As Xenophanes famously comments:
"Men make gods in their own image"Religion the one weapon of mass destruction ... One weapons that "The Enlightened Ones" use to bring fear and dependency unto man kinda ... BUT Jah live seen ...1ove Spirituality ...
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Mario
nice, interesting perspective
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loymad
Intense
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lebogang nkoane
fresh, perspective.
*notes a 75th 'graph
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George Gladwin Matsheke
God(live.s)
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ntsasa
amazing angle.
*one of my fav crucifixes
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seilatsatsi
dope angle
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loymad
Why does the church still insist on a European Jesus?
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Stefanie Jason
damn noid! this is beautiful
love the colours/the lines/the composition
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æ
excellent
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Khumbelo
this shot is the ish man.
dope.
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lwazi hlophe
SICK!
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yizzi25
Jesus was black --- therefore i'm not sure who's statue is that?
look closely at the hands of the statue, looks like it showing middle finger
*lol,hides far far away!!
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NguJaz
no grand conspiracy. the early Christians took the image of Christ and adapted it to look like themselves (same way the Chinese took the image of Buddha from the Indians and adapted it for their audience).
Africans seem to be the only peoples who have not "changed" the image of this god to suit their target audience.
The question is: "Why do Africans still insist on a European-looking Jesus?"
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heartwarmer
I'm guessing, but maybe it has the same reason as the experiment/docci on Oprah. A couple of black kids are given two dolls - one white, one black. The black kid prefers to play with the white doll. Why? Whatever the reason, I think the same conclusions could be drawn around the crucifix.
Another thought - unrelated to the above.
Perhaps it has something to do with us not being the origionators of these personifications? I'm guessing that we don't buy into making things that represent our beliefs? Just an idea really. Have nothing to substantiate this here.
But interesting question indeed.
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NguJaz
because they've never played with black dolls?
they've never been exposed to them.
you make unbelievable sense heartwarmer , we don't originate the personifications
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Native Soul
all religions should be wiped out so we all can live in peace -
ziggy marley ..
on his album dragonfly.
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noidSyStems
Free from FEAR ... FREEEEEDOM ... !
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twiggle stix
Wow Noid!
This is on point!
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Bafana
Peace Concert featuring Ziggy Marley in MiddleEast! Now!!
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æ
lol @ ziggy marley - including rasta i suppose
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æ
depictions that I've seen in Ethiopia and ethiopian art are not of a white jesus... and that's the 1st 'christian' country in africa
1nteresting
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
killer.
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Ovidius Nkoane
I ain't been 75 for a minute. You drop'd this,,, God damn.
I hold a very different view on religion.
Consider a time line:
1) If time has not always been a constant, it had to begin some where.
2) Time moves in all directions, it bends too. (Quantum physics no?)
3) If God exists (The All-knowing, All-powerful, Omnipotent being),
that created time, God cannot exist outside of "own time-line", because time had to begin premise (1).
Therefore God does not exist.
Humans of the past could not explain how molecules and atoms come together. They invariably invented a "God" that could do all these things.
A couple of years ago. A man too anti-matter and ran it into a tunnel. These atoms hit each other. He therefore created the Big Bang in a lab.
*Anywho that's just me. Believe which ever invisible man you pray to!
* Hides in a galaxy far faraway
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Android Veliskas
heavenly!!
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Nappy Head
dope dope dope. I'd like to see more of this from you. No more random stuff. Just this. Cool, calm collected compositions. The photo itself speaks of a confidence unpronounced in your other work. We need more of this.
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