/ by Edward Mullany

How often has a westernized depiction of Christ (that is, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed version of Him, or even a version that is not as Semitic as it could be) caused, understandably, a feeling of distance or alienation among those who see that they share no traits with that depiction, and who recognize that the historical Jesus would have looked quite different than that depiction does, even if they themselves are unable to say, precisely, how he would have looked?