People who lived in the Colonies could receive blessings from King George, but only theirs would have been the tears. The mad king was about having a Biblical valley of those.
It was the beginning of the century, when writings from China became known in England, widely as for the commoner. The Chinese dated before Christ, but some of theirs was not ultimately the origin; those beginnings were still worse for a monarch: they were ancient Greece, the human first attempts at democracy.
“The morality that he (Jesus Christ) preached and practiced was of the most benevolent kind; similar systems of morality had been preached by Confucius, and by some of the Greek philosophers, many years before” — Thomas Paine, Age of Reason ■Part I, Chapter III.
The Age of Reason is a matter of conscience. In words simple, you’re guilty if you alter a road sign; you’re guilty as well, if you hide it from view — and souls and Heaven look still more important, busy a time at work. Thomas Paine’s book could not be a revolution after the two hundred years it has been in the public domain, and anyway, everyone has the right to consider own prospect for afterlife independently.
Back to king George, his anointment came with the Testament about Christ, and his title inseparable from royal was Fidei defensor, the Defender of the Faith. Evidently, his resolve was a show of power and violence, in the face of doubt. The kind of policy may be described as “proof in the wash”, for colors. I do not know if Chinese stamp print mattered too: “the Chineses” used stamps for printing; it was not like Gutenberg.
Had king George chosen Australia for his proof, those would have been Australians to rebel; and just the same for Canadians. The Declaration of Independence entire is truth, but this single thing could be enough: you have to plea for your civilian status, though you’re not paid by any army. Maybe even the British would have gone on a rebel.
Mad king George chose lands that are today the USA for the idea that you divide and rule: divide et impera. Canada was too far north, and Australia on another continent — whereas he wanted to show his anointment in geopolitics to embrace all of North America at least, regardless of “the Chineses” and, as the American Crisis would point out, possibly God the Father too. Maybe there has been too much pressure in England for kings to be kings.
That things are not quite so bad everywhere as in America may be some cause of consolation, quite reservedly it is that ■Crisis X says, On The King Of England’s Speech.
Had Thomas Paine not happened, would the people have thought, just on their own — about the real power of the British navy, if they could become fully deployed; if it was good business to suffer imposed taxation; If kings truly were meant by God? To have succession in Heaven, you’d have to “dethrone” the Father.
If not — the common man and woman in the lands within the present day US would have remained scared, and the fear and prejudice would have given them to George as on a trencher, like Earth was believed to be flat before.
Thomas Paine’s doubt on religion looks reasonable. Would the teaching that tells to love the enemy come from God the Creator, or from people on Earth like he was? It was Thomas Paine to have the courage to say, only an idiot behaves like there was no God. The word “idiot” might be strong, but this is is no atheism, whereas there was so little or maybe nothing, to defend the royalist standing of religion in France.
Without the United States of America, the break in the 20th century Soviet Block would have been impossible. Thank you, Thomas Paine too.
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