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This Christmas let’s remember this fact…

I’m not even Christian and I still feel compelled to reblog geographically ethnically accurate Jesus

#athiestsforblackjesus

“Geographically ethnically accurate Jesus”?!?

I see no geographically ethnically accurate Jesus here.

Jesus was born and raised in first century Palestine. He wasn’t from Africa or Europe. An African Jesus is no more accurate than a European Jesus.

Jesus would have likely looked something like this:

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Interpretative paintings based upon a reconstruction by British medical artist Richard Neave, of what a 1st Century A.D. Semitic man might have looked like during Jesus Christ’s life time.

Appearing within the CNN special ‘The Mystery of Jesus’

Three portaits, 12” x 16” Oil on Paper on Panel 

© 2004 Donato Giancola 

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I have to wonder why people are so uncomfortable with the idea of a Semitic Jesus,

I have to wonder why people are so uncomfortable with the idea of an ethnically Jewish Jesus.

No, actually, I don’t have to wonder, I know exactly why.

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