Britannia's Religion

[vicks111.livejournal.com]

Religion has been mentioned offhand many times in Geass, but never actually stated. I started thinking about this from a review and Clovis' few chosen words. I would really like to hear everyone's opinion on this, maybe we can figure it out XD

SPOILERS FOR GEASS HISTORY AND EP 21

Ok, is the Empire christian or not? I think it was pretty much given by its name "Holy Empire of Britannia", but apparently since Julius Cesar did not conquer England, then they did not became christians. However, if you think about it, Catholicism still became big, even if England was not part of the empire. It is logical to think, that even if they were not officially christian, the Church was pretty big back in the medieval ages and renaissance and they must have had an impact.

It's interesting that the Geass history mentions Elizabeth I, which set the foundation for the Church of England. But then Elizabeth III abdicated the throne of England. She was no longer Queen and Napoleon invaded. She came to the Americas, and it's given that the rest of the Empire came under her rule.

Now, if she abdicated and there was no (mentioned) war in the Americas, she must have pulled something big to scare the Spaniards away. By the time she arrived in US, the South American colonies were starting the process of Independence. They would not have relinquished their land so easily, since they even fought war with Spain. The Central American colonies would have annexed easily, but not South America.
She was no longer Queen of England, and had no other power but loyalty from those that came with her. To be able to create such an empire as Britannia (just the continent) without turmoil, she must have had help from the Catholic church. And the Americas would have not accepted a queen that was not crowned by the Pope.

...Now I want to see if Lulu gets crowned by a priest XD
......and yes, I am a wee bit obsessive with the most random things. You can clearly see I have given this much a thought.

Comments

[dr-wats0n.livejournal.com]

The Emperor is a polygamist, which doesn’t really fit into the description of any of the three major branches of Christianity. However, the funeral of Shirley’s father, complete with the priest, looks distinctly Christian to me, even though the graveyard itself is pretty much void of religious symbols of any kind.

Also, one of the more prominent symbols of Britannia looks like a variation of Fleur de Lis (which was conveniently associated with one Clovis, king of the Franks ;p). Fleur de Lis is also associated with Virgin Mary, but the symbol has a history longer than that of Christianity. It's hard to tell, but seeing as how Britain was already christianized long before Elizabeth's time, I think it's safe to assume that some form of Christianity is, indeed, the religion of the empire.

[dr-wats0n.livejournal.com]

Wait, scrap that last line. Forgot to take into consideration that Geass's alternate history messed with that, too XD.

[vicks111.livejournal.com]

XDD

To me, at least, Clovis was christian. His line "Thank the heavens you are alive!" to Lelouch implies that at least, he was raised as one.
There's also Odysseus attempt-at-wedding, what with the priest and everything.

[dr-wats0n.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's literally what Clovis says. IIRC, he says 'yokatta' which is a very general way of saying good/wonderful/that's great (although, all the subs I've seen went with something like heavens/goodness :-/).

Either way, I think they're all Christian XD.

[vicks111.livejournal.com]

...and not very good ones >:P