Rev. Jeremiah Wright, I’m sure that finding is earthshaking news to legions of New Testament scholars from around the world.
Beyond the other racial stuff from Barack Obama’s pastor, what I most loathe is the pseudoscientific “black Jesus” crap from Wright. And that’s what it is.
And, Republicans who want to drive a wedge between Obama and Jewish voters have new ammunition to fire.
Jesus was not Caucasian, contrary to 19th-century paintings and what is likely still a fair-sized swath of white Christian belief today, and he likely was pretty swarthy, but he wasn’t from sub-Saharan Africa, either, Rev. Wright.
Pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and the like are a sure political turn-off for me.
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Semites, are of course Caucasians. Race isn't dfined by color, which can flip over a gene or 2, but by a host of other genetic markers taken as groups. Jesus was not Black or Negro, he was Caucasian and probably swarthy. though not necessarily. Race doesn't refer to color. You might want to check that out in any real reference work.
ReplyDeleteActually, Semitic people are usually NOT defined as Caucasian, including by genetic markers as well as skin shading.
ReplyDeleteYou and Faux News might want to check THAT out, as well as the dubiousness of "race."