And he has this clean hairband kind of hairdo...was he the only white guy in that part of the world back then?
2007-10-26 17:19:17 · 25 answers · asked by sketch_mylife 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus was the Marco Polo of his time, pal. Just like Santa. The Inuit people of the North look distinctly different from the rest of us, but Santa (just like Jesus) was/is a white dude. Great marketing, huh?
2007-10-26 17:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is Jewish. But in early Christianity where it was spread in Europe the artists, who would make the paintings and such, weren't big on ethnic accuracy and would depict Jesus as a Western European (everyone is painted the same colour back then). This image would have spread with colonization and the spread of religion from Europe so that's why over time and in a lot of places he is shown as Caucasian not Middle Eastern.
2016-04-10 09:05:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most pictures of Jesus here are caucasian, but I see a good number that are not. Like in my son's bible, Jesus is brown. I would hope/assume that most Christians think Jesus was not white.
2007-10-26 17:24:40 · answer #3 · answered by MJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because most of those paintings were done by white artists who were influenced by earlier white artists. I have seen pictures of Jesus that show him with other racial characteristics...it does seem that people have a tendency to picture him as being like themselves. Most of them depict him as handsome (which I think he was) and many people tend to define attractiveness along racial lines.
2007-10-26 17:30:53 · answer #4 · answered by KAL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure was. Jesus made it cool to be white. Since then, everybody had to be as white as Jesus. Even Michael Jackson
2007-10-26 17:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wherever you go on earth, Jesus will conform (in whatever way) to the norms of that place. This is only natural.
2007-10-26 17:31:42 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you other guys sick of seeing this question? I am--it's been repeated dozens of times.
So you saw a white Jesus. Big deal.
2007-10-26 18:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a Hispanic Store.
In some parts of Africa, he's black.
Get a life.
2007-10-26 17:33:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well when a religion is borrowed and altered by Europeans to fit THEIR taste... kinda helps make it seem all the more unrealistic to me.
2007-10-26 17:25:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
White churches, white members, white artists, white world ,,you figure.
2007-10-26 17:24:34 · answer #10 · answered by hamoh10 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋