St Albans Cathedral will replace traditional Nativity scene featuring Virgin Mary with a painting of the Last Supper featuring a black Jesus in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

dm ^ | 6/30/2020 | elsom

[SkyDancer]

Sounds like something from the Babylon Bee.

[libh8er]

A good example of illegal immigration.

It's even worse. Most immigration to the UK is/was legal -- muslims and other third worlders brought in by the millions by their govt.

[indthkr]

"The UK is lost. It’s a former country."

London is definitely lost.

I'm pretty sure the rest of the UK still has a heartbeat but is being dragged to the bottom.

[Boogieman]

Should also have some more appropriate food choices for Black Jesus’ Last Supper, like purple drank and flaming hot cheetohs.

[RummyChick]

also, what’s with the cherries on the plate

Is that suppose to be a Jerusalem Cherry that is poisonous?

[dfwgator]

London is definitely lost.

I used to dream, and I used to vow
I wouldn't dream of it now
We look to Los Angeles
For the language we use
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead

-Morrissey "Glamourous Glue"

[budj]

In what bizarro universe do they think a black face Jesus will be acceptable to anybody?

[OSHA]

Wow. Isn’t being nailed to a cross worse than lynching? Just asking for a friend.

[plain talk]

I hope he gets enough money from the shoot to afford a proper fitting sport coat.

[kingu]

My biggest disagreement is over doing it to appeal to one specific group.

We're doing this for BLM. Alright, you just cheapened the act. There's been huge numbers of variations of such depictions over the centuries to appeal to different groups.

Not the first time something like that has been done for appeasement.

[Boogieman]

Even Jamaicans aren’t really from Jamaica.

[PeterPrinciple]

This is exactly why God instructed - NO GRAVEN IMAGES

[Tench_Coxe]

"The Dean has agreed to install the 9ft piece of artwork on the altar after conceding that the church is in a weak position to preach about racial justice."

If this is their focus, sounds like the church is in a weak position to preach the Gospel.

[null and void]

Something to annoy the both of us...

[Responsibility2nd]

Yeah. Right.

Like this instance of sucking up will actually appease the BLM crowd.

[Responsibility2nd]

Exactly.

Jesus is wearing blackface???

Bring the torches.

[I want the USA back]

BLM has nothing to do with Christianity, and promotes the elimination of Christianity, Whites, private property, the Constitution.

[null and void]

If this is their focus, sounds like the church is in a weak position to preach the Gospel.

Gospel? What's that? </half the so-called Christian churches on earth>

[Leaning Right]

Q. Was Jesus black, white, or something in between?
A. Yes.

So I have no problem with, say, a black community envisioning Jesus as a black man. And that’s because it’s Jesus’s words that matter, not His image.

But to use Jesus just to make a political statement - as is being done here - that’s repulsive. Simply repulsive.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Btw, if you are going to paint Jesus as black then all the other people have to be black, too."

Possibly not, if you intend to send a message of black supremacy.

As for the black Jesus, that is even more of a distortion of reality than the lily-white, blue-eyed Jesus often depicted in European art. But as the left dominates more and more social space, we are increasingly required to accept lies.