RE: Did your church use pictures of a white european jesus?
February 27, 2015 at 5:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2015 at 5:56 am by ManMachine.)
(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
I was brought up in the Church of England and I was educated at a C of E school and yes, they used a white, light-brown haired Jesus. Jeffsus, if you like.
I have read an article somewhere that the modern depiction of Jeffsus is something to do with Da Vinci painting Jesus to look like himself, a habit we carried-on with in Western tradition. I'll try and dig the article out.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
