tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post8978722205135097088..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: ThronesWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-13072426603955368102016-11-21T02:16:00.978+00:002016-11-21T02:16:00.978+00:00If you think it is just the Chancellor of the Exch...If you think it is just the Chancellor of the Exchequer (and not The Queen personally) who is grinding the faces of the African or Asian poor and clinging to power and investing in unjust structures and all the rest of it, that is a different story: he can shift for himself. But you must admit that referring to Buckingham Palace as “the Queen’s house” and making, as you say, a joke about Prince Philip tends rather to obscure this reasoning. (I also think that, in fairness, your now stated preference for turning BP into an hotel would have to be characterised as editorial comment rather than mere reportage.) But take heart: The Queen has even given - after a fashion - a gong to Peter Singer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-50103583301319238782016-11-20T20:44:39.857+00:002016-11-20T20:44:39.857+00:00Ooh err, I thought for a moment there that this wa...Ooh err, I thought for a moment there that this was going to descend into a Game of Thrones. Well said, Archdruid Eileen, and on Christ The King tooHJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537892560100741636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-49917872852489523722016-11-20T18:37:18.188+00:002016-11-20T18:37:18.188+00:00Well said Eileen.Well said Eileen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-43874299387250518502016-11-20T13:29:23.160+00:002016-11-20T13:29:23.160+00:00Again, I haven't made any insinuations about Q...Again, I haven't made any insinuations about Queen Elizabeth. Also she doesn't have any real power, and she has done a fine job of service, and is a great Christian example. Philip up a ladder is an example of what the English call "making a joke."<br /><br />But for the doing up of Buckingham Palace you could twin 6 million toilets in Africa or Asia. So I reckon a smaller suite of rooms and a very large hotel wouldn't be such a bad approach to Buck House.Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481946916045861117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-15479683851975008582016-11-20T13:02:21.114+00:002016-11-20T13:02:21.114+00:00It is completely disingenuous to suggest that your...It is completely disingenuous to suggest that your wittily attributing the state of repair at Buckingham Palace to the Duke of Edinburgh's not having been "up a ladder with some paint" recently was a neutral report about necessary maintenance.<br /><br />I don't doubt that The Queen will have to give an account of herself one day but I would be loath to speculate on the outcome.<br /><br />Perhaps you would be kind enough to indicate that you didn't intend to lump Her Majesty in with "the men on thrones and the ones who cling to power ... the ones who are invested in unbalanced power and injustice ... the ones who think a world where they are getting on OK but turn a blind eye to the terror and poverty of others" to which your post builds after having referenced her.<br /><br />Or, as you say, to put it another way, surely there's some evidence to suggest that The Queen is on Jesus' side.<br /><br />I grant that she may not be at the front of the queue with those prostitutes and sinners (Matt. 21:31) but among the goats when with God all things are possible (Matt. 19:26)?<br /><br />I suppose, "When, Lord, did we make clumsy insinuations against the grander of Your sisters?" isn't a strictly canonical criterion but presumption is (Matt. 7:1).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-57350240956819485232016-11-20T07:59:26.593+00:002016-11-20T07:59:26.593+00:00I have said nothing judgemental about the need to ...I have said nothing judgemental about the need to do Buck House up - positive or negative. I have not suggested it is a frivolity. I have said that "people" have complained, and this is true.<br /><br />The thread of the Gospel is that God is on the side of the poor, the widow, the alien and the orphan. The rest of us are loved, to be sure. But at the judgment when we discover where we saw Jesus, it will not be in our own faces (Matt 25:31-46).Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481946916045861117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-78943101544330502192016-11-20T02:07:16.794+00:002016-11-20T02:07:16.794+00:00The post seems to suggest that the maintenance of ...The post seems to suggest that the maintenance of Buckingham Palace is a frivolity on The Queen's part and that God is not "on [Her Majesty's] side."<br /><br />Maintaining an important public building is justified even on a human level and this amount represents minimal maintenance. It is a great shame that the government has allowed the Palace to deteriorate to such an extent that it has become necessary now.<br /><br />As for whose side God is on, it is rather better put in "Tom Brown's Schooldays" or even "On the Waterfront": He is on everyone's side! (The Queen's included.)<br /><br />The implication in the post is a poor show, Archdruid, and warrants a clarification.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-40084477579102795302016-11-19T19:06:08.774+00:002016-11-19T19:06:08.774+00:00Magnificently put.Magnificently put.Chris Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10921946194197205526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-58127401582690780022016-11-19T19:06:01.575+00:002016-11-19T19:06:01.575+00:00Magnificently put.Magnificently put.Chris Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10921946194197205526noreply@blogger.com