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To: Cicero

It is wrong to depict him in a way that he was not, because of "truth". Would it be right to depict Buddha as being negroid? And eating a steak?

I think various depictions were ways in which to worship the traditional God while under the control of missionaries.


61 posted on 10/25/2006 7:10:10 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Truth makes right)
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To: oneamericanvoice
Would it be right to depict Buddha as being negroid? And eating a steak?

1. Yes.

2. No.

The first would be an accommodation to blacks. The second would be a violation of the Buddha's teachings.

Personally, I prefer depictions of Jesus that are as accurate as we can make them. The two best sources we have appear to be early icons, which may be based on earlier ones, and the Shroud of Turin. But nobody knows for sure.

He was a Jewish male, but there could be fairly considerable variation there.

92 posted on 10/25/2006 7:37:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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