• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The English never stated that god promised them some land.

    They just took it for the Crown.

    • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
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      38 minutes ago

      Isn’t the point of the whole “divine right of kings” that the kings actions follow the will of god? Or worded a bit differently, that a king works as a god’s proxy.

      This would mean that taking land for the crown means taking it in the name of god, right?