Posted on 12/30/2008 8:40:02 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
As a lifelong Christian, I am deeply offended by the creche that keeps appearing on the Chester County Courthouse grounds. It is racially, culturally and religiously insensitive.Jesus and His family were Middle Eastern and most likely had very dark hair, eyes, and skin — yet this offensive creche, showing the Holy Family and others in the Christmas drama as if they were northern Europeans with light skin and hair, keeps showing up on public property. Mary has blond hair, no less! And all the others have chalky skin and either blond or very light brown hair! I will not, as I have heard from some, judge the offending creche to be "racist" or "bigoted" because I prefer to assume it reflects only ignorance — and not animus.
However, I do wish that the people who put up this offensive "nativity scene" would be more attuned to history, culture, and the Bible and that next year they would provide a more realistic and appropriate display.
Additionally, the public officials who approve this creche might take a closer and more sensitive look at it and realize that it is offensive to many of the Chester County voters who pay their salaries.
Karen Porter West Goshen
In addition, Porter allows the signs below calling Christians Fascists and mocking those who believe in Jesus at her group's anti-Americn protests. Porter's book selection for that local peace movement book club is Christopher Hedges' book about Christian Fascists.
Anyone wanting to reach out to Karen Porter to let her know you are praying for the healing of her diseased soul can do so politely via:
Karen Porter, Esq
Director
The Chester County Peace Movement
PO Box 1502
West Chester, PA 19380-1502
ccpeacemovement@aol.com
(610) 344-0228
She does have a job. She’s a “Peace Director”. It’s something like a “Community Organizer”.
No, she doesn't have a valid point. Jesus, Mary and Joseph were Jews, NOT Arabs. So, they would probably look like the Jews of today, of which many are white, or caucasian. Of course, there are darker Jews, and whiter Jews. So, I believe the statues in the creche are anatomically(?) correct.
I think it’s an abbreviation for “douche bag”, although the spelling is strange.
Dear Karen Porter West Goshen Dingbat: You are practicing that mental aberration, muslim or ignorant liberal logic.
First you guess that the Holy Family had dark skin, hair and eye color and, on the basis of that guess, the creche becomes hateful.
So much for the "...content of their character, not the color of their skin." Do you really want to go there?
The Middle East was the crossroads of many empires for thousands of years and every possible color was present among the invaders criss-crossing the area the entire time.
Later, even the cousin of Marie Antoinette was captured by muslim pirates and sold at auction, was bought for the royal harem and became the mother of a Caliph!
Isn't selective ignorance wonderful? Specially when it serves the dark master of race-baiting, cultural-baiting or whatever hate you promote this week.
Creches traditionally assume the colors of the local population or culture, and it takes a specially tiny mind to focus on differences and miss entirely the spirit of the exercise.
The Jews of biblical times, before they were defeated decisively by the Romans, almost exclusivly were dark haired/olive skinned Middle Eastern semites who troughout the times had some genetical input from Egyptians/Greek/Persians etc.
Grow up, Karen, and stop being such a whiney little b*tch.
“She does have one valid point. Jesus, Mary, Joseph, etc... were of middle easter descent. They probably looked more like modern arabs than modern northern europeans.”
Sure, she has a valid point that they were probably darker than modern northern europeans, but so what! A nativity creche in Ethiopia will have black africans for Mary, Jesus, Joseph, and I doubt she would ever criticize that. Each ethnicity typically takes liberties with the appearance of biblical characters, but there is nothing malevolent about this.
They therefore probably looked like Syrians today.Syrians today look like Arabs, like all middle easterners except the jews. But that does not tell us how the numerous people who lived in the region looked like before the muslim Arabs invaded and conquered everything.
She's spending entirely too much time worrying about nonsense.
Who cares if these symbols are not life-like?
sheesh... freaking psychos!!!
The Jews of today, because of their almost two thousand years of diaspora throughout the world, are different from the Israelite Jews of biblical times. They lived in Russia, Europe, Africa etc. and thus have divesified genetically. The vast majority of Jews of Jesus’ times were Middle Eastern types who had occasional contact to invaders/neighbours like other semites (Assyrians/Babylonians), Egypt, Persia and Greek people.
She’s a boob.
Also not all Middle Easterners (beside the Jews) are Arab. The Kurds, Persians, Afghans and Pakistanis and various Turkomen people aren't Arabic, but Islamic and Middle Eastern.
Sammy Davis Jr. was a Jew and so was Elizabeth Taylor. Go figure.
Chester County, Pennsylvania used to be a nice, quiet, God-fearing, farming community 20-30 years ago. What the Hell happened to it??????
i just pray that someday all the loonies will grow up and take life as life....people that can’t laugh at themselves or life have some deep rooted problems and or fears....or just nothing to do with their time....stop the world i think i am ready to get off.....
This assertion is almost certainly wrong. What is Israel, Syria and Lebanon today was the "downtown" of invading armies for centuries before the appearance of the Romans. Yes, most of the population were probably dark in most respects, but a significant number of far flung invaders certainly were not. Ever seen the famous photograph of the Afghani young woman on the cover of National Geographic from the 1985?
Take a look.
It is typical of us modern folk to underestimate the cosmopolitan world of our ancestors. To quote Acts 2 on the folks who happened to be strolling through Jerusalem on a Sunday morning:
"And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak, Galileans?
8 And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome,
11 Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
And Jerusalem isn't even a seaport.
That would solve everything, but that's not her aim, I'd guess.
Trying to "fix" everybody else is, it seems.
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