Reza Aslan: Megyn Kelly was right about Christ, but wrong about Jesus (via Raw Story )
Religious scholar Reza Aslan said Fox News host Megyn Kelly was partially right when she said Jesus Christ was white. Kelly has been criticized and mocked for her insistence that Jesus and Santa Claus were white during Wednesday night’s “Kelly File…
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Shows how framing is deeply embedded as well as relative. It's part of the social construction of reality and truth by influence.
Well, Jesus was a descendant of David and David was ruddy:
And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the children?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is he.” Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. 1 Samuel 16:11-13
Since ruddy means "(of a person's face) having a healthy red color" then David could not have been too dark complexioned.
Not that it matters since one can search the Bible long and hard to find even a hint of racism in it or at least not a hint of sanction for it. Otoh, some families of men, apart from their skin color, were weeded out for wickedness.
As Montaigne would assertion, the layers upon layers of interpretations must be removed by assay. The essay unearthes the question if the various instantiations of a messiah is connected with the supports of the original Jewish G-d.
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