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[–] wjrii@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's in the finest tradition of tone-deaf, clueless whitewashing Mormon painters, including their own mythology.

[–] bbbhltz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] wjrii@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, Kenobi Space Jesus has a pretty direct antecedent in Mormon art. They took the Medieval and Renaissance European tradition of making literally everybody white and brought it deep into the twentieth and even twenty-first centuries.

[–] bbbhltz 6 points 1 year ago

Not a believer in any sense, but I would follow Kenobi and put his portait on my wall. No doubt about it.