Fun fact, ancient cultures were able to prove the Earth was round with two sticks and the sun. In fact, no one thought Christopher Columbus would sail over the edge. They didn't want to fund his voyage because they thought he had grossly UNDER estimated the circumference.

True, only "food!" elicited an excited response in my cat

The fact he is so widely depicted this way still is ridiculous

jesus was jewish

Jesus is fictional

RIGHT!?!?! He’s literally from the Middle East he’s not gonna be white

If he existed at all, he spoke Aramaic, and being a Jewish carpenter in in his 30s when he died, was almost married (it would've been extremely unusual to be unmarried at that age).

Amen, no sarcasm intended. He was Jewish, get over it. Brown eyes, brown hair, complexion, well, take your choice of any Middle Eastern person of today.

Neither are most white people since Caucasians are from Caucasus.

My catholic school has a picture of a Jesus with white hair and blue eyes and every day my friends and I point out “Scandinavian Jesus”

Jesus was an unarmed black man that believed in universal healthcare and that women could make decisions about their own bodies. (it's a joke, don't come for me)

plus people should be calling him Josh...

Or Blonde.

I'm a caucasian Christian but I always make fun of this silly depiction of Jesus. Especially when they give him blue eyes. Come on. Who are they trying to fool?

He was a Jew from the Middle East,…of course

Arabs, Jews and other Middle Eastern people are Caucasian. Sorry to disappoint

I’m not disputing you but how do you know this?

True. He wasn't from the Caucasus. And "Caucasian" is Incorrectly used to mean "white".

The bigger concern is that he wasn't real at all. Nothing whatsoever written about him in histories of the time - not a word until 100 years later when they needed him to get their little business known as the Church started.

Absolutely, not even close.

THIS. THIIIIISSSSSS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. ALSO THIS SHOULD NOT OFFEND YOU. If it does, you need to SERIOUSLY re-evaluate yourself.

Whoa, there OP. Them's fightin' words in the USA. He's a gorgeous, chiseled figure with flowing blonde locks, and don't you forget it.

As a fictional character he can be anything.

This could have been cut off at "Jesus wasn't". Because he wasn't.

Has anyone proven that he really existed.

What!? When did it happen that ppl start assuming this?

I dont believe there was a Jesus. These are stories written 400 years afterwards. Nobody was alive to write it 400 years later, just stories nothing else.

To be totally heretical, Jesus was most likely the illegitimate son a Nazarene woman and a Roman Soldier. If you meld those features together you probably have a close approximation of what Jesus actually looked like. As an icon of the Cristian faith it would be normal to portray him as whatever culture you are. God is said to have created man in his own image ergo when a person reads that they would interpret God as looking like them and hence the son of God would also look like the reader.

I am just saying here me out. What if he was an albino in middle east . That would explane it .

....if he even existed

Especially when, you don´t know why you are being yelled at or know you are right and till get a slap. It´s taken me 40+ years