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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 8097533, member: 24754&quot;]Not saying that there isn&#039;t something to these observations. However, we also have to keep in mind that these interpretations and rules of thumb were derived by scholastic institutions during a time of extreme eurocentrism, which undoubtedly was influenced by race to some degree.</p><p><br /></p><p>They had the choice of accepted that, at times, dark skinned men ruled over the origins of Western Society, or they could come up with an alternative explanation as to why the depictions showed the men with dark skin. Unfortunately, there was a strong cultural pressure to do the latter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hell, as pointless as it would be to debate what Jesus actually would have looked like, the one thing that we could say for sure is that he wouldn&#039;t have been white.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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