Let's, uh, face it

[Jon Ford]

Wayne-- let's face it-- the world's just not ready for a jewish/palestinian  
Jesus. The guy in Gibson's "Passion" is nowhere close.  I'd like to see a 
Jesus who looks like a younger version of the recently pulverised Sheik-- 
what a nose that guy had! His eyes also were great. No, the masses would not 
buy it. Only the muslims would go for it-- but not very far.

I just got through  teaching a class of students, most of whom were 
Christians from China or Indonesia. it's strange to think of them imagining 
the typical goyishe Jesus presented in the media.
They all went to see Gibson's film and loved it. One of my students, Naixi 
Zhang, from mainland China, read us  a little story about having to memorize 
the Old Testament as a girl back in China. She was tutored by an old 
missionayr (I hope he didn't take advantage of the situation!) . I began 
quizzing her about key Bible stories, and she couldn't find the words to 
explain her learning experience. She didn't even know who Noah was! After 
awhile it came out that she had memorized the Bible in Chinese, and that all 
the names were pronounced differently. Noah was pronounced "Knowya."  But 
I'm sure the pictures in her Bible showed him as an old white man with a big 
curly beard and blondish gray hair.

Jon

Jon


>From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Let's, uh, face it
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:11:12 -0500
>
>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?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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