• Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Since when is everyone in the middle east “brown”. Depending on where in the middle east you are you can find a lot of white passing people. If Jesus existed then he would have been born in the levant. Most people there (not exactly everyone however) are white passing. Here is a school in Lebanon for reference

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      1 year ago

      I don’t completely disagree with you about not everyone being brown, but comparing a photo of modern people to those 2000+ years ago is disingenuous. A lot has happened to the gene pool since, not to mention living conditions and skin protection have improved dramatically.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    That’s just factually wrong. The Middle East (and by extension the Levant) has always been a hotbed of diversity because its unique geography.

    You would have found anything from black to pale white (but tanned obviously) skin, black to blond/red hair, brown to blue eyes. Most were darker skinned and dark haired like a modern Middle Eastener, but it wasn’t a monoculture, like implied here.

    Easiest counter example are the Scythians, but there are countless more.

  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is making a huge assumption that he existed in the first place. Not sure about you guys but I can’t recall the last time an angel just descended upon us to unleash his wisdom. Pretty sure they were just high as fuck back then and wrote whatever nonsense they could come to with.