I knew, I just knew Jesus was a white man -

[packman]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Yonnie3 (a host of the General Discussion forum).

And now I have the facts to argue it----- That picture of Jesus hanging above my bed as I was growing up showing him with flowing, flaxen brown hair, blue eyes and white skin WAS CORRECT.


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[Wounded Bear]

1. I thought it was the Holy Spirit that entered Mary...

which would mean that Jesus was invisible!

[CTyankee]

6. here is one of the most beautiful renderings of the Holy Spirit entering Mary...

http://crivelli.gardnermuseum.org/works-upclose#-annunciation-with-saint-emidius-1486

This painting is gorgeous...

[Brother Buzz]

34. What is the significance or symbolism of the pickle at the bottom?

[OldEurope]

43. No symbol, no significance,

just an artist with a spleen.
Carlo Crivelli who probably died in 1500 used to decorate many of his paintings with cucumbers. We don't know why.

[Brother Buzz]

45. Ah, and fruit, too, mostly apples

But I NEED to believe it's a pickle because everyone knows.....

The brine washes all vegetable sins away.

[CTyankee]

46. He used it in another painting. I tried to find out why and couldn't.

I found it an interesting addition to a very religious painting.

[Chellee]

49. Is it a pickle?

I thought it was a delicata squash.

Not that I can think of any significance for that either.

[Brother Buzz]

54. Squash and fertility are connected in some cultures

It looks like a pickle to me, but what do I know?

[Chellee]

50. My favorite bits

are the guy in the back looking at the beam of light like, "What the hell is that?!?" and the child peeking around the stairs.

[CTyankee]

58. Here is my essay on this painting, published here on DU in 2015

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027416159

Hope you like it!

[marble falls]

2. Got any theories on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin ...

Christ's race is as important as that: not at all.

Christ's race doesn't even rate a mention anywhere in the Bible.

[democratisphere]

3. Show me the Ancestry DNA test results because nothing else matters.

[Brainfodder]

4. ...a joke...

Atheists...



I'll give it 7.5/10

[Vinca]

5. I wonder if the Evangelicals would still be so Jesus-y if they didn't think he was

a good looking, fair skinned, blond guy.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. He was apparently rich too.

Most evangelicals have this back assward belief rich = approved by God and poor = rejected by God.

[hlthe2b]

16. When Cleopatra was protrayed as Elizabeth Taylor, they were enthralled. When the question as to

whether she was not more dark-skinned came into prominence, not so much.

[monmouth4]

17. Jesus looked a lot like Tab Hunter back in the '50s. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

24. I thought he was supposed to look like Fabio?

[dalton99a]

7. Well, DNA test says

[Ilsa]

38. Are you Tyler Perry?

I swear, Maury was in the last movie I watched where Cora discovers Brown isn't her father and Madea falls apart.

Great addition to the thread!

[ismnotwasm]

8. God has DNA?

Wouldn’t that make him the result of creation, rather than the creator? Or something..

[LiberalFighter]

28. Which would then mean Jesus had 50% DNA and 50% no DNA.

[ismnotwasm]

39. Hahahaha

Good one!

[madinmaryland]

44. Would that make him sterile?

[LiberalFighter]

47. I would imagine so.

[safeinOhio]

9. On top of that....

Eve was a transgender clone.
It's right there in the Bible.

[KentuckyWoman]

10. I've read some real knee slappers in my time but

this one is up there with the funniest.

[NightWatcher]

12. Mary's lie to Joseph about who else she was sleeping with got way out of control.

Naw baby, I didn't cheat on you with a guy from town, and it sure wasn't your young carpenter's assistant. It was an angel who knocked me up for god. Yeah, that's the ticket. God knocked me up, so you can't stone me to death.

[SCantiGOP]

35. This was not uncommon in Ancient Greece

where the daily intervention of the gods was accepted.
If a girl from a good family became pregnant, it was often claimed that she had been visited during the night by a god from Olympus, which was a better story than blaming it on Georgio the stable attendant.

[Claritie Pixie]

41. Could have been knocked up by an alien for all we know.

That's just it - we don't KNOW. There is no evidence or facts about that story or anything else in the bible.

People choose to believe it, facts be damned.

[Corgigal]

13. Or like this?

I'm starting a church, they aren't even trying to hide it anymore. It may explain the voice.




https://images.app.goo.gl/XkCBPNTDhFdKpvBa7


Damn , it won't let me post the pic. I'm sure a more savvy computer DUer can do.

[blogslut]

15. Both Google and Facebook have coded it so one can't copy/paste photo URLs

[Corgigal]

18. Evil

Live and learn.

[handmade34]

51. ...

[Corgigal]

52. Outstanding in your field,

whatever it is. Thank you.

[handmade34]

60. ...

[Celerity]

59. here

and use this to take a screenshot for pics

https://gyazo.com

[hlthe2b]

14. Honest to GODDESS (God is female... FACT... LOL)

[Brother Buzz]

36. And she has a wicked cool sense of humor

Agassiz, a creationist (Intelligent Design), resisted Darwin's theory ferociously, and she let us know her thoughts on evolution during SF's 1906 earthquake.

[hlthe2b]

37. +1

[Takket]

19. The idea that God could have any gender is absurd

After all if God is a single entity, who is that person designed to mate with?

[treestar]

23. +1

the patriarchic societies imposed their view onto God who of course had to be male. It is a human creation.

[smirkymonkey]

26. And how do we know "God" is a white, blue-eyed, blond male?

Has anyone ever seen "him"? How do we know it's even human? It could look like this:

[lapfog_1]

53. well I have heard of this creature often invoked by Christians in times of crisis

"Holy mother of God"

[Iggo]

20. Well that's just science, my man.

Now do Santa!

[Codeine]

21. Where on Earth did you find that?

Some serious whackadoodles in this world.

[ProudLib72]

22. I disagree

I'm the queerest young fellow that ever was heard
My mother's a Jew; my father's a Bird

So it all depends of the coloring of the bird. We should be arguing whether it was a common crow or an unladen swallow. We should be arguing whether or not Jesus had feathers!

[treestar]

25. Joke will be on them

They have no idea God is white - where do they get that other than from out of their own asses? That's "logic" to them, I suppose.

[Initech]

27. That picture on the right looks like Kevin Smith.

So are they implying that Kevin Smith is Jesus?

[Martin Eden]

29. Was Man created in God's image?

If so, we should remember that the very first human beings came out of Africa.

[MineralMan]

30. This really belongs in the Religion Group, I think.

[yellerpup]

31. Hilarious!

I had the same conversation with my mother back in 1967 when I asked her how she knew for sure that Jesus was white. She said, "Every picture I've ever seen of him he had light brown hair and blue eyes."

[Duppers]

32. 😂

Problem is, they'd believe this.

[DavidDvorkin]

33. Arabian Jew?

[Claritie Pixie]

40. I love the word fact in all CAPS haha!

Magical thinking is not fact.

[Anders8]

42. This is precisely what the Mormons believe...

Although, I'm not sure what physical features they ascribe to the God being. They maintain he did in deed do the nasty with Mary, but he had the decency to wed her first!

[keithbvadu2]

48. Mitt Romney believes he will be the God of his own planet.

Mitt Romney believes he will be the God of his own planet.

[guillaumeb]

55. And every other "color" as well.

And speaks every language.

[True Dough]

56. Reading through this thread all I can say is

JESUS CHRIST, you people ROCK!!!

[roamer65]

57. Mary's account matches many modern abduction stories.

Could it be that Jesus was half alien?

Cue crazy hair guy from Ancient Aliens...

[Yonnie3]

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