Jesus and Santa were white - POLITICO.com
2013 Dec 13, 3:31am 21,972 views 45 comments
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Christianity's popularity/spread is not due to the race worshiping it, it is due to the historically dominant cultures worshiping and spreading it (often times forcibly). Those dominant cultures happened to be White and European, but could have just as easily been anything else. Whatver that dominant culture was, would have made JC look as they do.
Some need to think and go back pre-1500s and way way back down to the age of Constantine and not in Europe but Turkey, Constantinople. And how did the original Christians picture Christ ? All this was NOT lost to the later Europeans.
Wait, is she claiming Santa is real??
LOL, I was wondering if anybody else would catch that. It's either a parody on their own stupid audience, or Fox and it's viewers really ARE that stupid.
It's all part of the Fox "war on christmas" theme that they roll out every year. Imagine all the cranky boomers that will be arguing about that at family gatherings coming up.
Just when you thought the right wingers and their preachers at Fox couldn't get any dumber, they go and prove to everybody that they can be.
Y
2013 Dec 13, 10:27pm
And you don't?
wow, sounds like someone's well equipped to open up a fossil fuel distribution center.
Wait, is she claiming Santa is real??
MisdemeanorRebel
2013 Dec 13, 11:12pm
Christianity's popularity/spread is not due to the race worshiping it, it is due to the historically dominant cultures worshiping and spreading it (often times forcibly).
It's amazing how 1st Century working class/peasant Jewish girls from Galilee dress like 16th Century European Noblewomen, nevermind the strawberry blonde hair.
Maybe in heaven the Tudor Era is back in style.
It's amazing how 1st Century working class/peasant Jewish girls from Galilee
dress like 16th Century European Noblewomen, nevermind the strawberry blonde
hair.
LOL, not to mention that christmas SHOULD be on Jan. 7th, but by doing it on Dec. 25th kind of defeats the whole reason for redoing the calender.
That, and the whole cross symbolism, not to mention the hilarity of pointsettias in churches.
And don't forget easter with the easter-egg hunts and the chocolate rabbitts!
Dan8267
2013 Dec 14, 1:35am
Associating Mediterraneans with olives sounds racist to me....
Transparent race baiting.
Olive skin is a standard term for describing skin tone common in the Mediterranean and surrounding areas. See Cosmopolitan Magazine. The term is a beauty industry standard and has no negative connotation.
What a dumb thread. Jesus was caucasian. What the idiots on fox are arguing was whether he was a swarthy mediterranean caucasian or a light skinned northern european caucasian. Since even the earliest writers of new testament were very unlikely to have lived when Jesus lived and actually seen Jesus no one will ever know. I would bet on swarthy though.
John Bailo
2013 Dec 14, 5:03am
Only a white dude would act like Jesus, who was very touchy, high strung and judgmental. You could just see the Pharisees covering their ears as he launches into yet another diatribe about why they have it wrong, and how they just don't get it.
Y
2013 Dec 25, 1:37pm
No.
Obvious comedy.
But then again, why waste an opportunity to paint someone racist?
Associating Mediterraneans with olives sounds racist to me....
Transparent race baiting.
Dan8267
2013 Dec 25, 2:54pm
If that's your idea of comedy, leave it to the liberals. We're better at it.
Gods will always look like the dominant practicing demographic, so JC is white today/now. Give it a couple thousand years, and if Christianity survives, JC may be much more Eastern or Latin looking. ;)
Growing into the 100s of Millions .... and into Billions into the future...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Demographics_and_geography
What the idiots on fox are arguing was whether he was a swarthy mediterranean caucasian or a light skinned northern european caucasian.
really ? thats funny since most Caucasians dont see any differenes between the two.
really ? thats funny since most Caucasians dont see any differenes between the two.
Most caucasians I know can tell the difference between swedish women and greek women.
Y
2013 Dec 25, 9:14pm
To be "better at it", you first have to have a sense of humor.
Fail.
If that's your idea of comedy, leave it to the liberals. We're better at it.
Dan8267
2013 Dec 26, 12:32am
To be "better at it", you first have to have a sense of humor.
Fail.
If that's your idea of comedy, leave it to the liberals. We're better at it.
People who say "Fail" are usually the ones doing it. "Fail" has become a fill in for, "Well, I have no argument, but I still want to be an ass, so here's a cliché that doesn't apply.".
Only a white dude would act like Jesus, who was very touchy, high strung and judgmental. You could just see the Pharisees covering their ears as he launches into yet another diatribe about why they have it wrong, and how they just don't get it.
Pharisees were the most judgemental of all given their multitude of old testament "laws."
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How pervasive is Caucasian-normative culture? It just is, so you know.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/12/megyn-kelly-jesus-and-santa-were-white-179491.html
And in Kelly's defense, it does seem likely that Jesus had blond hair and blue eyes, since that is very common in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. And he existed for sure, because otherwise why would they write Gospels about him if he didn't? Hmmm?
My question for the Christians would be, do you think there would be as many avid Christians in the white community had Jesus been black? Or was it necessary to expropriate a Jew and a Jewish religion and give him European features for the religion to spread?