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[-] wjrii@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] wjrii@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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@beehaw.org 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.

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