The Anglican church really should rethink depictions of Jesus as a white gentleman in regular Christian imagery, the head of the Church of England reported Friday.

Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, was requested in an job interview with BBC Radio 4 if the Western mentality that Jesus appeared Caucasian demands to be reconsidered in light-weight of the Black Life Make any difference motion.

“Yes of course it does, this feeling that God was white … You go into church buildings [around the world] and you really do not see a white Jesus,” he explained. “You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Center-Jap Jesus — which is of training course the most accurate — you see a Fijian Jesus.”

The archbishop was commenting on the perception that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, element of what’s now deemed the Center East.

As these kinds of, statues of Jesus in Canterbury Cathedral will be beneath overview amid the anti-racism protests sweeping the world and the movement to carry down controversial monuments, he reported.

“Jesus is portrayed in as many methods as there are cultures, languages and understandings. And I really don’t think that throwing out every thing we have received in the previous is the way to do it but I do feel stating: ‘That’s not the Jesus who exists, that is not who we worship’ is a reminder of the universality of the God who became thoroughly human,” he reported.

But Welby mentioned the church need to very carefully analyze which religious monuments really should be taken out — alternatively of just tearing them down.

“Just go all over Canterbury Cathedral, there are monuments all over the place, or Westminster Abbey, and we’re looking at all that, and some will have to occur down,” he claimed.

He also urged followers to forgive the “trespasses” of some persons depicted in statues.

“There can be forgiveness, I hope and pray as we occur jointly, but only if there is justice,” he claimed.