Today is the 60th anniversary of the current Queen of England ascending to the Throne, and Christians, particularly on the right, are lauding this.
I think leftie Christians are often slightly uneasy about this, and I've noted right-leaning Christians making a big play about the fact that this is wrong, that the Queen (and any head of state for that matter) is of course only there because God put him or her there.
This is undoubtedly true, and the fact that the Queen, it seems, does communicate the Gospel will is an added bonus - something to praise God about.
But I'm just not sure that the justification I've given here is a reason for right-leaning Christians to beat left-leaning ones (or even centrists ones for that matter). Surely the same reasoning says Gaddafi was the God-ordained leader of Libya for quite a few years, and Assad is currently God ordained for Syria, right?
Or have I got that wrong?
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