Why do you not read the bible then?!

It says Mary, Joseph and Jesus were Jews and the Jewish race is classified as white. There was no such thing as interracial marriage in those days and a Jew who stays out of the sun is whiter than an American or a European. Jesus was also said to be of direct descent from King David!

There is no place for racism in religion!

The reason Jesus is portrayed as white is a good question. People tend to form God into their own image, it makes them feel justified in their 'way' of living. If you look at renaissance art, you'll see scenes from the bible painted in european landscapes and so people interpret God they way they want to.

This is a reason why the Church is so powerless is that Church-goers (hardly any true Christians today) create God in their image. It allows them room to live however they please, keeps them from following the spiritual disciplines, etc.

I think Ghandi said the following about Christianity:

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Christ was Jewish, Jews have olive toned skin not brown showing him as white is as close to it as you can get. but I've seen native American representations of Jesus, Chinese Representatives of Jesus, and Black Representatives of Jesus. in the core of things Jesus is truly LOVE it doesn't matter what his skin looks like.

Jesus model was based on cesare borgia

Why are Caucasians called Caucasian, considering where the Caucasus Mountains are?

Jesus was a Jew. What does the race of the Hebrews look like?

Its how different people portray him.

To Asians he's Asian

To Africans he's African

To Americans he's white American

But he was a Jew. A middle eastern

The actor that portrays him isn't middle eastern.

Jesus model was based on cesare borgia

The great majority of Christians were white in the days when wealthy patrons

were having religious oil paintings done for their palaces.