Btw, if you are going to paint Jesus as black then all the other people have to be black, too
Posted on 06/30/2020 9:08:13 AM PDT by RummyChick
A painting of the Last Supper featuring a black Jesus will replace a Nativity scene at St Albans Cathedral to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
The Dean has agreed to install the 9ft piece of artwork on the altar after conceding that the church is in a weak position to preach about racial justice.
Titled A Last Supper, the painting reworks Da Vinci's renowned 15th century mural by casting a Jamaican-born model as Christ.
The announcement came less than a week after the Archbishop of Canterbury urged the Church of England to reconsider its portrayal of Christ as white.
Justin Welby said Christians should also accommodate global depictions of Jesus which show him as black, Chinese and Middle Eastern.
Embracing this philosophy, St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire is covering up its existing altarpiece painting with the high-resolution print which challenges 'the Western myth' that Jesus looked European.
It will cover up an untitled three-part painting of a scene from the Nativity, which shows the Virgin Mary and Child flanked by the shepherds and kings.
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The UK is lost. It’s a former country.
Bishops need to stick with First Principles and the teachings of Christ.
That looks like Eddie Murphy!...................
More space for me in heaven every day. Fingers crossed. LOL!
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Black Lives Matter doesn’t care about Christianity.
There is no appeasing Black Lives Matter.
This is a colossal waste of time.
How can church leadership benefit anyone if they utterly lack courage or common sense?
A good example of illegal immigration. UK like a puddle of mud
Are his homies gay as well?
I could imagine Judas’ betrayal was caused by mental conflict due the hormones he is taking for his gender transitioning.
Because if you’re going to chase modern PC trends, one really needs to go all the way.
I’ll go with the Jewish Jesus who was likely olive skinned.
Now why on Earth would a cathedral want to appease an ultra-racist group like BLM?
Jesus wasn’t from Jamaica either
Yeah, I agree. All or nothing at all.
Nah, Noogie from Miami Vice.
Jesus was a sub-Saharan African? Not that there's anything wrong with that if he was, but it seems to me that here they are just covering one "myth" with another.
I’m sure there will be plenty of parking spots in front of this “church.”
I noticed on the table was bread. Wouldn’t that bread be unleavened, like a pita or tortilla.
i wonder what the model thought when he saw it.
The artist made him look kind of deformed
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