re: Lets Settle This Once And For All: What Race Was Jesus Christ?

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Whatever. Jesus wasn't 'from' Egypt, although his ancestors many generations before did spend a long time there as exiles and later slaves.

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It is about 300 miles from Cairo to Jerusalem. Hell most folks in the SEC do that in a weekend on a road trip. I know the white southern baptists have a coronary when you suggest Jesus was black, but it is what it is.

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But, it really doesn't matter, does it?

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It does for folks in denial who can even accept the possibility he was black. They want him to be WASP white so they can sleep better at night.