SHARE Magazine April 2016 | Page 17

our faith but how justifiable was this? Jesus never advocated violence as the answer to any conflict and the sincerity of believer’s was misguided. Jesus was isolated and disassociated from His Jewish heritage and appeared in medieval art and literature as a european sage. Sadly, that period of history has engendered the most deep rooted, long term causes of anti-semitism, global ignorance about true Christianity and subsequent, heresy, apostasy and atheism. A study of the Crusades, Inquisitions and the role of the Jesuits in turning Jesus into ‘The Grim Reaper’ will prove this. The Renaissance brought us out of The Dark Ages and was the catalyst for a Protestant Reformation of the Catholic Church and it rescued the bloodstained image of Jesus Christ from the battlefields of the war torn Medieval Realms. Jesus, The Pirate Ship Captain Next, we witnessed the rise of The British Empire. In this era, Jesus is a Russell Crowe esque, Master and Commander, of the high seas. This was the “Golden Age Of Exploration And Expansion”, where the Globe was assuaged by a plundering horde of europeans competing under the banner: