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- From: young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh)
- Subject: Re: Christian racism
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:44:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.054406.7650@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <martin.726049316@marsh>
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- From article <martin.726049316@marsh>, by martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas):
- > Related to my recent post "Evolution implied by the Bible" is
- > another question that's always worried me about the racism in
- > contemporary Christianity.
- >
- > Every Christian bible or movie I've ever seen depicts Christ and his
- > followers as very nordic-looking people, for some reason, especially
- > Christ. Even the Turin shroud has an image of a man with a very thin
- > face and long nose. [...]
-
- They seem to be getting better with respect to equal opportunity.
- In some of the pictures of heaven, such as those found in bible
- story books, they are including people of various races. Of course,
- this makes good business sense if they were to market heaven
- internationally.
-
- Young Huh
- yhuh@ihlpe.att.com
-