One wonders, though, where in an admittedly much adulterated, simplistic, contradictory and at times honestly disturbing book such as the Bible, and especially in the New Testament which is much less of all of these characteristics, this colonizer Jesus is described. It's not so much what the Holy Book teaches (again, the New Testament), but what is now perceived as the Christian ideology after centuries of essentially ignoring the very tenets of the scriptures most Christians supposedly uphold. Most of these misconceptions come from the actions of the Church, especially (but not only) the Catholic Church and the various holy decrees by ecclesiastical councils, popes and other religious or secular authorities using religion as a tool to justify unimaginable atrocities (see persecution of the Jews, for example).

To the best of my knowledge, Jesus never commanded anyone to engage in holy wars. He preached loving thy enemies. He invited sinners to eat with him, he didn't drive them away. The whole fire and brimstone story, the divine holocausts, the indiscriminate killing of all living things, including children and animals of the infidels and sinners, that's all coming from the Old Testament.