Posted on 03/19/2013 8:24:14 AM PDT by fwdude
you do know John Wayne played Genghis Khan dont you?Last I checked John wasnt short or asian,,,
On the whole, I find the series a tremendous positive, although leaving out Jacob and Esau an the twelve tribes had me laughing. The treatment of Jesus’s early ministry was superb, loved that scene of tempation in the desert, and the first Herod was disgustingly delightful...
The only thing we were told about Jesus's appearance was that he was not exceptionally good looking--he didn't have the obvious advantage of beauty.
Other than that, he should be imagined in the way that would enhance the faith of the believer.
But a Scotsman was ok except his accent? Lol!
Actually, the important bit they left out was Lot offering his virgin daughters to the men of the city. I guess they didn't want to offend viewers by depicting what the Bible really says.
yes but he was made up to look Mongolian last I looked too wasn’t he?
laughable as that attempt was..his accent never worked beyond Westerns and War
ditto Yul Brenner as Egyptian or Sal Mineo as a Cheyenne etc..though Brenner was excellent
but in this case they are purposely making Biblical characters a different race from historical fact just to I guess feel better about it ...I notice this is done a lot now in period pieces...Rome, Tudors, etc
and 10 years from now in time it will become fact to the uninformed just like all other myths...like Egyptians were black and the Greeks robbed their knowledge from them and Cleopatra was a Negro
or all the great civilizations in sub Sahara that have vanished with nary a trace that were much more advanced than Europe or Chinese dynasties
and so forth
a lie is a lie
it’s infuriating propaganda about the Bible of all things
if they wished to have done this they should have explained it...”we are doing a multi racial version of the Bible for whatever reason...”
i guess a Bible mostly about old white men is just not inclusive enough and they lie about who these folks were because like you i suppose...the truth about what their real skin color was is just not good enough for them in this goofy about race world we inhabit...in the US...not everywhere
The few Hamites who pepper the Bible was simply not a good enough insert for people of color to surface
I can assure you that minority races around the world sure don;t feel a kneejerk need to appease the white race at every turn ..having spent decades living amongst them
they think we are weak ashamed idiots and I agree
Roma Downey and her husband are Obama supporters...the biggest pro abortion POTUS in history...huge Obama supporters
Christians like that...you can have it
Hollywood destroys almost all it touches..nothing is sacred as they say
Are middle easterners white? A historically accurate portrayal of the Bible would have a lot of brown skins and not a single one appropriate for vitamin D synthesis in northern europe.
Yeah, the disputes about race are kind of silly. Better to focus on the REAL departures from scripture.
Attempting to depicted the ineffable God in the Flesh is always perilous. Borders on idolatry.
Most are Caucasians...especially back then..according to studies of the Carthaginians and Phoenecians from what we can tell today and Ethiopians were Hamitic...hardly jet colored west Africans from the Bight...none of whom would have been in Mesopotamia or the Holy Land
I have never ever heard of Israelites as Negroes...never ever...Falashas are hardly sub tropical Negroes..and their conversion to Judaism is much later ...supposedly today falasha is considered antiquated in this ever PC world...we must say Beta Israel...good lord
We know Alexander was blonde blue eyed and Hannibal Barca was very European looking though modern Afrocentrists have done their damnedest to morph that image...
I did not watch past Sampson, between black Peter Tosh Sampson and black Chaldeans and Israelites I had had enough
but you guys enjoy
“Biblical experts as well as...Joel Osteen”
The phrase implies that Osteen is NOT a biblical expert.
Like saying, “Gentlemen, and Joe Smith”.
Caucasian is an inprecise term with different meanings at different times and in different contexts. People from india are technically Caucasian, but they are not white skinned. Alexander was Macedonian not middle eastern.
Do you see middle easterners as having white rather than brown skin? Would you say of an Arab that he is white? Would your average middle easterner be allowed in a 1950 era country club?
They ARE telling the story.
Yep. And may a hundred more Christian movie makers produce their depictions of an accurate representation of the Biblical text.
I don't fret over the imperfections of "The Bible" movie. I'm just happy that SOMEBODY friendly to the book made it.
For two thousand years, Christians have been reaching out to people and sharing the Gospel. Why, now, is it suddenly necessary to retool the Bible and give it a politically-correct, “diversity-is-our-strength!” roster so that people will deign to consider it? I’m sorry. I’m not having it. It’s impossible to improve on what God inspired.
Do we really think that people will refuse to watch because the people in the region were olive-skinned Jews? Wouldn’t that be anti-Semitic? Maybe Schindler’s List should be remade with a black and Asian cast. It’s just absurd, once you go down that path.
As for Roma Downey....autumnraine, you say Obama is a “non-loving Christian.” Do you really believe he is one just because he says he is? He supports partial birth abortion, voted to let infants die in a closet if they somehow made it past an abortion alive, he despises Israel, supports queers and queer marriage....is that a Christian to you? Where on earth is the discernment and righteous judgement the Bible says Christians should have?
Roma Downey has a degree in New Age “spiritual psychology” from the University of Santa Monica. She was on one of those Crossing Over shows where she tried to “channel” the spirit of a dead loved one with the help of a psychic medium. She is a devotee of New Age guru Eckhart Tolle, who was pushed by Oprah Winfrey, and who denies the Bible and the divinity of Jesus. And she just visited Obama in the White House. Cozy.
Downey calling Obama a fellow Christian makes her out to be either a fool or a liar. I tend to think it’s the former, since anyone wrapped up in such nonsense, anti-Christian mumbo-jumbo garbage likely wouldn’t know the difference.
But a conservative and a Freeper should be a lot smarter than that.
I agree first paragraph
I don’t care about country clubs and do not belong to one
Private businesses and citizens should be allowed to associate with whom they wish
That is yet another area Civil Rights overreached
No one knows how many African Jews there were. It would be reasonable to say there were some. The Bible is dealing with the history of the nation of Israel as a whole. Even Samson married outside the twelve tribes. His wife was Philistine.
Still it is very ridiculous too discount the message of the movie over actors skin tone. Do we start bashing church Nativity scenes next? Christ came to save all mankind who will believe, call on His name, and obey. It was not just the white folk living in the USA. They hired actors and this movie was not made in the USA. It is also believed that the man who carried Christ cross may have in fact been black. He was from Libya. There was what 1600 years from Abraham to Christ birth? Of course people migrated.
If we take The Bible at is word about The Great Flood we all came from two persons Adam and Noah. If the Great Flood was actually just a regional disaster hitting the Persian Gulf region and Med Sea Basin {known world at that time in history} then we are all still from Adam.
Yea I reckon some Freepers wanted some good ole gay sex scenes in it. Maybe the actors objected? Maybe scenes were in there that did show homosexual activity and even bestiality but some were too busy screening the movie to notice. I saw it. What did they need to make it realistic enough?
The angels came to Sodom for two reasons one was to destroy it. Another because of Abraham's pleas to GOD was to seek out {TEST} persons to see who was righteous. Some bashed the part about the two angels fighting to leave Sodom. Yet in Daniel we are told Michael did indeed engage in battle trying to reach Daniel.
It's really sad. Someone persons decide to make a fairly accurate dramatization based on The Bible to tell the history and The Gospel and some insist on making this of all things about Barak Obama. When the movie makers honestly said the character of Satan was not meant to look like Obama some in here then went nuclear on them.
It's the same type who will bash The Pope, bash Billy Graham, bash whoever preaches different than Brother Bubba down at First Whatever Church. Only Jesus Christ was perfect. This movie maybe hopefully helped bring some lost souls to Christ. For that we should hope and pray. That should be cause for celebration. Not some stupid childish temper tantrum over the makers political beliefs.
GOD uses imperfect people for His reasons to His Glory and will. Mel Gibson for example did a great movie The Passion of Christ. But Mel Gibson has some serious problems in his personal life that torment him. He's human.
The Ethiopian Eunuch was from Ethiopia. The Cyrenian who carried Jesus cross was from what we now call Libya which at that time was called Carthage. Some people try to say he was a Negro but no one who has the slightest idea who the Carthaginians were.
The Celts such as the Scots, Irish, Welsh, Moors, Berbers, etc. came from Galatia in Turkey. Probably the people who lived in that area were Whiter than they are now.
The Greeks were normally divided between the Ionians and Doric. The Ionians typified by the Athenians typically had olive complexions while the Doric Greeks typified by Sparta were often tall and Blond. The Ionians were probably the earliest inhabitants but then they all spoke Greek.
I recently saw a program where there was a car show in a Middle Eastern country. One of the guys in charge was clearly Semitic. He was tall and had the traditional nose and was wearing the traditional garb. He was as White as just about any European. Now if he had been in the desert for a couple of year living in a tent he just might have been dark.
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