re: #57 RealityBasedSteve

Please make the screaming in my brain stop…. Jesus probably looked a lot like the other semitic people, and while he wasn’t black, he sure wasn’t the blonde blue-eyed Jesus that the painters favored. In fact, he probably looked more like the Jesus that is doing lawnwork down the street.

As for Santa, what color is an imaginary character? Santa as we know him is a melting pot of a number of various traditions / folklore. The ‘Modern’ image of Santa traces to the late 1800’s / early 1900’s.

How this woman manages to breathe without explicit guidance never fails to amaze me.

RBS

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