He was surely not white like in the images and sculpture but we don't know how much darker his skin was. Skin color is a big spectrum

The first person of color to be killed by the police.

These days it is way more widely accepted

Before it was problematic since religion was used to justify hate crimes against people of color

If I learned anything from all of the Sunday school my parents forced me to go to it's that Jesus was a white dude with amazing abs.

Very nice episode about this came out lately on the 99% Invisible podcast. Here's the link: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/615-your-own-personal-jesus/

Isn't there a physical description of Jesus in the Bible that says his skin is the color of bronze and his hair was wooly like a sheep? 🤔

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There used to be more diversity in the middle east. But there's been a bunch of genocides since then.

He had albinism, next question

When you picture God what skin color do you see? What gender do you see?

Modern day Palestinians come in all shades from "white" to "black". As someone who studied and argued the genealogy and ancestry of the region, here's the gist of it:

1. Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Levantines are closely related.
2. The closest people to Ancinet Egyptians are modern day Egyptians.
3. The closest people to Ancient Levantines are modern day Yemenis, then Saudis.
4. Modern Levantines reflect millennia of migrations and conquests since the collapse of the Bronze Age.

The people who can reason that out probably aren’t very religious.

According to the usa census it you are from the Middle East you have to put caucasian. My family on my dads side came from Syria

Yeshua Hamashiach, the person modern Christianity knows as Jesus, rumor according to records that have been found, show not only did Yeshua actually exist, they were likely light skinned. That doesn't mean they were white, and since we have no living person to question, and assuming the romans were being correct in their documents(I think romans, I'm being lazy and not looking it up, also it might be buried in a tome somewhere, or a history journal where they classified someone known as Yeshua Hamashiach as roman inflection or some such meaning lighter skinned), Yeshua might have been somewhere between Ricky Ricardo and the Weekend. Also I've never found a lick of evidence for turning water into wine, so not saying the miracles are true or not(miracles can happen, tho I do wonder how many miracles would actually be miracles if we just understood the actual process taking place), but Yeshua Hamashiach, aka Jesus seems to have actually existed. Probably a granola eating hippy type that preached about equality, and freedom for all, and was the first to do so and melted everyone's damn mind...

Well, most gods are created in mans image. Along those lines, any religious "fact" can be altered to fit whatever agenda the churches have at the moment to justify the widest level of religious adoption "in the name" of their god.

How many white people would have worshiped a darker skinned person while slavery was still an acceptable practice?

Some people are still able to rationalize the many images of jesus from around the world. (IMHO, this is yet another attempt to obfuscate discrimination by bouncing back and forth between reality and the meaning of religious symbolism.)

I question using religious scholars as references to a religious post, but at least that same site seems to be speaking out against white supremacy. I don't quite know what to think about that post, but it seems the intent was positive. Absolutely make a call-out if I missed some glaring.