CaNN critiques an Anglican Appeal ad in Canada that has the three multicultural persons along with a white-skinned Jesus and an medium-brown Mary.
Politically correct iconography
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That is worse than McDonald’s ads and how racially balanced the stores are when they shoot a commercial in them. I am offended that they think I would be offended for them not being who they are!!
Matthew
Since Jesus is white and Mary dark; have they gotten any complaints for stating that God must be white?
Wow, Mary looks like the people I know from Bethlehem. May your god strike the ad creators down for pandering to accuracy.
Follow-up to Ms. Flapatap’s comment: also,, since Jesus has no biological father, shouldn’t he have inherited all of his mother’s genes?
Wow, Mary looks like the people I know from Bethlehem. May your god strike the ad creators down for pandering to accuracy.
Mary of course would have looked Jewish. In any case, a black Joseph, a medium-brown Mary would not give birth to a white Jesus, so pandering to accuracy is quite a stretch.
Scott
P.S. It’s our God, much like it is our Earth which is true whether one wants to pretend he is from another planet or not.
Oops! I just realized my first sentence could be competely taken the wrong way. Proofread! 🙂
I don’t care if they make Mary look like someone from the Middle East. That would make sense. What doesn’t make sense is that her Son looks nothing like her. He would look just like the rest of the people around him!
But you know it’s not diverse enough, Jeff. There are no old people or disabled people. Where’s the little Hispanic girl in the wheelchair? Where’s the old woman who looks vaguely Indian? Where is the Polynesian man? And why isn’t anyone wearing glasses? I need my obviously-set-up diversity pictures always to have some non-disabled child in a wheelchair and someone with 20-20 vision with a pair of clear-glass lenses!
I am completely offended by this attempt at political correctness! It’s NOT politically correct enough!
How about a couple of Cajun people cooking some gumbo thrown in there?….
I believe the intent of the artist in making Jesus whiter than the surrounding people is to illustrate His identity as the begotten Son of God and therefore more filled with the light of God. I don’t think anything racial or PC or anything else is the artistic intent here.
Don’t ignore the word “Partners”, which is, among other things, a politcally correct euphemism for heterosexual couples who shack up together without bothering to get married and for homosexual couples who shack up together, with or without a pretense of marriage.
Good comment Christine!
I know that there are already many different renderings of the Lord and His Mother in very culturally diverse ways in churches all over the world. That shouldn’t cause anyone to be offended or upset. This painting is nice, actually. Odd, in that one of the women kind of looks asleep on her feet and the taller standing woman appears to have just died, but it is, overall, not a bad painting.
With Marty, I am taken aback by the word “Partners” – if this is the Holy Family – is this suggesting they were merely ‘domestic partners’ — like a shack-up couple?
THAT is bizarre.
“Wow, Mary looks like the people I know from Bethlehem. May your god strike the ad creators down for pandering to accuracy.”
Accuracy? Considering that they are portraying a Galilean from the beginning of the first century, I don’t know that a resemblance to Bethlehemites in the early twenty-first century is terribly important.
So what do you think Bethlememites in the first century looked like?
Where’s JOSEPH?!?! If they want to be all-inclusive, how about including him?
Traditionally, human diversity has been expressed by showing the Magi as each from different ethnic groups.
Dunno if there were WOMEN Magi, but traditionally the Magi come with attendants too.