• The post you are reporting:
   
  Clearly Jesus would have been of Palestinian, or Middle eastern, appearance!!!! He is a historically proven figure, born to Middle Eastern parents in the Middle East! Not "nearly all" Christian iconography presents him as white - only the iconography with which we, a western culture, are familiar!! And that is probably understandable. There is plenty of more appropriate or reality based imagery in the - wait for it.... - Middle East. I am constantly astounded by the way in which people who reject religion (for whatever reason) seem to think they have an great instinctive knowledge of religions and their artefacts!! There is so much to learn about all religions - Christianity being among them! - that is historic albeit open to contextual interpretation, and to learn about it some work should be done around language, context, the politics of the time - so much contributory information that informs and colours the perceptions. To simply say that "nearly all" iconography shows Jesus as white is inaccurate and based on......what? What we have seen here? Yes, in this culture white people often pictured Jesus as white - as many cultures have done, they depicted what was significant to them in a famliar and comfortable format. All cultures do that!

Report Post

Your Name

Reason