When I was a kid I got in trouble for telling people at church Jesus was “African-american” my dumb kid mind thought that was the only acceptable way to say “not white.” I don’t think I was ever able to explain what I meant.
Roundheads (who later settled Massachusetts as Puritans) believed that Jesus would return to the center of the world (aka London, obs) speaking English to establish the New Jerusalem.
This Anglo-Jesus idea then got brought here.
Pretty sure he had an AR-15 and lived in a trailer park in east Kentucky, check your facts dude
Honestly, leftie Jesus is a bit of a whitewashing itself. If you read the Bible the guy is petty AF half the time, especially with people who aren’t entertaining religious solicitors and keep throwing his gang of preaching cultists out of places. I’m cool with calling out the hypocrisy of Christian right-wingers, but let’s not pretend Christianity doesn’t have a ton of built-in garbage along those lines. I mean, understandably, it’s the preachings of some random guy 2000 years ago, so does Plato, but still.
Yeah I think biblical Jesus is really strongly anti divorce, for example. Some of the Christian right are also hardcore on that stance, but a lot aren’t. Probably because that’s hard for them personally.
Matthew 19
19 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
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That’s probably where people infer a lot of anti-gay stuff, too.
I don’t think jesus’ take there is very good, but I don’t identify as a Christian n
Let’s not get started on the thrice married and looking for a 3rd, morality police too…
Thankfully most people don’t live their lives by what’s laid out in the bible, which is a book of fiction. Of course men wanted to control women and sought to make “laws” to make it difficult for women to leave abusive situations, which is why you find this kind of unsympathetic tripe in the bible.
He killed a tree because it didn’t produce fruit as if the tree was deliberately holding out on him. Like you’re literally God who literally created all living organisms, surely you understand how trees work and how they will turn off fruit production if conditions aren’t right (namely if they don’t have enough nutrients for it), and that it’s an automatic response which the tree has no conscious control over because you didn’t even design them to have a nervous system.
I mean, also the “I love you unconditionally, on the condition that you worship me otherwise I will personally throw you in hell” thing.
image comparison reminded me of forensic Jesus face.
Only argument I have with this is that he was definitely christian, the dude strongly believed in himself, I mean you don’t go around saying you’re the son of God willy nilly
A good con-man always believes in his own con.
Is that like saying that Taylor is a Swiftie?
He literally couldn’t have been, Christianity didn’t exist while he was alive (if he actually lived). He was definitely Jewish, that’s why he went to Jewish temples and quoted Jewish scripture. He claimed to fulfill Jewish prophecy and called himself the King of the Jews. You could maybe argue his zombie corpse was Christian after it got up and walked around for a few days and issued the Great Commission, but can a corpse really believe in anything?
I once saw a cartoon with a church with a sign “No homeless people allowed inside” and Jesus stands before the sign and doesn’t enter
He was also Socialist by definition.
But TBF the whole white jesus concept came from Christianity’s spread from Rome and Northern Europe, not from Republicans in the USA.
People probably overestimate how “non-white” Jesus would be at the time. The whole skin color thing is a very colonial concept. I don’t know that in a world centered in the Mediterranean people would have thought of Italians as “white” and Northern Africans or Middle Easterns as “non-white”.
So in a way maybe yeah, “white Jesus” is a very American invention, just not necessarily in the way Americans parse it. US racial categories don’t work anywhere else even today, anyway.
No, it’s much older than the US. It’s a European invention, just as the US is fundamentally a product of European colonialism.
Sure. Point is, it’s a product of colonialism and full-on anachronistic. Americans in particular keep trying to apply their modern categorizations, which both leftists and conservatives have fully internalized, to all places and times and it really doesn’t work.
He advocated for the social ownership of the means of production?
Poor and homeless? Dude was a carpenter. He wasn’t rich but my understanding is that he made sure his family were looked after before changing careers. He wandered, but he could have gone home at any time.
Don’t forget that Jesus has such a bad temper that he cursed a fig tree so it would never bare fruit again.
The reason? It didn’t have any figs because it was the wrong season, and he had a temper tantrum. 🤡
The historical Jesus was not a child refugee. He was from Nazareth, period. The stories of the family traveling to Bethlehem are not in the oldest gospel (Mark) and almost certainly got added in to explain why the messiah was not from Bethlehem when prophecy said he would be, the same home town as King David.
My Bible knowledge is rusty, but didn’t the whole family flee to Egypt for a couple of years because Herodes Kind of wanted to murder that kid that was prophecized to displace him?
Weirdly that happens in Matthew and not in Luke, and neither Mark nor John have a birth story.
Defeat the goddamned christofascists
You forgot my favorite parable, The Cleansing of the Temple:
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. John 2:15-16
Jesus whipping money lenders will always make me chuckle.
