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God Is Not A Whiteman, So Says The Coe
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article in today's Daily Tel - and that the clergy are working to make him/(her?) more diverse......
Jeez - but one thing is sure...TTT, you'd better lower your expectations.
Opinonions please - however rancid.
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A diety, being a spiritual entity, has no need of a physical body, so isn't going to have a skin colour or a gender. But being all powerful, can presumably present their image however it wishes, in a form that most fits any particular situation. If the CoE is now acknowledging that, it must be a step in the right direction, away from early assumptions.
>>> " . . . our national faith . . ."
Ahem . . .
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>>> " . . . and that the clergy are working to make him/(her?) more diverse."
I think you'll find that it's images of Jesus, rather than depictions of God, which the clergy are trying to make more diverse.
Given that Jesus was a Palestinean Jew, any suggestion that he might have looked like a Western-European male would seem to be highly implausible anyway. This image (based upon facial reconstructions from three skulls of the period) has been put forward as probably closer to what he actually looked like:
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A diety is unlikely to think reparations necessary. Especially from those who were not responsible to those who didn't experience the issue.
Perhaps, more to the point though, if a diety arranged for souls to experience life here, presumably it realised what everyone was in for, and it would form part of the reason the souls are sent here in the first place. So why expect reparations for experiencing what all individual souls were destined to experience anyway ? Especially from the souls here now. Take it up with the diety when you next meet it. Give it a piece of your mind (or whatever you have left at that point).
I hve never assumed that the Supreme being is white - or any colour, or any gender.
I expect that Jesus was olive/brownish skinned with black hair - as would be the norm in the community he came from. What is new, exactly, please?
I actually tend to think of Jesus in the form of the Durer self-portrait - does it matter how one visualises Him?
Britain may (or may not) be a nation of believers at the present time. It doesn't depend on whether there is widespread worship. One's desire to worship is separate from one's belief in things spiritual. No diety worth it's salt is going to demand ego boosts.
Neither does that mean Britain is now a 'post-Christian' country. The official religion of a nation can still be defined by democratic choice, or otherwise. I would suggest that most citizens of western style nations would likely prefer to live in a nation where, if an official religion was chosen, it was Christian, regardless of their personal beliefs.
I would further suggest that tolerance of other religions, provided they behave themselves, is likely to heal divisions, whereas, opting not to select an official religion will lead to competition and increasing division.
I'm failing to find any reference to Jesus' image, as opposed to God's image, in the linked to BBC article.
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