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Unlike Megyn Kelly (the Fox News host who declared that Jesus was white), Reza Aslan has done his homework.
An internationally-known scholar of religions, Aslan is the author of Zealot:
The Life and Times of Jesus of
Nazareth. Although this
particular book is about the historical Jesus, Aslan has also said some compelling things about the traditional "Christ."
Max Fisher wrote an article for WorldViews of The Washington Post
titled Reza Aslan on Jesus' skin color:
'Megyn Kelly is right. Her Christ is white.'
Aslan can make a statement like this because he separates "Jesus" from "Christ." Aslan has asserted that because Jesus "was Galilean," he would most likely have had "dark features… probably a longer nose, black hair." In other words, he "would look the way that the average Palestinian would look today."
"Christ," however, is a Savior of a different color. In fact, He is
a Savior of all colors and can therefore reflect all colors. The Chinese depict Him as Asian, the Blacks as African, and Megyn Kelly… well, you know.
Aslan goes so far as to say that the "Christ of faith can be anything, anything that you want him to be…" If that weren't controversial enough, he further points out: Jesus
did not create Christianity;
his followers created Christianity.
Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Aslan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/12/reza-aslan-on-jesuss-skin-color-megyn-kelly-is-right-her-christ-is-white/
Copyright December 13, 2013 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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