And so, ironically, Jesus’ revolution of nonviolence, in the course of which he died on the cross, was converted into rule by force and terror. As the historians Will and Ariel Durant noted, in its distortion and perversion of Jesus’ teachings, medieval Christendom was actually a moral setback.41 Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth’s religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.
