As some people have said, I have never seen a portrait of Jesus with blond hair or blue eyes and certainly not both (and seriously, did you have to use the word "Aryan"?). Also, wasn't Jesus (supposedly) born near Bethlehem, which last time I checked was in Palestine, not Africa (geography fail)? This would make Jesus Palestinian and while he COULD have looked something like Osama bin Laden he ALSO could have looked like Matthew McConaughey, as Matthew McConaughey is neither blond-haired nor blue-eyed (let's try looking up celebrities, shall we?).
Palestinians, while Middle Eastern, have quite a range in skin color and eyes. Look at these pictures:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Shankbone.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Qalqiliya.jpg
http://sabbah.biz/mt/wp-content/uplo...8/10/6104x.jpg
Some have rather dark skin, some have lighter skin. Some have dark eyes, while others (especially in the case of the first picture) have rather light colored eyes. Sure, Jesus wouldn't have been blond-haired and blue-eyed, but he wouldn't have been as dark as either you or me (and I don't know about your complexion, but I am not very dark-skinned).
Also, and I am probably the last person who should be saying this (most Christians want to burn me, not listen to me), but does it really matter? Seriously, does it matter what Jesus looked like? People have gone back and forth about it and have even gotten into full blown arguments about his appearance, which, compared to the things that he did, doesn't really matter. Just last week, I told my little brother that portraits of Jesus were just artist interpretations of him, not actual "photos" (he was convinced that he "knew" that Jesus was White, causing everyone at the table to almost choke).
Amazing how everything Jesus did takes a back seat to his skin color in the minds of some people. I'll just go with Zedekiah about Raptor Jesus.
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