why do *ropeans depict holy Mary and Jesus as wh*te? pretty

For the same reasons Africans depict them as black maybe?

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OP's painting could easily be Levantine family.

>>78068063
Are Levantine people white?

the original "white" jesus icons were made for barbarian germs and the style stuck

>>78068907
It's like Southern Europe. Some are White looking, some are brown looking.

>>78068907
As white as a Turk

>>78068041
>Africans do it
WE WUZ

>Europeans do it
So artistic and deep

>>78068959
It actually comes from Egypt and was made for Greeks and Egyptians.

>>78068063
Jesus and Mary were white

>>78068990
Except some people from that area of the world are White but none of them are West African looking.

>Hol up senpai
>*commits genocide*
>So you be sayin'
>*invades innocent country*
>That we wuz
>*steals culture*
>Messiah's n sheeet?

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>>78069016
Nah

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>>78069070
Oldest Icon of Christ is from a Church is Egypt and it looks like this.

>>78067994
there is chinese jesus, black jesus, white jesus, this "appropiation" happens every time and it is made so the locals can identifiy with the matter easier

>>78068990
Just like africans we represent them resembling us because it's easier to relate. I feel like I have more in common with european people than levantines.

>>78069111
Still looks ME

who the fuck cares about skin color

i mean all early jesus depictions were for germans

the greeks and romans didn't need any

>>78069145
It looks Mediterranean (which it is) and wasn't made for Germans.

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>>78069111
I guess Jesus looked like a light-skinned syrian man