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Likely the Catholic church did - just like they incorporated mistletoe and a christmas tree into the picture. How many pine trees and mistletoe have you seen in Israel?
Those two things are part of the pagan culture/religion they tried to get rid of - they couldnt beat them so they took it over. There are tons of history books and sites about this.
Also Jesus was from one of the darker skinned tribes of Israel (12 original jewish tribes) - so he was certainly a dark skinned, dark curly haired guy not a blond blue eyed northern european.
If you do some research you will see that the English version of the Bible suffers a huge translation problem from the original hewbrew scrolls.....but this is pretty common stuff. Lets take a look at our mainstream news feeds: how much is real and how much is "translation".
I've leave the rest of it to the local conspiracy theorists on here....
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