Jewish Atheist's Controversial T-Shirt: "I Met God, She's Black"

[cbayer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/03/i-met-god-shes-black_n_6406928.html

The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla

Posted: 01/03/2015 8:23 am EST Updated: 1 hour ago


Dylan Chenfeld | RooftopsNYC LLC

What does God look like?

Renaissance artists painted God into their own cultures, often giving him the white skin and flowing golden hair of a European aristocrat.

But that traditional image has been challenged by many over the centuries. This age-old question is now picking up steam on Facebook, particularly in the light of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Dylan Chenfeld, a self-described Jewish atheist, is throwing his ideas into the mix.

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[okasha]

1. What's controversial?

That quip goes back to the 70's.

[cbayer]

2. Yep!

The 21-year-old doesn’t claim to have invented the phrase, saying the trope has existed for quite some time. He's just the one who decided to put it on a $30 T-shirt.

[msongs]

5. further back than that... nt

[struggle4progress]

3. i always liked that slogan but the shockvalue fun has diminished with time

i frankly wouldn't be surprised if the slogan was older than the egyptian pharoahs: judaism, after all, teaches that

... in the image of elohiym he made the human, male and female ...

and in its famous ancient erotic poem says

i am black but lovely

so the compilers of the hebrew scriptures could scarcely have argued with the idea that black women are images of the hebrew god

[niyad]

4. I always liked this one:

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.13413935.0717/fig,white,womens,ffffff.jpg

http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/God-Is-Coming-Bumper-Sticker-(5708).jpg