Spotted on facebook:
Only 80,000 fans in 15 days? I thought Jesus could do better, especially if he’s paying for sidebar ads.
(You can also become a fan of Unreasonable Faith on facebook, which scores you big points with white curly-haired Jesus.)
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Yeah, I keep seeing that pop up on my sidebar. I debated whether or not to become a fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but then I decided I hate Facebook and went off to do something more productive.
Why is Jesus depicted as white so often? Do people other than the KKK actually believe that he was white?
Emperor Constantine
Yes, that is my criticism too. Jesus was not a brown haired, blue eyed person (like me)… he was a middle eastern Jew…
What you described are merely the “externals”, the physical. And the physical is the illusion, the temporal, not the real, not the eternal. You dont have a soul, you have a body, you ARE a soul (CS Lewis).
The mirror lies, we cant believe what our (natural) eyes tell us alone…there is more. The first revelation is that our bodies are not us. So, is LRA identified by her physical hair and eye color? Her physical nationality? Or is there something (or someOne) underneath, hidden, unseen awaiting recognition?
“Why is Jesus depicted as white so often?”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/depicted?qsrc=2446
Do we say “whoosh” now?
Exactly! Dark hair and eyes with tan/brown skin…
Oops! That was for Q-I-T…
Yep. When I was a teen-age Christian (sounds like a movie– I was a Teen-age Werewolf) there was SoCal Surfer Jesus and even tho I was a believer that picture made me want to spew.
Surfer Jesus? Sounds like Surfer Ken or Barbie. Was he plastic and anatomically incorrect?
Surfer Jesus, that reminds me of the Silver Surfer. Oh, man…
And middle eastern Jews are genetically indistinguishable from middle eastern Arabs.
Are you insinuating that he might be terrorist-colored, like those guys that run the convenience store down the street?
Rufus: Jesus wasn’t white, Jesus was black.
Bethany: Well then why did he get written about and you didn’t?
Rufus: Well, he IS the son of God. Kinda hard to have a New Testament without him. So you fudge a few facts, put a spin on his ethnicity. Leavin’ me out’s okay because you still got twelve white boys to choose from.
Rufus: White folks only want to hear the good shit: life eternal, a place in God’s Heaven. But as soon as they hear they’re getting this good shit from a black Jesus, they freak. And that, my friends, is called hypocrisy. A black man can steal your stereo, but he can’t be your Savior.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
Lol – Dogma ftw
Jesus was black, no Jesus was white. Hey guess what, Jesus was jewish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CSnlb-ymA
Can you be a fan of Satan?
Yes.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Satan/24861318525?sid=c0a00cccc6bffcdba7349aa1baae9d7f&ref=search
Im signing up right now, Satan will be Jesus in the Facebook war
Beat jesus not be Jesus, oops-si-doodles
Cool! I’m signing up!
Jesus never existed, so he didn’t have a color. But I assume most people who lived there at the time were dark-brown or tan.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. It’s surprising how many atheists will deny Jesus’ divinity yet continue to believe in his existence. The evidence is pretty clear that Jesus is just another mythological fabrication by the early church.
Thanks Mark D, I was going to say the same thing as well. No color as he never existed. If he did exist, he would’ve been something other than white.
Unless I am misinformed, which is certainly possible, the evidence is not conclusive that Jesus never existed. To balance, neither is it shown definitively that Jesus closely resembles the biblical narrative. It seems reasonable for an atheist to both discuss his lack of divinity and his existence.
While there is little solid evidence either way, I would suggest it odd that a religious cult would lie about the name of their leader. Since we do know (have good historical evidence) that there was this Jewish-Hellenic sect that called themselves ‘The Way’, it seems logical to take them at their word that their leader was a guy named Yeshohua.
Whether that guy *did* any of the neat things that are written about him is quite another thing.
I got distracted with the comments on the Saviors skin color and forgot what I was here to comment on. I don’t use facebook (and don’t see why people do), so I can’t be his friend.
“I don’t use facebook (and don’t see why people do)”
It’s called mental masturbation. I have to confess that I’ve fallen victim myself.
I’m not sure, but I think it’s because people enjoy it.
When I first saw it, my buddies and I used it to laugh at our classmates who were dumb enough to post pictures of themselves drinking underage.
Now, for me, it’s just an IM program with some semi-interesting things to look through between replies.
Jesus has been portrayed as a Roman for approximately 1700 years.
http://dougwadedesign.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/why-i-left-atheism/
Nobody cares.
actually, what jumped out at me was that the URL says the post is from the future.
dwade is posting from tomorrow.
notice he uses the word “indoctrinated” facinating
I noticed most of your blog articles are written by other people who one can presume protect themselves with copyrights. Wondering if you got permission where required.
Paragraph breaks = more likelihood of getting read
Wow, I finally clicked and for some reason I’m still surprised that one of your posts is on something so poorly supported/researched that even Answers in Genesis says is an argument creationists shouldn’t use (because it’s false and in the words of creation.com, “a hoax”).
referring to “Joshua’s Long Day”
links
http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use
http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/topic/arguments-we-dont-use
Not even close to “interested.”
I get the feeling dwade just wants people to click on links to his blog.
If you search “Jesus” on facebook you get more than 500 results – and they almost all have a pale caucasian bloke as the group picture :D
Wow, what a clear picture; they had really good cameras and good quality film back then!
Jesus was pretty hot, wasn’t he.
Sexy Jesus!
Yeah– the Jesus in the pic above looks like my college boyfriend with long hair… he was 6’3″, 220 lbs solid muscle and smart too! (Kinda a jerk, though, so it didn’t work out…)