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(58,711 posts)but then I'm an irreligious piece of shit.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)dchill
(38,537 posts)CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)If only it had a little "Made in Honduras" sticker sticking out.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)It's not clear, but you're right.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)and I'm not Christian. However, it does seem to sum up the hypocrisy of many self proclaimed Christians out there IMO.
Nitram
(22,888 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Nitram
(22,888 posts)enough
(13,262 posts)MineralMan
(146,331 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)USA!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,612 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 19, 2018, 01:38 PM - Edit history (1)
Glorfindel
(9,735 posts)Or better yet, "He who hasn't raw dogged a porn star just after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife, let him cast the first stone."
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,612 posts)Here is the original. It is grammatically correct.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)Using the nominative in such constructions is a common error.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)only problem I have with it is that "he" couldn't have looked like this. BUT, it's the only image of "him" that white evangelicals would recognize.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)This image actually looks a lot like my late (Jewish) uncle.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)That's the closet to an authentic image of Jesus that we have, based on research. Kind of looks like someone Trumpers would want out of the country, right?
Edited to add: I am referring to the image at the popularmechanics link. Not the one on top of the thread, of course.
(Religion scholar here who teaches classes on this.)
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Seems it'd be pretty much impossible for anyone to nail down with any real accuracy ... what the guy looked like.
In fact it's just as likely that he's 100% and entirely fictitious ... as not.
There's absolutely NO physical evidence, no proven artifacts or belongings of his, and he's not in any historical record at the time he was supposedly alive, nor are there any first-hand accounts of him written by others who directly knew him while alive (though MANY records and writings from that exact time period and area of the world do still exist). That's despite The Church (Catholic and others) expending tremendous resources to try to find any such records for like 1600 years.
If memory serves the first time 'He' appears in ANY record is something like 25-40 years after his supposed death and even that one is somewhat speculative ...
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)This image is based on what a Galilean Jew of the time typically looked like. The image is the result of historical scholarship, not Catholic dogma.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)This would indicate a lot of intermingling of genes with lighter European populations in the intervening 2000 years and DNA studies tend not to show this. And from personal experience growing up in a dense and predominately Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, I've never seen Jews as dark as that who emigrated from ghettos where intermingling was unlikely. I did know 2 Jewish families with dark skin, but they also had non-Caucasian facial features and hair and had emigrated from cosmopolitan Morocco.
Wounded Bear
(58,711 posts)may not look a lot like the Jews of Palestine in Roman times. More likely they would be browner, with curlier hair.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And he would definitely look like a country music super star.
Why not? We all know Jesus was Aryan dont we?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)when he dropped off the Mormon Tablets in what is today's New York. (That was awful nice of him to do that by the way) Make America Great Again!! So now we know.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)They said he was workin' from one end to the other and all points in between...
Gothmog
(145,562 posts)Danmel
(4,924 posts)And I'm a Jewish woman. I find it disrespectful.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)I have mixed feelings about the image because I believe Jesus was nothing like Trump.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)The dude may bear some resemblance to a fictitious and wholly ahistorical depiction of some other dude who may have existed or may have not, but if he did, wouldn't have looked like anything like that.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Bayard
(22,149 posts)I don't find it anymore disrespectful than Hobby Lobby stealing Iraqi religious relics. Or all of the Native American historical and religious items that have been dug up and sold over the past couple hundred years. Or.....
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"religious relics"
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It made you laugh because of it's humorous play off of scripture and made you cry because it's based on a real situation involving our Christian President?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Reminds me of a Monty Python skit