What is it with the “progressive” left and religion? Half the time they’re sneering at “sky fairies”, the rest of the time, they’re calling the fairy stories of brown people “science”. They shriek that religion is homophobic and misogynist, only to venerate the easily most homophobic, misogynist religion in the world.
But when the left rail against “religion”, what they really mean is that they hate Christianity.
Except when they’re trying to misappropriate it. In which case, they invariably fall flat on their faces.
Consider the “Jesus was a Palestinian refugee” meme – except that he wasn’t. Jesus was born and lived his life in the Roman province of Judea. The designation “Syria Palaestina” wasn’t bestowed by Romans until about a century after Jesus’ death. Nor were his parents “refugees” in any sense: their supposed travels prior to Jesus’ birth took place entirely within the Roman empire.
It’s like calling Californians fleeing to Texas “refugees”.
But that kind of dumbarsity is nothing to the white, female protester holding up a sign reading, “There are no white people in the Bible. Take all the time you need with this.”
Well, we’ll have to take time to recover from laughing at her stunning ignorance. In the meantime, we have to wonder: what possible point does she think she’s making? Even in 1971, evangelist Billy Graham was talking about how “Jesus was not a white man.”
Even that’s debatable, depending what you mean by “white”, but the fact remains that there are white folks aplenty in the Bible. There’s at least over a dozen books explicitly dedicated to white people.
Romans, Thessalonians (twice), Corinthians (twice), Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians…
Rome, in case our Progressive Karen didn’t realise it, is in Italy. Most of the other cities that the letters in the other books of the New Testament are addressed to are in Greece.
Galatia was in what is now Turkey, but the Galatians themselves were Celtic Gauls – that is, whiteys from France.
Even so, as one, slightly more knowledgable Twitter user pointed out, Middle Eastern people check as “Caucasian” on the Census. “I guess they are unaware of this.”
Old Testament hero David was, according to Jewish tradition, a red head. His opponent Goliath was a Philistine. The Philistines were said to have originated from Crete or Minoa: centres of ancient Greek civilisation.
Paul, traditionally thought to be a Pharisee, wrote many of his letters from Rome, and names many Roman Italians in his letters. There’s more white people for ya.
In his Letter to the Colossians (Greeks), Paul refers to the Scythians. The Scythians were an ancient Slavic people originating in the area near Ukraine.
If that’s not enough white people to make a ‘progressive’ cry, the apocryphal book of Maccabees (which is included in my Oxford University Press edition of the King James Bible) refers to not just the Romans, but the Gauls, Spaniards and Macedonians.
So… whatever Leftist Karen was trying to prove, she is just plain wrong about the absence of us wicked whiteys in the Bible.