Unironically I think his look plays a large part in that. Because the long hair and goatee/beard look is on every dirty hippy and lib professors for going half a century now. So the unconscious stereotype part of our brain just instantly wires that idea to us without thinking about it.
Its a recent invention, but its also fresh in the minds of everybody who lives in the last few generations. That makes it even more likely to cause such an association.
And I hate when they say “well God loves me”. I’m like true but that doesn’t mean he loves our sins
He hates rebellion, but is willing to forgive anyone as soon as they repent. For as many times as it takes.
Sure but repenting means an honest and sincere attempt to stop sinning. Asking for forgiveness with faux repentance isn't going to fool God.
He does love them, which raises the question of what kind of person are they who continuously hurt the ones they love.
Unironically I think his look plays a large part in that. Because the long hair and goatee/beard look is on every dirty hippy and lib professors for going half a century now. So the unconscious stereotype part of our brain just instantly wires that idea to us without thinking about it.
This despite the fact that he lived in a time when almost every adult male in Judea would have looked like that, lol…
I imagine shaving probably made you a bit of an outlier, in that time…
Unlike (mostly) today.
Same with Mohammedans and beards, or the Sikh hair thing, obviously…
The “long hair and beard = hippie/communist” thing is a much, much more recent inversion, obviously…
Its a recent invention, but its also fresh in the minds of everybody who lives in the last few generations. That makes it even more likely to cause such an association.