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The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
by Paul Harvey, Edward J. Blum
One of the great cons perpetrated on billions of believers and non-believers alike is that a peasant from Palestine born some 2000 years ago of Palestinian parents somehow had fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. In other words, Jesus was a white guy.
The Color of Christ gives some insight into how this con was carried out, and the obvious racism that motivated the grifters.
The subtitle mentions America, and though the story the authors tell did take place here, the belief in a white Christ lives throughout the world.
It seems that every Christian who could fabricate an image not only came up with a white guy, but based it (if based at all) on a false document purported to be of Roman origin, and then on a press run of 500 million "holy cards." It also seems that few people gave this misrepresentation a second thought.
My boyhood bedroom contained a print of white Jesus seated on a bench in the garden with little white kids playing all around - one of whom I empathized with was holding a model airplane.
The sixties saw black Jesus, Hispanic Jesus, and Hippie Jesus, but White Jesus lasts to this day.
It's an interesting book, and if you're interested in organized religion, or race in America it's worth the read.
The Color of Christ gives some insight into how this con was carried out, and the obvious racism that motivated the grifters.
The subtitle mentions America, and though the story the authors tell did take place here, the belief in a white Christ lives throughout the world.
It seems that every Christian who could fabricate an image not only came up with a white guy, but based it (if based at all) on a false document purported to be of Roman origin, and then on a press run of 500 million "holy cards." It also seems that few people gave this misrepresentation a second thought.
My boyhood bedroom contained a print of white Jesus seated on a bench in the garden with little white kids playing all around - one of whom I empathized with was holding a model airplane.
The sixties saw black Jesus, Hispanic Jesus, and Hippie Jesus, but White Jesus lasts to this day.
It's an interesting book, and if you're interested in organized religion, or race in America it's worth the read.