Jesus Was an Iconoclast During the days of the Byzantine Empire , a group of religious zealots arose in the Orthodox Church known as iconoclasts. Their self-appointed job was to go to various religious sites and smash what they called idols, which to them were various forms of religious art that depicted saints and the Deity.Iconoclasm in our world has come to have a different meaning. Its broader meaning refers to the practice of forcefully challenging, even destroying, established beliefs or institutions. Jesus was an iconoclast because he loved to challenge his day’s conventional thinking. He challenged the Pharisees’...