: Likewise, just about every christian congregation and organization I've been exposed to touts jesus as being a white guy sometimes even placing a huge portrait or statue of white jesus in the most predominant part of their churches - front and center. : Does Shaun live in the U.S.? Is it different elsewhere? Shaun, where do you live?
I live in New York, and yes, I see pictures of a white Jesus everywhere too. All those artists who painted Jesus hundreds of years ago (Da Vinci for example)were white, so maybe the only reason why they painted Jesus as white was because that's how they pictured him since they were white. In all likelihood, since he was from Israel he was probably the same color as today's middle-easterners, which is slightly darker than white. Who ever said that everybody who painted Jesus was even a Christian? I say it again-nobody knows exactly what he looked like. It doesnt say in the Bible. And it really doesn't matter either because He died for everybody and we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord. Even people who have a picture of a white jesus in thier house will tell you he possibly isn't white. Of course racists like the kkk will tell you "Jesus was white and he wasn't a Jew" But again, nobody will know what he looked like untill we all see him.
