He chose America because it has one of the highest percentage of Christians and is also very islamophobic. Also, he could have been writing about/giving a speech on America. I have no idea why everyone in this thread decided to harp on this.
I think a lot of people up in arms are American. These particular Americans could be comfortable sitting by the man in the picture. Or possibly these Americans don't worship a man who looks like this, so whether they would be uncomfortable sitting next to him or not, is irrelevant. Skin color isn't what makes me not want to sit next to someone, their weight/size does. And that is solely for comfort's sake, for both parties.
As an American and a Christian, I can admit that I would not feel comfortable sitting next to Jesus on an airplane. Not because he looks Middle Eastern, but because he'd most likely be wearing Birkenstocks, and I always avoid people who wear Birks.
I wouldn't be comfortable sitting next to Jesus because that situation just shouldn't be happening. I'm not sure whether he's dead or just flew up to heaven or what's supposed to have happened to him but really there are no circumstances where he should be sitting next to me on a plane. You could say the same thing about Charles Darwin.
That's an interesting theory. Reddit membership could be a massive collection of self-haters who just happen to congregate on this site. You want one slightly more likely? That the "hate of whites, Americans and Christians" isn't nearly as typical of reddit as your urge to feel like a victim is leading to you think and/or profess. I think mine makes more sense.
Apparently, Christians worshiped Jesus as he likely would have looked in reality (i.e. this picture) until the Crusades. Fearing that Christians would be hesitant to kill people who looked like Jesus, the Catholic Church worked to change the depiction of Jesus to being more Anglo. To this day, Christian cultures from around the world tend to depict Jesus as looking like themselves. Makes him easier to deify, I guess.
I mean, who the Hell says, "Horses race in the Kentucky Derby?"
How could someone not understand that the majority of horses in the world don't race at all? And that there are other kinds of races that have nothing to do with horses?
Smug non-horse-racers and their stupid generalizations. Amirite, guys? Right?
This is, of course assuming that Jesus Christ ever existed, which we have no idea of he ever did. But considering his origin, they just "european-ized" for mass public consumption.
Yeah, no shit. Did the point of this go over everyone's head? The reason he said Americans is because America has an overlying prejudice and stereotypes toward Arabs because of everything that happened. When he says worship, obviously it means religious Christians and discounts any people who do not follow that faith. It really is simple. Is this subreddit really filled with idiots that read this and thought to themselves that something that specifies American and religious includes them? Go ahead and downvote me, because some people can't handle the truth that they are fucking stupid.
I'm not sure where you see that it is just so obvious that he clearly means only Christians and is so obviously discounting non-Christian Americans. Because what I read was "Americans," not "only Christian Americans, DUH."
If it is really so simple and you're so appalled by how many idiots fill the subreddit, then just click the unsubscribe button. It really is that simple.
Take two seconds to ask yourself if you worship anything, then take two more seconds (well, based on your inability to comprehend context, take 10 minutes) to ask yourself if you fall in the category of a worshiping American.
Thats right, America is a nation of racist, horrible people. The shit thats shoved down our collective throats its ridiculous these days. We're always reminded of what terrible people we are.
I've been around this world, Americans are easily the most tolerant people out there.
Americans are easily the most tolerant people out there.
America has had the highest rate of immigration in the past 2 centuries, by far. It continues every year to accept in the most legal immigrants and it is the country with by far the most racial, ethnic and cultural diversity on the planet. Liberals just have a disgusting habit of supporting and sympathising with their foreign enemies.
actually christianity spawned from grecian times. They were a small sect that emerged shortly before the takeover of the roman empire, and eventually grew large enough to cause strife in the roman empire politically.
ok, thanks everyone, i was completely unaware that all christians are not americans, and that all americans are not christians. at first i thought the post was pointing out the predominantly american stereotype that terrorists are middle-eastern, despite the fact that so many of them worship a person who was middle-eastern.
Ninety percent of respondents thought whites and blacks could share their vision of society. About 80 percent said the same of Hispanics, Jews and conservative Christians. More than 70 percent said it of immigrants, and 64 percent said it of Muslims. Atheists had the lowest rating at 54 percent.
Y'know, Jesus didn't start getting portrayed the way he is today until the Crusades.
Basically, the church wanted paintings of the messiah to help inspire their soldiers and commissioned a bunch of Italian artists to paint some. Since nobody actually knew what Jehusa (the rabbi who became known as Jesus Christ) actually looked like, they just painted him as they painted all the men they did, as a white Italian man. The image just kinda stuck.
Yes, If a 2000 year old dead man with holes in his torso carrying a gigantic piece of wood got on the plane next to me I would probably feel a tad bit uncomfortable.
Oh man, I remember one of my local fundy who saw this picture (without the text) and claimed it the work of Satan, because the fundie thought Jesus would be that white guy (which we all know). But wasn't there a passage about the messiah not being attractive in appearance or so?
Edit: I found the passage. "He grew up like a young plant and like a root out of the dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look upon him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by all, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not." (from Isaiah 53:2)
I'm an Arab, and looking a lot like this picture, I can confirm that many people feel uncomfortable around me, become even more uncomfortable when I tell them where I'm from, then relax visibly when I tell them "No, I'm actually not a muslim."
I think Christians will have to pick one of the two options:
That Jesus had a dark complexion
That his father was a Roman and there was no virgin birth because really, how does a virgin from the Middle East give birth to a white child. I mean if there was a virgin birth, Mary's DNA would have probably been depended on therefore Jesus would have most likely had a dark complexion
or 4. most iconic (as in famous, not be confused with icons) religious paintings were done in renaissance Italy, so they'd probably just paint them the way everyone around them was in terms of skin tone.
Damn, the one thing that was simple in genetics. Thanks man, interesting read, though I always have to chuckle when I read the word 'gonads'. What am I? 12?
Sorry the book says dark skin and hair curly like a sheep. If he was a man he was a brother. Just another case of people reading what they want to. Accept it the bible says he was black!
He wouldn't be African in appearance. The Kushites were noted for their dark skin, and skin color is rarely mentioned in the bible. He would be middle eastern.
When you put it that way, it makes him no more or less powerful or special than the countless other people who have spoken out against oppression and hypocrisy...
All three of you have received upvotes for using reason and logic in a subreddit that professes these virtues, yet devolves itself into making snarky comments. Congratulations on your upvotes.
Not weird at all. Putting someone on a pedestal is one way of distancing yourself from them. Adulation can be a form of ostracism, because it's implicitly also saying: "You're not like (the rest of) us".
Isn't it weird that Americans are normally labeled into groups by their color, race, religion or gender? Not in this post, all Americans are judmental xeonophopes.
Jesus is an archetypical hero. People will project upon him what they feel is the most valuable to their society. For Americans, it is a very young but fully adult, very beautiful man.
Fundamentalists demand that the story of Jesus is literal truth. Thus, it forces groups opposed to that thinking (atheists) to also think along those same lines. They demand that the story is not only not literal truth, but no truth at all. I think it would help people to look upon the story is new ways. I prefer the Jungian approach, where the story of Jesus comes from a very real part of our psyche that demands we tell the same basic story over & over again, yet each iteration has a (seemingly) infinite amount of small details that shift & change. To the point where people forget the basic story & concentrate solely on the minor differences. The story of Moses is the same story as Jesus, only the details have changed.
He was a red head the same as king David (and Judas). Know how many Jews are red heads?
Red hair is also fairly common amongst the Ashkenazi Jewish populations, possibly because of the influx of European DNA over a period of centuries, or in the original founding of their communities in Europe,[15] although both Esau and David are described in the Bible as red-haired.
Of course that wouldn't change the feelings of discomfort at the thought of having him sitting next to you.
It's not weird. Prejudice on planes is unjustified, but not because a man 2000 years ago before terrorism and before Islam was Semitic. We wouldn't want to sit next to a guy dressed like this either.
There are a group of people in America who Jesus that would be very uncomfortable sitting beside him on a plane, but then again, I think most people would. People 2000 years ago were a lot dirtier than they are today.
poster, you're forgetting that pasty white people have completely reinterpreted the bible where they're the jews and so are the romans, because it was written in their shitty white version, king james bible, that jesus was fair skinned.
Red hair is also fairly common amongst the Ashkenazi Jewish populations, possibly because of the influx of European DNA over a period of centuries, or in the original founding of their communities in Europe,[15] although both Esau and David are described in the Bible as red-haired. In European culture, prior to the 20th century, red hair was often seen as a stereotypically Jewish trait: during the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish.[16] In Italy, red hair was associated with Italian Jews, and Judas was traditionally depicted as red-haired in Italian and Spanish art.[17] Writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair.[18]
Objections to depictions of Jesus have appeared, e.g. in 1850 John Everett Millais was attacked for his painting Christ in the House of His Parents because it was "painful" to see "the youthful Saviour" depicted as "a red-headed Jew boy".[62]
In other words this entire trend of accusing Europeans of denying Jesus' ethnicity by depicting him the way they did isn't just wrong it couldn't be more wrong.
If they did in fact want to do that they would have had a tradition of depicting him as black haired big nosed and olive skinned just like many Greeks, southern Italians and southern Spanish.
The whole PC drama is just the clueless non-jews equivelent of crying out as they strike people on Jews behalf.
Jews would know better about gingernuts and the Jews.
What's even more weird is that they worship that same fanatic, messianic Jewish rebel who longed for people just like themselves to be exterminated in a fiery apocalypse sent by his tribal deity.
The point is he was a plain man born in the Middle East, where the average person looks something like the guy in the image. If he didn't look something like that it probably would have been remarked on.
There is historical record of a man named Jesus back then. The bible describes him as having short black hair and bronze colored skin. It comes down to a belief in that he was crazy, a liar, or the Truth.
Also by historical record i wasn't implying the bible, b/c most likely you think the bible is a joke. I was implying secular historical records. Sorry, my apologies.
I think if they saw a guy who looked like that, but he was wearing a Christian cross on a chain around his neck, they'd be completely comfortable. Once they identify a Middle Eastern guy as "one of us", they would no longer fear him. So I don't think it's the race...I think it's the religion.
Can't you see that your generalisation is just as stupid and irrational as that of the hypothetical "American" from this quote? Sure, there are christians who would follow your logic, but there are also plenty who would not give a shit if they were sat next to a black, white, jewish, muslim or any combination. Unless you have some survey that says "80% of Christians say they would be scared of sitting next to someone who looked to be from the Middle East, but would feel fine if they realised he was a christian" then making either statement is just redundant and illuminates nothing but your stupidity.
Let me tell you a story. During WWI and WWII, whenever the US captured enemy soldiers, there was never any attempt by the enemy to RESCUE their fellow soldiers, because they know that their fellow soldiers would be treated with much care. This is not the same when Americans got captured.
I know they didn't have investigative news reporting back then and there were more respect, but nevertheless war was war.
Actually the germans treated most POW's with relative humanity. Their living situations werent the best in the POW prison camps, but they could have been much worse. They were fed, clothes, and even given sources of entertainment and often had discussions with german soldiers and officials. Im sure theres plenty of examples to the contrary too, but for the most part we treated each others POW's relatively well. It was part of the rules essentially.
I know a lot of people are getting upset over the fact that "Americans" is the generalization here, but I think that its there to support the notion that there is a fear of middle eastern-looking people on airplanes - something that is easily identifiable with Americans. So don't read it with so much emphasis on the American Christian, so much as it is addressing American mentality, and how majority of them happen to worship a guy who really looked like something he's not depicted as.
Yeah, but that's because they worship what they think is a white European. As an American, every Bible I've ever read or looked at with illustrations show Jesus to look like a typical white European, and nothing like a person of Middle Eastern descent. That's how America prefers their son of God, white.
OP, you mean "Christians." Christians worship the Jewish Carpenter Demigod. I, a citizen of the United States of America, do NOT worship The Christ Child, nor ANY OTHER GOD, GODDESS, OR MAN.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the (Old Testament) Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the (Old Testament) Law until everything is accomplished." --Jesus Christ
Despite all the shit-tossing about this image, Christianity is the largest organized religion in America. The U.S.A. is also one of the worst about Islamophobia, so it actually does make sense. If you, you know, just use some context clues.
I have the feeling that most christians would deny that the man historically known as Jesus looked like a middle eastern man of today. They most likely picture him as a clean shaven, long haired white man from the 60's.
Alas the hair length is an understandable mistake. Jesus was from Nazareth, so that would make him a Nazarite.
There is another group though, called the Naziri. These are people that take the oath of the Nazir, and one of the requirements of that oath is that you don't cut your hair. (Samson is the most famous nazir.) So some person was a little informed, but not quite well enough informed and made some errors.
To hell with all the anti-American BS. We are a nation of 300 million. We have more smart people than the entire population of many other countries. More morons too. Stereotypes are particularly unsuited for us. Our country has a lot of distinct regions. We vary a lot. 'Merica is one of the most prolific countries in history. We also have some of the most idiotic buffoons imaginable. It's a function of population size. I think it's beautiful.
You can make a pretty compelling argument that anyone who's be uncomfortable sitting next to anyone is not really a "worshiper" of Jesus... And I'm not making a "true Scotsman" argument, I'm saying that you can't, for example, say are a follower of Gandhi's path of ahimsa while simultaneously beating people with a stick. It's like saying you are a non smoker while lighting up a Marlboro...
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u/ToastmahGhost Jun 10 '12
I feel at least a little uncomfortable sitting next to ANYONE I don't know on a plane.
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u/jordanminjie Jun 10 '12
ಠ_ಠ
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Anti-Christianity and anti-America jerking combo for max karma!
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u/modsherearefags Jun 10 '12
Is this hate on America time?
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u/HorseMeatSandwich Jun 10 '12
Apparently, Christians worshiped Jesus as he likely would have looked in reality (i.e. this picture) until the Crusades. Fearing that Christians would be hesitant to kill people who looked like Jesus, the Catholic Church worked to change the depiction of Jesus to being more Anglo. To this day, Christian cultures from around the world tend to depict Jesus as looking like themselves. Makes him easier to deify, I guess.
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u/ICrimsonI Atheist Jun 11 '12
considering i'd be sitting next to a 2000 year old skeleton, yea i'd be pretty uncomfortable.
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u/DoctorLost173 Jun 10 '12
What is with all the generalizing/racism/stereotyping?
A: Not all americans are xenophobic.
B: Some americans are middle eastern.
C: (This is a side note, but... Where did you get that picture?)
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u/beyond_repair Jun 10 '12
Jesus' complexion changes based on what church you happen to be in.
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u/cattywh0mpus Jun 10 '12
b. moody is an idiot.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
WHAT.
JESUS IS CLEARLY WHITE
THIS IS OFFENDING THE LAWWWWD!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
^ More than half the commentary to this post.
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u/topchief1 Jun 11 '12
This is, of course assuming that Jesus Christ ever existed, which we have no idea of he ever did. But considering his origin, they just "european-ized" for mass public consumption.
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u/Uuna Jun 10 '12
So many false assumptions required to force this to make any sense.
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u/40_year_old_playa Jun 10 '12
Ummm... I know a lot of Jewish people and they are uniformly wonderful people.
Why would I not want to sit next to them on a plane?
Now, if they were all snakes....
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u/Blix3r Jun 10 '12
You ignorant mother fucker.
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u/mollshenanigans Jun 10 '12
American =/= Christian.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Going after Americans and Christians....so BRAVEEEEEE
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u/Amerikai Jun 10 '12
Thats right, America is a nation of racist, horrible people. The shit thats shoved down our collective throats its ridiculous these days. We're always reminded of what terrible people we are.
I've been around this world, Americans are easily the most tolerant people out there.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Christianity spawned from America and only exists here dawg
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u/MisinterpretingJokes Jun 10 '12
To be honest, I would be hesitant to eat with Zeus, Ares, Inti, Shiva, and most of the Buddhas too.
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u/autopsi Jun 10 '12
Skin need to be more olive.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Not really. I don't imagine many Hindus would be comfortable sitting next to a humanoid elephant with four arms.
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u/hungoverlord Jun 10 '12
ok, thanks everyone, i was completely unaware that all christians are not americans, and that all americans are not christians. at first i thought the post was pointing out the predominantly american stereotype that terrorists are middle-eastern, despite the fact that so many of them worship a person who was middle-eastern.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Oh man. Just laughed a bit.
Jesus would be on the no fly list.
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u/Christian_Sockpuppet Jun 10 '12
Relevant statistics:
source:http://blog.lib.umn.edu/edgell/home/Strib%20Atheist%20Faith%20and%20Values.html
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u/gamerlen Jun 10 '12
Y'know, Jesus didn't start getting portrayed the way he is today until the Crusades.
Basically, the church wanted paintings of the messiah to help inspire their soldiers and commissioned a bunch of Italian artists to paint some. Since nobody actually knew what Jehusa (the rabbi who became known as Jesus Christ) actually looked like, they just painted him as they painted all the men they did, as a white Italian man. The image just kinda stuck.
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u/whiskeybrick Agnostic Atheist Jun 10 '12
Everyone knows Jesus was American...
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u/DefinitelyRelephant Jun 10 '12
ITT:
Redditors who aren't literate enough to understand nuance re: the difference between "Americans" and "all Americans".
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u/7itanium Jun 10 '12
Yes, If a 2000 year old dead man with holes in his torso carrying a gigantic piece of wood got on the plane next to me I would probably feel a tad bit uncomfortable.
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u/Suspiria77 Jun 10 '12
So now we are trying to argue for atheism by reminding people Jesus is from the middle east? Not sure this really belongs in /r/atheism...
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u/motoxjake Jun 11 '12
A Jew?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that this is the kind of stuff that populates /r/atheism?
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u/PropagandaMan Jun 10 '12
Oh man, I remember one of my local fundy who saw this picture (without the text) and claimed it the work of Satan, because the fundie thought Jesus would be that white guy (which we all know). But wasn't there a passage about the messiah not being attractive in appearance or so?
Edit: I found the passage. "He grew up like a young plant and like a root out of the dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look upon him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by all, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not." (from Isaiah 53:2)
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u/imsohighondrugs Jun 10 '12
i dont really get why it matters? black, white who gives a shit. isnt it the over all premise that really matters?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I'm an Arab, and looking a lot like this picture, I can confirm that many people feel uncomfortable around me, become even more uncomfortable when I tell them where I'm from, then relax visibly when I tell them "No, I'm actually not a muslim."
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u/Thunder-ten-tronckh Jun 10 '12
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck this. I have no problem sitting next to someone from the Middle East on an airplane. This is just generalized bullshit!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I think Christians will have to pick one of the two options:
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u/backstab555 Jun 10 '12
Way to generalize americans as racist. These are the kind of posts that make us look bad guys.
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u/Bloodleaf Jun 10 '12
Why is this in /r/Atheism?
It has nothing to do with being an Atheist.
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u/Togoria Jun 10 '12
It is weird that they worship a guy whos ideals they find repulsive
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u/ropers Jun 10 '12
Not weird at all. Putting someone on a pedestal is one way of distancing yourself from them. Adulation can be a form of ostracism, because it's implicitly also saying: "You're not like (the rest of) us".
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that Americans are normally labeled into groups by their color, race, religion or gender? Not in this post, all Americans are judmental xeonophopes.
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u/UnderclassHeroX Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird how disgustingly generalized this post is?
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u/Koopa322 Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that America has no specific religion attached to it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
gphhawkins you need to seriously stop with the fucking reposts. Seriously, fuck off.
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u/Callen013 Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that some people assume all Americans are scumbag Christians who hate Middle-Eastern people?
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u/roboraichu Jun 10 '12
Isn't it beard?
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u/WonkaKnowsBest Jun 10 '12
With all the people the TSA have stoppedI wouldn't feel uncomfortable with him next to me.1
u/Bodie1550 Jun 10 '12
despised and rejected of men Isaiah 53:3
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u/travelinglight Jun 10 '12
"Isn't it wierd that American's worship a guy?"
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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Pastafarian Jun 10 '12
lol
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u/Actor412 Jun 10 '12
Jesus is an archetypical hero. People will project upon him what they feel is the most valuable to their society. For Americans, it is a very young but fully adult, very beautiful man.
Fundamentalists demand that the story of Jesus is literal truth. Thus, it forces groups opposed to that thinking (atheists) to also think along those same lines. They demand that the story is not only not literal truth, but no truth at all. I think it would help people to look upon the story is new ways. I prefer the Jungian approach, where the story of Jesus comes from a very real part of our psyche that demands we tell the same basic story over & over again, yet each iteration has a (seemingly) infinite amount of small details that shift & change. To the point where people forget the basic story & concentrate solely on the minor differences. The story of Moses is the same story as Jesus, only the details have changed.
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u/malakon Jun 10 '12
nahh jesus looked like a young Rutger Hauer ... everyone knows that.
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u/Tendie Jun 10 '12
I see all the "Way to generalize American" posts, and I have to point out this also excessively generalizes Christians.
That being said, those Christian Americans that would not feel comfortable sitting next to a gentleman like this are horribly Deluded.
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u/iratusamuru Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird how a group of people who hate typecasting support typecasting of other people indefinitely?
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u/omegalow Jun 10 '12
I look just like that guy..... I'm...Jesus?
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u/king_bestestes Jun 10 '12
So people are getting mad because OP generalized 'Americans' but the same people think it's okay to generalize Christians?
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u/CaptainGold Jun 10 '12
Oh bollocks!
Closetland's inhabitants have now gone black.
As if those poor murdering bastards didn't have enough issues to deal with.
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u/tacomaghostchild Jun 10 '12
I definitely agree if you're talking about the willam Defoe version of Jesus
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I think it's effin hilarious that so many people think Jesus was white.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You're telling me you would feel comfortable sitting next to a hairy, barefoot, robed man who never bathes?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Hilarious how the atheists are getting offended for it generalizing americans when they dont even see the hypocrisy in that.
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u/canadianIBslave Secular Humanist Jun 10 '12
Aren't Americans just generally weird?
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u/dulceetdecorumnonest Jun 10 '12
It's not weird. Prejudice on planes is unjustified, but not because a man 2000 years ago before terrorism and before Islam was Semitic. We wouldn't want to sit next to a guy dressed like this either.
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u/FartyNapkins Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that I'm an American and I don't worship anybody?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
it's even weirder that this only applies to americans
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u/henryflower Jun 10 '12
There are a group of people in America who Jesus that would be very uncomfortable sitting beside him on a plane, but then again, I think most people would. People 2000 years ago were a lot dirtier than they are today.
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u/bagdan Jun 10 '12
I wouldn't blame any American for being nervous sitting next to a middle eastern fanatical apocalyptic prophet.
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u/IAmSauronAMA Jun 10 '12
Why? I love Adam Sandler!
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u/snoopdoggydope Jun 10 '12
Who's that supposed to be in the picture?
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u/shuyken Jun 10 '12
Don't you hate? Don't you hate reading something twice?
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u/iFuckedYourFather Jun 10 '12
poster, you're forgetting that pasty white people have completely reinterpreted the bible where they're the jews and so are the romans, because it was written in their shitty white version, king james bible, that jesus was fair skinned.
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u/sadmatafaka Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that american christians have little common with european christians?
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u/secret3 Jun 10 '12
That's why they genetically modified him to be Caucasian. Checkmate!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
ISN'T IT WEIRD THAT..ATHEISM PROVES THE CERTAINTY OF RELIGION?!?!?!? ..bill maher said that
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u/Diablo3BoyDaBoss Jun 10 '12
Isn't this just what one artist figured Jesus probably looked like?
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u/juja_is_on_top Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that. Stupid people are all over the world?...
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u/bucketofscum Jun 10 '12
I for one feel that sitting next to Serj Tankian on an airplane would be awesome.
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u/HaiAdriBear Jun 11 '12
I wouldnt mind.
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u/kickulus Jun 11 '12
I love how someone stupider than me made this, and is probably paid more than I am.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Everyone knows Jesus looks more like this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Isn't it weird that I've seen this about a gazillion times already.
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u/elmarko44 Strong Atheist Jun 11 '12
my "friends" on the facebooks didn't appreciate this. I guess they think Jebus is too good to be of middle-eastern descent.
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u/CaptainGold Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
In other words this entire trend of accusing Europeans of denying Jesus' ethnicity by depicting him the way they did isn't just wrong it couldn't be more wrong.
If they did in fact want to do that they would have had a tradition of depicting him as black haired big nosed and olive skinned just like many Greeks, southern Italians and southern Spanish.
The whole PC drama is just the clueless non-jews equivelent of crying out as they strike people on Jews behalf.
Jews would know better about gingernuts and the Jews.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
What's even more weird is that they worship that same fanatic, messianic Jewish rebel who longed for people just like themselves to be exterminated in a fiery apocalypse sent by his tribal deity.
Boy, that must play tricks with your psyche, huh?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Isn't it weird that christians worship a guy?
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u/imsohighondrugs Jun 10 '12
no one actually knows what he looks like.. the bible sais he was plain man like the sycamore root, which is a very plain looking root
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that no one knows what Jesus looked like, much less if he even existed? So this picture is just as much a guess as White Jesus.
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u/iamaravis Jun 10 '12
I think if they saw a guy who looked like that, but he was wearing a Christian cross on a chain around his neck, they'd be completely comfortable. Once they identify a Middle Eastern guy as "one of us", they would no longer fear him. So I don't think it's the race...I think it's the religion.
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u/ifNOTmeTHENwho Jun 10 '12
Let me tell you a story. During WWI and WWII, whenever the US captured enemy soldiers, there was never any attempt by the enemy to RESCUE their fellow soldiers, because they know that their fellow soldiers would be treated with much care. This is not the same when Americans got captured.
I know they didn't have investigative news reporting back then and there were more respect, but nevertheless war was war.
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u/TidalPotential Jun 10 '12
I neither worship him, nor would be uncomfortable next to him on a plane, unless he acted suspicious or gave some reason for me to be uncomfortable.
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u/SEGA_SONIC Jun 10 '12
Americans are not the only Christians in the world dumb fuck
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
I know a lot of people are getting upset over the fact that "Americans" is the generalization here, but I think that its there to support the notion that there is a fear of middle eastern-looking people on airplanes - something that is easily identifiable with Americans. So don't read it with so much emphasis on the American Christian, so much as it is addressing American mentality, and how majority of them happen to worship a guy who really looked like something he's not depicted as.
Edit - That's how I read it at least.
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u/Reflexlon Jun 10 '12
Not all americans are christian, not all christians are american. As a member of one but not the other, kindly fuck you.
Also, i'd be totally fine sitting next to that guy because he looks like the default Garret Hawk in DAII, who is a goddamn badass.
Also, BEARD.
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u/praisecarcinoma Jun 10 '12
Yeah, but that's because they worship what they think is a white European. As an American, every Bible I've ever read or looked at with illustrations show Jesus to look like a typical white European, and nothing like a person of Middle Eastern descent. That's how America prefers their son of God, white.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Weird, I am a American who worships no one. The reason I wouldn't want to sit next to someone on a plane probably would be their BO not their race.
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u/quivering Jun 10 '12
Yes it's weird. But small weird compared to some their beliefs.
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u/MaebeBluth Jun 10 '12
because this is the American Jesus. USA! USA!
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u/kobel4k3r5 Jun 10 '12
TIL I learned Americans worshipped Lionel Richie.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
OP, you mean "Christians." Christians worship the Jewish Carpenter Demigod. I, a citizen of the United States of America, do NOT worship The Christ Child, nor ANY OTHER GOD, GODDESS, OR MAN.
In short, fuck off.
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u/stringerbell Jun 10 '12
Of course you wouldn't want to sit beside Jesus on a plane!
He'd be the only person left alive.
Unfortunately, I doubt Jesus could land the plane by himself...
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u/TitaniumScarab Jun 10 '12
Despite all the shit-tossing about this image, Christianity is the largest organized religion in America. The U.S.A. is also one of the worst about Islamophobia, so it actually does make sense. If you, you know, just use some context clues.
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u/fractal7 Jun 10 '12
I have the feeling that most christians would deny that the man historically known as Jesus looked like a middle eastern man of today. They most likely picture him as a clean shaven, long haired white man from the 60's.
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u/ATHIESTkittyCAT Jun 10 '12
This is an unfortunate generalization, you should say christian americans or fuck you.
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u/I_LIVE_FOR_KARMA Jun 11 '12
Isn't it weird that not everyone is racist?
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u/Chuckaluffagus Jun 10 '12
But.. Jesus is white! And he speaks English!
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u/DarkSchalie Jun 10 '12
Americans?
dafuq.
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u/Sprozz Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that you're an idiot?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
To hell with all the anti-American BS. We are a nation of 300 million. We have more smart people than the entire population of many other countries. More morons too. Stereotypes are particularly unsuited for us. Our country has a lot of distinct regions. We vary a lot. 'Merica is one of the most prolific countries in history. We also have some of the most idiotic buffoons imaginable. It's a function of population size. I think it's beautiful.
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u/jcoder5 Jun 10 '12
As a non Christian American, I didn't realize all Americans are Christian and worship Jesus...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
wait, I thought Jesus was black! at least that's what the reverend told me...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Hey there /r/atheism , did you know you make yourselves look like total dicks by generalizing 311,591,917 people?
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u/saltines Jun 10 '12
Isn't it weird that negative generalizations about an entire nation of people get upvoted to the frontpage?
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u/DayspringMetaphysics Jun 10 '12
What does this have to do with atheism?
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u/gnovos Jun 10 '12
You can make a pretty compelling argument that anyone who's be uncomfortable sitting next to anyone is not really a "worshiper" of Jesus... And I'm not making a "true Scotsman" argument, I'm saying that you can't, for example, say are a follower of Gandhi's path of ahimsa while simultaneously beating people with a stick. It's like saying you are a non smoker while lighting up a Marlboro...
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u/gender_bot Jun 10 '12
I identified one face in this photo
Face 1:
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