A comedian explained why several popular biblical figures might have been Latino. The funnyman, Dennis Gaxiola, shared his reasoning for coming to this conclusion on the race and ethnicity of a handful of prominent people from the Bible. Watch the short but hysterical clip to hear why Dennis believes some people in the Bible might have been Latino.
We live in an incredibly divisive and polarizing time. It’s gotten to the point where coming together, getting near universal agreement on anything, even the most mundane and meaningless thing, is impossible. People have different opinions and viewpoints, and that’s completely fine. But it’s gotten to the point where people constantly lash out at one another with an overwhelming amount of hatred and hostility, simply for seeing a topic or subject differently.
We don’t have to and really shouldn’t take everything so seriously. As the old saying goes, we’re not going to get out of this life alive. Every thought or opinion expressed that differs from how we feel and think shouldn’t be taken as a personal attack.
Now, race is a hot-button, hotly debated issue, and it likely always will be. In a clip posted on YouTube, Dennis found a way to bring some laughter to the topic while also incorporating the Bible.
“Come on, He named his Son Jesús,” Dennis said. “That one’s in the book. He didn’t name Him Jeffrey. He didn’t name Him Jamil. He named Him Jesús.”
He added that the Bible is full of Latino characters, but it’s not always clear.
“Oh, there’s a lot of Latinos in the Bible,” he said. They don’t teach this most Sundays. You got to read between the lines. Moses was very Mexican. Come on, who else gets a bunch of people across the river to the Promised Land? That’s my people.”
Later in the clip, he explained why he believes David, the shepherd boy and later King of Israel, may also have been Latino.
“King David, Mexican,” he said. “Only a five-foot Mexican could look at a nine-foot giant, and go, ‘I can take him.’”
He also said why he has a sneaking suspicion that Abraham might have been a Mexican.
However, Noah, Dennis says, was not a Mexican, and his reasoning will have you doubled over in laughter.
Galatians 3:28 “There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.”