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Stained glass window shows Jesus Christ with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England
Associated Press ^
| May 14, 2023
| Mark Pratt
Posted on 05/14/2023 11:24:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:24:54 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Jesus probably looked like an Arab with medium dark skin.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:27:07 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(Starve the beast and steal its food!)
To: Olog-hai
I have no recollection of the Catholic in-laws ever referencing the ‘key of David’... the slumber continues.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:28:43 AM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
To: Olog-hai
I don’t see anywhere in the Gospels or any of the other New Testament letters where this was important.
But people want to be stuck on stupid.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:29:45 AM PDT
by
Salvavida
To: Olog-hai
What is the controversy? Who cares if he had dark skin?
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:30:53 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Olog-hai
i see it as egyptian color...not african
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:30:53 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: Olog-hai
The window was commissioned by a Mary P. Carr in honor of two women, apparently her late aunts, ...both married into families involved in the slave trade. If the sisters had married into a samurai family and commissioned an artist to have Jesus look Japanese would we be having this discussion?
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:32:48 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hello idiot democrats - we don't want to 'come together' - we think you're evil.)
To: Olog-hai
If one is obsessed with how Jesus appeared we know this from Isaiah 53 and hue of skin isn’t mentioned...
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:32:58 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: Olog-hai
read the organization these two women support...wants blacks to go back to africa...
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:33:06 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: Olog-hai
I guess they have never seen the numerous Black Madonna and Child icons, statues, etc...
AP trying to cause a controversy where none exists.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:33:15 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: Olog-hai
Donated honor of her aunts.
Reminds of the funny bit in The Bishop’s Wife where the acerbic donor insists that St. George be portayed in the likeness of her late husband and David Niven asms, “And who should the dragon resemble?”
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:33:16 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: GOPJ
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: Olog-hai
This very famous, highly venerated image was reputed to have been painted by St. Luke. It has been in Poland for 600 years. The people of Poland have had no issue with the dark skin tone of Our Lady or Our Lord in it.
Our Lady of Czestochowa
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:35:50 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Brilliant; Salvavida; Sacajaweau
The window was commissioned by a Mary P. Carr in honor of two women, apparently her late aunts, ...both married into families If the sisters had married into a Japanese samurai family and commissioned an artist to have Jesus look Japanese would we be having this discussion?
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:36:23 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hello idiot democrats - we don't want to 'come together' - we think you're evil.)
To: Fai Mao
Logic leans a lot farther toward darker skin and black hair rather than light skinned and blonde hair.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:37:14 AM PDT
by
Dutch Boy
(The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
To: Olog-hai
I don’t care what skin tone Jesus has. He is my Savior.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:37:52 AM PDT
by
Allegra
To: Olog-hai
sounds like the ladies had some big bucks...assuming they are black....seems to say they want them back in africa
To: Fai Mao
Jesus probably looked like an Arab with medium dark skin.
The genetics of those who reside in the Middle East has changed a great deal in the last 2000 years. Look at the demographic changes that have taken place in areas around this country in just the last few decades. It is unlikely that Jesus looked like an Arab or a black man. He likely looked like someone of Jewish ancestry since that is what he is actually known to be. Put a beard and long hair on Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Rudd, or Adam Sandler if you want to imagine a more accurate likeness.
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:38:40 AM PDT
by
fireman15
(Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
To: xp38
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:39:35 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Brilliant
“What is the controversy? Who cares if he had dark skin?”
That is brilliant, thank you... The hypocrisy is absolutely deafening.
It really does not matter at all...
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posted on
05/14/2023 11:40:34 AM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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