Who’s whiter: Shawn Bradley or Jesus?
(Jesus is the one on the right.)
So maybe it’s not such a big deal that whites draw Jesus as white even though he was from the Middle East. However:
- We have enough knowledge to try to create a more plausible image of Jesus, and don’t bother to do it.
- That’s because “White Jesus” is a symptom of people wanting to cast Jesus in their own image, rather than the other way around. (It’s not limited to Caucausians, but that’s the culture I live in.)
Supposedly Jesus was really ugly. Isaiah says He had “no beauty of majesty to attract us to Him”. I’ve always wondered where the traditional images of Jesus came from. He looks kinda of like the lady holding the torch at the beginning of a Columbia Pictures movie.
Comment by annie | 14 June 2007