I Am Fascinated By Science, Religion, and Philosophy

Here's an interesting thought. We associate Christianity with the West. They've basque in it's glory and transformed it as a foundation or basis of their daily lives. It has become a dynamic element in the history of the West.

This concept of Christianity is borrowed from the Middle East, where it first came into existence. Jesus was a Middle Eastern man, born and bred in the Middle East. Even the God that Christians believe and pray to - is a God of the Middle East. He chose to reveal himself and his miraculous mighty power and miracles "only" to people of the Middle East.

If Christians can believe and taken in concept and foundation of beliefs of the East. Why are they hostile to the populace of beleaguered countries of the East when they seek refuge. The father of Abrahamic religion was not a White European man, he was an inhabitant and native of the East.

When I explain this concept to my parents, they're often bewildered and hush me up. I'm not religious but the behaviour of some religious people fascinate me.

Hey, we will take your God, adopt his teachings and apply his philosophy to make us holier than thou Middle East. But we refuse to accept you and your way of life.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I wrote about that awhile back and used my theory that mankind made God in their image because even though it's all variations of the same thing, God's skin color and beliefs (slightly) differ depending on culture. There's no way Jesus would have been a European white man but interestingly enough I had several angry religious people tell me that Jesus would have been an Middle Eastern European white guy with luscious blonde locks, blue eyes, sparkling white teeth, smooth skin and really tall because archaeological evidence of other people from the time period doesn't matter.

So he would have been European whether it's historically accurate or not, God dang nabbit *angry fist* 😆

Random1Thoughts · F

@SatanBurger
I've had discussion with people telling me that blonde, blue eyes with white skin was common in that period.

Jesus was a brown skin man, just like the skin colour of the natives from that area. How people misconstrue facts to fit their narratives is absurd.

When I watch movies where Jesus and his blond locks and blue eyes are beaming. I laugh my ass off.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Random1Thoughts Fun fact, there was almost no white people in the bible until the New Testament which was during Roman times. I'm sorry but I really feel like the New Testament doesn't count. I don't know how much I believe biblical history anyways but I've heard through other people that Constantine revised a lot in the bible including Jesus's place of execution and birth 😆

I think there seems to be an underlying racial issue there. I think for some people it's not a conscious effort but I'm fairly convinced that white Jesus is just a by product of slavery times. God was the primary excuse for everything back then, most people viewed God as a white European man back then also.

https://medium.com/embrace-race/is-god-racist-or-is-it-my-church-69951cb0533d

On a lighter note, here's a description that made me giggle inappropriately.

I don't really know the site it comes from but found it fascinating since I'm on the subject:

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Jesus/Jesus.htm

[quote]Fortunately, however, Biblical scholar Robert Eisler in a classic 1931 study of Josephus’ Testimony was able to reconstruct the unaltered testimony based on a newly-discovered Old Russian translation that preserved the original Greek text. According to Eisler’s reconstruction, the oldest non-Biblical description of Jesus read as follows:

“At that time also there appeared a certain man of magic power … if it be meet to call him a man, [whose name is Jesus], whom [certain] Greeks call a son of [a] God, but his disciples [call] the true prophet … he was a man of simple appearance, mature age, black-skinned (melagchrous), short growth, three cubits tall, hunchbacked, prognathous (lit. ‘with a long face’ [macroprosopos]), a long nose, eyebrows meeting above the nose … with scanty [curly] hair, but having a line in the middle of the head after the fashion of the Nazaraeans, with an undeveloped beard.”

This short, black-skinned, mature, hunchbacked Jesus with a unibrow, short curly hair and undeveloped beard bears no resemblance to the Jesus Christ taken for granted today by most of the Christian world: the tall, long haired, long bearded, white-skinned and blue eyed Son of God. Yet, this earliest textual record matches well the earliest iconographic evidence.

The earliest visual depiction of Jesus is a painting found in 1921 on a wall of the baptismal chamber of the house-church at Dura Europos, Syria and dated [big]around 235 A.D. The Jesus that is “Healing the Paralytic Man” (Mark 2:1-12) is short and dark-skinned with a small curly afro - see below.[/big][/quote]

Random1Thoughts · F

@SatanBurger
This is spot on and well said!