Jezus’ historically accurate skin tone completes the joke on an extra dimension.
Oh yeah? What about this painting done during Jesus’ time?!?!
Checkmate atheists!
I know it’s a joke and all, but “white” people have been in the a Middle East since before Jesus.
You can find the whitest people you know even as far as Xinjiang in modern day China and they arrived there thousands of years ago BCE.
Genetics are not defined to one area unless cut off from all ability for a population pool to travel/leave. We’re gradients of features that don’t fit nicely into geopolitical borders.
Umm, I think his dad had strong genes, he just “looked like a common man” but could have had black, white, Asian, Polynesian features. Assuming his dad was not, then probably this would be “historically accurate” for someone born of two jews
Asian features? You didn’t think about what you typed for even half a second, did you
Edit. Peekes at profile …Holy yikes you actually believe this stuff?
I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.
But “camel through the eye of a needle” was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of “when pigs fly”.
The intent of this passage is crystal clear: “the rich will never ever get into heaven”.
The idea of all these rich fucks being barred from their heaven after a lifetime of greed, and likely many other terrible things, gives me great schadenfreude.
You really have to do some next level gymnastics to skate around the many harsh warnings directed at the wealthy throughout the Bible.
The prophet Ezekiel claimed that [the legend of] Sodom’s destruction by God was because of their apathy towards the poor. Not even that they “oppressed” the poor, which other passages also harshly condemn. They knew there was a need, had the means to fill that need, and chose not to which was enough to warrant a firey death.
That’s just one example. The overarching theme is very clear. Having wealth is enabling the suffering of others, which is a one way ticket to the Big Guys bad side.
