And he was probably buff as hell. He was a carpenter.
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Alright maybe not buff...but pretty fit and clean-shaven (as per Roman tradition). Not that wimpy-ass Jesus with ribs sticking out of him and stick-arms like we see in many western crucifixes.
Most of the popular Renaissance art was done by Italians who would have no real way of knowing that people from there looked different from them. Basically, the only references they had were other Italians.
I teach Sunday school and I wish I could tell the kids he is not white but the church would fire me. SO I just sneak in little statues and pictures of him and use them to show the kids. AND not a single one has asked about his skin color they just accept it as him.
I love the kids I teach.
No, they discriminated against him because he was Middle Eastern and they were afraid he and his cohorts would go "blurble-blurble-blurble" with sticks of dynamite and blocks of C4 strapped to their balls and blow up the Parthenon, the Citadel, the Arena, and the Public Baths.
Rome had like, 3 black emperors, they didn't care. They killed him for disrupting the peace, and cause the Jews were like, "he lives and we revolt and take our money"
Jesus is a Jew...born in Bethlehem. His mother Mary is from the line of David. He did not look like this picture nor the pictures of him being fair skinned.
Nah, it was explained earlier in the comments. It's so Europeans could better relate to him. Just like people keep remaking modern versions of old movies so modern people relate better.
Though they usually think the one made for them was the original.
Is this for real... Middle-eastern isn't a race, people born there (like myself) are technically Caucasian. Yeah he shouldn't be cocaine-flour-ghost pale white, but he definitely would be considered a "white", Caucasian person. He wasn't black like this dude
Can we just talk about how hot Jesus probably was? He was a carpenter, so he's got arm muscles, he walked EVERYWHERE, so his legs were probably swole as fuck. He's probably looking all scruffy, 'cause he got that beard. DUDE WAS MOST LIKELY A SMOKING HOT ANGEL-MAN.
Jesus wouldn't have had a beard. Roman tradition of being clean shaven has already pervaded Jewish culture so he would have had minimal facial hair at best.
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Alright maybe not buff...but pretty fit and clean-shaven (as per Roman tradition). Not that wimpy-ass Jesus with ribs sticking out of him and stick-arms like we see in many western crucifixes.
I love the kids I teach.
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Though they usually think the one made for them was the original.