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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.<br><br>keely<br><br><br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">"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</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br><br><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br><br><br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:56:46 -0700<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Question From Today's Spokesman Review<br>> <br>> >From the "Slice" section of today's (August 7, 2007) Spokesman Review -<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------<br>> <br>> "How many white Christians are incapable of dealing with the idea that Jesus<br>> probably wouldn't have had a Nordic appearance?"<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------<br>> <br>> Jesus was a Jew from the Mid-East. It is extremely doubtful that he<br>> appeared Nordic in ANY manner. <br>> <br>> The question "What did Jesus look like?" is addressed by the Ontario<br>> Consultants on Religious Tolerance (you may be surprised at what they<br>> determined) at:<br>> <br>> http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcfa.htm<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college<br>> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br>> <br>> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br><br /><hr />Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more….then map the best route! <a href='http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&ss=yp.bars~yp.pizza~yp.movie%20theater&cp=42.358996~-71.056691&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=950607&encType=1&FORM=MGAC01' target='_new'>Find it!</a></body>
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