FASCISM ‘Black Jesus’ Last Supper Painting to Adorn the Altar of St Albans Cathedral

CaryC

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‘Black Jesus’ Last Supper Painting to Adorn the Altar of St Albans Cathedral
St Albans Cathedral
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England’s historic St. Albans Cathedral has said that in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, it will install a painting that reimagines Jesus Christ as a black man above its altarpiece.

The artist of the 2009 remaining of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper, Lorna May Wadsworth, used Jamaican model Tafari Hinds as the reference for her portrayal of the Christian Messiah. The art also casts the Twelve Disciples as an ethnically diverse group.


In announcing the decision to display the painting, the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Dr Jeffrey John, said per The Times: “The church is not in a strong position to preach to others about justice, racial or otherwise, but our faith teaches that we are all made equally in the image of God and that God is a God of justice.”
“Black lives matter, so this is why we have turned our Altar of the Persecuted into a space for reflection and prayer with Lorna’s altarpiece at the heart,” the Dean of St Albans added.
Ms Wadsworth has said that the purpose of painting Jesus as a black man was to “question the western myth that he had fair hair and blue eyes”.
“My portrayal of him is just as accurate as the received idea that he looked like a Florentine,” Ms Wadsworth quipped.


The move comes just days after the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the Anglican Church should “rethink” how it represents Christ amidst the Black Lives Matter furore.
Asked by the BBC Today Programme if the “way the Western church portrays Jesus needs to be thought about again”, Archbishop Justin Welby said: “Yes of course it does, this sense that God was white… You go into churches (around the world), and you don’t see a white Jesus.”
“You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus – -which is, of course, the most accurate — you see a Fijian Jesus,” the Archbishop went on.
The creator of the reimagined Last Supper claimed that “experts agree that he would most likely have had Middle Eastern features, yet for centuries European artists have traditionally painted Christ in their own image”.
Breitbart News’s James Delingpole noted, however, that the actual skin colour of Jesus remains a mystery, writing: “What colour was his skin? No-one can be sure of that… according to some theories, Hebrews and other peoples in the land of Israel sometimes had blue eyes and fair or red hair and fair skin. Others claim Jesus was much darker.”

Wadsworth’s Last Summer will be installed above the altar at St Albans Cathedral this weekend.


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Black Liberation Theology at it's best, along with the militant arm, BLM. And our God-fearing Gov. thought he had won.
 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Just to be clear this is not in Miss. However, what I meant was, it is coming.
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Maybe do like the Amish do and "make no graven images?"

I mean, you humans are BEAUTIFUL (um, mostly) but selecting one image over another DOES have a possibility of offending those of another image.

Maybe that offense is a challenge that Maker wants you to get over?

An equal case could be made that if the majority population of the church is white Caucasian, then a "Jesus Image" should be that too - i.e. to "offend" the least and minimize the challenge to the congregation?

Or maybe the church elders wish to MAKE challenge? Jesus did that too.

And for reason in that case.

One hopes the church elders don't end up similarly to Maker's Son.

Dobbin
 
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CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Maybe do like the Amish do and "make no graven images?"

I mean, you humans are BEAUTIFUL (um, mostly) but selecting one image over another DOES have a possibility of offending those of another image.

Maybe that offense is a challenge that Maker wants you to get over?

An equal case could be made that if the majority population of the church is white Caucasian, then a "Jesus Image" should be that too - i.e. to "offend" the least and minimize the challenge to the congregation?

Or maybe the church elders wish to MAKE challenge? Jesus did that too.

And for reason in that case.

One hopes the church elders don't end up similarly to Maker's Son.

Dobbin
Don't know what you're getting at.

However, if you understood Black Liberation Theology and it's easily accessed via wiki, you'd understand this isn't about the color of Jesus's skin. It's about submission of the white race to BLM.

On a purely theological level. Jesus' skin color is strictly beside the point, and My Savior can be any color He wants, I could care less. Having descended from Shem, one of Noah's son, you can get a probability of skin color by looking at others who came from that line. Just go east from the Middle east. India, China, Native American. Just to name a few.
 

vector7

Dot Collector
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However, if you understood Black Liberation Theology and it's easily accessed via wiki, you'd understand this isn't about the color of Jesus's skin. It's about submission of the white race to BLM.

Yes...

Flashbacks:
Useful Idiots: Brainwashed American Marxists who blindly support any ideology that gets themselves out of real work and causes others to pay their way...


If you have never heard the term “useful idiot” it was the attitude held by Vladimir Lenin towards communist sympathizers in the West (America). While Lenin and the Soviets held them in utter contempt they also viewed them as tools for dispensing communist propaganda to other countries, thus infecting foreign cultures with their totalitarian tripe. After their mission was complete, they were no longer “useful.”

It's a term the refers to brainwashed American Marxists who blindly support any ideology that gets themselves out of real work and causes others to pay their way.


Glenn Beck - Liberation Theology 1 (7-13-10) 11min
View: https://youtu.be/wWRvjodv0bc


Glenn Beck - Liberation Theology 2 (7-13-10) 10min
View: https://youtu.be/qn5qFKRv1wI


Glenn Beck - Liberation Theology 3 (Obama's Collective Salvation@5:30) (7-13-10) 11min
View: https://youtu.be/W1Jh_Q1q0ZU


From The Soviet Files: An American 'Negro Republic' - The Communist Secession Plot

October 27, 2011

Over at the American Thinker, Professor Paul Kengor recounts the story of the Communist Party USA's plot for their own version of Southern Secession. Based on information from sources ranging from the FBI to the records of the Comintern (the entity the Kremlin used to control the "official" Communist Parties around the world) to the testimony of black former members of the Communist Party, we learn:

From 1922-30, the Soviet Comintern and American Communist Party launched a long-term effort to relentlessly target black Americans. The Comintern ordered the American Communist Party to identify black causes in the Jim Crow South in particular. This push to recruit black Americans is one of the most salient features littered today throughout the declassified Comintern Archives on Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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[T]he effort began when the Soviets in 1922 approved a huge $300,000 subsidy to the American Communist Party for purposes of agitation and propaganda among black Americans. Three years later, in 1925, the Comintern selected a small group of 12 black Americans to come to Moscow for training.

That was just a warm-up. In 1930, at a Comintern conference in Moscow, a resolution was passed calling for the creation of a Soviet-directed and controlled "Negro Republic" among America's Southern states. Yes, that is correct: the Soviet Comintern, working through American communists, actually crafted plans to create a "separate Negro state," or a segregated "Negro Republic," in the South. The plan was to foment an African-American rebellion within the South, which would join forces with a workers' uprising in the North -- when the revolution was deemed ripe. Together, black Americans and communist Americans would then occupy and lay siege to the United States, reconstituting the entire nation as a Soviet sister state.
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Black Communists in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

This has been known to Cold War historians for a long time, but only recently did we discover when and how the effort ended. Ronald Radosh was probably the first to pick this up over at PJ Tatler in August when the news broke that "the FBI has released the first in a long series of previously classified material—-that of the so-called Operation Solo effort." He explains: "SOLO referred to the secret recruitment of two bitter ex-Communists, Morris and Jack Childs. The Bureau urged them to rejoin the Party, and work within its ranks to feed information to them. Before long, Morris Childs became what in effect was the CP’s Secretary of State, traveling around the world to meet top Communist leaders, including those of both the Soviet Union and China. From his perch, he passed on to the U.S. Government all he learned first hand from Moscow’s top leaders."

He then tells us a bit about what can be found in the released files:

They contain many gems. One of my favorites concerns the orders from one of the chiefs of the Soviet Politburo, Mikhail Suslov, who tells the comrades that the Party has to give up its thesis that American blacks composed a separate nation and had to fight for the right of self-determination for its majority in the black belt of the South. Suslov, who under Brezhnev would become the chief ideologue of Moscow, told them they cannot make policy based on 30 year old Comintern directives, at a time when American blacks lived in urban areas and were fighting for civil rights and desegregation.

The files themselves are more specific. The discussion took place in a February 10, 1959 meeting during the "Twenty-first Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" between some of the leaders of the Soviet Union, among them Mikhail Suslov (who, according to documents found by French police in a raid on a Communist hideout in Morocco, had previously been tasked by Stalin to lead the USSR's effort to stir up trouble in the Middle East) and a CPUSA delegation consisting of Morris Childs and a black Communist Party leader named James Jackson.

After presenting letters detailing all the wonderful things the "various peace movements in the CP, USA" were up to, posing the idea of a "Negro magazine dealing with theoretical questions" (two years later, Jackson would co-found Freedomways, a black political and cultural quarterly, and serve as the managing editor from 1961-86) and asking for $300,000 and health care treatment in the Soviet Union for CPUSA's aging leaders, Jackson starts complaining about the leadership of the Party's National Executive Committee (which Jackson had resigned from in 1956 because he felt the Party wasn't blaming Israel enough for the Suez War - I found his resignation letter in his papers) and says that the Party's policies toward the "Negro question" need to be updated.

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James Jackson in 1959

That is when Suslov gives his green light, saying:

Yes, you are correct. Your CP cannot base its theories and policies on resolutions adopted by the Communist International more than thirty years ago. That would be dogmatism. Great changes are taking place among the Negro people. In the past 70 per cent were on or near the lang. Now this is reversed. Seventy per cent of the Negroes are in urban areas of the United States while only 30 per cent are in rural areas. This is certainly a radical change.

If we do not see this change the CP can make terrible, catastrophic or abrupt mistakes. When 70 per cent of the Negroes live in the countryside and contingent territories, and are separated from the white persons -- that is one situation. At that time we could talk of self determination. Now however, 70 per cent of the Negroes live in the cities. It is therefore necessary for you to review the situation and the position of the CP on this matter. It is necessary for you to correct your policy.

... How could you place a slogan of self determination when there is no territory? It would be reactionary and utopian to try to bring Negro people back to the soil. It would also be reactionary to place Negro people in ghettos in the cities. We are against ghettos. So your new policy is correct.

The Soviet Union is against ghettos? Interesting, since they had a knack for creating them - and not just in Communist countries. We find out in the files (also first pointed out by Radosh, in a follow on article written in conjunction with John Haynes and Harvey Klehr for the Weekly Standard) that Coleman Young, the long-time mayor of Detroit (1974-1993) who - with the help of his close colleague Carl Levin - turned the city into something resembling the old Eastern Bloc municipalities, was a secret member of the Communist Party. That, of course, coming on top of the fully unionized General Motors, accomplish in 1936 thanks to a violent UAW strike led by Walter Reuther, who was then also a secret member of the Communist Party. (Reuther later saw the light and kicked the Red unions, including that of Pelosi's hero, out of the CIO in the late 1940s).


More Deadly Than War The Communist Revolution in America 1:14:37
View: https://youtu.be/zh2ofRqEX3w




SCLC President Urges Black Families To Get Ready For War: ‘Nonviolence Hasn’t Worked!’

April 1, 2015

Reverend Samuel Mosteller, longtime president of the Georgia Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) said that Black families should be exercising their Second Amendment right, in response to all the violent and tragic police shootings claiming the lives of several unarmed Black men and children.

“You know, the SCLC stands for nonviolence,” said Rev. Mosteller, “but nonviolence hasn’t worked in this instance.”...

Highest Ranking Cold War Defector: The KGB Invented ‘Liberation Theology’

May 2, 2015

In a startling new interview, a 3-star general and former head of Communist Romania’s secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, claims that the Theology of Liberation was the creation of the KGB, who exported it to Latin America as a way of introducing Marxism into the continent.

Ion Mihai Pacepa has been called “the Cold War’s most important defector,” and after his defection, the Romanian government under Nicolae Ceausescu placed two death sentences and a $2 million bounty on his head. During the more than ten years that Pacepa worked with the CIA, he made what the agency described as “an important and unique contribution to the United States.”

He is reported in fact to have given the CIA “the best intelligence ever obtained on communist intelligence networks and internal security services.”

“Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity. What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians,” Pacepa said in a recent article. In his role as doctrinal watchdog, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger called liberation theology a “singular heresy” and a “fundamental threat” to the Church.

Pacepa says that he learned details of the KGB involvement with Liberation Theology from Soviet General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, Communist Romania’s chief foreign intelligence adviser, who later became head of the Soviet espionage service, the PGU.

In 1959, Sakharovsky went to Romania together with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, for what would become known as “Khrushchev’s six-day vacation.” According to Pacepa, Khrushchev “wanted to go down in history as the Soviet leader who had exported communism to Central and South America.” He chose Romania as his point of export, since it was the only Latin country in the Soviet bloc and provided a logical liaison to Latin America because of the similarity of language and culture.

Pacepa claims that the Theology of Liberation was not merely infiltrated by the KGB, it was actually the brainchild of Soviet intelligence services.

“The movement was born in the KGB, and it had a KGB-invented name: Liberation Theology,” Pacepa said.

~snip~
In Pacepa’s words, Liberation Theology was “deliberately designed to undermine the Church and destabilize the West by subordinating religion to an atheist political ideology for its geopolitical gain.”

Russia KGB Tried to Use Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination to Start a Race War

The plot involved the KKK, the Jewish Defense League, black militants … and a bombing

by DARIEN CAVANAUGH

The Cold War often brings to mind visions of cloak-and-dagger spy escapades in Eastern Europe and Moscow — or the countless coups, revolutions, proxy wars and clandestine ops that pitted Communist and Western interests against one another in developing nations around the world.

Amid these sensational tropes of international espionage, it’s easy to forget the KGB and other intelligence agencies were highly active within the United States. Their exploits here weren’t quite as extravagant, but they went far beyond mundane intelligence gathering.

There were, of course, Soviet operatives in the United States who did focus strictly on intelligence. In the 1980s, a German-American spy hacked hundreds of networked military computers and sold the information to Russia, and KGB field stations established a massive surveillance program that monitored U.S. radar and satellite transmissions.

The Kremlin also ordered its agents in America to generate social unrest, undermine faith in the government and develop plans to sabotage targets in the military, energy and infrastructure sectors.

One such campaign sought to capitalize on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — by using it as a pretext for inciting a full-blown race war.

Propaganda materials attributed to the Ku Klux Klan, black militant organizations and the Jewish Defense League aimed to aggravate ongoing tensions between those groups and compel them to engage in open hostilities against each other...
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Jesus was neither black nor white and I have always failed to understand the hang up people have. Jesus is Jesus. He is a relationship not a skin tone.

In all honesty he was probably swarthy with a Jewish nose and Jewish hair which in those days usually meant dark and slightly kinky.

Time for people to grow up and stop interpreting things so that He looks like you and interpreting things so that you strive to be like Him.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Hmmm. Don't go to those churches then. When I was little there was an RC church up the street from us. Mostly white people. Years and years later, a friend's mom still lived there but it was a pretty black neighborhood by then. She bugged me to get my son baptized there since that's where she went. I did. They had a picture of black Jesus. That was 35 years ago now. What difference does it make? Like I said, if it bothers you, don't go to those churches.
 

Anti-Liberal

Veteran Member
When I think of Jesus I have a picture in my head that I got when I was young and going to Sunday school. I can't help the way I see Jesus when I think of him and I'm quite sure that if I'm not even close that it won't affect my salvation. It's all about relationship.
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Don't know what you're getting at.
I said basically what those beyond my post said.

Maker made differences between humans. One CAN think this was to present yet another challenge to humanity, yunno beyond survival, self-worth, self-improvement, and biological needs.

You have MANY challenges as humans - getting along with each other is just one of them.

As to Church Leadership - they have their challenges too. Some may choose to make their service as "relevant" to those in attendance as possible. Akin certainly to advertising which always shows their product as applied to their target consumers.

OR, Church Leadership may choose to make their service as "challenging" as possible to their congregants. This in order to get attention, call out need, inspire humans to corrective action or thought.

Jesus did this latter Himself - at the end to the point where it resulted in his extinction. But this had it's own plan and purpose now grounded in Christian Theology.

As I said. To challenge overly with a message in the least case MAY result in rejection of the message. Or in the most extreme case with violent action, as with Maker's Son.

Dobbin
 

Jonas Parker

Hooligan
What's a little visual heresy among the Church of England folks anyway? Jesus wasn't Jewish, he was African... but don't let facts get in the way.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
What's a little visual heresy among the Church of England folks anyway? Jesus wasn't Jewish, he was African... but don't let facts get in the way.
yes, because real Jews ARE african where they were slaves of Pharaoh - Black Jewish Slaves
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Hmmm. Don't go to those churches then. When I was little there was an RC church up the street from us. Mostly white people. Years and years later, a friend's mom still lived there but it was a pretty black neighborhood by then. She bugged me to get my son baptized there since that's where she went. I did. They had a picture of black Jesus. That was 35 years ago now. What difference does it make? Like I said, if it bothers you, don't go to those churches.
Growing up I had a picture of Mother Mary who was light blond with pale skin. Not seeing a problem here. Seeing people trying real hard to cause division and stir up a storm in a teacup.
 

The Snack Artist

Membership Revoked
Jesus would’ve looked Mediterranean, not black, and not “European style” white. What offends me most is that these churches just roll over and turn titty to the thugs. And the pic looks awful.
This is my problem as well. The painting stinks. The man is dog assed ugly. I like my icons to be clean, well articulated, like a storybook man.
 

bethshaya

God has a plan, Trust it!
I mean if you are going to be historically accurate, Jesus was a Jew. Most likely had dark to medium hair, dark or light eyes, curly or thick hair, prominent nose, medium to dark complexion. Like it or not, he was born Caucasian.

He was not English or European, he was not African, he was not American.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Abraham (the father of the Jews) came from Ur in Iraq. They were kinda like the people of Iraq are today, maybe lighter, I don't know. I would think before that those people immigrated north from India or maybe the Caucasus region. We can never know on this plane of existence what JC really looked like back in the day. You know what though? It doesn't matter.

What matters is when you see this guy:

:lol:

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tiredude

Veteran Member
Jesus was neither black nor white and I have always failed to understand the hang up people have. Jesus is Jesus. He is a relationship not a skin tone.

In all honesty he was probably swarthy with a Jewish nose and Jewish hair which in those days usually meant dark and slightly kinky.

Time for people to grow up and stop interpreting things so that He looks like you and interpreting things so that you strive to be like Him.
I bet he liked bagels with cream cheese...…

(and ate bacon when no one was looking)
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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I mean, there was an upside down crucifix in a glass of urine. That was called "art." This could be too.
 

KFhunter

Veteran Member
Africans had Igbo, Zulu, Yourba and other tribal based religions well before and well after Jesus' time.

Christianity started showing up around 100 years AD, the Muslims came along well after that.
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Africans had Igbo, Zulu, Yourba and other tribal based religions well before and well after Jesus' time.

Christianity started showing up around 100 years AD, the Muslims came along well after that.

And I very much doubt Africans even knew of the concept of a stable to be born in. Their chattel fenced in and protected by staying up all night.

I always take some pleasure in actually being there - well, the stable part. I don't remember being born.

Christmas for me is special.

Dobbin
 

TammyinWI

Talk is cheap
Kanye would probably have something to say about this. He thinks he is "Yeezy." And he has his "yeezy" line of shoes. Blasphemy at its worst.1593656559333.png
 
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