Jesus was brown, not white


He is literally from the Middle East. Why would he be white?

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I'll bait take the bait! Before Muhammed the great profet, most of Europe, North Africa and the middle east were populated by white oppressors quite literary. They came, they slaughtered and raped and settled. Then came Mohammed and his horde came from Saudi Arabia, and he raped and slaughtered all the way to southern Spain and Italy, hence the brown skin in this part. Jesus was born year 0. Mohammed year 700 or something. So these parts were mostly white supremacist those days.

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No. Arabs, Jews and even ancient Egyptians were Semitic peoples. So Jesus and Mohammad were both Semitic brown-skinned men. Remember this was before Jews migrated to Europe and mixed with white Europeans.

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Well, we are ultimately all homo sapiens, doesn't mean we all look the same, right? Semitic people probably didn't either, yet no one knows for sure. We do know that Caucasian races ruled these lands for a millennia though, so there would be plenty of time to breed forth a whitish Jew. According to your statement, it took at most 1000 years to turn Semitic Arab looking Jews into the ones we know today.

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Sure, both Greeks and Romans had conquered the Levant. I guess you're saying Cleopatra was a white Greek so why not Jesus? And I'll add that the first Christians were Hellenized Jews. Still, not enough Greeks and Romans migrated to Asia to overwhelm the native brown skinned Semitic peoples.

I'm saying Jews in the first century may have mixed with Greeks but not much. Jews became white in Europe.

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That is probable. And I'm saying there's nothing indicating a Jew in Palestine would look like an Arab today, which the OP implies. Because different people lived there historically. and while Arabs and Jews might share a common bloodline as you imply, there's no consensus what they looked like, or if they looked the same. Op wants an Arab looking jesus, I'm pointing out that that is necessarily not what he looked like and that a white jesus is plausible. Some Egyptian Pharaohs had red hair for instance. I'm not dealing with absolutes though, since there is no scientific consensus regarding it. Just wanting to make some think a little.

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This is about as true as Star Wars lore. Obviously biased because you pointlessly boast about how the Middle Easterns raped and slaughtered people but don't mention that the Christian Crusaders did the exact same thing. Shut off Shapiro and go outside.

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If you read properly you'll see that I'm not biased towards any race. Story ends at ad 800, so no time to get to the crusades. Good luck.

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"Jesus was born year 0"

There was a year 0?

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He turned 6 months old June 25, Year 0 AD. He turned 1 years old December 25, Year 1 AD.

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There was no year zero, though.

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Zero was discovered in 5th century India.
https://www.livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html

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Who gives a fuck? You can make your version of the story with any color race you feel like. Have fun and good luck with your production.

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Jesus was Jewish. The 12 Disciples were Jewish.

His skin color is not relevant.

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Jews and Mexicans are brown. Africans are black. Europeans are white. Asians are other.

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"You can make your version of the story with any color race you feel like"


That's essentially the problem you get with people complaining that Jesus isn't white - they're angry that white people are making a film about their lord and savior and (shock) making him be Jim Caviezel or Willem Defoe.

The message to them is, make your own Jesus film and depict him the way you want him to be, but they can't for some reason.

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You have no way of knowing, unless you have seen Jesus, what color his skin was (as if that's in any way relevant). There are a lot of people from the Middle East, or who have that genetic heritage, who are fair-skinned.

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Because we have a black Cleopatra, a black Achilles, a black gay Santa, and a Native-American Isaac Newton, just to name a few. I'm sure people will survive with a white Jesus.

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He's playing middle-eastern without makeup

Did you ask a similar question when Jodie Turner Smith played Anne Boylen?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406036/

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Because 2000 years ago you could find whites in that region.

A film made about Jesus by white people will depict him as such. If you're angry with that, have non-whites make a Jesus film with him looking like Saddam Hussein.

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We can't offend white people.

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Eh….they are just tanned…still mostly white

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