White Jesus Debate is More Complicated Than You Think

After the Confederate statues come down, activist Shaun King tweeted Monday, "the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down."

"They are a form of white supremacy," he said. "Tear them down." And tear down all the "murals and stained-glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends," too, King added. If my napkin math — on the number of Christian congregations in America and the proportion of those whose buildings likely include whitewashed depictions of Jesus — is correct, King's iconoclasm amounts to a call to vandalize the majority of the houses of worship in the United States.

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