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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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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 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.
(February 25, 2015 at 7:24 pm)Chad32 Wrote: "I come not to bring peace, but a gun."

Matthew 10:34 NRT (new redneck translation)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus? - by Alex K - February 26, 2015 at 6:04 am

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