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- From: rumisk@odie.cs.mun.ca (Jonathan Fernandes)
- Subject: Re: Christian racism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.212325.20817@cs.mun.ca>
- Keywords: Christian racism depiction of christ
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- Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:23:25 GMT
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- martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
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- >Not once have I seen the point raised that the characters in the
- >Bible were much more likely to have been dark-haired, dark-skinned
- >and not overly tall, and had the same physical characteristics that
- >most middle-eastern people share today. I suspect many Christians
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- Would it be possible for you to confirm these statments with the quotes
- from the Bible? I am curious as to what makes you belive that the characters
- in the Bible were more likely to have had dark-hair, dark skin, etc.
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