Surely, we all know what "clickbait" is now don't we? It is an internet phenomenon that I normally shun quite studiously but earlier today I found myself drawn in by a rabbit hole that followed the heading: "What Historical Figures Really Looked Like". There were over two hundred historical figures with related text and one of them was Jesus Christ.
Surprisingly, in my nineteen years of blogging, I have hardly ever referred to Jesus Christ. That's him pictured at the top of this post according to the clickbait channel. He looks a lot different from that miraculous hippy-type fellow we usually see portrayed with his long hair, kindly face, sandals and flowing white robes. "Suffer little children to come unto me" and all that.
This was the text connected with the picture:
Thousands of paintings, drawings, and etchings exist of Jesus of Nazareth. As the most famous living person to have ever existed, he’s revered by many as the Son of God. Most images depict Jesus as a tall, lean man with shoulder-length brown hair and a kindly face.
As researchers have nothing to go on and no remains or description in the Bible, it’s difficult to say what Jesus really looked like. When a team of scientists took to the task, they used what little information was available to them and came up with a brown-eyed, olive-skinned, heavily bearded man with notably more masculine features than the stereotypical image.
I guess that practising Christians may have to greatly readjust their mental images of Jesus and instead teach their children that far from being gentle, meek and mild - Jesus looked more like a hairy all-in wrestler or a latter day neanderthal.
Here's another famous figure revealed in the clickbait list. Can you guess who it is?
Yes, of course, it's Peter the Great - Emperor of Russia from 1682 until 1725.
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