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Who can forget when the former Fox News host Megyn Kelly declared in 2013 that Jesus, like Santa Claus, “was a White man, too,” and “that’s a verifiable fact,” a remark she later said was meant in jest.

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First, while the classic Nordic Jesus remains a popular image today in some churches, a movement to replace the White Jesus has long taken root in America. In many Christian circles — progressive mainline churches, churches of color shaped by “liberation theology,” and among Biblical scholars — conspicuous displays of the White Jesus are considered outdated, and to some, offensive. In a rapidly diversifying multicultural America, more Christians want to see a Jesus that looks like them.

But in some parts of the country, the White Jesus never left. The spread of White Christian nationalism has flooded social media feeds with images of the traditional White Jesus, sometimes adorned with a red MAGA hat. Former President Trump is selling a “God Bless the USA Bible” with passages from the Constitution and Bill of Rights — a linking of patriotism with Christianity that reinforces a White image of Jesus that is central to Christian nationalism.

Blum says the image of a White Jesus has been used to justify slavery, lynching, laws against interracial marriage and hostility toward immigrants deemed not White enough. When Congress passed a law in the early 20th century to restrict immigration from Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, White politicians evoked the White Jesus, he says.

“One of the arguments was, ‘Well, Jesus was White,’ ‘’ Blum says. “So the theme was, we want America to be profoundly Christian or at least Jesus based, so we should only allow White people in this country.”

The MAGA movement uses the image of a White Jesus to weaponize political battles, he says, pointing to signs at the January 6 insurrection displaying a White Jesus, sometimes wearing a red MAGA hat. To Blum, some Christian conservatives see a White MAGA Jesus as “an anti-woke symbol.”

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 52 points 7 months ago

Imaginary mythological creatures can look however you like.

[-] ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Which is why Korean Jesus is best Jesus.

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago
[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

There's no way that dude fell three times while carrying the cross

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

The cross could be nailed to HIM!

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 7 months ago

He felled three trees to make new crosses after he reduced the last one to splinters by accident.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

It was three lunges, Jesus ahead of his time, , they just hadn't heard of leg day back then.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

You don't want to run into a biblically accurate Jesus though. Those things are scary.

Stupid sexy Jesus

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago
[-] ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Ethiopain Jesus has nice eyes

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Ethiopian Jesus looks like an emoji

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Much like Bill Bailey, Ethiopian Jesus is a bald man with long hair.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 7 months ago

1: Big believer in personal fitness

2: Minds his business. He's busy with Korean shit.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Gotta save people from window fans.

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