WHO PAINTED GOD WHITE?

What if one of the most powerful images in religion was never biblical to begin with?

For centuries, millions of people have been shown a white, European-looking God and Jesus through paintings, churches, books, statues, stained glass, missionary materials, and mass media.

But who decided that divinity should look European?

And why did that image become so powerful?

WHO PAINTED GOD WHITE? pulls back the curtain on the history behind the image—examining how art, empire, colonization, religion, race, and cultural power helped shape the face that generations were taught to worship.

Jesus was a Jewish man from the Middle East.

So why does he so often look like a European king?

Why did Renaissance artists become visual authorities on heaven?

Why were European religious images carried across Africa, the Americas, and the rest of the world alongside conquest and conversion?

And what happens when people are taught, generation after generation, to associate whiteness with holiness, authority, purity, beauty, and God?

This book challenges the images many people inherited without ever questioning them.

It separates scripture from tradition.

Faith from imagery.

History from conditioning.

This is not a comfortable conversation.

It was never meant to be.

WHO PAINTED GOD WHITE? asks a question that reaches far beyond the canvas:

If someone had the power to shape what God looked like…

what else did they have the power to shape?