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“If there is talk about anti-black #racism and working against mental #colonization, then it makes sense that #Muslims, as well as #Christians, #decolonize these depictions of prophets and saintly people,”
by @AlanRMacLeod
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Warner Sallman’s now-ubiquitous “Head of Christ” circa 1940 is probably the origin of the idea of the #WhiteJesus for many Americans.
Article by @AlanRMacLeod
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Article by @AlanRMacLeod
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The power of the image to have a profound effect on behavior and the human psyche is precisely the reason the debate about accurate racial representation of religious figures in art is happening at this moment.
by @AlanRMacLeod
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by @AlanRMacLeod
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White Jesus thread: Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting, "Head of Christ," by Warner Sallman....
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The first thing to say is that Jesus did not look like that. We don't know what he looked like (the Gospels are silent about that) but we know that he wasn't white. He's known as "Jesus of Nazareth," after all, which means he came from a small (200-400 person) town in Galilee...
As the Rev. John Meier says in his magisterial book, "A Marginal Jew," about the historical Jesus, were we to see Jesus today we might be shocked, given the European images we're used to. Just look at men in Galilee today to begin to understand what he might have looked like...
Once again...where does someone with these beliefs go to church? What is she hearing from the pulpit or in Bible studies? "Pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities" will not uproot the corrupt theology that justifies racism and white supremacy.
#ColorofCompromise
#ColorofCompromise
Although the woman who said "Christian race" would likely say she simply misspoke, it's a telling phrase. She subtly conflates religion and race to imply that Christian = white. This is a major reason why Black churches and denominations exist.
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#ColorofCompromise
