What is your opinion regarding this theory as to the origin of the common depiction of Jesus?
The depiction as a white guy, with a beard and long curly hair.
According to this video, this common depiction of Jesus was the direct result, during the christianification of the Roman Empire, of religious authorities attempting to make Jesus visually more palatable and acceptable to the common populace, who still adhered to Greco-Roman religion, by making Jesus closely visually resemble the common depiction of Zeus.
This would also explain the common visualisation of the christian god, too, as a white man with long curly hair and a beard.
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