{"id":26338,"date":"2020-06-10T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:07:56","slug":"when-you-get-your-biblical-history-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/when-you-get-your-biblical-history-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Get Your Biblical History From Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw this on my cousin&#8217;s feed the other day:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/nowhitesinthebible.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(Not <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/she-hit-me-right-in-the-fissure\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>that<\/em> cousin<\/a> but rather her sister, who often posts enlightened Buddhist- and Hindu-flavored posts but lately has given over to celebration of the current troubles and their themes.)<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I am no biblical scholar, but, come on.  Let&#8217;s look at some whities in the Bible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Persians, who <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persis\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originally migrated<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caucasus\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Caucasus<\/a>.  Does that sound like the word <em>Causcasian<\/em> to you?  It should.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galatians_(people)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galatians<\/a> were a Celtic people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontius_Pilate\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pontius Pilate<\/a> was likely from Central Italy.<\/li>\n<li>I would say <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Timothy\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timothy<\/a>, but he was of a Greek father but Jewish mother, but in the new old one-drop accounting, this means he was not white.  Also note that in this ethnography, people of Jewish origin are no longer white, but I think in some accountings, they are still white or not POC.  I get so very confused.<\/li>\n<li>Various and sundry Romans and roman soldiers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am not a Biblical historian, but I can certainly think of a number of instances I can come up with off the top of my head where the Bible might have included a white people put this twee claim (from a church no less!) into doubt.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why this rankled me so much.  Perhaps because this kind of &#8220;truth&#8221; is passed around by people who probably don&#8217;t believe in the Christian faith to rebuke those who do and disagree with the meme-passers on current thought.<\/p>\n<p>You could argue that most of the &#8220;white&#8221; people in the Bible are bad guys, I suppose, but it&#8217;s pointedly from the time of Paul onward designed to be a religion for Gentiles who <em>are sinners<\/em>, so perhaps if you went down that road of argument, you wouldn&#8217;t really have a point.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I argue with memes?  Don&#8217;t I have anything better to do than get outraged on the Internet?  To be honest, it&#8217;s hard to be on the Internet now and not get incensed.  Even on Facebook.  <em>Even on LinkedIn<\/em>, which used to be a professional Web site but which is also currently filled with political content.  Eesh, pardon me whilst I close my browser again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw this on my cousin&#8217;s feed the other day: (Not that cousin but rather her sister, who often posts enlightened Buddhist- and Hindu-flavored posts but lately has given over to celebration of the current troubles and their themes.) At any rate, I am no biblical scholar, but, come on. Let&#8217;s look at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions\/26340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}