ink and acrylic paint on acid free watercolour paper.
45.72 x 60.96 cm. | 16 x 22 in.

$2300 CDN | unframed

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A morally corrupt human being best known for initiating the First Crusade (1096–99), the ramifications of which are still with us today. In a speech he gave on 27 November 1095 to the Council of Clermont, a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, this speech included a call to arms which set-off the 1st Crusade. He later decreed that: “All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.” By giving every murderer, rapist and thief a last ditch chance at entering the kingdom of God, he guaranteed a sizable army that would be ready and willing to invade the holy land. Somehow this most unholy holy man was able to convince this large army that murder was a righteous crusade.

Urban’s God was a blood thirsty murderous God who gave no-quarter.

Hardly the God of the 6th commandment “You shall not murder.”