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In reply to the discussion: Fox News host Megyn Kelly says Jesus and Santa are white [View all]small D democrat
(20 posts)63. I considered that.
But the blue eyes gene mutation beat Judaism by at least 1,000 years. Hell, we all started in Africa but we may be the most peripatetic sentient species. I've run into those who claim to be Sephardic Jews who are blue/blonde.
That being said, this is what my torts prof called "citation to anecdote".
For the teevee lady:
Yes, Santa is white, but he doesn't have to be. Yeshua Ben Yusef could have resembled the conventional Renaissance European representation of him, but it is highly unlikely.
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Only War on Xmas, Santa are in Fox News Corp Lack of Brains, they just Make Shit Up call it News!
mitty14u2
Dec 2013
#4
I heard they were both the color of water. I learned they were chameleons, assuming the attributes…
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#8
The tradition of St. Nikolaus giving gifts to children on Dec. 6 was absolutely Dutch.
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#42
The original was much skinnier. The earliest I saw looked Dutch, definitely Dutch.
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#83
Jews /Canaanites went back and forth to Egypt over many years before and during the time of Christ.
DhhD
Dec 2013
#56
This reply is about white skin due to latitude of the Earth and its harmful radiation from the
DhhD
Dec 2013
#71
Jesus looked just like all the middle eastern Muslims that they are so afraid of.
phleshdef
Dec 2013
#26
What next? Shall we argue over the ethnicity of the tooth fairy? Cthulhu?
Jester Messiah
Dec 2013
#57