Lauralot points out that the Jesus of the Bible doesn’t have much in
common with the right-wing, evangelical Christ – canon Jesus was “a
brown Jew in the Middle East, conceived out of wedlock in an arguably
interracial if not interspecies (deity and human) relationship, raised
by his mother and stepfather in place of his absent father. He may not
have had a Y chromosome. He spent his early youth as a refugee in
Egypt, where his family no doubt survived initially on handouts from the
wealthy.”
As Wil Wheaton put it: “Canon Jesus is better than Fandom Jesus.”
