Leftists *hate* Jesus. And, while they do indeed hate white people, they hate Jesus far more. Though they do sometimes find it useful to their goal of enslaving everyone else to engage in "God talk".
One of the ways leftists love to express their hatred of Jesus, and of white people, is to mock the "Blond Blue-Eyed Jesus" whom Europeans have allegedly foist upon the world, along with pretending that we Christians of European cultural descent are not fully aware that Jesus was a Jew, of deep Jewish ancestry, and that he would have looked like a 1st Century Jew. That is to say, he would have looked like a person of broadly Mediterranean ancestry, rather like a modern Greek or Syrian, not like a person of northern European ancestry. In the linked clip, the lying leftist Sonny Hostin even trots out the perennial leftist lie that "... and most people don't know that."
In this clip (from about the 1:20 mark), when the lying leftist Sonny Hostin says that at her "black Catholic" church, "Jesus is brown", what do you think the odds are that in that church, Jesus is depicted as a Negro? And further, what do you think the odds are that this depiction is for leftist political reasons, rather than for organic cultural reasons?
The nation of Ethiopia -- a nation of black people, in Africa -- have been Christian for 1700 years or more (And for a good 1000 years of that time, they were forcibly isolated from the rest of Christianity by the Moslem incursions and conquests). When Ethiopians depict Jesus, or any other Biblical character, they depict them as Ethiopians. Are they wrong to do so? Are they vile racists to do so? Are they foisting a lie upon the world when they to do so? Of course not!
Will the vile harridans of 'The View' attack the Ethiopians for their "lying" depiction of Jesus as an Ethiopian, rather than as a 1st Century Middle-Eastern Jew? Of course not!
Some years ago, I saw an image of a painting from China, depicting the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. It was a thoroughly Chinese painting; not only the landscape depicted in the traditional Chinese style, but also the Holy Family depicted as Chinese persons. Was that artist wrong to do so? Was he a vile racist to do so? Was he foisting a lie upon the world when he did so? Of course not!
Will the vile, hypocritical harridans of 'The View' attack Chinese persons for their "lying" depiction of Jesus as an Chinese man, rather than as a 1st Century Middle-Eastern Jew? Of course not!
There are cultural and historical reasons (specifically, centuries-long Moslem piratical depredation on the Mediterranean Sea which isolated Northern and Western European Christians from other Christians and from the world at large) that persons of European cultures depict Jesus in a manner derived from European cultures, just as there are cultural and historical reasons that persons of Ethiopian culture depict Jesus in a manner derived from Ethiopian culture, and Chinese likewise. And there is nothing wrong with this!
Jesus has not only the title, "Son of God", but also the title "Son of Man". As "Son of God", he is the God and savior of *all* men. As "Son of Man", he is a man of men, he is the representative of *all* men. *All* men are invited to come to Christ and to find their fulfillment and completion as men in him, and their salvation in him.
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4 comments:
An excellent post!
I can't remember ever seeing a depiction of Jesus as blond-haired and blue-eyed. I mean like ever. I agree with you, this is just more anti-white hatred. Racism is a topical doppelganger, it assumes whatever form your topic demands.
The nearest I've ever seen to a depiction of Jesus as blond-haired and blue-eyed is this one ... and, as you can see, it's not very blond or blue-eyed:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263615152498
==Racism is a topical doppelganger, it assumes whatever form your topic demands.==
I like that.
How is this restatement? ... "Racism takes the shape of whatever glass is handy to pour it into."
You're quite the poet! I like your formulation.
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