because they dont like history
no. If history was important to people then there would be no statues of a white jesus. Jesus wasn't white. So calling for inaccurate statues to be torn down is actually much more in line with protecting history.
who gives a shit what race he is? thats not protecting "history" its a religious symbol
Ohhh... they want to be historically accurate. I’d bet they are tearing these statues down because nobody was actually 15ft tall and made of marble. Good catch!
They are trying to destroy all monuments of white people to destroy white history
It is about the racist undertones of changing the race of jesus to make him white when he was very obviously middle eastern.
Multiple races changed the race of Jesus so that He is easier to identify with. There is nothing wrong with having different races for this. There is a black one, an Asian one, etc.
Statues of Jesus aren't white because they thought Jesus was white. They are white because granite, or whatever rock was used happens to be white.
they dont know history, why would they damage lincoln memorial
Not so terribly different from modern Western depictions of Him.
And here's a black Jesus with a full afro from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church:
I guess Chinese people are racist.
That depiction has virtually no color in it. They are could be limited by the materials at their disposal. It is also entirely possible that this depiction has not held it's coloring properly over the last 1500 years.
also, if you read the caption it explicitly says the artistic style of this is intentionally different from how he was depicted before. It also is a reflection of race tensions. They were intentionally making him look less roman, which was the previously accepted style.
None of it's racist. One point churches always try to get across is that Jesus was a man like us (while also God) and He was sent for the sake of all people across all time. Therefore, all people across all time should be able to relate to His humanity, which is accomplished by depicting Him in a way that's relatable to any given audience.
There's nothing wrong with that so long as the members of one race don't believe that Jesus belongs exclusively to them.
More Jewish and less Roman. It clearly wasn't whitewashing and the main difference was beard or no beard, not skin color.
God was made in the “image of man”, so it is pretty logical to make him look like you.
But even with all of that aside, Jesus could have been any race, not necessarily even Middle Eastern, because he was the “Son of God” literally. And, since Christians believe in an all-powerful God, that means he could have been born white no matter what the mother’s race was.
If black churches want a black Jesus statue and on stained glass windows, they are free to do that if that helps them identify with Jesus more.
Some people have no respect for an unchangeable era, even yesterday. George Santayana was correct. Forget history, be condemned to repeat it. Therefore, those who attempt to alter history by it erasure will do the very things they condemn. The pattern has been so since history began.
