Fox News host Megyn Kelly says Jesus and Santa are white

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75. Yes, this

I am a theologian by training and one of my favorite courses to teach is a class on various cultural and political perspectives on Jesus, from Latin American liberation Christology, to African inculturation Christology, to feminist Christology, to interreligious conversations about Jesus, to the Black Christ of the slave church. Fascinating stuff. I also include a section on the historical Jesus and historical Jesus scholarship. From that I know that this picture is the closest to a "Kodak moment" we have for Jesus. The depiction is based on extensive research by scholars on what a man of Jesus' heritage and time and place would have looked like.

The traditional white Jesus with long flowing brown hair and beard is based on the ideal medieval European nobleman. The first to try to depict Jesus in a more historically correct way was Rembrandt, who lived in the Jewish section of Amsterdam and used a young Jewish man as model for his various portraits of Jesus. But of course those Jews were far more light skinned than the Jews of Jesus' time. The picture above is closer to the actual historical Jesus.

I'm afraid he might be too dark skinned for the right wing version of Christianity in the US.