[Religion...again] Who cares what Jesus looked like?

1) Muhammad is glorified by Muslims. He is treated as superhuman. He is especially mentioned in the shahada. He has the power to not just forgive, but to transfer sins on judgment day for no apparent reason. He is said to have travelled to heaven. He is said to have never made a mistake. These are superhuman qualities. This is glorification. MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT COPYING HIS EVERY ACTION IS THE BEST WAY FOR ANY HUMAN TO ACT. Imagine if I copied every single action by Hitler, from tying shoes to committing a holocaust, would that not be glorifying Hitler? If you can't see that this is glorification, then there is no point discussing it further.

2) He is simply not the most studied, documented of all men in history. This is pure conjecture. If you have any evidence/proof of this claim, I would love to see it. We know as much about Justin Bieber as we do about Muhammad - how he eats, how he puts on his shoes, what hairstyle he loves, who is a bad neighbor, everything. In fact, we have actual real-time pictures and videos of Bieber, whereas 99% of descriptions of Muhammad were recorded in text hundreds of years after his passing by a man from North Eastern Persia to whom Arabic was a second language and who found on his story-seeking journey that a huge proportion of the stories told to him were lies.

3) First of all, not all Arabs are brown, check your facts. Secondly, as I said, Arabs considered white skin to be beautiful, and still do to this day. Muhammad was a member of Quraysh and, like them, he was probably brown. In addition, the amount of time he spent in the sun based on the stories you refer to indicates that he would be more tanned that the cast of Jersey Shore.

I don't even know where to start about your "white American" comment and its ominous tone, so I will just forget it.

 

TheShooter's post notwithstanding, this thread does have a strange vibe.

 

I'm pretty sure Jesus today would be randomly cavity searched two times over by the TSA on every visit to his local airport.

But why two twice?

Spoiler

Because he turns the other cheek.

 

If you were to get an actor play Jesus most likely Alexander Siddig, Dr. Bashir from DS9, probably looks most like what historical Jesus did.



Historical Siddartha Buddha probably also looked similar.

 

Historical Moses, when he was still a Prince of Egypt, probably looked a lot like Kevin Martin.

 

You ask, "Who cares what Jesus looked like?"

Well, it's true in the Baha'i and Muslim faiths that there are no pictures of their prophets, it's "verboten", so to speak.

But it does interest me about Christianity in the sense that the popularized Jesus is that traditionally beautiful brown-haired blue-eyed toothpaste-commercial Jesus. Much like the recent Jesus of "The Bible" on the History Channel.

Sure, no one knows what He looked like (can't help but put the capital "H" there), but I think it's fairly safe to say he wasn't Mr. Toothpaste Commercial, but to say he was "black" probably doesn't wash either. In trying to move Jesus away from the traditionalist viewpoint, maybe African Americans are reflecting their own image on him.

Let's face it. If Jesus came back now, looking as he did then, he'd get hassled at the airport.

Passenger: "Look, that could be a terrorist."

Jesus: (overhearing) "No, my name is Jesus Christ. Yes, the Jesus. No, no autographs right now, please." (goes back to reading the Chronicle)

passenger gets security

Security #1: "OK, let's see some ID."

Jesus hands over passport

Security #1: "Hold up. 'Christ, Jesus H.'? D.O.B., 25 December zero-zero-zero-zero?"

Jesus: "Technically, it was probably zero-zero-zero-two A.D."

Security #1: "And where are you flying today?"

Jesus: "Mexico. They love me down there. Is there a problem?"

Security #1: "Come with me, please."

Jesus: "Have I done anything wrong?"

Security #1: "No, no, I just got some water I want you to turn into wine. UPPSY-daisey, there we go."

Security #2: "Are you REALLY Jesus? I'm so sorry for all this."

Jesus: "What, are you kidding? This is NOTHING. Compared to the Romans and the Sanhedrin? This is NOTHING."

 

reminds me of the words of an eminem song: "that's all it took, and they were instantly hooked Right in, and they connected with me too because I looked like them"

sheeple.

 

Hold on a sec my friends. I believe I was created in God's image. Christ is God, the Trinity. Therefore, God (and Jesus) are white because I am white. And it goes without saying that the Holy Ghost is white. Do you really think a ghost could be swarthy? No way. White ghost = white God = white Jesus = white Trinity. Also, because I am an American, it just stands to reason that Jesus is an American. Why can't you all see the truth? White Jesus for America!

 

So were the inhabitants of Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt as well as the non-Hebrew peoples of Palestine and the fertile crescent concurrent with the Hebrews black also?

 

Oh, also with respect to the video and the untested assumption that Ethiopian = Sub-Saharan African:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Ethiopia#Genetic_studies