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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Imagine if he went to Korea

[–] Saledovil 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This Jesus looks like he could just break free from the cross.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

You could say - he is crossfit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

He died for our gains

[–] [email protected] 152 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Funny how Jesus is often depicted like a 70's hippie, Long hair and colorful comfortable clothing.
Everything fundamental Christians hate. The only thing missing is him smoking a joint.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Everything fundamental Christians hate

That's everything Jesus was about now it seems

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] brbposting 3 points 4 days ago

LOL of all links for me to regret accidentally tapping without despyifying the link a tad, nice :)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

How Jesus really looked

[–] merde 88 points 5 days ago (5 children)

99% invisible just released a podcast on this subject ☞ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/615-your-own-personal-jesus/

The most popular image of Jesus Christ in the world—a white man with blue eyes, wavy brown hair, and a soft, peaceful gaze—comes from Head of Christ, a 1940 painting by Chicago artist Warner Sallman. It’s been reproduced over a billion times, shaping how millions imagine Jesus.

But its dominance also cemented a white Jesus in the cultural imagination. Scholars point out that the historical Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jew, likely had darker skin. Yet Head of Christ reinforced whiteness as central to Christian identity in America. As historian David Morgan puts it, “It gave white Americans a Jesus that was theirs.”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

White Jesus predates the '40s by quite a long way. European Christians have been depicting him that way for centuries. I'm pretty sure Americans had a white Jesus before then as well.

Sadly, it's hard to find accurate depictions of Jesus in the western world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

i read that it was Da Vinci era likely due to instruction from the popes. some say Da Vinci's depictions of Jesus were self portraits.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

"Skin of bronze and hair of Sheep's wool"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This was a great episode and I’m happy to see you posted it, since I was also like, “I just learned about this!!”

[–] merde 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i remember this portrait from some time ago

real face of jesus

it sounded like a reasonable reconstruction: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a41336100/real-jesus-face/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah fuck I need to go listen to more Depeche Mode

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Pick up the receiver, I'll make you a believer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

"Racists prefer to think of themselves as special."

[–] Yerbouti 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's a terrorist. Deportation right now. My "not at all pedophile president" and his "not at all nazi" friend say this guy is woke and wants to push inclusion and equity. Christian, rise up against this disgusting plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Yerbouti 5 points 3 days ago

It's christian love.

[–] TriflingToad 3 points 3 days ago

it's sarcasm saying how Jesus was actually really really caring about people which is the opposite of what conservatives do, dispute them claiming that they're the Christian party

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He would also be saying it in Aramaic as an illiterate builder (stone worker being more likely than carpenter but the Greek word translates generically).

And there were a lot of early groups (Marcion and all the groups we call Gnostic) who took Jesus' teachings to mean God from the Old Testament was an evil demiurge God and Jesus' teachings were to overcome the material world.

With how Christian teachings have coalesced into the Trinity etc it would be really interesting to hear what the historical man himself was actually saying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

He doesn't call himself God until the gospel of John which was written later than the others. Pretty sure the historical Jesus wouldn't be claiming to be God at all. That's just something that happens with religions over time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are no book reports in heaven

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Heaven prefers oral tradition

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I had a couple of friends which had great traditions on oral

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Odin had to earn the secret of the runes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Slap!

You were having that dream where you made the white people riot, weren't you!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I just told them the truth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are we at the point where the touchiness of 9/11 has worn off and we can actually talk about what involvement the bush administration had in making 9/11 without being called wacko conspiracy theorists?

Those neocons were up to something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

See, the thing I look back on is the non-stop, never ending coverage of it on the news.

It was like they were trying to traumatize people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago