Probably not much comfort for many of the white born-agains. And, if he were at the airport getting ready to board a plane, the TSA would surely pull him aside for extra "scrutiny" (if you know what I mean).
Observations, thoughts, reminiscences, and occasional rants on anthropology, linguistics, old-time banjo, and anything else that crosses my path...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
What did Jesus look like?
I just recently stumbled upon this, and thought it worth spreading around a bit. We're all familiar with the ever-present blond, blue-eyed interpretations of Jesus coming out of Western culture. In 2002, Popular Mechanics (?!?) published a reconstruction of a more plausible Jesus. The work was done by forensic artist Richard Neave; the details can be found in the online article.
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After a year: genocide by any other name
And the name, I learned this week, is: The Dahiya Doctrine. Mehdi Hassan explains here .
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OK, somebody has to say it. 17 years ago close to 3,000 people died largely because the US was unprepared for an attack of that kind, or for...
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The internet news site Common Dreams carried an article recently about a group of students from Liberty University visiting the Smithsonia...
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I may write more about this later, but for now just examine the differences. Later... (added on Oct 9, 2010): Essentially, in apes the l...
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