Let's, uh, face it

[Wayne Johnson]

C'mon.  There is absolutely no direct evidence of what Jesus looked like.
There are, however, numberous Roman frescos/paintings/etc. which clearly
show captive Jews with...gasp...short and dark/black hair.  Some recent
anthropological re-constructions, based on the mummified/preserved remains
of other Jews from the same period, suggest someone who looked a lot more
like Joe Piscopo (sans biceps) or Judd Hirsch than like DaFoe, Jeff Hunter,
whatzizname from the Gibson Testament, and that GawdAwful Salman/Salmond?
painting of Christ which, uh, blessed every Methodist Church from the Rio
Grande Valley to the Canadian border in mid-20th C America.

Long hair - probably not
Blond hair - highly, highly unlikely given his family tree
Blue eyes - only within Calvinism
Height - probably about 5'-6 to 5'-10"
Facial structure - probably pretty much like any young
Palestinian/Jew/Jordanian today.

Bottom line, for both believers and otherwise, who cares?  Unless, of
course, you have some other, more Aryan, agenda.  Like Jesus was really, uh,
German or pre-Goth or Macedonian, etc.

What I can continue to fail to understand is why is the primary message,
supposedly Love, so completely missing from so much of contemporary
religion, especially Jack Boot Protestantism.  Golly,  these people love
only one thing: To Hate.  Why do they even bother to call themselves
Christians?  If Jesus did return, however unlikely that seems, for me, what
would He think about this?  Oh, well.  It's all about Spiritual Real Estate
anyway.  If you can't "out breed" them here on Earth, maybe you can muscle
'em out of Heaven.

Fooey.

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanie Chernikowski" <stephaniecher@earthlink.net>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: last temptation of christ


> ran on bravo last night. it was wonderful, better than i remembered.
> god is love, which is how it should be. dafoe, who made a great jesus,
> got blonder and more radiant as the end drew nigh.
>
> so has anyone seen the passion yet?  (knocked out of #1 box office draw
> by zombies this past week!)? is there any love in the christ? or just
> sm?
>
>
>