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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 10:27 pm
(February 25, 2015 at 6:59 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Did your church use a white European version of jesus and his disciples?

Why did they?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/24...tail=email

Yes they did, mostly because, well, the people in the church more or less WERE white Europeans who don't care if studies have shown that he not only looked darker, but almost exactly like the late Eli Wallach.

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