• @BMTea@lemmy.world
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    68 months ago

    “Black Jesus” is a deliberate response to the traditional white depiction of Jesus, arising out of an acrimonious colonial relationship with whites. We’re trying to discuss why Jesus was depicted as white in the first place.

    • @HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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      98 months ago

      Actually, Christianity in Ethiopia dates from the 4th century and is not the result of European colonialism.

      Their Jesus usually looks pretty black.

      • @BMTea@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        Yeah, that’s definitely an exception, though those depictions were often directly inspired by European artistic depictions. In Protestant Africa, the story is quite different.