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[-] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 151 points 5 days ago

So… Trump praises Allah and the Iranians defend Jesus. Definitely did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.

[-] itslola@lemmy.world 79 points 5 days ago

You're aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right...? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.

[-] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 17 points 5 days ago

Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the "whiteness" of Jesus wasn't a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren't nuanced in all the "races" of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them

[-] not_IO 3 points 4 days ago

he's been whitened to the image of a Germanic man during the Christianisation of central Europe

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Was Zeus white? I thought that was also the invention of the Europeans at the time.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago

Allah is God. Why do so many people not know that?

[-] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah if I understand correctly Allah is just a contraction of "Al Illah" which means "the god".

I love the history of the emergence of monotheism, it was very gradual and often the one god had to cohabit with lesser deities for centuries before they fully took over. Interestingly, Yahweh was in competition for some time with other warrior storm gods, including Belial and Baal which were ultimately demonized to the highest degree to prevent them coming back.

[-] SethW@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's a naive interpretation of the lore , then allah is also the same god of the mormons who is one of many in their pantheon. just because an atheist can step back and analyze the lore and draw relationships between fictional characters doesnt mean you can do the same through a lens of absolute truth in a haunted universe with real ghosts

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

This isn't defending Jesus. Jesus violently punching Trump is also blasphemy.

Hilarious blasphemy, though.

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

Idk, he flipped tables and chased/threw people out in a church, from my limited understanding.

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