Monarch as God?; Royals and the occult
 

I know sound a silly question , but I was having an argument with somebody , and he was thinking that monarchies are believed to be god , or be worshipped as gods. Then he stated that some British think that she is some kind of god . As I know according to a survey (don't remember the source) that most of the British claim to believe more in ghosts than God .

Can I have some explanation please?

Please remember that this is not a joke please be honest and if you are a british write honestly what do you think about the Queen.

I think she's Head of State, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England. I don't believe in gods.

There are some Pacific Islanders who worship Prince Philip as a god, but I don't think the British royals have ever been accorded that status in Britain. Your friend isn't thinking of the Japanese emperor by any chance, is he?

I think that at one point (I don't know how long ago), it was believed that the monarch was a descendant of god or a direct representative of god. The only reference I can find so far to that is this (PDF) copy of an Australian Parliament committee, though.

WoW!!!!!!!! The things I have learnt on these boards!! I would have never guessed anyone has ever considered the royals (outside of pre war Japan) as descendants of the gods.

Well, the Divine Right of Kings did hold (as far as I know) that the monarch was appointed by God or approved by God or something; I think that's why Charles I refused to recognise the legal system set up to try him for treason. But I wasn't aware that any English or British monarchs, at least during the time of recorded history, were accorded divine status themselves.

But do you think that she is a goddess , and do you worship her as a goddess. Do you vowed upon her like the Christians vowed their heads on prayers and the Catholics vowed their heads before doing the sign of cross when they pass the altars ?

Or this is just a sign of respect ?

I do believe that the Pharaohs of Egypt thought they were direct from God [if my Sunday School classes are remembered correctly] but I never heard of anyone in modern days. I think he is confusing the fact that Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of the Church of England, not that she is part God.

Simple answer No and I don't know anyone who would ever have done so, outside of maybe a small island or two. There is a tribe that worships Philip as a god but not any that I know of that worships the Queen and certainly not in Britain itself.

It's just a sign of respect.

I can only claim to speak for myself and no, I do not consider HM to be a god. I don't think anyone I know in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland does either. :flowers:

Ha! A god??? No human is anyhow "related" to or descended from God. Throughout history certain earthlings have been fortunate enough to have been born into a family/dynasty that had overtaken other earthlings and therefore allowed them a lofty position in their own little earthling world. They may have abused their power to twist reality into creating the joke that they were Divine (the Egyptians, Romans, Russians, etc.) but no, no human should ever be worshipped as a god. And I doubt any sane person alive today would even consider QEII a god, please . . .

I doubt that to.

But considering a royal as god isn't unknown today. The Rastafari is a rather new religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia as God.

Rastafari movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No I Do not im a Christian The Queen is a great lady though I Dont think the Queen would want anyone to do that. Thiland or Japan Maybe just my 2 cents

I don't think that British kings and queens were ever considered to be divine. At the most, they were seen to be God's servants and appointed by him to lead--hence the "Divine Right of Kings." I think that HM would be horrified at the idea that someone would consider worshipping her.

I don't think anybody in the UK worships HM as a God.
Though in history, the Romanovs were thought to have been anointed by God as if they were Gods.

And before that they bowed to The Pope.

I can't remember where i read it but i dont think its true, apparentley the French royal family are decendants of Jesus. They are meant to be part of not only a royal bloodline but a holy bloodline.....personally i think its rubbish but i cant remember for the life of me where i read it. Will try and find it.

I am not sure - but I think this was a theory put forward in the fictional novel by Dan Brown: "Da Vinci Code".

It's an old conspiracy theory that gets recycled from time to time. "The Da Vinci Code" is it's latest outing. It's possible to find Royal genealogies on the internet that go back to ancient times, and there are no divine figures in them.