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$\"Jesus$ <\/p>\n

As a New Testament scholar who has blogged<\/a> about Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, racism<\/a>, and the appearance of Jesus<\/a>, I found this amusing \u2013 not least because the father who spills the beans is not Joseph, from whom Jesus would have inherited half of his Middle Eastern characteristics, but God.<\/p>\n

It is from Don Asmussen\u2019s Bad Reporter comic strip<\/a>. HT Jerry Coyne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There actually appears to be a religious dimension to the Rachel Dolezal case<\/a>, with blogger Libby Anne\u00a0suggesting<\/a> that her parents broke the story to try to deflect attention from abuse accusations involving their family.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"