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"why is jesus white?" stupid question by anti-white racist idiots

posted 8 years ago by ccharlie183
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Before you ask the question "why is jesus white?" thinking you're asking some profound question challenging "western normative whitewashing" how about you actually look up ancient hebrew art from the era? You'll find nothing but depictions of white people with blonde and red hair with light(some times tanned) skin. Gene pools aren't eternal, phenotypes aren't eternal and jews were enslaved and conquered several times and lived among many other populations such as the romans, turks, and moors, their gene pool was influenced by these groups, the later two had the effect of darkening their complexion dramatically. If you're going to ask "why is jesus white" then you have to ask "white are all depictions of jews(IN THEIR OWN ART) in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries of white people with light hair and light skin?"
Any depiction of jesus as being white gets attacked immediately by this politically "correct" anti-white racist crowd that thinks they are challenging prejudices and ignorance while simply displaying their own prejudices and ignorance.

[–] NurNodesinNil 8 years ago

The scholarly aspect of your post is a bit tainted by the "stupid" and "idiots" remarks.

I think its a decent question as to what skin tone Jesus had. Checking Ancient Hebrew Art on Google , it is hard to tell. They dont look like Macgregor that is for sure hahahaahaa.

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[–] wallacesawyer 8 years ago

I don't really care if he's played by a white actor. Nostalgia I suppose. So many paintings and previous movies have depicted him that way.

I'm not strictly pro-white of course. I would have preferred an actual Native-American play Tonto in THE LONE RANGER (2013), as opposed to Johnny Depp.

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[–] sane1216 8 years ago

Actually if you look up art from the era, the earliest depiction of Jesus is that of dark skin, non white and blond hair. A whitish Jesus with long hair doesn't appear until about the late 3rd to 4th centuries AD and beyond. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from. The earliest paintings we can find are usually in the catacombs of Rome. The earliest one of of relative importance has been called The Good Shepherd and it's from somewhere between the late 2nd to early 3rd century B.C. Even in one from the 4th century titled Christ Between Peter and Paul, which has a long haired Jesus, has the Apostles both looking relatively darker with shorter hair and beards. However, some archaeologist think this is the earliest painting: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oldest-image-jesus-found-ancient-egyptian-tomb-1446725#. Again, notice the skin is not light, nor the hair blonde.

In regards to what you're talking about. The Egyptians depicted a set of Canaanites as very light with red hair. This, however, doesn't indicate that all Canaanites looked that way.

Jesus suddenly turning White is due to European depictions of him and thus since we are an Anglo-American culture which our visions of Christ come from Europe (not to say in anyway that Christianity is a European religion by nature), but the "white" Jesus is brought to us from Europe and not the Middle East.

For more information feel free to research Christian art on the Catcombs of Rome. There are plenty of different depictions of the Apostles, Jesus, etc. Like I said, the earliest ones have them looking dark skinned with short hair. You don't see lighter skinned depictions until later in the centuries.

[–] Dannysich 7 years ago

Another white Christian mostly racist who thinks Jesus was a white man smh