According to my Christmas newspaper, on page A1 (mercifully, below the fold), “this Christmas season brought a torrent of debate about whether Jesus was a white man,” and that debate “struck a nerve.”
So far as I can tell from the pathetically inadequate Associated Press story (which was thin in the original, thinned further by my Christmas newspaper), the torrent began when one Megyn Kelly of Fox News (I Googled her; from the lingerie photos and come-hither look, I can tell she’s a serious Fox journalist) doubled down on dumb by seeing a Slate.com column’s “Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Any More” and raising it a free-associated “Jesus was a white man, too.”
And from there, it’s off to the races (pun intended).
The author of the A.P. article proves that the press (or at least an A.P. National Writer on Race and Ethnicity) just doesn’t Get Religion by attributing to that well-known authority on everything, “Some Say,” that Jesus’ “message is God and love,” so “isn’t his race irrelevant?”
No, it’s not irrelevant. And there’s no serious debate about it because serious people know the relevant answer.
Jesus’ race was “human.” 100%. And he was God, too. 100%. You can look that up. That’s all that matters, and it could not matter more. You can look that up, too (“that which He has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is united to His Godhead is also saved”).
A disembodied “message” can’t heal us. If you don’t know that, you should stick to opining on whatever non-Christian or ersatz-Christian religion you practice.
And if you think that Jesus can’t save you unless his skin-tone matches yours, you are not very bright, not very nice, or both.
I need to go take a shower now, having slimed myself by entering this faux controversy.
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“The remarks made in this essay do not represent scholarly research. They are intended as topical stimulations for conversation among intelligent and informed people.” (Gerhart Niemeyer)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 