The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II warned that the multi-denominational multiculturalism of King Charles III he threatens to destroy his own house and bring down the British monarchy.
“I think if this slow movement towards multiculturalism and multireligion continues, we will lose the monarchy, because in the end, I don’t think it is true to itself,” Gavin Ashenden, who served as the queen’s chaplain. from 2008 to 2017, he told Britain’s GB News on Sunday.
Ashenden made his comments in response to the king’s first royal christmas message since he assumed the throne after his mother’s death in September.
“The problem is that it’s a bit like watching a wonderful ship slowly sink below the waterline, and at some point what you want to do is keep it from sinking and make sure it floats,” Ashenden said. “And I don’t think the monarchy can float if it becomes a multicultural, multifaith monarchy.”
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Acknowledging that King Charles III did “fantastically well” with his first Christmas speech, Ashenden said British subjects have consequently witnessed “a very slow and gradual change from being a Christian monarchy to a multi-religious one.”
“The problem is that either you are a defender of the faith or you are not,” he said, referring to the oath the British monarch takes to defend protestant religion.
The British monarch, among other duties, serves as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
“There is a lot about Christianity that is directly responsible for our way of life in our culture,” said Ashenden, who later warned that Christians in the UK are increasingly marginalized.
Ashenden, who resigned from his chaplaincy position in 2017 after condemning recitations of the Qur’an during an Epiphany service at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, noted how Christianity is increasingly being pushed out of the public square due to its exclusive claims amid “serious competition for the can”.
“So the problem we have right now is Christianity is under attack,” Ashenden said. “Now the question is, what does a Christian king do about it? Does a Christian king save Christianity? He becomes a defender of the faith, which is really his title? – hand, say, ‘No, I’m… defender of all religions, which means I don’t have defend christianity.'”
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“If you don’t stand up for Christianity today, we will lose it from this country,” Ashenden added, pointing to the recent case of a Christian woman who was recently arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.
“The problem we are facing is a serious conflict of values, and there can be no solution just by saying, ‘You know what? All values are the same, let’s pretend that everything is fine,’” said the former chaplain. he said. “I don’t think it’s nice.”
Ashenden, who eventually left the Church of England and converted to Roman Catholicism, also wrote an opinion piece in the catholic herald warning that Christianity in the UK “is bowing under the relentless daily assault that an increasingly hostile secularism is directing towards it”.
If King Charles III refuses to uphold his nation’s historic faith, Ashenden predicted in his article that he will have “sowed the seeds of destruction for the House of Windsor.”
