Why do Liberals get offended at Jesus being represented as a blue eyed blonde haired man but not black Asian or native American Jesus?
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Why would Jesus have looked like some redheaded white girl? Like, if you're saying it's because she's Jewish, Jews have a long history in Eastern and Northern Europe. And Israel only has the whiteness it does today because of British imperialism. The story of Jesus takes place when most "white" people were random bands of groups trying to stay out of the Roman empire. Like, the ENTIRE ROMAN EMPIRE was between "white" people and israel. I mean obviously depending on your definition of white.
Jesus would have looked straight up Arab. I find the white version silly, the Asian one hilarious, and the black one an attempt by specifically black Americans to retcon themselves into various things like ancient Egypt. (There were probably many, absolutely, but we've actually gene-sequenced mummies and they've all come up nearly identical to the people of the Levant/Eastern Mediterranean.)
So like, people will probably portray their religious leaders as someone who looks like themselves, which makes sense within reason. But even if you're making it look like you you have to acknowledge the inaccuracy. The problem with white jesus is that it's usually a picture hung in the house of someone who "can't stand those damned arabs in this country" or think we should "let the refugees rot at the border" because Jesus was literally Jewish Arab refugee, and it's these types of people who seem to especially be in denial of this.
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Multiple Reasons:
1. The most glaring is Liberals’ absolute assumption is “hyphenated People groups” are either Liberal, care about it, and/or are offended by it. They are sadly misinformed having obviously not traveled. If they did travel then they would learn majority of people are of a Conservative here rule, law, order, and Objective Standard is. Liberals are the outliers both in thought and doing.
2. Whole-heartedly invested in Self’s subjective feelings…even to the point of Self-Projecting, “their Self’s feeling/ righteous Religion” upon others.-Same thing they damn Christianity ✝️ for doing.
3. Given #2 they rather grab ahold of anything, no matter how upside down it is or how much it violates the Bill of Rights, than submit to the possibility of an Objective Standard.
-Silly People Group who likely have reduced humanity to impulses and neurons that form Being too.
4. Even though obvious intricate Design of Self, World, Morality (right/wrong) demand a First Cause, Prime Mover, Creator, and/or Judge (right/wrong). Given a Judge is required then there absolutely as to be a Creator with merit to judge. Most abhorrent reality to them is adherence to an Objective Standard that restricts their unrestrained deviance/anarchy cloaked in freedom.
5. They can not handle absolutes as Absolutes absolutely demand order and adherence too. Funny, actually given their Government choices absolutely demand adherence too or you die…
6. Nonsensical and uninformed people group.
Well, maybe because the Bible doesn’t actually mention what he looked like, and although his father was born in Bethlehem, we have no way of knowing what he looked like, or where Joseph’s ancestors were from. I mean ethnically speaking, we assume he was a Semitic Jew, but we don’t know! So I guess their issue is although we don’t know what he looked like, we KNOW what he did NOT look like, and he was not a blonde haired, blue-eyed white guy, and I’m fairly certain he wasn’t a pasty white ginger, like the woman in the picture either. But why anyone gives a shit when the Ten Commandments are pretty clear about “graven images”…. I have NO idea!
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Not all liberals find this offensive. Liberals aren't one group of people who share a brain, they are a group of people who generally believe similar things but their beliefs vary. Some are more extreme than others. You're a bit of a special case for not understanding this in the first place.
As for your question, Jesus was Middle Eastern, not European. He may have had light to medium skin but most likely darker hair and clear Middle Eastern features. Sorry bro.
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If he's the Last Adam, by reason if that, he had DNA on the divine side modeled after Adam's original DNA code. But of divine origin, so devoid of the sin curse and unable to be tainted by it from Mary's side. The other half was a purified version of Mary's code.
Since Joseph was a stepfather, he's genetically irrelevant. So that leaves Mary's genetic code. Middle olive skintone is the most reasonable. Many say that appearance-wise, The Chosen is one of the most accurate Jesus interpretations on screen to date. Way moreso than Jim Caveziel's attempt in The Passion, which was based more on classic Catholic artwork than genetic history.
But the reason for the left hating any historically feasible depiction is because they don't want him to be relevant. If he's relevant, their god of the state has to play second fiddle to something. And they won't have that.
And since white culture got where it is by adopting Christian values and forsaking its old pagan values, the desire to destroy the west means hating all things white. So White Jesus is nuclear waste to their ideology. But making everyone adopt Mud-Hutville values, and glorifying Black Jesus to pursue that end?
They don't care. Because that idol poses no threat to the state having absolute power. -
Well I disagree with you claim to be liberals, because I think conservatives get just as offend. Bottom like Jesus was a Jew from the Middle East. He was a real person even if you are a atheist. Jesus was a real person that walked the earth and it is very unlikely that he was Black or Asian. So he was probably more Middle Eastern / Western European... just like Santa Claus is a purely Western European figure promoted my western European culture. The real St. Nicholas was Greek and the real Jesus was from Palestinian controlled West Bank.
But if you are not atheist then sure in death Jesus can be anything he wants to be... but in real life he definitely was not black or main land Asian. Real life Jesus was Roman. - 695 opinions shared on Religion & Spirituality topic.
Where are these mass redarken Jesus rallies? The fact one or two people like to point out Jesus wasn't white doesn't mean all liberals are offended. Perhaps what is an issue is the right wing white supremacists who want to wipe out anyone who isn't white and Christian, just like jesus.
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I don't know how to put a polite answer for this one but I think the stereotypical American liberal these days are smart on a shallow level. So they can be quick and militant to criticize religions, cultures, social norms, etc. Yet they can really lack depth when it comes to values and cultural ideals and perhaps even a bit lacking in the romantic end.
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Because as a society were over the whole whitewashing thing. If we were to look at the area and time frame in which Biblical Jesus lived we would have seen a rather short, dark skin and dark haired, man with arabic features that didn't stand out in any particular way. Instead of the long hair that is often used in depictions of Jesus, his would have been shorter and curlier. Closer to this depiction.
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I'm not religious at all and I dislike most religions in the world (Buddhism is okay, I guess), but assuming Jesus Christ was even real, he would've looked like this at age 32.
Looks pretty dang accurate to me! I always thought the idea of a super-white looking Jesus taken from 1950s era art looked silly too, considering he was from what's now known in the modern day as Palestine. My grandmother was hyper-Christian and had pictures of Jesus up in every room of her house and they were all the 50s, white guy version of him and even when I was like 7, I always thought that made no damn sense.
Even his beard looks pretty damn "Middle Eastern," doesn't it? -
Because liberals consider everything racist or at least anything that favors whites to be racist no matter how true and how much proof there is to back up the facts. All the evidence strongly suggests or actually prices Jesus was in fact blonde hair and blue eyed. Do people really think with how dumb and violent blacks are that Jesus was actually black? Really? I say this as a white girl with natural pure platinum blonde hair longer than I am tall and very bright very light blue eyes that's married to and has kids with a very dark sexy black men. Black men are definitely sexier have bigger ducks and fuck better than white men which is why I married and had kids with one but white men are much nicer more peaceful and smarter and have contributed much more and built and invented much more than anyone ejsem
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"Ethically Jesus more likely looked closer to this woman."
Yup, although he supposedly got REALLY dark when he went into the desert, and I've seen some Jews who look nearly black, in color, not facial characteristics -
Honestly, I never knew that liberals complained about that but some non-whites do and I don't have a problem with it since there's lots of ancient depictions of Jesus as a dark skinned man. I'm more concerned with questions like why do liberals claim that minorities who disagree with them aren't minorities.
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Never seen one.
fuck knows what some 3rd world countries politics has to do with it.
basically no one gives a flying fuck what ethnicity he was.
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The Jesus most depicted in Christianity is white. Which is inaccurate. Nobody is offended it's just funny that people believe he was actually white.
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I'm not a liberal at all, but I am a realist. Jews 2000 years ago looked like everybody else from the eastern Mediterranean countries surrounding Israel. Arabic looking, dark skin and dark hair. Not like white Europeans that converted to Judaism. Welcome to reality.
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Being offended by white people makes white girls feel woke. They think that showing that they're offended by everything makes them good/nice people.
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I don't think you know what actually offends liberals. You only know what Fox or some other idiot tells you offends liberals.
Liberals don't give a shit what ethnicity your painting is. It is amusing though when you act like Jesus was an English speaking American good old boy, who would have had guns and hated black people and Jews. -
Lol, that’s a good point but liberals I know could care less about it. The question seems to imply that the liberal political leaning people only want to make an issue of something when it’s white people in question…but that seems illogical to generalize like that. ”why do liberals…”. Generalizations lack so much nuance and rarely bring any clarity when applied to such vague rumination’s.
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Anyone who argues about this is stupid as heck. They don't know about Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe who is a Cannonized by the Pope himself in Rome and the Roman Catholic Church Aztec Nahuatl speaking Virgin Mary. Literally the Mother of Jesus but Aztec. Why can the Mother of Jesus be Aztec? Because she can appear to people however she wants abd speak whatever language she wants.
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Jesus was Jewish so any portrayal other than that is incorrect.
As far as people being offended, there are way too many people
that get out of bed each day searching for something to be offended by
and then making sure everyone knows it. Those people are useless. - 670 opinions shared on Religion & Spirituality topic.
Technically he’d be middle eastern with light to medium brown skin and green or brown eyes and brown hair.
This is actually the most accurate - 940 opinions shared on Religion & Spirituality topic.
I don't understand "offended". Liberals don't believe in Jesus anyway.
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No, Jesus looked Jewish because he was Jewish.
He likely looked more like this Jew:
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