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Shot-Dog-3824 t1_j1nsed0 wrote

Reply to comment by rhapsodygreen in My African parents couldn't find a dark-skinned virgin Mary, so they they put Mary in blackface by rhapsodygreen

They couldn’t find a dark skinned Virgin Mary because it doesn’t exist. Extremely racist

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An_Lei_Laoshi t1_j1o8ick wrote

The completely milk white Virgin Mary most commonly portrayed is faithful /s I'm European and I'm not so white

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Shot-Dog-3824 t1_j1o9ak9 wrote

Misportraying these characters is still sacrilege

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Bekiala t1_j1oivwb wrote

Well Mary has commonly been mis-portrayed as white and blond. I don't see this as sacrilege but it does seem a bit misleading.

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the_honeyman t1_j1q6v6c wrote

Do you think Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were white? Because that's the real sacrilege here.

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tesseract4 t1_j1qlwnj wrote

Mary, if she was actually a real person who lived, was certainly not white, so I don't see how portraying her as other than white could be "sacreligious". I mean, the rules of religion are all made up anyway, so if you wanna go that route you certainly can, I just figured you wouldn't want to acknowledge that.

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