Just saw a trailer for a movie on Showtime called Mary Magdalene, and if you grew up in a Christian household you will probably be moved by the trailer and want to watch it, which is understandable.
But cmon now, Joaquin Phoenix as Yahshua, really! But y’all threw us a bone by casting Peter as Black, 😐
It’s 2020, historical accuracy is a must, if your claim is that Yahshua was a historical figure, we can’t continue into the future with this type of imagery. The common retort is that no one really knows how they looked back then, but that’s a lie!
We know how they looked and you know how they looked, they were darker skinned people’s, but that doesn’t fit the American narrative!
If you have a problem with what I said please just do this simple google search for me, “black paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and child” and explain to me why these paintings and sculptures are found in Caucasian countries and date back to before western civilization created their version of the Indian cast system!
Why would non-Black people decide to portray the mother of their savior and their savior as Black people? That’s not how the mind works, unless the truth was more important to them than this modern day lie!
I said all that to say this, I can’t watch it because all it does is serve up the same bs narrative that we’ve been fighting to overturn for centuries! But what can we really expect from a group of people that know for a fact that Christopher Columbus did not discover America but it’s still in every history book as fact, 😐
*I took this picture in Barcelona in 2015, and there are hundreds more like it across Europe!