at least other depictions have given him some vague resemblance of being middle eastern, but whoever posted this probably scavenged for the most eurocentric portrayal they could find
at least other depictions have given him some vague resemblance of being middle eastern, but whoever posted this probably scavenged for the most eurocentric portrayal they could find
That shit was all written after he died by people who didn't know him. IRL he was probably just a classic cult leader type with an incredible devoted following who deified him after he died.
even then, his teachings and preaching were definitely based for his followers to write him down defending solidarity, equality and the radical acceptance of people
I mean, were they? If you're talking about the gospels, those were written 30-90 years after he died and are not considered reliable historical sources. All that's broadly agreed about him are the following:
That's it. We don't even really know what he preached or why he was crucified. He probably caused a bunch of controversy at the temple, but we don't know why or how it happened. We know he had followers, but we don't know the structure of their organization or their relationship to him in life, or how he gathered those followers.
All that cool solidarity and egalitarianism stuff came from the author of Acts and Luke. Quite likely, the man himself was very much like any other apocalyptic cult leader who believed in the end times and gathered a bunch of hyper-devoted followers around himself. All of those people are pieces of shit or entirely out of their minds.
I could be mistaken but I don't think Jesus talked about "the end times". Isn't that more of a thing in Paul's letters and other writings? Anyways most stuff about Jesus was probably passed down orally, and only written down after some time. I don't recall the gospels really talking about "end times" at all, but they do have stories about Jesus being a cool accepting person.
Here's a good /r/AskHistorians comment on the subject. That explains it much better than I'm qualified to.
They mention one quote by Jesus from a passage in a gospel that sounded like him talking about the end times. The rest of the comment talks about Paul who obviously talked frequently about the end times, but he isn't Jesus, Paul's talking about it when Christianity was becoming more of an actual religion. Looking it up, it does seem like there is plenty of Jesus talking about the end times in Mark, but it isn't like that's all it talks about.