And yet the British monarch is head of the Church and wields proudly the title Fidei Defensor and in the 21st Century a 17th Century prohibition on Catholics as Prime Ministers still holds affect. And statements about the evils of nationalism and religion together have a very humorous tone coming from the same Brittannia that Christianized huge chunks of the world no matter whether or not the Natives particularly desired it.
My country has a large religious nationalist subset of our politics, too.
I might also have less tendency to avoid mocking British secularism and speaking of modernity if it wasn't for the aforementioned governmental system that predates even our own 18th Century landowners' structure. A country with a monarch who heads a state church and which bars certain religions from the highest office in the land while retaining an entire upper chamber of Parliament that is a direct relict of the Age of Warlords (because I refuse to use the Term Medieval or Middle Ages, refers to the same thing) is in no business to respond to a world leader whose country is *also* a relict of the Middle Ages.
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My country has a large religious nationalist subset of our politics, too.
I might also have less tendency to avoid mocking British secularism and speaking of modernity if it wasn't for the aforementioned governmental system that predates even our own 18th Century landowners' structure. A country with a monarch who heads a state church and which bars certain religions from the highest office in the land while retaining an entire upper chamber of Parliament that is a direct relict of the Age of Warlords (because I refuse to use the Term Medieval or Middle Ages, refers to the same thing) is in no business to respond to a world leader whose country is *also* a relict of the Middle Ages.