@McGentrix,
McGentrix wrote:
You could have used this image for Jesus
Instead you chose what you believed would be the most insulting image when compared to what could be a more "actual" representation of men of that region at that time.
Why? Just to insult those on A2K that may be Christian on Christmas Eve?
Sadly, that indeed appears to be the case. One can only speculate on the motives implied here, but I wonder what might have been Blatham's reaction to something more or less equivalently offensive and mocking toward homosexuals, or Moslems for that matter.
Perhaps it's just lonely and boring for him up there in BC this winter. In any event there is a certain, perhaps compulsive, meanness evident in this, that can also be detected in his endless posts mocking and criticizing the politics and values of people in a neighboring country, not his own.
Very hard to see all this as a result of mere academic interest, though I do recognize the much overplayed pretense that it is just that. Narrow-minded intolerance, masquerading as "intellectual analysis" by the uninformed and uncomprehending.
Merry Christmas to all.