'Jesus was white. Did he have white privilege? Tweet by EricMetaxas, Evangelical 'thinker'

[bobbieinok]

The rest of the tweet makes clear he's ridiculing the United Methodist denomination's plan to develop a teaching program about white privilege for their members.

A few years ago Metaxas attempted to co-opt Bonhoeffer for his etreme RW christianist world-view

Found info about tweet on the blog friendlyatheist at patheos

[uponit7771]

1. Jesus was Asian, that really pisses off White Supremacist

[brush]

6. Asian? Wasn't he a middle eastern man with "bronze skin and hair of lamb's wool"...

as describe in the Bible. In other words, a POC.

[uponit7771]

8. Israel / Palestine is in Asia

[brush]

11. Commonly called the Middle East which is partly on the African continent....

populated by Semitic people.

[uponit7771]

15. commonly by westerners, not Asians, in Asia. People from the what we call the middle east don't..

... identify themselves as middle easterners who live in west Asia.

https://www.quora.com/Do-%E2%80%9CMiddle-Eastern%E2%80%9D-people-personally-identify-with-the-label-Middle-Eastern

Middle eastern is a geo-political term from the west since the countries including in the term are constantly changing etc.

Jesus was born in the geographic continent of Asia

[brush]

19. It's the entire region or levant or whatever you call it and part of it...

is on the African continent. And do the people in those several countries call themselves Asian or Semitic or Palestinian of Egyptian or whatever? Asian is most likely the last word heard to describe them.

Not arguing that part of the levant is on the Asian continent, just that part is on the African continent.

[uponit7771]

21. Yes, Asian is what people who are ... FROM ... that area call themselves geographically speaking. We

... in the west first think ethnicity when we hear Asian vs geographical and the people who live in west Asia/NE Africa are called middle eastern politically here in the west.

In early 1900s the area was called the near east

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/19/the-modern-middle-east-is-actually-only-100-years-old/

[brush]

23. In much of their literature it's called the levant. And certainly...

those on the African continent don't call themselves Asian.

[onetexan]

12. Palestine & Israel are considered part of the Middle East

These 8 are South Asian countries:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-population-and-economy-of-the-south-asian-countries.html

India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Afghanistan
Bhutan
Maldives

Jesus was Middle Eastern, but bottom line He is a Person of Color, not white as the evangelicals think or try to conveniently ignore.

[uponit7771]

13. There's no continent called "middle east"

[onetexan]

16. LOL i didn't mention continent anywhere on my post

where did you see that? The ME is a region. Look it up on the map.

[uponit7771]

20. Middle east wasn't a region (and still isn't technically) at the time of Jesus's birth. The term is

... geo political that people that living west Asia don't ascribe to.

[unblock]

2. did the son of god have privilege? lol

leaving aside the question of his skin color....

[Thekaspervote]

3. Jesus was a Jew from the middle east. Seen any white, blonde, blue eyed Jews from there?

[LakeArenal]

4. Jesus did not worship Jesus.

But they have invented Christianity much later for white people.

Jesus was a Jew. Jewish mother. Jewish father. Raised as a Jew. Lived all his life with the Jewish people. He did things to help his people, the Jewish People. He had no possible context where he associated with white people with blue eyes let alone thinking white people have any special privileges.

[harumph]

5. You are correct - though he might have run into

at least some light complected people who were associated with the Romans - or in some
other contexts (traders., travelers, etc.). None of which would have had any impact on his
beliefs as a first century Jew. It's easy to assume that ethnic groups of that time were
very isolated - but that is not supported by historical evidence.

[rurallib]

9. When you say "{Jesus had} Jewish father" does that mean God was Jewish?

since God was his father? Religion confuses me any more.

One thing I do know is that Trump worships Trump.

[LakeArenal]

14. Non-religiously a Jew raised him as his fathers

Taught him carpentry. Raised him as his son.

Religiously, there is no such thing as divinity.

[area51]

7. Jesus was white?

[Midnight Writer]

25. Yep, I seen pictures.

[Autumn]

10. One could ask him, but since he's dead they won't get an answer. My question would be, should

the words Evangelical and 'thinker' be used in the same sentence.

[Texaswitchy]

17. Jesus was not white and did not speak English.

He was not Christian.

He was a dark skin Jew.

Right wing types live in a fantasy world of a blond blue eye Jesus.

Like the picture in Sunday school.

[uponit7771]

18. WTF is wrong with this guys hair !!?

[DavidDvorkin]

22. It would have been Roman or Greek privilege, in those days.

[ogsball]

24. No Race In God's Kingdom

The Methodists are aware of their racist history and the leadership tries to do what it can to raise awareness. Search on Bishop Will Willoman for context. The church will continue to be criticised as it struggles with sexual identity issues over the next couple of years. My church has be instructed to study and teach the books White Frigility and How to be Anti Racist this fall.

Jesus' race has nothing to do with this except that most American churches wouldn't welcome him in based on his 'otherness' and our own sense of privilege.