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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Will, that's a little out of character for you. I added the emphasis to part of what you wrote, and I think that it's really difficult to catagorize some of the world's greatest artists as "idiots". They were simply trying to make Christ more appealing to their audience by making him look similar. Some of them were working out of ignorance, having never personally seen an Arab or anyone from the area. Neither reason is "idiotic" or anything of the sort. Those that chose to depict him in that fashion now generally do so because it's the accepted manner.
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They were painting someone they believed to be a real person who actually lived, and they either assume that he's white, or they
make him white? What is that, artistic licence? Are there pictures of Confusious as a black guy painted in Africa or pictures or King Aurthor painted as an asian (asian meaning from the race of people from East and Southeast Aisa, including but not limited to Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, Laotian, Thai, and Asian-Indian).
It is either a mistake (Jesus wasn't white?), fiction (what's an arab?), or an element of control by the church (muuhahaha!!). All of those things can be cleanly organized into the catagory or idiots in my book.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Also, Jesus was Asian. Check your globe.
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Ah, but the term 'asian' has different meanings, and in this case refers to those from south and southeast asia. From Dictionary.com definition of asian:
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Asia is the largest of the continents with more than half the world's population. Though strictly speaking all of its inhabitants are Asians, in practice this term is applied almost exclusively to the peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia as opposed to those of Southwest Asia—such as Arabs, Turks, Iranians, and Kurds—who are more usually designated Middle or Near Easterners. Indonesians and Filipinos are properly termed Asian, since their island groups are considered part of the Asian continent, but not the Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians of the central and southern Pacific, who are now often referred to collectively as Pacific Islanders.
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I hope that cleared it up for you.