to 10 years living in Britain and during this time, I learned to at least understand why the British love certain things that puzzle the outside world so much (marmite, Radio Times, public rights of way, that kind of thing).
One thing I will never understand, no matter how long I spend there, is why any single person in Britain gives the slightest fraction of a fuck about anything relating to the royal family. The sense in it has always alluded me because even when I looked hard, I couldn't find a single thing that made the royal family relevant to anything meaningful. Its not the middle ages any more. And thank fuck for that.
Or maybe it's just my inability to care about someone who couldn't possibly care less about me, and who probably lives off my dime.
Congratulations on the baby, though, I guess.
To be fair, that's a little iffy. A handful of states say that you can't be an atheist if you run for office (though they say nothing about Christianity specifically). However, it's a moot point, since that's blatantly unconstitutional, and it can't be enforced. Any attempt to actually defend that clause would get destroyed in court. It's an empty gesture, and everyone knows it. More then that, it's likely a holdover from a bygone era. Not that it's not a stupid law, of course.L. Declis said:You mean like America, where several states don't let people hold political office if they are not Christian?
There is something to be said for the likelihood of an atheist candidate actually getting elected, though. Most atheists pretend to be Christian during election. When they get caught cheating on their cancer ridden wife, they can then say they asked god for forgiveness.