{"id":239632,"date":"2021-03-17T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239632"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:15:30","slug":"don-lemon-the-true-identity-of-jesus-was-he-looked-more-like-a-muslim-or-someone-who-was-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-the-true-identity-of-jesus-was-he-looked-more-like-a-muslim-or-someone-who-was-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon: The \u2018True Identity Of Jesus\u2019 Was He \u2018Looked More Like A Muslim Or Someone Who Was Dark\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-lemon-the-true-identity-of-jesus-was-he-looked-more-like-a-muslim-or-someone-who-was-dark%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1630.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d CNN\u2019s Don Lemon offered his perspective on Jesus Christ, pontificating that the only way to properly view Jesus was as \u201ca black Jesus or a brown Jesus, because we know Jesus looked more like a Muslim or someone who was dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon prefaced that remark by asserting, \u201cWe also have to start being realistic about God and the Bible, and if you are a person of faith in this country \u2014 and we know America is built on faith and religious freedom\u2014 then we have to, I think, a good way of starting, is to present the true identity of Jesus, and that is as a black or a brown person rather than someone who looks like a white hippie from Sweden or Norway, and I think we should start with a true depiction of what Jesus looked like, and put that in your home. Either a black Jesus or a brown Jesus, because we know Jesus looked more like a Muslim or someone who was dark rather than someone who was blond, a blond-looking carpenter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then when your children ask you, \u201cWho is this?\u201d Lemon continued, \u201cThis is Jesus. Jesus was Middle-Eastern. And Bethlehem was not in Sweden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon stated that until Jesus was seen as \u201cblack\u201d or \u201cbrown\u201d Americans could not \u201ccome to a true reality about what America really is,\u201d saying, \u201cAnd so, Jesus does not look like the popular depiction that we have in our churches and in our homes and that we see all over the media. And I think that is a good place to start and that is a good place that your kids ask questions and then you can go from there. And then we can come to a true reality about what America really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.764705882353\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@donlemon<\/a>, while discussing healing racial wounds on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheView<\/a>, you inadvertently contributed to the erasure of Jewish identity. You told people to &#8220;present the true identity of Jesus, as a black or brown person.. more like a Muslim or someone who is dark.&#8221; <br \/>Jesus was a Jew. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ovDZLtRSHE\">pic.twitter.com\/ovDZLtRSHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldickson\/status\/1372127499199639556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/22\/my-faith-how-i-learned-to-stop-praying-away-the-gay\/\">wrote in 2011<\/a>&nbsp;that it was \u201cna\u00efve, even dangerous\u201d to \u201cthink that religious teachings happened word for word as they were written in Scripture,\u201d stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29\">\n<p><em>As I got older I began to realize that all these people and institutions interpreted the Bible somewhat differently. I had a sort of epiphany: the Bible was about the lessons you learned, not about the events or words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When I became old enough, intelligent enough and logical enough to discern the difference between metaphor and reality, everything changed. I realized that Jonah living in the belly of a whale was a parable written in the same vein as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. saying that he had \u201cbeen to the mountaintop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Neither Jonah nor King had actually been to those places. They were metaphors for lessons for those of us who cared to absorb them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So many of us, especially in the black community and in churches, tend to think that religious teachings happened word for word as they were written in Scripture. I think that\u2019s na\u00efve, even dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That type of thinking \u2013 or non-thinking \u2013 keeps many religious people enslaved to beliefs that they haven\u2019t truly stepped back from and examined.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d CNN\u2019s Don Lemon offered his perspective on Jesus Christ, pontificating that the only way to properly view Jesus was as \u201ca black Jesus or a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310694,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1630.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Don Lemon: The \u2018True Identity Of Jesus\u2019 Was He \u2018Looked More Like A Muslim Or Someone Who Was Dark\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1630.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Don Lemon: The \u2018True Identity Of Jesus\u2019 Was He \u2018Looked More Like A Muslim Or Someone Who Was Dark\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}