Is God White?
Posted: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
by John Sammon
Sammonsays
Racists believe that God is a white man who looks like John Wayne.
But is he?
Is God white? In all the art over the centuries, including his representation on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is portrayed as white, in the case of Michelangelo's masterpiece, a grey-bearded, fierce-looking giant floating on a cloud.
But is God white?
Adam was white according again to representational art. God created Adam. It follows logic that God would create the first man patterned on what God himself looked like. If God is white, and if God is a man.
It begs the question. If God is white and a man and created Adam in his own image, why did he (God) branch out and create so many other people who look very different ie. Africans, Indians, Eskimos, and so on? There are only two possible possibilities. Either God wanted to create non-God-looking people for his creation so Adam's descendants could feel superior to them (you don't look like God, I do). In other words, to promote racism. Or, he was dissatisfied with his look-alike doll, and created other types of people in a desperate attempt to find the right mold.
In that case, people of color could feel superior to whites. God didn't like you. I'm Plan B.
All of this of course ignores the fact that science has proven that the first walking-upright ape-like creatures originated in the gorges of East Africa eons ago in pre-history. It's always entertaining to see the reaction of religious zealot fundamentalists to the possibility that God looks like this first ape-like hominid.
That begs another question. Does God have to look like Charlton Heston? Very few people questioned would say that he in fact looks like Tiger Woods. Very few would disagree that God has to look impressive, and powerful. And white. No one has ever portrayed God looking like Woody Allen.
But what about women?
They got a bad rap. First of all, God created Eve for Adam, and then kicked them out of the garden because Eve listened to a snake and picked an apple. I mean, I need to eat something big guy. Excuse me for living.
God made a woman the same color as Adam. No one has ever suggested God created Adam and then gave him a black Eve, a mixed-race union. Adam swinging with a black chick? That would have been way too liberal and progressive for the Old Testament.
If, according to the New Testament, Jesus is the son of God, then God must be a man who looks something like Jesus, according once again to artwork, a pale-skinned, bearded Jewish man of the First Century who must have carried an ad-mixture of black blood in his veins. The Levant-area of that time was a polyglot meeting place of cultures and a mixture bowl of races through tribal interbreeding, trade route swaps and other contacts (exchanging your daughter for a prize goat).
This fact has always been a distinct disappointment to pink-skinned Nazis and Klansmen. To them, God looks better like John Wayne. Somebody you can either be impressed with, or afraid of.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)John Sammon is brilliant; his genius is under-appreciated on SearchWarp. His sardonic observations are world class.This article would have made me laugh, if it were not for the tragic practice of a sub-cult of Christianity called White Identity, in which practitioners who succumb to delusional dogma actually believe white Europeans are the descendants of Adam, and the Jews of today aren't really the Jews of the past, but are descendants of Cain. I remember watching a sermon by White Supremacist/Identity Pastor Alfred Murray, who, when he mentioned the Jews of modern Palestine, spat and called them "Kennites". I had a landlord, an old Born Again guy who used to spit when he said the word "Jew":
"Madonna turned into a Jew (phtew!)." He was listening to Michael Savage when he said this, of course (Savage not being his real name, but Weiner--pronounced "Weener" or "Whiner").This just goes to show you that religion is largely understood as an attempt to give one's own identity a prominent place in the natural order. It was the same for the ancient Jews who invented Jehovah in their own image, and that biological tendency continues into the present.
Thank you John. Very amusing!!! Ripping into the folly of God and religion gives me hope that there are some sane people left in this world.As for me, I KNOW there isn't a God. It's BELIEFS that are responsible for most of the world's damage. If people would only give up their silly beliefs what a great world this would be. Too many people are too spooked to let go! So sad.
John, you seem to be obsessed with tying to disprove God. Are you that afraid that He really exists, and that you have been making the wrong choices all your life?
Dear Greg and Kenny - Thanks for your kind words and interesting additions to this article. I was not aware of some of the belief systems you point out. Greg I love your shirt.Phil - Is your last name Sammon? Are we relatives? I'm not afraid of God or trying to disprove him. I consider myself something of an agnostic. What I'm afraid of is that God has been mis-used by people who have an axe to grind. Pardon the pun, but I guess I'm a devil's advocate. I don't believe your God is necessarily my view of God. I don't believe in religious fear.JSGood points, John.Probably we are, but we'd have to do a family tree comparison. I do know that there are a lot of writers, photographers, screenwriters, musicians, etc., named Sammon (Bill Sammon, Fox News; Paul Sammon 'Bladerunner', etc.) I am a writer as well, and do public affairs for a government agency going on 30 years now.God has been used by men throughout history to perpetrate horrible actions upon others. Religious denominations are simply man's attempt to reach up to God - they fail to see that Christ is God's way of reaching out to us, and so they create ceremony and ritual that have no biblical or God-directed basis. I am no fan of denominations....since the denominator in a fraction divides the whole, denominations don't serve God's will: Christ does.My view of God is different than a lot of other folks' view - that is how it is when you have a relationship with God through Christ: He is personal, and real, and different for you than for me because He has a different calling for each of us. But He is still God.Phil, you seem to have a proper outlook on this subject. I just read an article on searchwarp by joel hendon that may offer a little insight into what John said. The name of it is types and causes of unbelievers towards God .
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