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Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?

Poll: Does your current or former church use a white European image for jesus and his disciples?
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Yes, the only images of jessu were portrayed as a white man.
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No, my church used an appropriate dark skinned image of jesus
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Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 25, 2015 at 11:20 pm
My favorite is Dali's Corpus Hypercubus
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February 26, 2015 at 1:31 am
Pretty sure jesus historically looked like a arab and certainly not white.
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February 26, 2015 at 1:39 am
He wasn't black or white, somewhere in between, but then I don't think there ever was a Jesus.
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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 26, 2015 at 2:42 am (This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 2:43 am by Norman Humann.)
White skin and blue eyes and really, kind of girlish. and always with a pained "I died for your sins" look on his pretty face. Looked more like a commercial than a historical figure to me... but then again he probably wasn't one.
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February 26, 2015 at 4:06 am
(February 25, 2015 at 9:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(February 25, 2015 at 8:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sounds a bit tricky, as modern depictions of Jesus date from the late 15th Century, and Serapis Bey was invented in the 1870s.

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I'm speaking of the "pretty boy" He's usually depicted as lately, But if you're going back to 15th century, then he's most likely modeled after the "Ashkenazi Jew" which are of European descent.

Nope, he's modeled after an Italian of Spanish descent:

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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 26, 2015 at 6:04 am (This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 6:06 am by Alex K.)
The church paintings in my mom's home town where we usually went for Christmas were painted in the 1930s and depict a kind of Leni Riefenstahl's wet dream Jesus. There has even been some controversy about keeping them or replacing them.
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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 26, 2015 at 7:51 am
I've posted it before, but it's one of my favourites. It's a short documentary which gives a very strong case for the real ethnicity of jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORIICgi-0GI
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February 26, 2015 at 10:47 am
I've found the combination of a really plush 'high thread count' beard and absolutely no body hair to be pretty rare.
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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 26, 2015 at 10:53 am
(February 26, 2015 at 4:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 25, 2015 at 9:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I'm speaking of the "pretty boy" He's usually depicted as lately, But if you're going back to 15th century, then he's most likely modeled after the "Ashkenazi Jew" which are of European descent.

Nope, he's modeled after an Italian of Spanish descent:

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February 26, 2015 at 10:58 am
That Pope was pretty randy.

The series on HBO (or was it Cinemax?) The Borgias was all about his papacy. As I recall, Cesare Borgia either murdered his brother or was murdered by his brother.
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