[Vision2020] Question From Today's Spokesman Review

[keely emerinemix]

Had God intended the Savior to be named "Hans Nordstrom," from Stockholm, he likely would've appeared Nordic.  But Christians believe in a Savior who was a Middle Eastern, Semitic Jew of questionable lineage who was homeless as an adult and worked as a carpenter.  I'm guessing he looked a lot like those pesky foreigners we're killing in Iraq.keely"Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me.  For of all slaveholders whom whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders re the worst.  I have ever found the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.  It was my unhappy lot not only to belong to a religious slaveholder, but to live in a community of such religionists."  Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, feminist, and former slave> From: thansen at moscow.com> To: vision2020 at moscow.com> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:56:46 -0700> Subject: [Vision2020] Question From Today's Spokesman Review> > >From the "Slice" section of today's (August 7, 2007) Spokesman Review -> > ---------------------------------> > "How many white Christians are incapable of dealing with the idea that Jesus> probably wouldn't have had a Nordic appearance?"> > ---------------------------------> > Jesus was a Jew from the Mid-East.  It is extremely doubtful that he> appeared Nordic in ANY manner.  > > The question "What did Jesus look like?" is addressed by the Ontario> Consultants on Religious Tolerance (you may be surprised at what they> determined) at:> > http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcfa.htm> > Seeya round town, Moscow.> > Tom Hansen> Moscow, Idaho> > "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."> > - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)> > > =======================================================>  List services made available by First Step Internet, >  serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.   >                http://www.fsr.net                       >           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com> =======================================================
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