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Hey if you are going to take the body of Christ in your mouth...
Nothin’ at all! . . .
. . . Nothin’ at all! . .
You want a Jesus movie starring Jared Leto? Because this is how you get a Jesus movie starring Jared Leto.
Can't help but notice that no one's mad about him being white, but being hot is out of the question.
People really need to drop the whole "people in the middle east in the first century couldn't be white" thing.
2 Kings 5:27 is literally about a subpopulation who have ancestrally passed skin as white as snow.
Lamentations 4:7 is about how pre-captivity there were people with skin like milk and a ruddy appearance.
Dead Sea Scroll fragment 4Q534 is either describing Noah or the Messiah as having red hair.
One of the more fascinating finds in this tomb, one that has not received much attention, was the preservation of a sample of Jewish male hair. The hair was lice-free, and was trimmed or cut evenly, probably indicating that the family buried in this tomb practiced good hygiene and grooming. The length of the hair was medium to short, averaging 3-4 inches. The color was reddish.
- The Only Ancient Jewish Male Hair Ever Found (from the same century as Jesus)
The tradition is also really concerned with skin checks and describes what may be skin cancer as its leprosy. Something that occurs at a much higher rate in redheads.
There's even a scene where the eponymous founder of Edom ('red') who is born with hair all over his body and named Esau either because of that hair or the reddish porridge he ate, either gives away or has his birthright/blessing stolen from him by the guy later renamed 'Israel' in the Bible.
There's a lot more to this and the underlying history, but the notion that the middle east was a monolith of appearances and that no one with pale skin or lighter hair were present is preposterous and a modern falsification of historical realities.
Jesus was probably darker skinned and haired than typically depicted, but it is by no means a certainty as it is popularly presented as.
But Jesus’ light skin and blues eyes suggest that he is not Middle Eastern but European-born. And the faux-Hebrew script embroidered on Mary’s cuffs and hemline belie a complicated relationship to the Judaism of the Holy Family.
Oh yeah
You’ve gotta remember that Jesus is half god and as we know god is white.
SMH the Son of Man can't be a hunk anymore? RIP so many classical European artists
Yeah he was actually fat, bald, white guy from New Jersey
Carl H Christ from ATHF
Ehhhey hey there fry man. Peace be wit chas or, uh, sumthin
Handsome, fresh faced, and not especially Semitic.
The ONE thing the bible says about his appearance is that he was average looking
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I was like huh does the Bible really say that? It doesn't use those words, but yeah it says he was born as a baby and then grew physically larger as he grew up
This was average back then! We're actually getting fuglier as a species
Um that was written by someone who died hundreds of years before Jesus was born.
Fictional character is reimagined and fanboys are annoyed, water is wet.
Throw the nuns and monks a bone. If they can't spontaneously orgasm looking at Jesus' groin and abs, after years of abstentinence, early morning mass becomes a bit of slog. I mean orgasm metaphorically of course, because they're so devout.
I'll quote Saint Teresa of Jesus:
In his hands, I saw a great golden spear, and at the iron tip there appeared to be a point of fire. This he plunged into my heart several times so that it penetrated to my entrails. When he pulled it out I felt that he took them with it, and left me utterly consumed by the great love of God. The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one cannot possibly wish it to cease, nor is one’s soul content with anything but God. This is not a physical but a spiritual pain, though the body has some share in it—even a considerable share.
They just wanted something that people would look at and think:
Oh. My. GOD.
"Easter poster depicting a handsome, fresh-faced White Jesus prompts criticism in Spain"
ftfy
I'm an atheist, but I was raised Roman Catholic.
These people that attempt to paint Jesus as some clean cut, light skinned fashion model is some prosperity gospel shit that intentionally glosses over the teachings of Jesus Christ as written in the New Testament.
Jesus had disdain for those that reveled in greed and decadence. He basically told them they wouldn't be welcome in heaven as they were. If Jesus were real, I can't imagine he'd be pleased being portrayed as some stylish, vain douche of means.
If Christians actually practiced the teachings of Jesus Christ of the new testament, I might not have been so quick to run away. That would involve praising selflessness, acceptance of different cultures, and giving till it it hurts, and shunning greed, gluttony, vanity, and self-interest though, so it was always a non-starter.
The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth are just plain wholly incompatible with the modern global economy, which is human civilization's true god.
The urge for power and refusal to admit fault was the reason why I started to doubt Christianity as a whole, despite growing up Catholic.
I can't understand how it can be so easy for some to preach love, acceptance, and hope while simultaneously using such ideas to push hate or fear.
Well considering Jesus is as real as Bugs Bunny I really don't see the issue.
I don't know about as real. I've seen pictures and movies of Bugs Bunny. I know what Bugs Bunny sounds like. Also, if I do something Bugs doesn't like, he gets revenge. He doesn't send me to a fictional land where I burn for eternity.
Bugs definitely seems more real to me.
Fair enough.
There is historical evidence that a man named Jesus existed at the time. Not quite 100% conclusive, but probably as good as it will get when looking for evidence from 2000 years ago.
Whether that human was also divine is a matter of faith, of course. Most scholars who are serious about this make a distinction between the historical Jesus and the divine one from Christian beliefs. The only two events that have this general historical consensus are that the historical Jesus was baptized, and that Pontius Pilate (who most definitely did exist) had him executed. Everything else around Jesus from the Bible can't really be verified one way or another.
Yeah, I got most of this from a Wiki link. So what. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus
*Yeshua
There most certainly was nobody named Jesus in Judaea at the time.
Which comes from the expression "god saves" an expression that was aspirational for the people to be saved from their Roman rulers.
What are the odds that a man who would be the supposed saviour would be named that? About the odds of someone named Dr. Octavious would get 8 limbs.
Actually pretty good since like one out of every six dudes in Judaea was named that at the time.
Even if true that would mean 5/6 were not.
I say we give him like the deepest cum gutters possible.
Bugs Bunny?
I'm sure they'll take the opinion of random internet atheist edgelords to heart.
Yeah in Sevilla Easter is THE holiday so I'm sure this is gonna play out fascinatingly well...
eh, Buddy Christ did it better
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