If Christ actually existed, he would be an ARAB...
...not a white caucasian man, as depicted here!
He might look like an Arab, but he wouldn't be an Arab any more than a Dutchman would be a Pole or an Italian, just because they share a pale skin color. The Hebrews were a related, but separate Semitic people.
shareGenetically speaking there was very little difference between the Israelites and the Arabs. The Israelites were just Arabs who rebranded themselves and made up a back story to stake a claim to the land they occupied. We are God's chosen people and He gave us this land ! Yeah, sure thing...
Genetically, there is not much difference between Greeks and Macedonians, between Dutch and Belgians, between Czechs and Croats. They're still not the same peoples. Levantine Jews of the 1st century BC were not Arabs, although they were a very closely related people. But people who insist on characterizing them as Arabs... Well, that smacks of an anti-Western bias. The Semitic Jews of that period weren't white, western Europeans either, of course. But Christianity became the dominant religion of western Europe during the late Roman Empire, and has remained so ever since, and has therefore developed an extremely close cultural association with western Europe, especially since so many formerly Christian lands in the Middle East and north Africa were violently conquered by Islam and became alienated from Christendom. So this curiously strong determination to distance Jesus as far as possible from the West ethnically... It strikes me as a manifestation of that guilty white liberal self-loathing that seems so ready to denigrate Western civilization and undermine all its traditional institutions.
shareSo this curiously strong determination to distance Jesus as far as possible from the West ethnically... It strikes me as a manifestation of that guilty white liberal self-loathing that seems so ready to denigrate Western civilization and undermine all its traditional institutions.
I think it's also an equal part of false perception by leftists who think white Christians would somehow care what color of skin Jesus had and would either defend the indefensible or hate Jesus if he was proven not to look western European. Either way they think it somehow bothers them. Strange crowd those leftists.
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