I’ve been watching the mini-series on Netflix about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Megan was very popular, especially in places like South Africa. She energized the Commonwealth, as well as the monarchy.
As a mixed race person and a person with great charisma, she held the key to healing many of Great Brittan’s past woes and bringing people together. Like Princess Di, she was never really accepted and eventually treated poorly by the Monarchy and the powerful British press.
The couple endured great suffering until they eventually left England and renounced their titles and moved to California. All throughout the mini-series, I kept having the same thought. One thing could save them. Charles or William or the Queen could stop this by defending them. But they didn’t. They just remained silent.
In the narrative of the Christian story, there is an all powerful God that allows the presence of evil and another being that causes us to do horrible things. He is often described in terms of a monarchy. Even though the holy book that describes Him says that he is an all powerful king, he didn’t protect the couple in the garden that apparently doomed all of mankind.
They too had to leave their home and become sojourners on the earth. The one being that should have protected them, didn’t. In fact, like Megan and Harry, the couple was essentially set up to fail and the one person who could stop it chose to remain pious and vengeful and blame it on them.
Like Britain’s monarchy, the monarch chose His own glory over their protection.
Every day, people are raped, abused, murdered, mustreated, abandoned, and terrorized not because the couple failed, but because the one in charge failed to act. But, according to the narrative, the couple is mostly to blame.
Just like many British citizens, I no longer believe the narrative. It’s all a facade that parades its ill-gotten wealth hoping no one will see the inconsistencies. In reality, it is as frail and vulnerable as the weakest peasant.
You had one job, and you blew it!
You could have protected the couple and you didn’t. The myth doesn’t make sense anymore and people are discovering they don’t really need the monarchy, whether it is the house of cards in Britain or the unraveling myth of a creator that won’t act on behalf of the most vulnerable.
You had one job and you didn’t do it!
Hundreds of Messiah stories emerge over time, some gain more traction than others. But the one thing that could save us all, the thing we need most doesn’t happen even to the Messiah’s — the monarch still fails to protect them.
You had one job, why didn’t you do it?
I’m still trying to understand who/what God is. I believe much differently than I did a few years ago. But one thing I will never call the Divine is King because it’s a false front. Monarchies are mostly smoke and mirrors and they ignore the peasant. Jesus, like all the great teachers, taught to intercede for the least, not protect the King or the institution. Don’t Lord it over them. Protect them!
One job. It’s all that matters!
Be where you are,
Be who you are,
Karl Forehand
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