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[–] 73 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Jezus' historically accurate skin tone completes the joke on an extra dimension.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah? What about this painting done during Jesus' time?!?!

    Checkmate atheists!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago*

    Is this suggesting that Jesus was white, or statistically, there's a chance that he was white, or that wasn't as brown as the rest of the population, or other? Even in 2025, with decades of active migration, if you travel to India / Asia, African countries, etc. It's rare as hens teeth to find a white person in a remote community. Possibly more likely to find an albino or person with vitiligo.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    And it was very clearly understood by the early church. My favorite such example comes from Ambrose of Milan, who was very clear that rich people were incapable of giving gifts to the poor because they could, at most, restore some of the poor person's rightful property to him, which the rich hold in a static state of perpetual theft.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    "I'm doing you a favor here, buddy."

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Unless you won the big million dollar prize in the final puzzle, is anyone really getting rich from Wheel of Fortune? The average winnings are only a couple thousand dollars.

    Jesua just trying not to take the blame for his terrible spin.

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