Posted on 12/26/2015 11:10:48 PM PST by Impala64ssa
To be clear, Christmas in the United States, despite the name, has very little to do with Jesus Christ and everything to do with consumerism and gift giving.
However, side by side with Easter, it’s also the time when we are most likely to see depictions of Jesus used as tools of white supremacy.
In Atlanta, I see them everywhere I go. Jesus as a blond-haired, blue-eyed baby and his blue-eyed supermodel mother are ubiquitous and done without even a slight hint of humor. It's preposterous. It would truly be no different from depicting Christopher Columbus as a dark-skinned African or Thomas Jefferson as a long-haired Latino. People actually look a certain way.
Jesus was not a European. When mythical baby Jesus and his parents needed to hide, they didn't flee to England, but to Egypt — where scripture suggests they blended in well. HO/REUTERS When mythical baby Jesus and his parents needed to hide, they didn't flee to England, but to Egypt — where scripture suggests they blended in well.
Even if you believe Jesus is a myth and the Bible is a myth, please understand when mythical baby Jesus and his parents needed to hide, they didn't flee to England, but to Egypt — where scripture suggests they blended in well. Two thousand years ago and in virtually every generation since, blending in with the everyday people of Egypt has always meant dark hair and dark features.
Choosing to depict Jesus and his mother in a way other than reality is strange at best and nefarious at worst.
When we lived in California, I cringed when my children saw stringy blond-haired surfers with beards and they would blurt out to us, "Hey, he looks like Jesus!" I would have to stop and correct them and say, "No, he looks how white people want Jesus to look, but Jesus did not look like a California surfer dude."
It's not simply an honest mistake though.
When the man who is deemed the central figure of a religion and indeed the savior of the entire world is consistently portrayed to look like a Scandinavian sailor when he more likely resembled a Syrian refugee, it's being done to advance an Anglo-Saxon, white supremacist agenda.
Islam is a war plan.
ESAD, NYDN
1Samuel 16:12And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
1Sa 17:42
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
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The genetic heritage of Jesus only matters if you believe that Joseph, not God, is the father, in which case the science matters, but the man does not.
I’ve known a number of Jews who didn’t look “Jewish.” They looked “European” for what it’s worth. So what? Just another leftist muckraker trying to make a name for himself.
The only physical description of Jesus that does exist is from a copy of a letter from the Roman consul Lentulus to the Roman Emperor Tiberius. This document was discovered in a Monastery with copies of other ancient documents. According to the copy of the letter, the original letter from the consul was dated to the 12 year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. Scholars have historical verification that a certain Roman consul named Lentulus was in Judea at the time of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion. His influential family is mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus in his book Antiquities of the Jews.
All the chestnuts I’ve seen are dark brown.
The famous mosaic of Christ on the wall of the Haigha Sophia in Istanbul is an elegant depiction.
I have been there and seen that. Yes.
The daily news fit to print and excellent for the bottom of a bird cage
I know albinos that are blacker than King the fraud. The guy is a complete moron who couldn't get enough attention as a white nerd so he converted to the dark side. Never seen him with a woman so he's probably a butt pirate to boot.
Well, I have said this before about other silly, loony articles; in a pinch, it can be printed up and used as toilet paper..
What Jesus the Christ looked like matters nothing, what he said and did matters!
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09154a.htm
just passing it along because I was interested and curious and looked it up because I had never seen it before.
I am so sick of hearing the words “racist” and “racism” that I instinctively respond “and you’re a child molester. Now that we’re through name-calling, can we have a serious discussion.”
Isaiah says he looked no different than anyone else and had no beauty that we should desire him. I think I’ll stick with Isaiah’s version.
Dark brown in the shade. Put a ripe chestnut in the sun, and you’ll see the red. Like Maureen O’Hara’s hair, as it was in The Quiet Man.
That’s exactly who he’s appealing to, too...others with eighth grade level mentalities and education.
Jeremiah Wright is as unlikely to be correct on anything as his most famous drug-addled student, the communist who currently occupies our White House.
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