Not particularly interested, though I do love weddings in general. I don't know these people, so I can't seem to care much about the wedding. I hope they have a successful marriage especially since, like it or not, their lives are in the public eye.
I frankly don't comprehend why the people of the UK continue to pay through the nose for such useless royalty.
They don't. The royals are a huge bargain. George III gave up the revenue from the Crown Estates to the government for a fixed Civil List payment on his accession to the throne.
Profit from the Crown Estates(2009, from the Telegraph): £226,500,000.
Total Civil List Payments(2009, from the Telegraph): £7,900,000
Total spending on all functions of the monarchy combined(2009, from the Telegraph): £35,100,000
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...he-Royal-family-is-a-bargain-for-Britain.html
So, the total profit from the Royal Family in 2009 for the British government was £191,400,000. And that's not to mention the money they bring in in tourism.
Concerning:
"Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach–men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honor a king, they honor millionaires, athletes or film stars instead–even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food, and it will gobble poison."
--C.S. Lewis |
If you are defining "fluff" as having a poor a priori assumption going in, then I'd agree. It assumes that there are no men of virtue other than kings and that kings are all honorable. A strange assumption considering history.
All parents are not honorable and all people of virtue are not parents, and yet Paul wrote Eph 6:1-2.
