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England might be getting its own National Anthem
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<blockquote data-quote="ncurd" data-source="post: 778384" data-attributes="member: 72205"><p>I'm not really that keen for several reasons.</p><p></p><p>1) I've been singing "God save the Queen" as my national anthem for 31 years why does it need to be changed now?</p><p></p><p>2) I have to learn the bloody words and so does the wendyball team who are just finally learning the words to "god Save the Queen".</p><p></p><p>3) Jerusalem(which will win) has ambiguous legal position when it comes to wedding's, I couldn't have it at mine as I had a civil wedding and you not allowed anything remotely religious (actually we has more issue with Ave Maria). Some church's don't allow it because it's not really hymn. I'm not really keen on a song being our national anthem that can't be played at people's wedding's for whatever reason.</p><p></p><p>4) Again Jerusalem I'm tired of referring to us a Christian nation as we're quite blatantly not (although we do have a Christian based morality) most are probably really agnostics but just tick Christian census time because they feel that's what they are. Still only 60% of Britain call themselves Christian and statistics show that is rapidly dropping. Even with 60% I only know a few people who regularly attend Chruch and most of those are Catholics. If we are going to change I'd rather move to a secular anthem.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Then again I'm one of those nutjobs who think's we should ditch playing as separate countries in general as we only do it because we codified the sports no other country would get away playing as separate "countries".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncurd, post: 778384, member: 72205"] I'm not really that keen for several reasons. 1) I've been singing "God save the Queen" as my national anthem for 31 years why does it need to be changed now? 2) I have to learn the bloody words and so does the wendyball team who are just finally learning the words to "god Save the Queen". 3) Jerusalem(which will win) has ambiguous legal position when it comes to wedding's, I couldn't have it at mine as I had a civil wedding and you not allowed anything remotely religious (actually we has more issue with Ave Maria). Some church's don't allow it because it's not really hymn. I'm not really keen on a song being our national anthem that can't be played at people's wedding's for whatever reason. 4) Again Jerusalem I'm tired of referring to us a Christian nation as we're quite blatantly not (although we do have a Christian based morality) most are probably really agnostics but just tick Christian census time because they feel that's what they are. Still only 60% of Britain call themselves Christian and statistics show that is rapidly dropping. Even with 60% I only know a few people who regularly attend Chruch and most of those are Catholics. If we are going to change I'd rather move to a secular anthem. Then again I'm one of those nutjobs who think's we should ditch playing as separate countries in general as we only do it because we codified the sports no other country would get away playing as separate "countries". [/QUOTE]
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