Western churches should rethink white
Jesus, Church of England head says
by
Natalie O'Neill
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/26/2020 11:10:04 PM
The Anglican church should rethink depictions of Jesus as a white man in traditional Christian imagery, the head of the Church of England said Friday. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, was asked in an interview with BBC Radio 4 if the Western mindset that Jesus looked Caucasian needs to be reconsidered in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. “Yes of course it does, this sense that God was white … You go into churches [around the world] and you don’t see a white Jesus,” he said. “You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle-Eastern Jesus—which is of course the most accurate
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/26/2020 11:21:39 PM (No. 458602)
The flaming liberal Brit archbishops.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
flutepilot 6/26/2020 11:24:29 PM (No. 458605)
I cannot believe that this woman was somehow voted in to lead this august body. She is a radical gay leftist whose one purpose seems to be making the Anglican Church into some hideous vision of her very ungodly beliefs. If I had been Anglican I would have found some other Christian body.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/26/2020 11:29:47 PM (No. 458609)
Welby needs to attend a race sensitivity training class. He is very disrespectful to the white race.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 6/26/2020 11:49:04 PM (No. 458625)
was he in a wheelchair too?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/26/2020 11:51:24 PM (No. 458628)
Apparently the qualifications for leadership in the Anglican Church include a dismissal of true Christianity and an embrace of every politically correct cause that appears. No wonder that denomination is now on life support.
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What would Jesus do ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pensom2 6/27/2020 12:09:39 AM (No. 458646)
People, people. Jesus was a Jew. He probably looked like a 30-year-old East Mediterranean Jew. Some of them in that era may have looked more swarthy than others, some more refined than others. He was a carpenter. He was likely pretty darn strong. In those days, carpenters didn't make delicate furniture, they helped to build homes with wooden rafters, doors, window frames, mostly of heavy material. So he likely was a rather strong man with a sometimes sensitive nature and a genius mental capacity.
I have no problem with Black people thinking of a Black Jesus when they pray, or Asian people thinking of an Asian Jesus when they pray. But some archbishop in England can't change the facts, particularly of something so fundamental as Jesus' race or ethnicity.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
panther361 6/27/2020 12:16:02 AM (No. 458653)
Another chief reason we got on a boat centuries ago.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/27/2020 12:55:34 AM (No. 458668)
You would think that such a big time Archbishop would find better things to day then to become mired in a controversy that will never be resolved to every race’s satisfaction.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/27/2020 1:18:13 AM (No. 458677)
Does anyone remember the story about a child who had a near-death experience, during which time she had met Jesus? Her parents hired a police artist and drew a picture of what Jesus supposedly looked like. When I saw the drawing, I quickly realized that the figure looked like a slightly Arabic, 1970s long-haired version of Kenny Loggins.
And for the record, does it really matter what Jesus looks like?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/27/2020 2:15:35 AM (No. 458690)
Every Christianized culture has its own version of how it views Christ’s appearance. I recently visited a mission church in a Blackfoot reservation in Montana. Guess how they rendered Jesus in a very large painting? As a noble chief in full regalia.
Let the whites think of Him as white. Leave it alone!
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The Jesus Christ I worship was born a JEW. Jews are not white they are Middle Eastern. That being said the Jewish Christ I worship is color blind. He may appear white to some folks, brown to others and black to others. He is GOD, part of the Godhead. As long a he is your Lord and Savior who give a damn what color he is.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/27/2020 2:47:56 AM (No. 458700)
Now just think of Jesus as someone that looks like Bob Marley’s cousin.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/27/2020 3:16:35 AM (No. 458704)
So a Jew in Roman occupied Middle East would look like a Sub Saharan Native African? A Far East Native Far Easterner? Why not an Eskimo?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/27/2020 5:15:52 AM (No. 458710)
Regardless of how Jesus has been protracted, he was Jewish. Period. That was his heritage and you can trace it through the first chapter of Matthew. He is not Anglo, but it was the way those painters and sculptors portrayed him. It is not offensive, it is an artistic expression. I have seen portraits of a black Jesus and it does not offend me. I know Jesus was a Jew and never thought he looked like the pictures and sculptures I have seen. Isaiah 53 tells us that ‘he has no form or comeliness, there is no beauty that we should desire him’. Jesus was probably your average looking Jew living at that time. If you have watched Dallas Jenkins’ series The Chosen, I expect Jesus looked much like that. By the way, that series is exceptional.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/27/2020 7:20:58 AM (No. 458790)
Anglican church "leaders" just dress so snappily.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mathman 6/27/2020 10:43:06 AM (No. 459021)
Welby can go pound sand.
Jesus of Nazareth was the King of the Jews. His genealogy goes back to Abraham, first Jew to bear the sign of circumcision. Welby was a sad mistake.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GO3 6/27/2020 10:43:14 AM (No. 459022)
Race is more than the color of the skin. Jesus was a Semite and like all Arabic peoples he was Caucasian. Like an Ldotter said the other day, by September I am darker than many Arabs I used to work with.
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The foolish false archbishop says a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle-Eastern Jesus, or a Fijian Jesus is OK according to the locale, but a white Jesus is problematic in Canterbury Cathedral or Westminster Abbey and must be replaced. Is this because England is no longer a white country, or does he suggest in his arrogance that only England should display Correct Jesus, who looks Middle Eastern? Instead, the C of E should rethink their archbishop.