• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I’d be curious AF what he thought about all these depictions of him as a white dude with straight, light brown hair

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I suppose it’s fair to say that some of the early artists who painted him probably never saw a brown Jew, and were handed down the stories of the Bible same as anyone, and just painted what they know. I can’t fault anyone for that, but the fact that the world very much knows better now and continues with this is obnoxious.

      • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Close to the truth. The original use for a white Jesus was to express purity and divinity. From there, it just kind of snowballed…