[dragonwriter]

If you look at the century centered on 1500: Just finishing 400 years of named-as-such Crusades, conquering much of the world in the name of Christ, violently repressing non-Christians in the areas it controlled, and getting started with religious wars between various factions of western Christianity which would be particularly prominent through the 17th Century.

[easytiger]

Indeed. It is almost like it is a political tool used to mould and shape the actions of people to the whim of those who have the ability to control the message