Making disciples must mean acting honourably

Go into all the world and make disciples of the non-violent Jesus Christ.

When this is not possible, it should mean non-violent, peaceful co-existence with those we live alongside.

If the authorities cannot accept the life and teaching of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, as we do, they should be able to see the sense of acting honourably and with justice for those with whom they live.

Regardless of our personal beliefs over spiritual matters like faith and religion, it is totally unacceptable for a government acting on behalf of a monarch who has promised to live by the wisdom, laws and commands of the Bible in the Coronation Ceremony, to then ditch all of it and do this:

This, when we Brits were the most Christian, the most Bible-believing and church-attending in the 19th century.  Yet, I believe we were at fault in these examples:

1. Michael Portillo described our Opium Wars against China as "disgraceful".  We grew the plants to sell to the Chinese to make them opium addicts.  When the Chinese government objected we went to war with them and ruled over Hong Kong for 100 years - until 1997.  We still demand Taiwan should be part of our American-led Western sphere of influence and not China.
2. We ruled India as part of our Empire of "Peace and Light" but massacred about a hundred Indians at Amritsar in 1919 when we knew they were unarmed and totally peaceful in their demonstration.
3. Our slavery for 300 years was part of our Christian Empire of "Truth and Mercy" - the biggest the world has ever seen, ruling a quarter to a third of the world population for nearly 500 years.  It meant ruling not democratically but autocratically over populations who had never consented to being taken over by the British white man.
4. We than claim that it was thanks to Bible-believing, born-again Christians that slavery was ended when we were all complicit for centuries and profited from the slaves working for no wages and in desperate conditions and living in the most humble hovels.
5. Eighteen years after our exuberant and triumphalist hymn was published all about a "kingdom of love and light", and of singing a song that "shall conquer evil", we blundered so hurriedly into a totally unnecessary and the most foolish war in the history of humanity.  So much for "shattering the spear and sword"!
6. That war led to the Middle East being blessed with our British and French empires and all the horrors for the poor inhabitants who simply wanted to be left alone from yet more foreign invaders.
7. To this very day, our Western, traditional Christian beliefs and values, demand drones and air strikes and bullets and buildings crumpled into dust and ashes to so nicely wipe out tens of thousands of evil Hamas men, women and children.

Making disciples must mean acting honourably.