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Was Christianity originally a Caucasian religion ?

During an interesting conversation I had with a friend of mine this came up. The oldest human bones are of a black woman and as we know Ancient Black people were heavy believers in voodoo and spiritual magick associated today as "wicked" devil work. We know so far that the main shift of beliefs of African Diasporas is do to missionaries and slavery...

Anyways what do you all think?

 

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To those of you wondering, I absolutely understand the words that I used. I appreciate those of you who thought carefully about the word I chose. I respect all cultures and so I don't ever intentionally generalize when it comes to ethnicity. No Caucasian does NOT mean "white" ppl - that's ignorant. I think that too many of you all get too personally involved when answering my questions. Remember, its just a question - not a bullet.reading

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sugahmamma

Asked by sugahmamma at 1:41 PM on Sep. 29, 2011 in Religious Debate

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  • Well duh. We all know Jesus was a light brown haired Caucasian male

    adnilm

    Answer by adnilm at 3:35 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • "Well duh. We all know Jesus was a light brown haired Caucasian male"

    With baby blue eyes!
    Brawnwyn

    Answer by Brawnwyn at 3:55 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • Not in the sense you're using the word. The foundations of it lie in Judaism, which is specific to a race which is neither black nor white. They are interchangeably described as Arab or Jewish, but what it comes down to is a group of society that share a specific genetic marker, known as "group J".


    The bright green segments on this map:


    http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/__y-map.gif

    NotPanicking

    Answer by NotPanicking at 4:19 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • No, I would not consider middle easterners to be Caucasian. Western Europeans are Caucasians.

    scout_mom

    Answer by scout_mom at 5:48 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • Are you asking if Christianity was made up from white people because you are saying Caucasian as to not offend? I don't believe that it was made up from Caucasian people only because Jesus and all the people who practiced Christianity came from the Middle East. However some people consider Middle Eastern to be Caucasian but we all know what you mean by asking, So no Christianity is not a white person's religion.
    chirriz07

    Answer by chirriz07 at 6:41 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • Racial archetypes such as "Caucasian" (which our culture has realistically bastardized to mean "white" in the first place) are completely unscientific and arbitrary, so it really doesn't matter what the dictionary says the word means (and I say this as someone with a background in biological sciences and that has extensively read 19th century natural history, including polygenism texts)...so that whole derail is purposeless...I'm pretty sure none of us are so obtuse that we don't actually get the gist of the question.

    With that being said, voodoo is a modern synchretic faith. Africa had its own religions...and those religions were not Christian because Jesus (by his own words) came for a very specific group of people. Paul chose to extend that mission to the Romans (who were descendants of the Latins, the Etruscans and a few other tribes in that area of Italy before they expanded into an empire).

    TBC

    thalassa

    Answer by thalassa at 7:10 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • Cont...

    Christianity was then spread across a very specific area of the globe, and that didn't include central our southern Africa, except for the coastal areas where the Portuguese established ports/forts and the areas near the Middle East which were also influenced by Islam. Africans in bulk were brought to Christianity via the slave trade and the brutal colonization of Africa by European powers during the early modern era of history.

    Despite all that, Christianity is just a religion...its a man made set of creeds and dogmas centered around an idea of divinity that have been used and abused and redefined to thousands of cultures across the globe. Its not white, its not black, its not (even if it originated that way) Middle Eastern, its just human.
    thalassa

    Answer by thalassa at 7:23 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • omg, NP..that map just gave my already-loaded migraine a boost. owwwwie!
    dullscissors

    Answer by dullscissors at 8:04 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • To me, it doesn't matter at all. One people.
    JackieGirl007

    Answer by JackieGirl007 at 9:01 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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  • Umm no based of science and history they actually would've had darker skin.
    hot-mama86

    Answer by hot-mama86 at 10:27 PM on Sep. 29, 2011

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