Very jaundiced opinions!

Perpetual impertinence and, preposterous to have a just God on one side only! Thus, the other side can be wiped out. So Allah is Great as equally as our God is even Greater and can do Anything!

Only God's Chosen Nation can have the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey - and flowing too with blood, off and on, ever since. 

The centuries have seen:

16/17th centuries planting of right-thinking Protestants in heretical, Catholic Ireland and a 19th century union with Ireland incorporated into the UK to prevent invasion, according to Prof David Olusoga.

One tribe fighting over land to massacre the other.

Our "disgraceful" (Michael Portillo) Opium Wars in China, our disastrous World Wars, with force and coercion to bolster our Advantage ever since.

Empire building by many nations to maintain that empire's domination.

Our great Cold War victory led to the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact and their members coming into NATO to upset the balance!  Its membership expanded but, so disastrously for Ukraine. Not helped by overzealous, Ukrainian, pro-Europeans not waiting for the next election to democratically get what they wanted.

Never peace in our time, only injustice and domination with paranoia that the other side will do us down if we don't rule over them with a rod of iron.  And, spend at least 2% of our national income on warfare and its weapons.

 

Non-violence and non-occupation are unheard of!

On Wed eve 11 March, the Archbishop of Birmingham did not comment directly on the points in my comment summarised as, "Would he be prepared to teach and preach non-violence in his sermons and homilies? Would he urge Protestants not to retaliate against this week's Catholics with their killing of three Protestants, with tit for tat killings of Catholics?" The media reported it as Republicans killing Loyalists, to take into account Christian sensitivities and to avoid pointing up Christian violence. They prefer to highlight Muslim violence, of course.

When will we have faith leaders urging non-violent direct action (NVDA), restraint and conflict resolution by Churchill's jaw jaw, rather than war war; all this, instead of a career in the military and the years of military attacks and occupations in foreign lands that that then entails? Our schools, colleges and universities also shy away from teaching non-violence and avoid highlighting our invasions, attacks and occupations.

When will we have them applying, in their sermons and homilies, the
teaching of the non-violent Christ in the Gospels to everyday living today?