Just because a reliigion is started by a certain race doesn't mean that everyone else cannot partake. But lets be honest here, christianity is a white religion. Sure, most people would claim that Jesus is arabic...but if so, how come just about 99.9% o fall the depiction of jesus i see is white.
2006-10-11 10:35:09 · 29 answers · asked by vendastic 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christianity was started up by Jews. Yes Jews. Jesus was a Jew and so were his disciples. Abraham had two sons. Ishmael and Isaac. Issac was the first Jew. Sometimes his name is Israel. There are many Christians, white, black, Asian, Arab. Christianity knows no color. It knows no bounds. We are all believers together, brothers and sisters, in Christ.
2006-10-11 10:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by sunny 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is NOT a white religion. The didn't start it, they only screwed it up. The reason that Jesus is depicted as white is base on European ideas that because he was upposed to have been a superior being that he must have been white. No one ever considered the fact that since he was born to Hebrew woman int he middle east he would look like them. The then the European Christians made a lot of mistakes. When the first European arrived in the Middle East, they were surprised to find that the was little difference between the Jews, Christinas and Muslims. In fact, if they didn't tell you you couldn't eel thme one from another at all. The European Christians, sufering from the delusions that accompany their anherance to non-European religion, decided that the Christians in the Middle East were doing it wrong becasue they had been tainted by the evils of Judiasm and Islam. The truth of the matter was, the Middle Eastern christians wer the only one that had it right as far as christianity was concerned. They had an unbroken line of succession form the time of Christ so THEY knew what was what.
Christianity was NEVER intended to be for anyone but those of Middle Eastern descent, that is why all of the morals associated with it were Middle Eastern in nature. If it had been intended for anyone else, it would have had references to them. ALL the it does to have white people fallowing Christianity is to cause psychological damage to them, and destroy the TRUE nature of the Christian faith.
Your assertins about Islam and Buddhism are essentially correct, but Christianity is a Middle Eastern faith and should NOT be followed by anyone else. That's why we had The Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition, the Witch Trials, the Conversions of Northen Europe, Slavery and a host of other ill that did not exist until Europeans started to follow Middle Eastern religious beliefs.
2006-10-11 10:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I disagree!
Jesus was a Semite (Mediterranean race of dark-haired people, which includes the Arabs and the Jews, among others).
Jesus took the Jewish religion and fulfilled its prophecies and ended its Law. He created a new religion, and ordered it spread to "all the nations of the earth".
Christianity is for everyone.
I happen to know, however, and for the sake of argument, that Islam and Buddhism is open to everyone as well. You'll find plenty of cultural barriers in each one, and possibly some in Christianity as well.
2006-10-11 10:39:26 · answer #3 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About 1400 years ago, in his last sermon, Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) said:
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white — except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: Do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.”
"Verily in this (Qur'an) is a Message for people who would (truly) worship Allah. We sent thee(Muhammad) not, but as a Mercy for all creatures. " [The Holy Qur'an 021:106-107]
2006-10-12 02:12:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you a racist? You sound like one.. The Flesh of Jesus was Jewish. Both Jews and Arabs are Caucasian. I don't know what difference it makes. The first non Jewish convert to Christ was black.. That really doesn't matter much either but God knowing that these stupid little differences man has developed over our time on this world would make us hate each other and so I think His first convert being black was more a lesson for us than it was important to be the first.. So hang up on the silly race trap and come to Christ... Jim
2006-10-11 10:52:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know why you asked this question.
Ask the white people if christianity is a white religion. Theya re the ones going around telling everyone how good their god is whereas everyone else's god is bad because christians have money and do social work. (like the rest ofthe world has no idea what social work means.)
Islam is definitely an arab religion and should have stayed there. Even they are going around killing and raping people and stealing land and property which is totally contradictory to what is in their religion.
Budhhism is a religion that started in Asia but I dont know if it is an asian religon.
Why do we try and destroy other people through religion?
I dont understand anything about christians and muslims. They are committing such grave human rights violations and yet the world is sitting around doing nothing.
Muslims are really criminal in their acts and yet no one wants to say anything. Is it because they go around killing people and threatening anyone who will go against them?
Are these not human rights violations? Then what kind of religions are these?
2006-10-11 10:43:05 · answer #6 · answered by crazy s 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
all i know is that in italy when africa invaded italy, all the churches depicted jesus as black....i see no difference if jesus was black or white or anything. he's a spiritual figure and that's all that matters.
i'm half catholic and half wiccan so that's my take on it.....and i remember being shocked and digusted when some kids from my old school were mad because there was a black santa figure!!!
Santa is an idea....of kindness. it doesn't matter what color he's portrayed as and i think there is no color for any religion bcuz anyone can convert to any religion they like
2006-10-11 10:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by Parvati 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask the Ethiopians why they painted Jesus white, since they started the images of Jesus in the first place
2006-10-13 07:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pictures you see of Jesus have absolutely nothing to do with how he really looked. Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jewish man and would have resembled those people.
Chrisitianity is not a "white" religion. The largest perrcentage of growth for Christianity, and for the Catholic Church in particular, is in Latin America and Africa.
2006-10-11 10:42:25 · answer #9 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Islam is not an Arab religion. Only 25% of Muslims are Arabs. Islam is a world religion.
There are many Arab Christians and Jews.
2006-10-11 10:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋