Jesus was Nordic

[_Quasimodo]

Spurred by some other conversations on this board, I have given some thought to the racial identity of Jesus. It occurred to me that most of the wall art I have seen portrays Jesus as light skinned, light haired and blue eyed.

Given the number of mobile homes displaying this rendition of the Christ, I think the evidence that Jesus was Swedish is overwhelming.

Another clue is that both "Mary" and "Joseph" are common names in Sweden.

Your thoughts?

[_Buffalo]

I have it on good authority that the last supper was actually husmanskost and glögg

[_Fiannan]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/140121.html

Not sure, maybe he looked more like this Jewish rabbi.

As for the pic in the OP I have never seen a Swede who looked like the way Jesus is depicted in that picture. Here is a Swedish man, or at least half Swedish:



http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpol ... siden.html

[_Morley]

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As for the pic in the OP I have never seen a Swede who looked like the way Jesus is depicted in that picture. ....

Bjorn Borg

[_Quasimodo]

Bjorn Borg

Wow! That second image is an amazing likeness. Is Bjorn Borg really Jesus? That would explain his great tennis feats.

[_Fiannan]

Well, if you ignore the nose, forehead, eye-shape and chin sure, they are twins.

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

I have it on good authority that the last supper was actually husmanskost and glögg

hah!

[_jon]

I have yet to see a picture of Jesus within the Mormon Church that accurately reflects what a Middle Eastern Jew born two thousand years ago would have looked like.

[_plunderpunk]

Altered and historically unfaithful depictions of Christ would seem to under mind the "attending church isn't about keeping up appearances" argument.

For the first few years after the "Jesus wasn't white" thought first occurred to me, every time I saw
a news report of Palestinian unrest with footage of crowds protesting, I thought "somebody in that crowd is probably related to Jesus" - and none of them looked like a viking or a member of ABBA.

[_jon]

Altered and historically unfaithful depictions of Christ would seem to under mind the "attending church isn't about keeping up appearances" argument.

For the first few years after the "Jesus wasn't white" thought first occurred to me, every time I saw
a news report of Palestinian unrest with footage of crowds protesting, I thought "somebody in that crowd is probably related to Jesus" - and none of them looked like a viking or a member of ABBA.

That would be true, but also they would ultimately be related to Adam who was a Missourian.