How the black man embraced Christianity

[Rev. Rye]

Read it, Huggy.  He's recounting the Mark legend and citing a shitload of mythical people.  Circular reasoning of a type by which dripshit always climbs up his own asshole again and again.

It's worth noting that the idea of race, as we understand it today, didn't really actually exist around the time Acts was written. Ethnicities (like Roman, Greek, Judean, or in this case, Ethiopian or Egyptian), those were recognised, but lumping together, for instance, Romans and Greeks (or, Jupiter help you, the Romans and Gauls and Germanics) under one umbrella ("White") and Ethiopian or Egyptian under another ("Black") appears to not have occurred to man at this point.

The earliest version of the modern race concept I can find is the Medieval idea that there are three distinct bloodlines who can be traced back (theoretically) to the three named sons of Noah, which correspond to Asian, African, and Indo-European peoples, which started sometime around the eighth century AD, when they worked under the assumption that the world looked something like this: