6/19 Related to the God thread below. When I was in the dorms, I debated
many times with my roomate on why asians shouldn't worship western
religions. Why go around worshiping a white guy (Jesus)? He
tried to rationalize it by saying that God is not white and Jesus was
darked-skinned, etc. Truth is, nobody knows what Jesus looks like and
99.9% of all pictures of Jesus shows a white guy with blond hair and
blue eyes. Then he tried to backpedal and said he doesn't worship
Jesus but worships God. And God is not human. Then I called
attention to one of the basic teachings of christianity: Trinity.
Jesus is the son, the father, and the holy spirit. He stopped talking
to me after that and thinks I'm some sort of wacko. I have yet to
hear a good reason why non-whites should worship a God that chooses
appear as a white guy. Anyone?
\_ I'm not a christian, but my understanding is that Jesus is only
a representation for the ideals of the religion (love, ect). If
this is true, then Jesus being white is irrelevant.
\_ No white man should worship a god that isn't a H0T A2N CH1X.
\_ You asians have already been assimilated into Western culture...
so give it up, we've already won.
\_ oh yeah.. the 3% of hte U.S. population that's Asian is really
representative of the world.
\_ In Christian Theology God is beyond the humans and the angels.
Jesus (the son) however is human (see the third temptation).
The relationship between God (the father) and Jesus is akin
to the relationship between Dr. Soong and Data. Dr Soong is
is father and creator while Data is the son. Different type
of life, but still related.
BTW, millions of Asians follow buddhism and worship images of
the buddha? After all he wasn't Asian, he was Indian and since
he was a prince most likely Aryan (Caucasian). |