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@djouwan@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world • 3 months ago

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  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Funny how Jesus is often depicted like a 70’s hippie, Long hair and colorful comfortable clothing.
    Everything fundamental Christians hate. The only thing missing is him smoking a joint.

  • merde alors
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    76•3 months ago

    99% invisible just released a podcast on this subject ☞ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/615-your-own-personal-jesus/

    The most popular image of Jesus Christ in the world—a white man with blue eyes, wavy brown hair, and a soft, peaceful gaze—comes from Head of Christ, a 1940 painting by Chicago artist Warner Sallman. It’s been reproduced over a billion times, shaping how millions imagine Jesus.

    But its dominance also cemented a white Jesus in the cultural imagination. Scholars point out that the historical Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jew, likely had darker skin. Yet Head of Christ reinforced whiteness as central to Christian identity in America. As historian David Morgan puts it, “It gave white Americans a Jesus that was theirs.”

    • @Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      13•3 months ago

      “Skin of bronze and hair of Sheep’s wool”

    • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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      11•3 months ago

      White Jesus predates the '40s by quite a long way. European Christians have been depicting him that way for centuries. I’m pretty sure Americans had a white Jesus before then as well.

      Sadly, it’s hard to find accurate depictions of Jesus in the western world.

      • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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        1•3 months ago

        i read that it was Da Vinci era likely due to instruction from the popes. some say Da Vinci’s depictions of Jesus were self portraits.

    • @littletoolshed@lemmy.world
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      This was a great episode and I’m happy to see you posted it, since I was also like, “I just learned about this!!”

      • merde alors
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        i remember this portrait from some time ago

        real face of jesus

        it sounded like a reasonable reconstruction: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a41336100/real-jesus-face/

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      2•3 months ago

      “Racists prefer to think of themselves as special.”

  • @AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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    44•3 months ago

    Imagine if he went to Korea

    • @Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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      24•3 months ago

      This Jesus looks like he could just break free from the cross.

      • @hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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        10•3 months ago

        You could say - he is crossfit.

      • WIZARD POPE💫
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        6•3 months ago

        He died for our gains

    • @hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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      5•3 months ago

    • Teknevra (She/Her)
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      I mean, He did go to Japan

      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/

  • Yerbouti
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    21•3 months ago

    That’s a terrorist. Deportation right now. My “not at all pedophile president” and his “not at all nazi” friend say this guy woke and wants to push inclusion and equity. Christian, rise up against this disguting plan.

    • Owl
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      1•3 months ago

      Wtf dude

      • Yerbouti
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        4•3 months ago

        It’s christian love.

      • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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        3•3 months ago

        it’s sarcasm saying how Jesus was actually really really caring about people which is the opposite of what conservatives do, dispute them claiming that they’re the Christian party

  • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    He would also be saying it in Aramaic as an illiterate builder (stone worker being more likely than carpenter but the Greek word translates generically).

    And there were a lot of early groups (Marcion and all the groups we call Gnostic) who took Jesus’ teachings to mean God from the Old Testament was an evil demiurge God and Jesus’ teachings were to overcome the material world.

    With how Christian teachings have coalesced into the Trinity etc it would be really interesting to hear what the historical man himself was actually saying.

    • @ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
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      How can god be illiterate

      • @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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        There are no book reports in heaven

        • Prehensile_cloaca
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          2•3 months ago

          Heaven prefers oral tradition

          • @Im_old@lemmy.world
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            1•3 months ago

            I had a couple of friends which had great traditions on oral

      • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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        He doesn’t call himself God until the gospel of John which was written later than the others. Pretty sure the historical Jesus wouldn’t be claiming to be God at all. That’s just something that happens with religions over time.

      • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        2•3 months ago

        Odin had to earn the secret of the runes.

  • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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    1•3 months ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tciBru32oDU

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