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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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I'm a contrarian, none of the above.
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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 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.

Boru

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.

Examples please?

Here's a gallery showing that people have mostly depicted Jesus as looking like those around them:

http://www.religionfacts.com/jesus/image_gallery.htm

Regardless of time period or culture.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus? - by Jenny A - February 25, 2015 at 9:24 pm

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