The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II warned that the multiculturalism of religions King Charles III He threatens to destroy his home and put an end to the British monarchy.
“I think if this slow motion in multiculturalism and multifaith continues, we will lose the monarchy, because in the end, I don’t think it will be true to itself,” Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to the Queen from 2008 to 2017, told the outlet GP. British News on Sunday.
Ashenden made his comments in response to The King’s first royal message at Christmas Since his accession to the throne with the death of his mother in September.
“The problem is, it’s a bit like watching a great hulled ship below the waterline slowly sink, and at some point what you want to do is keep it from sinking and make sure it floats,” Aschenden said. “And I don’t think the monarchy can float if it becomes a multicultural and multi-religious monarchy.”
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Acknowledging that King Charles III had “extraordinarily” made his first Christmas speech, Aschenden said that British subjects were nonetheless witnessing a “slow and gradual transformation from a Christian monarchy to a multi-faith one”.
“The problem is that you are either a defender of the faith or you don’t,” referring to the oath the British monarch takes to defend Protestant religion.
The British monarch, among other duties, serves Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
“There’s a lot about Christianity that is just directly responsible for our way of life in our culture,” said Aschenden, who warns that Christians in the UK are increasingly being marginalized.
Ashenden, from Leave the post of his cruelty In 2017 after condemning recitations of the Qur’an during the Epiphany Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, I observed how Christianity is increasingly being pushed out of the public arena over its claims of exclusivity amid “serious competition for power”.
“So, the problem we have right now is that Christianity is under assault,” Aschenden said. “The question now is, What does a Christian King do about it? Does a Christian King save Christianity? Does he become Defender of the Faith, which is his title really? Or, as Charles did with a sleight of hand saying, ‘No, I am… Defender of all faiths’.” , which means I don’t have it To defend Christianity“.”
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Ashenden added, “If you do not stand up for Christianity today, we will lose it from this country,” referring to the last case of Christian. Recently arrested woman To pray silently outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.
“The problem we face is a serious conflict of values,” said the former pastor, “and there can be no solution by just saying, ‘You know what? All values are the same, let’s pretend it’s all right.” “I don’t think pretty is going to cut it.”
Ashenden, who eventually left the Church of England and became a Roman Catholic, also wrote a newspaper article The Catholic Herald He warned that Christianity in the UK was “crumbling under the constant daily assault of an increasingly hostile secularism”.
If King Charles III refused to defend his nation’s historical faith, Ashenden predicted in his essay that he would “sow the seeds of the destruction of the House of Windsor.”