I’m just uploading this for all the atheists who think it’s a travesty that Jesus is sometimes portrayed as white instead of His native middle eastern, so I’ve compiled some pictures for y’all to go after next, since this crusade of ethnic realisim is so dear to you:
Hey OP you know that the natives of Palestine like my ancestors are not a caramel stocky horde and actually have a whole lot of people who look pretty “white”? Including redheads and even blonds?
According to the flesh, Jesus Christ was a Mediterranean Caucasoid, like mostly everyone in the Mediterranean is. Unsurprisingly Orthodox icons portray him most accurate, so take your Western ignorance elsewhere before soapboxing.
If there’s ANY Western error in his portrayal it’s giving his facial shape a Nordic appearance with a tall forehead, which is not too common anyway.
Leaving aside the fact-checking on the technical points of this post, that was never OP’s point. The point of the original post was to show that Jesus, Mary, and the Saints are often depicted differently throughout various cultures, and it’s not just a “white people” thing attempting to depict or imply that holy people were European exclusively (or for that matter, that depicting holy people as a different race isn’t inherently blasphemous).
Black Jesus is nothing new. Heck Korean Jesus is nothing new. The Church has been doing this for eons and the atheist obsession with pointing to European artistic renderings of Jesus and Mary as European is misinformed at best and willfully ignorant at worst.
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