Proof of God’s existence [Spirituality & Religion]

lol hear me out I’ve got a real theory here 😂

I randomly listened to some national anthems this morning to restore some of the faith in my country after @Burnley123 comprehensively ruined it last night with his depressing statistics and I realised something.

We use God save the queen as our [i]British [/i]national anthem, but a lot of people agree we should use Land of hope and glory as the [i]English[/i] national anthem but we don’t, probably because we’re too lazy to learn two songs or something.

Land of Hope and Glory lyrics include
[quote]God, who made thee [England] mighty,
Make thee mightier yet![/quote]

But instead, we use God save the Queen, which obviously says [quote]God save our Queen[/quote]

So we’ve been telling God to save the Queen, and not make England mightier. As we can clearly see, England’s mightiness is reducing faster than ever, what with jumping off the Eurocliff and Scotland being even louder with their wish for independence. But at least the Queen is basically immortal. Proof that God is listening to our national prayers 😂

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gol979 · 41-45, M

Land of hope and glory is way too ideologically correct lol. @burnley123 is a wise fella 👍

AndrewtheAlu · M

@gol979 yeah he’s cool. Can’t say I agree with *everything* he says but definitely a lot of it. He knows his stuff.

gol979 · 41-45, M

@AndrewtheAlu yep. What don't you agree with out of interest?

AndrewtheAlu · M

@gol979 he’s a lot more of a corbyn fan than I am 😅
And he’s a labour member and I’m a Green Party member, so I'm sure he’d disagree with me that Labour’s environmental policies aren’t nearly good enough

gol979 · 41-45, M

@AndrewtheAlu I like corbyn but you're right, the green party commitment to the environment is more robust than Labour's. But I will add that environmental change will only come through economic change......even though it should be the other way around

AndrewtheAlu · M

@gol979 well exactly. That’s the green party’s point and what makes it different to environmental campaign groups. We believe that the real change can only be done through legislation and economic reform. Companies are only going to realistically try to be environmentally friendly if it’s genuinely beneficial for them to do so.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@AndrewtheAlu @gol979 Thanks guys. I think the same of both of you.

BTW, I'm loyal to Corbyn and Labour but principles come ahead of that. For example, if I lived in Brighton Pavillion constituency, I would really [i]really [/i]struggle to justify voting for a non-Corbynite Labour candidate ahead of Caroline Lucas. I could never canvass for that because there is no way I could debate that convincingly and still have a conscious. Corbyn as PM, McDonnell as Chancellor and Lucas as environmental secretary would be a great ticket. I even considered joining the greens at one point, just before the Corbyn thing happened and I think the differences between us are about strategy and emphasis perhaps, but not principle.

I'm a big Naomi Klein fan and reading 'This Changes Everything' made me much more of an environmentalist. It also made me more of a socialist because I think a radical economic restructuring is the only thing that can actually save us from environmental catastrophe.

I'm just an arch-pragmatist and under this electoral system, I think a Corbyn led Labour government is the best shot at moving us closer to what we all want.

gol979 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 simply......yep