has anyone noticed that statues of mary joseph and baby jesus have white skin??if they were from nazareth and taking in to account where this is in the world...should they not have dark skin??
2007-05-02 09:48:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Different religions and cultures depict their hair and skin as various colors. In the Catholic churches they give Jesus long wavy blonde hair and light/medium skin. In my religion he has short dark brown, almost black hair and a medium olive complexion, as that's what many of the Jews in that time, and still today, look like.
Sometimes, and I don't know if this is why they do it, people are given pale, porcelin-like skin in art forms because it looks clean and pure. So maybe that's what the statues are trying to depict.
2007-05-02 09:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by H.L.A. 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes they should! I always use a dark skinned doll (baby Jesus) for our school Nativity plays to make that point!
2007-05-02 17:43:14 · answer #2 · answered by saddo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah they're supposed to be middle eastern looking with darker features...thats why certain religions prohibit statues, pictures or anything that physically depicts God or any of the holy characters and etc. to prevent this kinda confusion, and to prevent ppl from making it a superficial 'race' thing.
2007-05-02 16:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We all know Jesus was no blonde blue eye kinda guy, get past the colour
2007-05-02 16:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by jude 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
in a church in tenerife there is a statue of a black madonna with a black baby jesus,,
2007-05-02 17:42:46 · answer #5 · answered by james michael c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its all part of how religion and religious icons misrepresent themselves. Its religious racism.
2007-05-02 16:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well more olive skinned would be fitting I think.
2007-05-02 16:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats the colour the clay dried and they ran out of paint
2007-05-02 16:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by stormyweather 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They wore sun block.
2007-05-02 16:52:49 · answer #9 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Looks different in other cultures...;)
2007-05-02 16:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋