Why? White people populated the area during his time. Remember that Pontius Pilate was the governer of a Roman province known as Judea. The first Christians according to the Bible were located in the ancient Greek city of Antioch. (now located in what is known as Turkey).
Do you assume he was brown because that area is largely populated by brown people now? Guess what, America could turn out to be the same eventually.
Edit: I'll assume the downvote means this idea upsets you.
This is correct.
Many of the early Greeks were blond. After hundreds of years of foreign occupation they took on the darker skin of the invaders. We know this due to the artwork they left to us.
There are also ancient Egyptian mummies with blind hair.
just because there were christians in the desert doesn't make them white (I didn't downvote you btw, I'm getting brigaded as well. usually happens in these discussions) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
I didn't say that they were white because they were Christian. My point is that whites populated much of the Middle East and North Africa back in the day. The Greeks are obviously white, and were even whiter before they were raped repeatedly by invading forces. As I said, Pontius Pilate was the Roman governer of that region at the time of Christ. Roman, as in from Rome or modern day Italy. The Romans were obviously white also. Both the Romans and the Greeks were eventually chased out of that region by the Turks.
I'm not saying Jesus was absolutely white, nobody knows really. I just find it ridiculous that people dismiss it out of hand. Why? I assume it's just because they look at people from the region, see they are brown, and assume it was always the case. I don't need to tell you how silly that is.
yeah, I don't really care about what color any of them were, and its usually an indicator you're just arguing with an atheist or agitator of some kind. just wanted to point out there was a big group of christians in baghdad that have been there basically forever, they worship john the baptist though, and have since mostly all been either scattered around the world or killed.
Oh yeah I'm aware. Read a sad story about what their Muslim neighbors did to them when ISIS rolled into town. Really it is terrible what has happened to Christians in the area. I think it is sad how they have been abandoned.
I agree, his race doesn't matter to me either. I just don't like the historical ignorance. Do people not know about Carthage any longer? Where that is? Europeans didn't just colonize the Americas, they were all over the place. There were major wars fought over those areas, and then some ignorant guy comes along and implies that whites were never there? It's shamefully bad schooling.
Why? White people populated the area during his time. Remember that Pontius Pilate was the governer of a Roman province known as Judea. The first Christians according to the Bible were located in the ancient Greek city of Antioch. (now located in what is known as Turkey).
Do you assume he was brown because that area is largely populated by brown people now? Guess what, America could turn out to be the same eventually.
Edit: I'll assume the downvote means this idea upsets you.
This is correct. Many of the early Greeks were blond. After hundreds of years of foreign occupation they took on the darker skin of the invaders. We know this due to the artwork they left to us.
There are also ancient Egyptian mummies with blind hair.
just because there were christians in the desert doesn't make them white (I didn't downvote you btw, I'm getting brigaded as well. usually happens in these discussions) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
I didn't say that they were white because they were Christian. My point is that whites populated much of the Middle East and North Africa back in the day. The Greeks are obviously white, and were even whiter before they were raped repeatedly by invading forces. As I said, Pontius Pilate was the Roman governer of that region at the time of Christ. Roman, as in from Rome or modern day Italy. The Romans were obviously white also. Both the Romans and the Greeks were eventually chased out of that region by the Turks.
I'm not saying Jesus was absolutely white, nobody knows really. I just find it ridiculous that people dismiss it out of hand. Why? I assume it's just because they look at people from the region, see they are brown, and assume it was always the case. I don't need to tell you how silly that is.
yeah, I don't really care about what color any of them were, and its usually an indicator you're just arguing with an atheist or agitator of some kind. just wanted to point out there was a big group of christians in baghdad that have been there basically forever, they worship john the baptist though, and have since mostly all been either scattered around the world or killed.
Oh yeah I'm aware. Read a sad story about what their Muslim neighbors did to them when ISIS rolled into town. Really it is terrible what has happened to Christians in the area. I think it is sad how they have been abandoned.
I agree, his race doesn't matter to me either. I just don't like the historical ignorance. Do people not know about Carthage any longer? Where that is? Europeans didn't just colonize the Americas, they were all over the place. There were major wars fought over those areas, and then some ignorant guy comes along and implies that whites were never there? It's shamefully bad schooling.