Jesus was African? :o

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Middle Eastern, genius.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was joking, genius.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not a brilliant joke...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If there was a Jesus, probably.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure he existed, It'd be sad to think that someone who was fictional is the 3rd most influential person to ever exist.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol. Harry Potter.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not anywhere near the same amount of influence.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, probably not, but alot of people still like follow HP fashion trends.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Who's the first?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's Muhammad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You are correct! It is Muhammad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I had a teacher a few years ago who had us guess who the most influential people were and then she showed us the list. I believe Isaac Newton was number two?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep that's how I remember it!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jesus was obviously seethrough.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's no good reason why he couldn't have been white. He's usually depicted as white in churches and pictures and stuff...without proof, you can't tell either way.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

he was from Israel, which is part of the middle east. Most people from the middle east have brown skin.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

White people live in the middle east too. There's no reason to think he wasn't white.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Catholic church whitened him up. Jesus was a Jew living in the Middle East, he was Arab.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jesus wasn't an Arab! Lol, he was Jewish. Jews and Arabs don't get along too well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But weren't Jews Arab? I thought that the race of people who lived in the Middle East were called Arabs, and that would include Jews and Early Christians?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, not at all! My mother for example, is a Chaldean. The Chaldeans are Pre-Arabs as are the Jews and Assyrians. The Jews are Jews and the Chaldeans and Assyrians are Christians, among the first. Arabs hold a tradition of coming from the Jews, as they have descended from the tribe of Ishmael, while the Jews descended off Issac. The tests are fairly consistent with DNA samples of Arabs and Jews: They are all OF the same people, but they've evolved. Jews are considered OF Israel and Arabs are OF the Middle East, but Arabs have only been in the Middle East for 1300 years. Prior, my mothers people existed in Middle East. It's really quite interesting...(:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thank you. I just assumed anyone whose ancestry was Middle Eastern (including Israel) = Arab. Thanks for informing me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You are most welcome, my friend(:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well back in the day when Europe discovered Jesus and his new religion they amde him white because pretty much everyone was white so why not act as if Jesus was white.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jesus was most certainly dark-skinned. I think he's so often thought of as white because Christianity was prominent in European countries, whose citizens are mostly white. Hundreds of years ago, when they wanted to depict him in pictures, they made him white, not because they were racist, but because it's all they knew of. These people didn't travel extensively (unless you count the Crusades, but those sure as hell were NOT going to influence people to draw Jesus differently) or have internet or know exactly what the people of Israel looked like. The Bible never explicitly said, 'Jesus is brown, guys'. So for a Frenchman in 1100 to assume Jesus looked a lot like him and his fellow Frenchmen is understandable. However, you'd have to be delusional to think he's white in THIS day and age.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"You can believe whatever you want to believe but the facts are the facts. Both Jesus’s parents are from the Middle East, for all intents and purposes they were brown and two brown people cannot create a fucking Swedish tennis player. Any child or racist can tell you that." - Hari Kondabolu

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Funny I live in Sweden and I'm from a Middle Eastern descent. I usually go by calling Middle Easterns beige...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Europe is a bowl of Skittles. It has variety.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Now now people according to my picture I am bluish.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I thought you were referring to Mexicans and the name Heyzeus for Jesus. Was I the only one?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This isn't completely relevant. But if you say brown instead of black, shouldn't you say pink instead of white?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because he wasn't black, he was brown. He was Middle Eastern, not African. Also, when have you ever seen a person that was actually pink?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, I see what you're saying. White people look pink to me. Not like hot pink or anything, just pink...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The closest thing I've ever seen to a pink person was this super white kid after a long day at the pool. He got made fun of for a while.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He was also probably short, hairy, missing most of his teeth, and extremely foul smelling.

by Anonymous 12 years ago