As a black man who has followed both islam and christianity, I am of the opinion that Abrahamic religion has failed black people

White Jesus!! We all know that Jesus would have likely been a dark skinned middle easterner. However, in Nigeria all the churches I have been to have a white Jesus on paintings and sculptures of the crucifix. The white Jesus in all of these Nigerian churches strangely look like some Italian guy called Cesare Borgias.

READY TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN???

So, while Jesus the "original" may have been a Jewish/Aramaic prophet, we actually have no idea who that guy was! Instead what we have are only stories written by Roman and Greek writers.

Paul, for example, was basically raised in Greece and made up every word of Jesus from his own head. Mark was written by somebody in Rome,  and made up the words the same way. Luke and Matthew were just changes to Mark, but also made by Greek speakers in Europe. A cts is modeled directly off Homer's epics, down to the shipwrecks, so is very greek in nature. Revelations was written in Patmos, in Greek, off the coast of Turkey. All the other books were written by people pretending to be apostles and such, but in reality, they're mostly all writing and speaking Greek and are living in Turkey and Europe.

So, when you look it closely, all those medieval paintings of Jesus looking blue eyed and very white-faced we've been saying are totally inaccurate this whole time are ... actually, weirdly totally accurate after all! The actual writers/speakers/creators of Jesus' words indeed looked like that! Every word you think of when you think of Jesus is European.

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