OPINION (FW) – Just before publishing an article with comments from a theologian who identified as Christian but described the virgin birth as “bizarre” and the bodily resurrection of Jesus as fiction, The New York Times ran a column from a journalist who claimed the Son of God was not Jewish, but “Palestinian.” Eric Copage, who is black and grew up in Los Angeles, said the frequently referenced Western depiction of Jesus — a fair-skinned man with blue eyes and dirty blonde hair —
he saw was “amiss.” I absolutely agree with him; Jesus likely had darker features and olive-toned skin. But just as soon as I agreed with Copage, I disagreed with him. He went on to write (emphasis mine): As I grew older, I learned that the fair-skinned, blue-eyed depiction of Jesus has for centuries adorned stained glass windows and altars in churches throughout the United States and Europe. But Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin. READ MORE
Well, since Palestine didn’t exist until the 1880s, I’d like to know how that New York Times writer ever come to that conclusion.