@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-25 days agoFar too many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.message-square151fedilinkarrow-up1335
arrow-up1335message-squareFar too many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-25 days agomessage-square151fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•6 days agoLevantine people don’t have very dark skin, they definitely aren’t as white as Western Europeans though
minus-squareMudManlinkfedilink5•6 days agoAll the applying of modern ethnic categories here is making my head spin. I mean, rendering Jesus as a blonde guy is weird, but the way the pushback is parsed is just about as weird in the exact same way.
Levantine people don’t have very dark skin, they definitely aren’t as white as Western Europeans though
All the applying of modern ethnic categories here is making my head spin.
I mean, rendering Jesus as a blonde guy is weird, but the way the pushback is parsed is just about as weird in the exact same way.