The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for January 23, 2020

Jesus’ actual name was Yehoshua, usually shortened to Yeshua, That’s usually translated as Joshua. The name would have been Yehoshua or Yeshua bar Yussef. (Warning: Hebrew doesn’t have vowels, making spelling… interesting. Hebrew also is written right to left where Latin alphabet languages are left to right, making spelling even more interesting. Arabic is worse. Neither have the concept of case, they can be considered to be all upper case, Hebrew, usually, or all lower case, Arabic, usually. Jesus’ alleged actual father’s name was YHWH… or HWHY. And the Y could be a J, and the W could be a V. So you get Jehovah by sticking in vowels, which Hebrew doesn’t have, and using the wrong order.) ‘Christ’ is a title, not a name, so saying ‘Jesus Christ’ is not taking his name in vain as that’s not his name. The Greeks screwed the name up, the way the screwed his birthday up. No, not in December, for one thing shepherds wouldn’t have their sheep out in the fields in December in Palestine. And they got the wrong year, they were out by at least four years. Maybe five. (Yes, this year should be 2023, or 2024, or 2025, there’s a bit of argument still ongoing about it. The argument will never be settled, either.)

I was forced to take Religious Knowledge all the way through high school, and a lot of it stuck. I can still answer those things of evil, ‘context questions’ about the Pentateuch, the Synoptic Gospels (especially the Sermon on the Mount. Feh.) and Acts and the Epistles of Paul (whose name was Saul, and Hebrew doesn’t have vowels, but drive on) and ‘select others’.

Others may judge how religious it made me. Perhaps American religious nuts might want to consider if they really truly want to have religion taught in high school, they really might want to be careful what they ask for.

Not white, indeed.

If he lived, Yeshua ben Yussef was a Semitic Jew. No, that is not redundant; the Semites are an ethnic group that includes both the original Israelites (before the diaspora & the conversion of Europeans who comprise the majority of today’s Jews) and Arabs. Besides his sideline as a rabbi, his occupation was carpenter – before power tools.

So, if you want to know what he would have looked like if he lived, imagine a very buff Yassar Arafat, but with the facial hair of an Hasidim. The image the Western world has of him is the result of Medieval and Renaissance artists, trying to project an image of purity, using European women as models for images purporting to be of him.

Next thing you know, Huey is gonna tell us that Ronald Reagan is the Devil. Wait a minute…

STORKS DON’T DELIVER BABIES?!?!?! But there’s a documentary on it!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4624424/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Oh son, son. Son never go there with a female and her beliefs. Never.

People certainly are coming up with a strange definition of “white” nowadays.