• Owl@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    yeah i guess most people never even thought about how jesus would have been black back then. most modern depictions of him are white for some reason. funny how that works

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      6 hours ago

      Right, considering it all happened in Jerusalem, which is in the middle east, where there probably weren’t any white people.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s my understanding that the model used for “modern Jesus” was Leonardo DeVinci’s gay lover.