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Originally Posted by willravel
Just fyi, Jesus (if he was real) wasn't european, and the pictures you see of him everywhere are painted and drawn by idiots. Jesus was likely what we would call Palestinian today, or possibly black. It's just as likely Jesus was asian or Native American as he was white.
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Will, that's a little out of character for you. I added the emphasis to part of what you wrote, and I think that it's really difficult to catagorize some of the world's greatest artists as "idiots". They were simply trying to make Christ more appealing to their audience by making him look similar. Some of them were working out of ignorance, having never personally seen an Arab or anyone from the area. Neither reason is "idiotic" or anything of the sort. Those that chose to depict him in that fashion now generally do so because it's the accepted manner.
Also, Jesus was Asian. Check your globe.
Having never been a fundamentalist or even a regular church attended past about the age of 10, I really have nothing else to add to this thread.