Members NeonVomit Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Doesn't matter any longer. Guessing from how people who live there today look, he'd be dark-haired with a distinctly Mediterranean complexion. Whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 given that the area was occupied by the roman empire jesus could have been any one of many races and even mixed. just thought id stirr the pot a little:idea: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by bholder This is why I found the casting in Mel Gibson's "The Passion" so troubling (and indicitive of Mel's deep set prejudices). Jesus is played by a blue-eyed, light-brown-haired, anglo-looking northern Italian. If you watch the movie closely, you'll notice that the more sympathetic you're supposed to feel towards a character, the more anglo that character's actor looks, and the less sympathetic (e.g., Judas), the more semitic the actor is. If Jesus were here today, most right wing evangelicals would treat him as a probable terrorist if they came across him. This describes every movie ever made about Jesus. I think you are being a little hard on Mel when his is only following an artistic tradition everyone else has from about the 4 centrury on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Godot Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Jesus is Hispanic. I've met him. Nice guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by lug This describes every movie ever made about Jesus. I think you are being a little hard on Mel when his is only following an artistic tradition everyone else has from about the 4 centrury on. Ah, the great Constantine and the Council Of Nicea....still going strong after 1600 years.................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by DevilRaysFan Ah, the great Constantine and the Council Of Nicea....still going strong after 1600 years.................. Those Libyans were causing trouble even back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by lug Those Libyans were causing trouble even back then. I believe the first US declared war was with Tripoli in 1803 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dark Slide Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by lokidecat I don't know what is worse, the Jackhammer Jesus, or the Baby Jesus Buttplug. Baby Jesus Buttplug is pretty friggin awesome too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted August 15, 2006 Members Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by Dark Slide Baby Jesus Buttplug is pretty friggin awesome too! Is there something you're not telling us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by lokidecat I don't know what is worse, the Jackhammer Jesus, or the Baby Jesus Buttplug. Ewwwww. now that's just wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RIC N BACKER Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 it would be foolish to think Jesus looked like a white hippie given his origin of birth.but then again his mom was a virgin who got nailed by a ghostmaybe the albino thing has some weightlolanywaysi think Nick simmons bares an uncanny resemblence to Jim Morrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by jonathan_matos5 given that the area was occupied by the roman empire jesus could have been any one of many races and even mixed.just thought id stirr the pot a little:idea: Not if you believe the Bible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by lug This describes every movie ever made about Jesus. I think you are being a little hard on Mel when his is only following an artistic tradition everyone else has from about the 4 centrury on. Mel made claims about trying to be historically accurate. Those ones from the 50s didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted August 16, 2006 CMS Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by bholder Not if you believe the Bible. Ah yes....also an artistic work, none too different from the paintings you claim are so incorrect, in that they are the interpretations, opinions, impressions of the authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by Craigv Ah yes....also an artistic work, none too different from the paintings you claim are so incorrect, in that they are the interpretations, opinions, impressions of the authors. Yup. And when it's a matter of an artist choosing how to represent Jesus, or anyone else, I'm all for artistic freedom. When it becomes an institutional tool for instigating ethnic hatred, that's when I have an issue with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lokidecat Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by bholder Ewwwww. now that's just wrong. Not Safe For Work - Divine Interventions Website Some funny stuff there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members niomosy Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by bholder Yup. And when it's a matter of an artist choosing how to represent Jesus, or anyone else, I'm all for artistic freedom. When it becomes an institutional tool for instigating ethnic hatred, that's when I have an issue with it. If people would just realize it's all fiction in the first place, we wouldn't have these silly problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GRANKOR Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by jonathan_matos5 given that the area was occupied by the roman empire jesus could have been any one of many races and even mixed.just thought id stirr the pot a little:idea: Originally posted by bholder Not if you believe the Bible. Or any historian of 1st Century Judiasm... Through out the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Jewish society was closed and exclusionary (and has largely remained so in the 2000 years since) the chances of a Roman intermarrying into a Jewish family were slim indeed, and for no mention to be made of it anywhere is even less likely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by lug Those Libyans were causing trouble even back then. Originally posted by DevilRaysFan I believe the first US declared war was with Tripoli in 1803 There was never a declaration of war on the Barbary Pirates...The first declaration of war made by the United States government established by the Constitution was the Anglo-American War of 1812.All of which you would have known if you had just read this humorous and entertaining article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dark Slide Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Donate to the church.... bitch!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 You know how I picture Jesus? With giant like, angel-wings, and as the lead singer for Lynryd Skynyrd, and the whole band has like giant angel-wings too! (if you've seen Talladega Nights, you get this- that whole seen... god- i about fell out) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted August 16, 2006 CMS Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by bholder Yup. And when it's a matter of an artist choosing how to represent Jesus, or anyone else, I'm all for artistic freedom. When it becomes an institutional tool for instigating ethnic hatred, that's when I have an issue with it. Can you cite examples of the latter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by bholder Mel made claims about trying to be historically accurate. Those ones from the 50s didn't. So almost every movie and painting EVER MADE depicts Jesus as a European Caucasian but Mel is the Anti-semite. riiiiight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted August 16, 2006 Members Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by Craigv Can you cite examples of the latter? I would claim that any Bible or any other religious publication being published in this day and age with Jesus depicted as an "acceptable" blue eyed, fair skinned, light brown haired euro-looking caucasian is an example of the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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