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A debate over the Monarchial form of government has risen between myself and another member on a different thread, but I thought this topic deserves its own thread. These are arguments for Monarchism. The vast majority of countries these days identify as some form of democracy or republic. There are however still some relics of the past left called monarchies. Even in Europe, 12 of the 51 states have some form of Monarchy. Current popular forms of government: Democracy: Representative, Direct, Deliberative, Socialism Republic: Crowned, Single Party, Capitalist, Federal, Parliamentary Monarchy: Absolute, Elective, Constitutional, Non-sovereign Communism: Authoritarian Dictatorship: Military, Authoritarian Further reading: http://www.politicalsciencedegree.com/the-five-most-common-political-systems-around-the-world/ It is granted that nations such as the USA (most successful republic in history), Greece (first democracy), Switzerland (best kind of republic), San Marino (doing rebublic since before it was cool), Poland (first constitutional republic) and India (biggest republic ever) are all very proud of their Systems. There are however countries whose glory days ended along with their monarchs such as France, Russia, Austria, Germany, Turkey, Iran... And there are those that stripped their monarchs of power, and are now in this weird state balancing between monarchy and democracy: UK, Thailand, Japan, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden... Further reading: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2128.html The only way to judge which system is best is, of course, to compare them. You can use this site to compare countries by economy, human development, health, wealth... EVEN IN THE PAST: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Government/Government-type ​According to the UN Human Development Index (note that I don't find them trustworthy), 11 of the top 20 countries are officially Monarchies. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi There are also arguments for monarchy based on less measurable factors. Empires that had their basis in the Monarch have split into several weak ethnostates, making everyone unhappy. Example: Habsburg Empire. Support for the reinstation of the Emperor is strictly surpressed in all former Imperial domains, and yet 22% of Austrians proudly claim to be royalists. The Sovereign is often mistaken for being a dictator, but in truth the Christian Monarch is only the equivalent to the US Constitution, being the safeguard of the moral code of a nation, a symbol of the people, and the representative of the authority of God on earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchism ​​Extra fact: All Western, except for the Napoleonic and the Orthodox crowns have their origins either in the Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, or the Roman Pontiff himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royal_crowns

I will mention right off, this post is not a proof or an attempt at proof of God's existence. And yet, I wonder if I can make godless atheists a bit more....god-full. I heard Stefan Molyneux offer a bit of a personal theory of what happened after Jesus Christ died, more or less presuming his tomb was raided by thieves and maybe--just maybe--the first Christians concocted an elaborate hoax to inspire universal morality and destroy moral relativism in what may have been the most crucial point in Roman history before the Fall. Personally, I've always thought that either Jesus was a Roman philosopher (like say, a 4th philosopher to take the torch from Aristotle) whose philosophy was made into a religion by his disciples in order to unite people too dumb to think philosophically, or he was a Roman politician who managed to become the object of worship because of his perceived boundless virtue. As to whether my or Stef's theories are even remotely true, I cannot say. It stands to reason that most likely if there is a God, he is very absentee and the Church greatly embellishes his involvement in man's affairs, or....well, either he is the God of Whites or the God of Jews in particular as both general groups of peoples grew to become the dominant races of the world (at least until recently). If there isn't a God than the raw horse power of the European genetic survival set was simply the best out there, and God was simply the simplification as to why Whites were so great in a time without genetic scientists to give definitive reasons for the behavioral and physical traits of the races. Around the same time as Jesus Christ was arguably the greatest ruler in European history: Augustus Caesar, First Emperor of the Roman Empire and the very basis for the word "Emperor" in most European languages. When the Roman Empire fell after 250 odd years of decay and ruin, the Holy Roman Empire was formed by Kaiser Charlemagne, the first Christian Emperor of Europe whose empire would last nearly 1000 years (if you include the Austrian and German Empires as being successor states of the old Holy Roman Empire). Christianity's purpose was essentially that of a bully pulpit used to propagate moral values to the illiterate and low-IQ masses. Whereas the three philosophers of ancient Greece attempted to use reason to enable rational activity, Christianity, perhaps from inception, realize the simple fact that all people are irrational and yet believe themselves rational, and that the majority of people will always find themselves subscribed to someone else's theory of ethics or dogma. Therefore, rather than attempting to convince the world to be good for goodness's sake, the Church essentially said "Be good or be damned", which was of course irrelevant to the good people who do good regardless, but critical for the "bad" people and the "morally relative" people who either could not be bothered or were too uncaring to work for a bigger picture. To conclude the topic's purpose, I have a simple set of questions; "Is Christianity a benefit for European civilization?" "Is it better for many people to do good as a result of a lie, or for a few people to do good as a result of a truth?" "Do the ends justify the means, and is Christianity a good means for spreading reason and virtue?" "If we are created in God's image, assuming He is real, who is "we"?"