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‘The Passion’ inaccurately gives Jesus European traits
Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune ^
| Thursday, April 1, 2004
| Kenya Kimbrough
Posted on 04/01/2004 1:00:31 PM PST by rface
Editor, the Tribune:
I remember when my mother said Santa wasnt real. Mel Gibsons "The Passion of the Christ," I suspect, will make some people experience the shock again. Gibson inaccurately depicts Jesus as European, with straight hair and blue eyes. This is a greater distortion than Elizabeth Taylors role as Cleopatra.
Long before Hollywood, sculptures and writings portrayed many gods as black, with African features. Buddha had woolly hair with tight curls or cornrows. Indias Krishna means "black" in Sanskrit. Islams Muhammad was "bluish" in color with "frizzy" hair. His grandfather was "black as the night." Moses was black, according to early portraits. The title for the Egyptian god Osiris means "Lord of the Perfect Black." The title for Zeus, the greatest of Greek gods, was "Ethiops," which means "burnt faced." Jesus had woolly hair and brass-colored skin.
Nazareth, Jesus hometown, was populated by men who wore dreadlocks and never cut their hair. Nazarene is from nazar, meaning "unshorn." The next time you see a dreadlocked youth walking down the street, rebelling against society wearing baggy pants and shoes untied, then just think that todays Jesus might look like him.
Tinseltown is not run by historians but rich actors. Gibson sparked the Second Coming by placing Jesus outside of the "church," and we finally get to openly talk about him as a black man on Earth and not some figment of our imagination.
We survived the truth about Santa. Arent we old enough to learn the truth about Jesus, too?
Kenya Kimbrough
American Family Rights Association
Kansas City
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackpanther; jesus
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I thought Liz taylor did a good job as Cleopatra.
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04/01/2004 1:00:32 PM PST
by
rface
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:02:32 PM PST
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To: rface
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:02:45 PM PST
by
rface
(Ashland, Missouri - monthly donor)
To: rface
I haven't seen the movie but I read that the actor who played Jesus was specifically chosen for his semitic looks, including brown eyes.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:04:02 PM PST
by
Arkie2
To: Arkie2
Jim Caviezel (the actor who played Jesus) has blue eyes but was wearing brown ones for the movie. They also did some movie magic on his nose etc. to make him look more semitic. What's her point anyway? No one knows what he looks like anyway.
To: rface
I think that Kenya Kimbrough is confusing Nazareth with Nazarite (sometimes spelled Nazirite). It was those who took a Nazarite vow who didn't cut their hair, not those who lived in Nazareth.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:07:59 PM PST
by
Jerry_M
(I can only say that I am a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. -- Gen. Robt E. Lee)
To: rface
Hey, Kenya, or Kwanzaa, or Ethiopia, or Noxzema, or whatever the hell your name is - shove your whiny Afrocentric propaganda up your keister. You bore me.
To: rface
Mouhammad according to Kenya
To: Paved Paradise
Jesus had dreadlocks.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:08:31 PM PST
by
rface
(Ashland, Missouri - monthly donor)
To: rface
When "I" saw the Passion of Christ the man that played Jesus had BROWN eyes,,,are you sure you even saw this MOVIE or like most of the people that have a problem with this Movie you've never seen it....
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:08:42 PM PST
by
ptavares
To: Sgt_Schultze
Bwahahahahahahahah
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: rface
Since Cleopatra was a Ptolmey, thus Greek, it is highly unlikely that she was from black african stock. The Ptolmey's had been ruling Egypt for several hundred years before Cleopatra.
Kenya is just doing the black origin of everything bit.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:11:36 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead)
To: Paved Paradise
No one knows what he looks like anyway. Why not? Just go to Israel or your nearest synagogue.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:13:06 PM PST
by
TopQuark
(g)
To: rface; Kenny Bunk
We survived the truth about Santa. Don't tell her about the Easter Bunny. Could be the last straw.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:13:10 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: GreyFriar
Cleopatra had dreadlocks too. You must be mistaken
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:13:33 PM PST
by
rface
(Ashland, Missouri - monthly donor)
To: JackRyanCIA
He did. I have it on tape.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:14:02 PM PST
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: rface
Besides, everybody knows Jesus was really Irish.
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:14:03 PM PST
by
Argus
(Ceterum censeo Fallujam esse delendam.)
To: rface
Kenya Kimbrough,At the risk of sounding racist, I guess I don't have to guess her ethnic origins, do I ?
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:14:05 PM PST
by
BSunday
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To: rface
Jesus had dreadlocks.No, I'm afraid you're wrong. He did not.
He looked, as a matter of fact, very much like Jim Caviezel.
I can prove it.
Can you?
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posted on
04/01/2004 1:14:40 PM PST
by
angkor
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