A fellow I knew quite deservedly received an OBE several years ago. He’d get rather annoyed, and not conceal it, if some Yank addressed him as “Sir Martin.”
Hear! Hear! That’s pretty much how it happened. The Christian Church as we know it today was NOT founded, or even imagined, by the almost certainly mythical Jesus of Nazareth. It’s the Church of Saul;Paul, whose vision on the road to Damascus was that with a few small tweaks (like forget that circumcision business) this Christianity thing, which at the time was aimed at the Jews, could be very profitably franchised to the Gentiles. Paul was right, and in time the Roman Empire ran with it.
That is SO right on! And SO many people just don’t care. In fact, they seem to quite like it…