I Grew Up Thinking Jesus Was A Handsome White Guy With Blondish Hair
That’s the Jesus of my youth that you’re looking at. Remember that picture? It was everywhere – even secretly in some homes where images of Jesus and the cross were forbidden (”Too Catholic” said a certain lady relative, but she had a secret one, doan ya know!) Maybe it was tucked away in a bedroom cabinet, or behind a door but at one time that picture was as common in Barbados as flying fish and cou-cou.
Handsome white guy, blondish hair flowing over the shoulders, chiseled features and that oh-so-thin Hollywood nose. At 6 years old that picture almost made me ashamed that I didn’t look like HIM.
Especially with my too wide, too dark, too damned big nose… not to mention my hair.
My Jewish Jesus Stage
A few years later at maybe 8 or 9 years old, I started to have doubts about the picture. My white Jesus didn’t look like any Jew I’d ever seen. Not that I’d seen many real live Jews on BIM, but we had some National Geographics floating around and my white Jesus didn’t look like any Jew anywhere. So I started thinking of Jesus as a New York City Jewish man with olive skin and a big nose. He didn’t say “Oy vey!” or wear a black hat, but he had the orthodox curls down the side of his face. You get the picture.
Short Haired Ugly Jesus
Then I read in the Bible (written by Paul) “If a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him”. Would Paul have written this if Jesus had long hair? Later I heard a sermon about references in a Bible verse that the Messiah was “not comely”, meaning he was not good to look at. Maybe even an ugly guy.
My childhood mental image of white handsome Jesus was by this time long gone.
African Jewish Jesus
I heard about black Jews and for many years Jesus became not just black, but African. He stood teaching on the mount – black skin proudly shining in the sun. He had my nose, my hair. He still spoke Bajan, but there are limits on the imagination when a 12 year old is dealing with the unknown.
The Sermon On The Mount Crowd Gave Me Some Trouble – Why Weren’t They African Like My Jesus?
In my mind, I saw my African Jesus teaching, but the crowd at the sermon on the mount always looked Middle Eastern. Something was wrong – either with my vision of Jesus or my vision of the crowd. Doubts began to form.
Slowly, the vision of Jesus in my mind faded as I put God aside for a time as young men sometimes do, but I was never again able to know what Jesus looked like.
Invisible Jesus
When I came back to Jesus and I found that I had no picture in my mind of what he looked like, it occurred to me that perhaps that is just the way that Jesus wants it. The world has no contemporary drawings of Jesus, if they ever existed at all. All those pictures and icons we see are from artists’ imaginations hundreds or even two thousand years after his crucifixion.
It seems to me that if Jesus wanted drawings of him to survive from his life on earth that he could have made that happen.
This is not to say that I am taking a theological position that images of Jesus are bad, good or otherwise. I’m just saying that if Jesus wanted everyone to know what his face and body looked like he could have made that happen.
If I want to know what Jesus looked like, I’ll have to wait.
Jesus Around The World
No matter how hard we try, we each impose our own view of people and culture on everything we experience, and Jesus is no exception.
Around the world, we have pictures of Chinese Jesus…
White As Snow Jesus…
Japanese Jesus…
Black Jesus…
Russian Jesus…
Jewish Jesus At The Wailing Wall In Jerusalem…
And even a “Forensic Facial Reconstruction” Jesus…
Interesting Links For Good Friday
Popular Mechanics: The Real Face Of Jesus
Movie Trailer: Color Of The Cross
45 Comments
April 6, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I prefer the last one, the “Forensic Facial Reconstruction” Jesus…
but eeuuuuwwhat a disappointment for the girls!
Goes to show,though…your religions are about My human messengers, not about my message
April 6, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Here is another image of Jesus.
It is from Cuzco.
http://www.andeantravelweb.com/peru/gallery/photos_festivals_senor_de_los_temblores_cusco.html
April 6, 2007 at 9:39 pm
This is interesting too.
http://www.amautaspanish.com/amautaspanish/culture/fiestas/lord_earthquakes.asp
April 6, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I’m oh so glad that you have come to the realisation that Jesus didn’t come from Europe, and from your post I can percieve your own sense of satisfaction that he may even look a little like you instead, according to these artistic impressions.
When your faith is stronger you will realise that the power of his message holds true in spite of anyone’s depiction of his face..and moreover he transcends all racism and is all things to all men,
and yes that includes the Islamic tradition BFP.
April 7, 2007 at 6:25 am
BFP- I find it a very fitting message for Easter to remind folks that Jesus was a Jew, probably looking more like today’s Palestinian terrorist than a matinee idol.
It is his teachings and the example of his life and death which are important to us, not his appearance. Those glorified pictures we grew up with have caused a lot of confused thinking, much of it subconscious.
April 7, 2007 at 10:26 am
BFP
Thank you
At last some sense – why not send this comment to the newspapers – it might help some others who have not worked it out yet.
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Comment by BFP George
Any newspaper or anyone in the world is allowed to reprint anything from this website PROVIDED Barbados Free Press is clearly credited, and if online, a proper link is included in the story.
george
April 7, 2007 at 11:44 am
My ancestor hero was not a white man?
he was a brownskin? What fresh hell is this?
April 7, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Thank you BFP,
This is very refreshing discussion for such a “religious little island”, Jesus was a jew (amongst other things it would seem) and it is slowly coming to light that Christianity is not all it has been made out to be……..
Has anyone read the book “The Jesus Papers” by Michael Baigent?
April 7, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Jinx
There will be who will use my name for their benefit. I don’t care what Jesus looks like, he was a Jew, he could have been white or Arabic or black for that matter. It is his message is important not his looks. Christianity was written by man, the source of those inspirations came from God. Mankind writes what he/she wants but the basic message of Peace and Love is one that will go throughout the ages. I have read and seen teh Da Vinci cods and a load of bigger hogwash I have never read, just like the new documentray”The Tomb”
April 7, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Does no one care what I look like? (sob)
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
April 7, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I find it real hard to believe that Jesus had no kids.
He had no secks drive? Was he gaaay?
A man with THAT kinda charm and charisma that has now lasted over 2K yrs.
woulda bin an absolute Babe Magnet!!
He couldn’t keep the girls off him!
Jesus had kids.. a perfectly normal human function -to reproduce.Nothing wrong with that. Until the English Puritans decided to re-write the bible, leaving out This, including That…a process called selective editing, just ask The Nation newspaper.
Give Jesus a BREAK,fer cryin out loud!
Allow the man some mortal fun in his life,nuh?
Yes we like to see him like Murrell from St.Matthias, but even he has a lil fun in his life.
We are humans, and humans do stuff: big secksy deal!
Believe it or not, Jesus even ‘answered back’ to his Mummy! – how could he do THAT? I thought he was ever so holy, meek and pious!
Jesus was mortal,despite being the son of God,just like me and you and Murrell….all sons of God.
We should be glad that some of His seed still walks the Earth,today, but NO…Victorian ’secks-is-bad’ constraints dictate that we see Jesus as some weird a-secksual Goody Two Shoes dweeb.
I don’t subscribe to your entirely-unrealistic notion of what Da Man was like.
Jesus was a cool dude, and probably went surfing,too.
There, that’ll give you something to think about over the Easter weekend, when YOU go surfing.
As you take off, just think.. Did Jesus ever hang ten? – or was he into short boards,back then?
April 7, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Hi Patrick,
I have not based my personal beliefs on just books (and that includes the bible) I have rather opted to believe in myself , to have faith that the universe, this force which brought us here, supports me constantly . I think it is good and healthy to “ask questions” .My parents generation went to church followed the status quo as most do but never wanted to entertain any other ideas except what they were “taught” or “told”. Yes! Jesus was no doubt a brilliant thinker, a person that i would loved to have met but i´d rather be “dammed to hell” by the religious and live my life with the freedom to choose ……..
I have a question for you under the MH story…
thanks.
April 7, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Desiderata.
_______________________
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story!
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
April 7, 2007 at 2:06 pm
jinx
Can’t find your question
April 7, 2007 at 2:09 pm
To Max,
THANK YOU ………
April 7, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Max, beautiful post !
Thank you and enjoy the holidays.
April 7, 2007 at 2:37 pm
God is who you make him, he is with us always and if we all live by his dictates we will be a lot better off,religion is a man made thing, not a divine one. Max that is a wonderful piece, saw it I think in a church in Baltimore, but stand to be corrected
April 7, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Max Erhmann, 1872 – 1945, was the author of Desiderata. He was an attorney from Indiana, USA.
This poem is one of my favorite works of literature.
April 7, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Calming thoughts.
BTW Max was the copyright owner the poem is over 300 years old.
April 7, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Actually the poem is about 80 years old. Max Erhmann recieved the copyright in 1927.
It is an urban legend that the poem was found in St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore dated 1692.
There is another poem called Desiderata II. Does anyone know who is the author of this poem?
April 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I was thinking about what happened to the image of Jesus given the Indians of Cuzco by Charles V of Spain centuries ago, their “new king and lord” giving to his subjects an image to promote his religion over theirs.
If I understand what I am reading so far on the Internet, the image of Jesus turned “black” over time. The smoke from the burning of candles and incense, standard practice in the religion being imposed on the Indians, appears to have caused the change.
When I first came across this particular image of Jesus years ago, I was amazed that the Church had done such a radical thing as to promote a black Jesus. I could not explain it.
I posted the links to share this amazement and in so doing, realised that something strange may have gone on here over the centuries, and maybe there is a lesson in it.
Looks like the more I find out the less I know. Maybe I’ll find I am mistaken as more facts come to light.
Has anybody come across this “black” Jesus?
Few if any descendants of slaves brought from Africa live in Cuzco, until 1533 the capital of the empire of the Inca.
April 7, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Google my name, and DESIDERATA,
and find out lots more about who wrote it and when.
April 7, 2007 at 3:46 pm
John
That is correct, they had it cleaned many years ago and then out it back, it is now black again. Maybe someone is trying to tell us that Jesus is neither white, black or any colour. But only the colour of your heart for other people, the love that we should all have for one another, that is my feeling about Jesus. “So as I have loved you then you should love one another”. Wish that were true in todays world of hatred and war
April 7, 2007 at 3:56 pm
To all BFP readers, to those who labour for a better world, I offer this gem also written by Max Erhmann
Happiness
To be without desire is to
be content. But contentment is not
happiness. And in contentment
there is no progress. Happiness is
to desire something, to work
for it, and to obtain at least a part
of it. In the pursuit of
beloved labour the busy days pass
cheerfully employed, and
the still nights in peaceful sleep.
For labour born of desire is
not drudgery, but manly play.
Success brings hope, hope
inspires fresh desire, and desire
gives zest to life and joy
to labour. This is true whether your
days be spent in palaces
of the powerful or in some little
green by-way of the world.
Therefore, while yet you have
the strength, cherish a desire to do
some useful work in your
little corner of the world, and
have the steadfastness to labour.
For this is the way to the
happy life; with health and
endearing ties, it is the way to the glorious life.
by Max Ehrmann
April 7, 2007 at 5:34 pm
That story about the statue turning black from pollution is NONSENSE! Have any of you seen the features? And if his colour does not matter, Mr Porter, why did the Europeans have him depicted as being of the colour he was most likely not?
April 7, 2007 at 7:42 pm
justice
I think you are missing the point.
As a mundane example of what colour and features mean to some, we have in Barbados a blond haired, blue eyed, fair skinned man, with chiselled Aryan features who if I understand his words properly, claims to be a black Rastafarian.
People at times argue about the veracity of his claims to the point where he was thrown out of the Pan African conference at Sherbourne based on his appearance/colour. Noone in there could believe him.
I think he is a black Rastafarian. That is what he believes.
What say you.
April 7, 2007 at 7:49 pm
…. and justice,
Take care what you are calling pollution.
Candles and incense are standard with most religions.
April 7, 2007 at 8:21 pm
That, Justice, is simple. If you were proselytising to white Europeans about a prophet, the savior, salvation, God incarnate etc, etc., would the message not be much easier to sell if he looked like the audience? I don’t think there was some ominous plot to de-Afrikianise or de-Arabise the man – just a practical way to make his teachings easier for the masses of Europeans to accept. By making him look like them. The point you ALL are missing is that Jesus’ message has been hijacked by the very ‘priests’ he spent his life denouncing, and Christianity has been wielded like a blunt weapon to beat populations into a unthinking, superstitious and compliant mass. So you can go pray to a dead rebel on a stick, and I will marvel at the wonders of the universe through my telescope and microscope. God should forgive my distraction, if he sits in judgement, as he is in all that I gaze upon.
April 7, 2007 at 8:38 pm
JP
If I were a Cuscan watching as the priests used Jesus’ message as a blunt weapon to beat me into an unthinking, superstitious and compliant mass and I watched as their image change from what was presented to me initially into something else, I think I would realise that either a trick was being played on me, or that the message was somehow greater than the priests who brought it.
Give the Cuscans some credit. They were part of a New World civilisation that gave the Old World both the potato and maize. …. ok so they also had a hand in coca.
April 7, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Well John, candle smut and resin? Black by design? Or the hand of the Divine Being? If these folks believe that this Black Jesus is also their Taitacha Temblores, the Lord of the Earthquakes, who am I to tell them they are wrong. I have great respect for indigenous American people and their culture and I also respect what others choose to believe. It seems like the Cuzcans are folding Christianity and Christ into their own pantheon, thus fulfilling the primal urge to recognise a Superior Power. I recognise the Universe as that power, and there are plenty of miracles to witness in Her vastness. The miracles of Jesus as described in The Bible are cheap parlor tricks in comparison to the wonders that surround us.
April 7, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Judas Priest, I’ve been a fan since the early 70s, and still am amazed at the power of your message!
The awesomeness of space stretches all of our comprehension and even imagination, so don’t be too hard on people who prefer a simple rationalisation of things not fully understood and call it religion.
I tend towards infinite parallel universes and are surprised at your own limitation to the one you can observe whether macro or microscopically, but as i said everyone can choose their own boundaries.
All the very same best wishes in your own voyage of enlightenment as I hope you wish all free people in their own personal quests.
April 7, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Thanks and same to you.
Peace to all.
April 7, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Now here is a radical thought. Maybe Jesus looked like………….nothing!
The Origins of Christianity and
the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ
by Acharya S
Around the world over the centuries, much has been written about religion, its meaning, its relevance and contribution to humanity. In the West particularly, sizable tomes have been composed speculating upon the nature and historical background of the main character of Western religions, Jesus Christ. Many have tried to dig into the precious few clues as to Jesus’s identity and come up with a biographical sketch that either bolsters faith or reveals a more human side of this godman to which we can all relate. Obviously, considering the time and energy spent on them, the subjects of Christianity and its legendary founder are very important to the Western mind and culture.
Despite all of this literature continuously being cranked out and the significance of the issue, in the public at large there is a serious lack of formal and broad education regarding religion and mythology, and most individuals are highly uninformed in this area. Concerning the issue of Christianity, for example, the majority of people are taught in most schools and churches that Jesus Christ was an actual historical figure and that the only controversy regarding him is that some people accept him as the Son of God and the Messiah, while others do not. However, whereas this is the raging debate most evident in this field today, it is not the most important. Shocking as it may seem to the general populace, the most enduring and profound controversy in this subject is whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever really existed.
Although this debate may not be evident from publications readily found in popular bookstores1, when one examines this issue closely, one will find a tremendous volume of literature that demonstrates, logically and intelligently, time and again that Jesus Christ is a mythological character along the same lines as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian or other godmen, who are all presently accepted as myths rather than historical figures2. Delving deeply into this large body of work, one uncovers evidence that the Jesus character is based upon much older myths and heroes from around the globe. One discovers that this story is not, therefore, a historical representation of a Jewish rebel carpenter who had physical incarnation in the Levant 2,000 years ago. In other words, it has been demonstrated continually for centuries that this character, Jesus Christ, was invented and did not depict a real person who was either the “son of God” or was “evemeristically” made into a superhuman by enthusiastic followers.
Continued at:
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm
April 8, 2007 at 3:51 pm
To Observer:
What does the word “evemeristically” mean? I have checked two dictionaries and the on-line reference i.e Dictionary.com without success.
April 8, 2007 at 10:07 pm
observer
Check in the Roman history which is available on line and there is a reference to Jesus of Nazarath, also in the Dead Sea scrolls there is also a reference to Jesus. So there is plenty of historical evidence that He existed
April 8, 2007 at 11:18 pm
To Observer:
What does the word “evemeristically” mean? I have checked two dictionaries and the on-line reference i.e Dictionary.com without success.
Hi CF, I believe that the word comes from the name “Evemerus”, an author from the time of Alexander the Great who traveled around the Mediterranean and wrote books and treatises putting forward the belief that the miraculous stories and legends about the ancient Greek gods’ existence were true and supported by evidence he found in temples and documents etc. which he came across in his travels.
See here for more info on Evemerus:
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1191.html
PP, I respectfully have to disagree. From my perspective the evidence in the secular historical record supporting the existence of Jesus is lacking especially in light of his alleged prodigious accomplishments.
Quote:
Basically, there are no non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any known historian of the time during and after Jesus’s purported advent. Walker says, “No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known writing.” Eminent Hellenistic Jewish historian and philosopher Philo (20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.), alive at the purported time of Jesus, makes no mention of him. Nor do any of the some 40 other historians who wrote during the first one to two centuries of the Common Era. “Enough of the writings of [these] authors…remain to form a library. Yet in this mass of Jewish and Pagan literature, aside from two forged passages in the works of a Jewish author, and two disputed passages in the works of Roman writers, there is to be found no mention of Jesus Christ.”28 Their silence is deafening testimony against the historicizers.
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins2.htm
I believe that your mention of Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls is a reference to someone called in the scrolls the “Teacher of Righteousness”, and although there has been much debate as to who exactly this person was or if it was a reference to an office rather than a single individual the consensus seems to be that it wasn’t Jesus.
Quote:
…….He also analyzes in detail the Testament of Levi, and claims it’s the first document to specifically proclaim the Teacher of Righteousness as the Messiah.71 Yet interestingly enough, he shows the many differences between the Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus. The two were not the same, though many parallels and similarities caused J.L. Teicher to claim they were one and the same.72 Dupont-Sommer disagreed.
* The Teacher of Righteousness was a priest, a son of Levi; Jesus was not a priest, but “son of David”.
* The Teacher of Righteousness was described as “Messiah of Aaron and Israel”.; Jesus was called only “the Messiah”.
* The Teacher of Righteousness probably lived generally in Judaea.; Jesus was a Galilean and his preaching took place principally on the shores of the Lake of Tiberius.
* The Teacher of Righteousness was a learned master, venerated to the point his followers would not pronounce his name; Jesus was a familiar teacher, whom his disciples and multitudes approached with complete freedom, whose name was neither secret nor mysterious.
* The Teacher of Righteousness was an author; Jesus wrote nothing, but only spoke his sermons.
* The most serious difference is they were separated by a century. The Teacher of Righteousness died in 65-63 B.C. under the Jewish Priest-King Aristobulus II; Jesus died 30 A.D. under the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate.73
http://www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/deadsea.htm
April 9, 2007 at 3:36 am
To Observer
Thanks for your response which has led me to the “correct” word (i.e as listed in reference works) which is euhemerisitically. This is from the noun euhermerism i.e. the system which explains mythology as growing out of real history, its deities as merely magnified men.
April 9, 2007 at 11:08 pm
>>IN CHEMISTRY, HE TURNED WATER TO WINE.
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>>IN BIOLOGY, HE WAS BORN WITHOUT THE NORMAL CONCEPTION.
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>>IN PHYSICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF GRAVITY WHEN HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN.
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>>IN ECONOMICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN BY FEEDING 5,000
>>MEN WITH TWO FISHES & 5 LOAVES OF BREAD.
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>>IN MEDICINE, HE CURED THE SICK AND THE BLIND, WITHOUT ADMINISTERING A
>>SINGLE DOSE OF DRUGS.
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>>IN HISTORY, HE IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
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>>IN GOVERNMENT, HE SAID THAT HE SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR,
>>PRINCE OF PEACE.
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>>IN RELIGION, HE SAID NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM.
>>
>>JESUS HAD NO SERVANTS, YET THEY CALLED HIM MASTER; HAD NO DEGREE, YET THEY
>>CALLED HIM TEACHER; HAD NO MEDICINES, YET THEY CALLED HIM HEALER.
>>
>>HE HAD NO ARMIES, YET RULERS FEARED HIM.
>>
>>HE WON NO MILITARY BATTLES, YET HE CONQUERED THE WORLD.
>>
>>HE COMMITTED NO CRIME, YET THEY CRUCIFIED HIM.
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>>HE WAS BURIED IN A TOMB, YET HE LIVES TODAY.
>>
>>I FEEL HONORED TO SERVE SUCH A LEADER WHO LOVES US!
>>JOIN US AND LET’S CELEBRATE HIM; HE IS WORTHY.
>>THE EYES BEHOLDING THIS MESSAGE SHALL NOT BEHOLD EVIL.
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-and you are not worthy? – Mea Culpa.
the things people believe!
November 4, 2007 at 9:44 am
Jesus is a myth based on over 34 older godmen myths from around the globe, with Krishna, Buddha, Horus, Prometheus, and Mithra being the major players. Most of these were also born to virgin mothers on Dec 25th, were called Sons of God, they walked on water, had 12 disciples, were crucified and resurrected and had many other things in common that early Christians stole to make the biggest fraud of religion ever told.
The Bible and Jesus are based on Egyptian, Sumerian Babylonian, Greek and many other myths and legends that existed long before the the myth of Jesus.
Christianity teaches fear, guilt, shame, delusions of grandeur, self-rejection, judgment, intolerance, delusions of worthlessness and represses people emotionally, spiritually and sexually. It abuses humanity with prophecies of war and eternal torture.
The OT has, on many occasions, the Hebrew God who has unconditional love and ultimate compassion ordering the murder of men, women and children; the raping of women and the annihilation of entire cities. The NT god is even worse by condemning most of humanity to eternal torture for not accepting such contradicting stories.
Genesis Chapter 1 tells us that the heaves and earth were created BEFORE there was water, vegetation and animals. Human were created AFTER these events.
Genesis Chapter 2 tells us that Adam appears “in the day the heavens and earth were made” BEFORE there was water, vegetation and animals. Eve appears AFTER these events. Adam and Eve were NOT human and were NOT the first parents. They were the gods of heaven and earth and their story is based on the Egyptian gods, Geb and Nut who has 3 sons. One of which killed the other in jealousy and the 3rd finding the bloodline to Egypt.
November 4, 2007 at 10:13 am
The Dead Sea Scrolls do not mention Jesus or Mary Magdalene. Their origin came from the Gnostics and Gnostic Gospels which spoke of them as mystic characters. Jesus and Mary Magdalene were characters depicted from the Pagan god and goddess and Christmas was a Pagan holiday.
Jesus and the many other godmen, like Buddha, Horus, Krishna, Mithra and over 30 others that were called the “Son of God” are actually the “Sun of God”. The reason their narratives are so similiar with them being crucified and resurrected, and who performed miracles and had 12 disciples is that their stories are based on the movements of the sun through the heavens, an astrotheological development that can be found throughout the planet because the sun and the 12 zodiac signs can be observed around the globe. In other words, Jesus Christ and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula (the “Mythos) revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.
For instance, many of the world’s crucified godmen – Jesus, Horus, Mithra, to name a few- have their traditional birthday on December 25th (”Christmas”69). This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earthcentric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21st or 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again.
During this time, the ancients declared that “God’s sun” had “died” for three days and was “born again” on December 25th. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction.
Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the “sun of God’s” birthday on December 25th.70 The following are the characteristics of the “sun of God”:
The sun “dies” for three days on December 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops in its movement south, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th, when it resumes its movement north.
In some areas, the calendar originaly began in the constelation of Virgo, and the sun would therefore be “born of a Virgin.”
The sun is the “Light of the World.”
The sun “cometh on clouds, and every eye shall see him.”
The sun rising in the morning is the “Savior of mankind.”
The sun wears a corona, “crown of thorns” or halo.
The sun “walks on water.”
The sun’s “folowers,” “helpers” or “disciples” are the 12 months and the 12 signs of the zodiac or
constellations, through which the sun must pass.
The sun at 12 noon is in the house or temple of the
“Most High”; thus, “he” begins “his Father’s work” at “age” 12.
The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the “Sun of God” begins his ministry at “age” 30.
The sun is hung on a cross or “crucified,” which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then resurrected.
Contrary to popular belief, the ancients were not an ignorant and superstitious lot who actualy believed their deities to be literal characters. Indeed, this slanderous propaganda has been part of the conspiracy to make the ancients appear as if they were truly the dark and dumb rabble that was in need of the “light of Jesus.”
The reality is that the ancients were no less advanced in their morals and spiritual practices, and in many cases were far more advanced, than the Christians in their own supposed morality and ideology, which, in its very attempt at historicity, is in actuality a degradation of the ancient Mythos. Indeed, unlike the superior” Christians, the true intelligence amongst the ancients were well aware that their gods were astronomical and atmospheric in nature.
November 4, 2007 at 11:52 am
Wikkid
Thanks that was very interesting
January 19, 2008 at 2:11 am
Have you ever heard the argument made by most Europeans, what difference does it make what Jesus look’s like? Nonsense! You see as a Black man with some intelligence I want to venture far out on this common sense limb to say that if I drew a picture mentally or via canvas of what I thought Jesus looked like; You could bet your last dollar that Jesus would look like me. That is Jesus would have nappy hair, broad nose and be a black man. This European foolishness that perpetuated racial inferiority , began at the “Council of Nicaea” in 325 AD. Europeans do not believe they are “Superior” to us, no not at all. What they do believe is that blacks of the world are “Inferior” to them. The fact that for over two thousand years black people have placed a blond haired, blued eyed man in pictures in their living rooms, dining rooms and bed rooms, lends credence to the fulfilment of the Europeans “Psychopathic Racial Personality.” It was easy to physically emancipate a group of people, if you could still enslave those people’s minds. One may remove a person from physical bondage, but can you remove the mental shackles that occupy that person’s mind? The reason why Europeans make the ludicrous argument that Jesus a man born in a region of the world where people were predominantly darker in complexion resembles a white blond haired man; Is the same reasonthat we teach our children the idiocy “That a cow jumps over the moon, and a dish ran away with the spoon.” We as black people have become the most comfortable slaves on the planet. We can’t do without the white man’s self enriching ideology. It sickens me to the stomach to hear those Europeans refer to Barbados as “Little England.” Why don’t they refer to themselves as “Big Barbados.” Just because a white man writes something in a book that does not make it right or even moral. Thomas Jefferson a founding father of the United States, was a prolific writer relative to humanity, yet he owned slaves and inpregnated his slave Sally Hemings. My point is most Europeans don’t give a damn who we as blacks stand for, as long as we stand for Europeans. Every where you travel on this planet you find “Whites on top,” “Blacks on the bottom.” Blackness has come to symbolize in the white mans world all that is evil and wrong with the world. So the next time you visit a white person’s home why don’t you look for that portrait of a black Jesus.
October 23, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I really like your blog entry and I’m going to quote from it while teaching a class at Codrington on Saturday. Great!
April 15, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Here’s another view. I think he looks Jewish here.
April 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Let’s try that again…
http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=168e6fa541a21a142f4b