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Jezus' historically accurate skin tone completes the joke on an extra dimension.
Oh yeah? What about this painting done during Jesus' time?!?!
Checkmate atheists!
Um, actually, I've done my own research on this and this was technically a self-portrait.
I know it’s a joke and all, but “white” people have been in the a Middle East since before Jesus.
You can find the whitest people you know even as far as Xinjiang in modern day China and they arrived there thousands of years ago BCE.
Genetics are not defined to one area unless cut off from all ability for a population pool to travel/leave. We’re gradients of features that don’t fit nicely into geopolitical borders.
wow
Found Owen Wilson!
Sorry, can you please explain?
I just wanted to use the moment to educate about how race doesn’t exist and that you can find pale skinned redheads with blue eyes living in the Middle East and historically for a long time.
thats fair im sure, but its definitely not the norm, so suggesting the "most important person of all time" (for believers etc) was likely white is just not a good look in my opinion (just my opinion, maybe it is what do I know)
Oh yeah no sorry I’m not suggesting Jesus was white. He would have looked like the average Jewish/Semetic person at the time.
Is this suggesting that Jesus was white, or statistically, there's a chance that he was white, or that wasn't as brown as the rest of the population, or other? Even in 2025, with decades of active migration, if you travel to India / Asia, African countries, etc. It's rare as hens teeth to find a white person in a remote community. Possibly more likely to find an albino or person with vitiligo.
It’s neither.
It’s suggesting finding a white man in the Middle East ~0BCE wasn’t impossible or even unlikely.
Asia, Africa, and India are not the Middle East. It’s not surprising to find different genetic groups in further away regions. But you can easily go to say Afghanistan and find “white people”, it’s not rare as hens teeth.
Umm, I think his dad had strong genes, he just "looked like a common man" but could have had black, white, Asian, Polynesian features. Assuming his dad was not, then probably this would be "historically accurate" for someone born of two jews
have you ever met a jewsh person my dude?
this painting is of a person with essentially Scandinavian features. this painting is of a person with light colored eyes.
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Asian features? You didn't think about what you typed for even half a second, did you
Edit. Peekes at profile ...Holy yikes you actually believe this stuff?