Oops: Jesus wasn't an Anglo Saxon ('White')

Put aside the Mormon white Jesus of Mitt Romney and one may seek the truth Jamie Reno writes:

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Most, if not all, scientists and theologians now agree that Jesus was likely neither the black man espoused by Obama's former longtime church nor the tall, blue-eyed white man of Romney’s lifelong church.

Back in 2000, a cover story in Popular Mechanics, of all publications, titled “The Real Face of Jesus,” sought scientific answers to this ancient question. With the help of Israeli and British forensic anthropologists and computer programmers, the magazine concluded that Jesus probably had a broad peasant's face, dark olive skin, short curly hair, and a prominent nose. And, the researchers concluded, he would have been 5-foot-1 and weighed 110 pounds.

Not at all the image a lot of us saw on our Sunday School class walls when we were children. But we were children, then.