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Over many years the bible was written by many people. WERE THEY ALL WHITE? WERE THEY ALL MEN?

Is CHRISTIANITY for white people only?

Posted - January 18, 2021
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  • 3719
    "White"? How do you define that? The writers and  many of its early editors of Middle Eastern stock. The versions we know were edited by Europeans though.

    They probably all were men though. The Bible is fairly clearly male-first, and very obviously so in deeming God to be male, reflecting a patriarchal community.
      January 18, 2021 2:54 AM MST
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  • 113301
    I am of ARMENIAN descent. That makes me middle eastern. I am caucasian or WHITE. That is what I mean. Thank you for your reply Durdle and Happy Monday!
      January 18, 2021 1:34 PM MST
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  • 33853
    Nope. None of writers were white or Christian.  
      January 18, 2021 5:24 AM MST
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  • 3719
    A good point that - and the books themselves, even the Epistles, were indeed all pre-Christian. Christianity just sorted a collection of them into its own anthology.
      January 18, 2021 5:42 AM MST
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