What the letter writer seems to be saying is that James Caviezel should not have been given the role because of the way he look (too "European"). Maybe so, but one has to balance this against acting ability and charisma - one has to do this balancing act for all movie roles. Anthony Hopkins did not look at all like Richard Nixon in Nixon. I still thought he did a good job.
Gibson inaccurately depicts Jesus as European,
Gibson does not by any means "depict Jesus as European". He depicts Jesus as a Jew, among Jews. It's not like in the film he gives Jesus a backstory where he comes from the Saxons, or something. He uses a "European" actor to play Jesus, but that's not the same thing.
Jesus had woolly hair and brass-colored skin.
I don't see how the letter writer can know this. In any event, so what if he did. One has to use some actor or another to portray Jesus. That actor may or may not resemble this person's idea of what Jesus looked like. Deal with it. If this person has a problem with James Caviezel's acting job, let's hear it.
Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown, was populated by men who wore dreadlocks and never cut their hair.
Don't know about the "dreadlocks" part. Anyway, this is irrelevant.
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 today’s Jesus might look like him.
To wear baggy pants with untied shoelaces is hardly to "rebel against society". This letter is approaching silliness.
Gibson sparked the Second Coming by placing Jesus outside of the "church,"
Huh?
we finally get to openly talk about him as a black man on Earth and not some figment of our imagination.
Jesus as a "black man"? Ok, now we're in loony territory.
Kenya Kimbrough American Family Rights Association
Hmmm, is this that organization that thinks that all black people are "sun people" and Europeans are "ice people"? I remember hearing theories like this back on Dennis Prager's old TV show....
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This description is from Revelation, in which many symbolic or allegorical or metaphorical terms are used to describe Christ. In the above description, it is saying Christ appeared as a bronze statue (or at least His feet did). At other times, He is described as a lamb-"the lamb that was slain".
None of these descriptions should be considered eyewitness accounts as to how Christ appeared during His Incarnation, but the "feet like burnished bronze" and "hair as white as wool" descriptions get a lot of mileage amongst Afrocentric types as "proof" that Jesus was black (or at least bronze).
Sadly, such people are missing the main point of Jesus's mission, which, fortunately, Mel Gibson depicted so well in the movie.