I am going to laugh my ass off if we ever find some letter talking about some albino Jewish magician street preacher getting crucified by Pilot.
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lugal@lemmy.world 9 months agoI also saw it. Jesus wasn’t white
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
neurogenesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Nobody in the Bible was white 😅
lugal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Paul is from Asia Minor so he arguably was Greek and therefore white. And obviously some of the bad guys like the Romans.
neurogenesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The term only began to be used in the 1600s (for … reasons), but it seems Paul was born in what is now Turkey
lugal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
… before the turkic arrived so it was ethnically and culturally closer to Greece than to Turkey. Then again, he was an (ethnic) Jew. This was before nation states and the concept of race (and racism). I’m not going to die on any hill here, I could argue for many things.