by Robert Landbeck

Created on: November 23, 2010   Last Updated: November 24, 2010

Ending the British Monarchy is easier said that done! The contradiction  of 'inherited privilege by right' goes against every aspiration of any merit based democratic or political ideal. That being said, the only question becomes HOW? That the British Monarchy has survived as long as it has demonstrates a staying power as yet untouchable by conventional or existing democratic standards. However much the royal family may be one of the most disfunctional families in Britain, short of such a right royal cock-up that wholly discredits the 'firm' this institution 'appears' unassailable in the short term, and with another royal marriage in the making, looks set to continue. But for those who would like to banish this political anachronism from the modern world, there may still be a way. But it is not via any direct assault.  It becomes necessary to change the target. For the aim here is to undermine and demolish the legitimacy of the institution itself.

One may first think that the legitimacy of the monarchy resides within the existing political process and English constitution. This only appears to be true. For the very origins of this capricious, robber baron institution, and every other European monarchy, has relied upon a religious confirmation of it's legitimacy to survive. In the British case, this has meant first by the Roman Catholic Church and since the Reformation the English church, now in modern times, called the Church of England to confirm legitimacy. A 'religious' institution so riddled with cracks and holes that how it continues to stand at all  is a mystery in itself. So in principle, bringing down the church and you bring down the monarchy with it.

To bring down the church may at first seem an even more implausible possibility and means to ends. But that is not any longer the case. For a number of years now, radical atheists have been pummeling the church with the ugliness of their darker history and the accumulating worldwide   pedophile priest scandal tarnishes all of Christianity. And this sets the stage for the church's worst nightmare, questioning the very origins of the church. But not by any atheist raving of theological discourse.

For on the horizon is approaching a religious and cultural furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear. The first wholly new interpretation for

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