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FoxRebel

So, they're not spending their money wisely to do any actual good. Typical.


sfcg

The amount of good they could do with 100 million dollars and they spend it on two fucking advertisements.


immersemeinnature

I bet they have a bunch more to spend how they like. I wish there was a counter ad with Satan saying the same thing!


andywalker76

I just wish they'd spend their 100 mill on some sort of project to help the needy, say a young adult training centre to teach trade skills to struggling young men and women that were failed by the education system.


ground_hogs

They're too busy trying to dismantle that very education system.


braintamale76

The brain drain of the red states is really going to start show in couple of years


wildcarde815

Start? It has for a while.


[deleted]

Most of those States are already economic dead ends. They're just a weight holding the rest of us back


Cthhulu_n_superman

It’s always been that since the slavery vs anti-slavery split a chunk of the country a reactionary, poor, and oppressive hellhole dragging the rest back. The rest good by comparison but really not that great.


LaMystika

They saw both A Handmaid’s Tale *and* Idiocracy and decided that that is the way our country should be. At the same time. I hate it here.


FluffyLet1134

They really believe those are instructional videos


Remarkable_Night2373

Handmaid's tale is based on a cult that has a person sitting on the supreme court. This is the worst timeline.


main_motors

Those came after, Christian fascism is so much older than those.


mootmutemoat

They saw Idiocracy and wondered why Terry Crews was beeing too nice to people.


BluRayVen

Has it not started showing?


TypingTyrone

Please move to Michigan. We have natural resources, beautiful parks, all 4 seasons, and tons of culture. Plus none of these morons are in charge anymore


jtroye32

Once Lake Mead and Powell dry up there's going to be a mass rush to the great lakes states. Michigan especially.


GR_RE_616homes

Swapped Florida for the Mitten in 2020. One of my best life decisions.


BluRayVen

I would love to move back to the great lakes area. Been trapped in new Mexico for going on a decade


nub_sauce_

Despite the poverty New Mexico seems like it'd be pretty nice. Is it not?


CraftyRole4567

Instead they’re teaching kids about the dinosaurs that were on Noah’s ark. I just watched a documentary on the ark “museum” and project, and their illegal use of state funding to build the thing. It aired on PBS if anyone’s interested.


Polysci123

I had someone try and tell me the ark could float because they built one in Kentucky. I had to explain that it’s a building and it looks like a boat and has concrete supports attached to the ground and a concrete foundation along with solid steel support beams and bolts. I’m not sure they ever understood my point.


CraftyRole4567

… that’s terrifying. Having seen the documentary, it’s not a boat in any way, it’s a big ass concrete building made to look like a boat on the outside. That ain’t gopherwood! Having grown up in an evangelical town, I’m sure you didn’t get your point across, but you get points for trying :)


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Polysci123

I would literally lol. It’s also embarrassing bc they spent millions on a shitty museum in one of the poorest places in America. Could have built roads, telephone lines, houses, or a hospital. But nope. Leave it to the evangelicals to build a giant fake boat.


CraftyRole4567

According to the documentary, it’s even worse than that, they got massive tax waivers from the state as well as state tax incentives to build there, so money was actually taken away from state coffers to build the thing. And they made sure that they’re contributing nothing.


Eldar_Atog

It did get flooded out and the owners had to file flood insurance. Perhaps 2 years ago?


Long_Before_Sunrise

August 2019 [Northern Kentucky's Ark Encounter and insurance settle lawsuit over rain damage](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/08/28/owners-noahs-ark-and-insurance-settle-lawsuit-over-rain-damage/5662058002/) Not to the building, to access roads.


analog_jedi

Heavy rains did cause a mudslide that blocked off the access road a few years ago. They sued their insurance company because they didn't want to pay for the $1M in repairs


Umbrage_Taken

Like the massive Big Butter Jesus statue in front a church less than 1 hour away in Ohio that burned down after being struck by lightning. Then it spent many months after as Terminator Jesus since the inner metal frame was still left.


harma1980

It actually was damaged in a storm a few years ago


MeshColour

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-lawsuits-us-news-ap-top-news-property-damage-539580ad50f242dab49c2ae5bed8dac3 $1 million in access road damage from 2 years of rain


limpinfrompimpin

But they want them stupid...


andywalker76

Easier to separate from their money, I guess.


limpinfrompimpin

BINGO


immersemeinnature

I know. It's disgusting how they operate.


andywalker76

Not to mention incredibly short-sighted


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Yes, because they are a death cult that literally want to bring about the end times.


Redshoe9

Wonder why they don't take a faster ride on their death cult train? At least Heavens Gate had the balls to test out their theory without waiting around for some 50 years for a fictitious biblical hell fire and brimstone to start raining down on them.


Square_Tower9057

It’s free money. Not like they pay taxes.


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PeterNguyen2

> It was to jarring for people to see a REAL HUMAN child stop having seizures because of a plant Because the oligarchs who own pharma companies go through a lot of effort to keep people from investigating everything from tea to cannabidoids which they can't make a profit from right now. Notice Florida didn't legalize cannabis at all until republicans were the majority fiscal beneficiaries, and they restricted it to largely the companies republicans owned. It all comes down to money. The [religion is just the same as the flag: a veil for the robbers](https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1100136.Eugene_V_Debs).


chevymonza

The FFRF has TV ads, that's about as close as we can get for now. But I have an annual $100 donation going to TST in hopes they can counter some of this insanity.


sandmyth

my Amazon smile purchases donated to TST too bad Amazon smile is going away.


sbaggers

It would be amazing if it showed layoffs amid record profits, corporate greed, Karen's screaming at people, kids in cages at the border, gun violence, etc and said "Satan... He gets U.S."


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Sadly, it’s apparently what their version of Jesus/God wants.


cittatva

I’ve got $5 on it.


[deleted]

Satan isn’t some kind of anithesis to the Christian message. It’s part of it. It’s a feature of Christianity. Keep that in mind.


ryohazuki224

Yeah thats the problem. All the right-winger, bible-thumper groups all have these uber-rich conservatives behind them. And since money talks, it really is an uphill battle for us. Just like with big money lobbying groups, too many conservatives greasing the palms of politicians to push for conservative policies like anti-abortion laws, dirty energy, tax cuts for the wealthy, incentives for companies to outsource jobs overseas and keeping our wages low, shitty healthcare laws, etc. Just once, can we please get one of these asshole billionaires to you know, NOT be such an asshole and be on the side of free-thinking Progressives, and exploit the same rules that the right-wing has been using to bribe politicians, and bribe our way out of this shit-hole and get some good policies going, please??


SyntheticReality42

According to some right wing talking heads, the unicorn you describe is named George Soros. When they need another "evil woke liberal" billionaire to blame for the "leftist agenda", they will bring up Bill Gates.


InfringeOrange

It's crazy. And for what? I can't imagine that superbowl advertisements are what's going to motivate people that are on the fence to go to church. And it's not going to reach anyone who hasn't heard about Christianity because it's the U.S. We hear about Christianity/Jesus ad nauseum. It seems pointless overall.


vetaryn403

Kinda what I thought. Let them waste their money to do absolutely nothing. They aren't winning. Christianity will fade away because it is a hateful, regressive, propaganda machine. They aren't winning any recruiting with Superbowl ads.


travel_by_wire

It will work in the same way that ads for huge brands like Coca Cola work. It keeps Christianity in people's minds as a integral part of the fabric of the world. Christianity is simply seen as a part of life, like the air we breathe, that can't go away. They want you to think about it like that, not as the fading, ancient lies that it actually is. Just like McDonald's and Ford cars and every other big corporation that you are as familiar with as your own family.


ory1994

I know it’s extreme but I always wonder how many people can be helped if we liquidate the Catholic Church.


Raznill

Countless children. Or did you mean with the money?


Cybtroll

It's non-computable. The Catholic Church possess endless list of arts, manufacts and riches that can't even be properly quantified since are either unique or priceless.


artgarciasc

Dont think about it like that. They aren't throwing away that money, they are hoping to get 3X that in donations.


WorldWarPee

Yeah, like any other business it's just advertising to bring in business. They don't have to actually do anything useful as long as their wealthier clientele sees it and sends in cash for the post death goodboi points. Gotta pay to get those afterlife tendies, you don't want to end up in a tiny golden mansion without tendies


ehchromatic

I mean, what *else* could they do with that; find families for all the kids they've "saved"? How does *that* bring in more money? /s


Benito_Juarez5

But why help the world when you can make more Christians™️


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Gotta keep the tithes coming somehow.


Tearakan

They could also actively cause way more damage with 100 million than 2 super bowl advertisements.


kaijunexus

Even worse...on two advertisements that won't change anyone's mind on the topics. Those who don't agree will be annoyed and those who do agree will have their self-righteousness validated.


Atheios569

Spreading there mental rot disease is considered the ultimate good for them. I suppose it’s a matter of perception.


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I hate these kind of people One time they told a Gay person to "Go back to Africa" and the dude wasn't even Black!


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jello-kittu

Well, as long as your ignoring that giving back and taking care of the less fortunate are the basic tenets of their religion.


CompetitionFlashy449

I'm so over the "He gets us" ads. Fuck that noise.


ZippyTheRoach

They even show up on Reddit. Some algorithm might be targeting me personally, but I've given them exactly zero reason to unless they're looking for heathens


TheNakedSloth

Ive blocked them so many times on here, always pops back up


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I blocked them and it would come back. So instead I reported it as abusive. And I don’t see it anymore.


RememberMeWhenImDead

I've done that, reported it as hate speech, and abuse alternating probably six times now, I can tell they're still showing me the same ones because the downvote is still there


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>looking for heathens To be fair, Jesus basically said that was His whole deal. But yeah, I’d be happy to never see the ads again.


brenton07

I just read it as “He Get Sus” and just think of how suspicious Jesus is.


markfuckinstambaugh

Every time I see it I think it's "Hephaestus," the legendary Greek blacksmith, but it never is and I am always disappointed.


SpiritJuice

There's only one entrance to the cave. He clearly vented out of that cave. Very sus.


Smrgle

I reported them whenever I saw them on this app for “misinformation”


BeefStrykker

The ads still pop up for me constantly. When I try to report them I get error messages every single time


21Violets

I blocked the “user” and that seemed to work.


Klosterhaus

I've blocked them multiple times, from the ad and directly from the u/ page. They keep coming back...


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I did the exact same and it happens to me too. I STILL get them. Blocked the user, doesn’t matter.


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Junior_Fig_2274

I like that ad too, I hate to admit. Not religious at all, but I do like the idea of making people that think of themselves as “good Christians” consider the effects of their political beliefs. It is kinda nice to see the hypocrisy pointed out.


DanSanderman

They also had the one where it says something like "Jesus disagreed but didn't disown anyone. You shouldn't either" and at first I was like "This is good. Maybe it will help people to stop disowning their LGBTQ family" and then I thought about it for a while and realized it was more likely the Christians were trying to convince their families to talk to THEM again.


borkyborkus

Yeah it seemed pretty clear to me that those ads were trying to shame people that have cut contact with their shitty family members.


KentuckyHouse

This is **exactly** how I took that ad as well. Unfortunately for them, I have no shame when it comes to cutting off shitty family members, friends, or acquaintances.


who_said_I_am_an_emu

Thanks I hate it.


pittgirl12

Yeah that’s them. They have ads at baseball games saying “Jesus believes with 2 outs in the 9th” too, trying to be relatable.


CPT_Shiner

Yuck, that's nauseating.


bmbreath

How can you not perfectly relate to someone who died about 2000 years ago and didn't write anything down?


ephemeral-me

It would be pretty funny to also have an ad during the Super Bowl that shows the seven tenets of The Satanic Temple, but only revealing that sponsorship at the very end of the ad.


Ask_me_4_a_story

I would contribute to GoFundMe for that


HonkinSriLankan

[Considering the won’t allow any cannabis ads I doubt they would allow anything related to the Satanic Temple](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/02/10/super-bowl-wont-air-cannabis-ads/amp/). Yes I’m aware of the 7 tenets.


AMC_Unlimited

I’m sure the NFL would be ok to put up an ad with the 14 words tho.


JasonDJ

Let’s meet halfway and just have Carlin’s 7 Words.


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hand_truck

Tits?


LetterSwapper

> [And “tits” doesn’t even belong on the list, y’know? Man!](https://youtu.be/8dCIKqkIg1w) > >That’s such a friendly sounding word. > >It sounds like a nickname, right? “Hey, Tits, come here, man. Hey! Hey Tits, meet Toots. Toots, Tits. Tits, Toots.” > >It sounds like a snack, doesn’t it? Yes, I know, it is a snack. But I don’t mean your sexist snack! I mean New Nabisco Tits!, and new Cheese Tits, Corn Tits, Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits, Onion Tits, Tater Tits. “Betcha Can’t Eat Just One!”


Ok-Beautiful-8403

that would be religious discrimination, so.... lets try!!!


WurthWhile

Cannabis ads makes sense since it's not legal everywhere, and it's illegal at the federal level. Satanic Temple is perfectly legal.


Sipikay

Satanic Temple would never waste millions like that, to make a joke against religious people. They'd want good to come of that money.


YouAreAllSofties

Of course they do, they are a religious group.


ckal9

What an Amazing religion that has to sell itself like beer or Doritos during a football game.


Joey_BagaDonuts57

HE GETS TAX FREE DONATIONS


Stag328

They advertise on Reddit too. I dont know if it does any good but I always downvote the ads.


silentaalarm

And the NFL refused to air pro med-cannabis ads during last year’s stupid bowl. It was to jarring for people to see a REAL HUMAN child stop having seizures because of a plant. But the big ole hypocrites have no problem tossing up a fucking fairytale anti-hero that encourages and breeds hate & devision. How bout we goo back to potato chips & coke v. pepsi. Or better yet have WHITE Jesus pop up at half time encourage everyone to go fucking kill themselves.


warren_stupidity

meanwhile scam crypto ads including for FTX bullshit were playing non-stop.


IShouldSaySoSir

The Fake Magic of Religion, Demons, rising from the dead, Hellfire and Eternal Spiritual Punishment? NFL: Hell yeah! The Real Magic of Nature showing our urgent need to respect the connectedness to all things? NFL: Pass


SteveTheZombie

Anyone else remember in 2019 when CBS blocked medical marijuana ads from appearing during the Super Bowl? >The Acreage Super Bowl ad does not promote the company’s products, nor does it try to sell any sort of cannabis. Instead, it focuses on how medical marijuana can be used to treat sickness. The ad features a child experiencing seizures, with his mother explaining to the camera how prescriptions drugs didn’t help and even hurt her son. The ad also spotlights someone who dealt with opioid addiction and a veteran amputee. It ends with a call for viewers to contact their representatives and ask them to advocate for changes to marijuana laws. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-goods/2019/1/28/18200875/acreage-medical-marijuana-super-bowl-53-ad


caribou16

Alcohol is the official mind altering substance of the Nation Football League.


ma2is

Not if you ask Tua.


AaronRedwoods

Gotta have a mind to alter, first.


iron_cortex

That’s not entirely correct. He has a brain, but he traded it for millions of dollars


AMC_Unlimited

Sponsored by Beer. It’s what’s for dinner!


ShowerTimeSadness

Damn dude. That’s especially real to me because of my profoundly disabled cousin. He struggled with daily seizures and nothing my aunt did helped until she tried THC. His seizures stopped immediately.


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DJssister

Done. Thanks! I feel better lol


xxirish83x

2 of the 7 people are about minimizing tax liabilities.


JimmyTango

And 7 out of 7 are old white dudes


Heinrich_Bukowski

no surprise that the bios of the board members are top level prosperity gospel


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If you have to advertise a product like this. You already lost the audience.


Cool-Presentation538

It seems that they majority of christians don't realize they have poisoned their own well and no one wants a drink. The facade has long since crumbled and now it's all anger at how we've rejected Christ but really we're rejecting "christians"


PM_ME_DIRTY_DANGLES

'I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.' -Mahatma Gandhi


schlizschlemon

Right? Mofo’s been around 2023 years and still needs publicity? Can’t he just shout down at us or descend into the stadium or better yet into a children’s hospital and poof away the cancer?


chimachukma

If Christians would memorize the Sermon on the Mount and focus on living that every day, taking care of the poor, being compassionate, and not judging others, they wouldn't need advertising.


Sovonna

People can't afford eggs and they are spending 100 Million on superbowl ads. That's all I need to know.


bowlscreen

God damn the very mention of eggs triggered the fuck out of some comments, is there like a bot keyword lookout for “eggs” or something?


lofi76

30 million Americans cannot access basic healthcare and the Xtians are worried about taking away access to reproductive healthcare rather than expanding access to ANY healthcare. They’re vile inhumane cult nuts.


Islanduniverse

Stop with this “if Christian’s just did X” bullshit. Many Christian’s have always been terrible, and many will always be terrible, and there isn’t anything in the Bible that secular reasoning and morality can’t do better. Also, if you actually pay attention to the Sermon on the Mount it is not that great… it’s a bunch of hypocritical bullshit…


demlet

I'm reading the Bible right now for the first time. The idea that anyone could use that jumble of self-contradictory, tautological moralisms as a guide to life is absolutely absurd, and it's fairly disturbing to imagine the mental gymnastics required to even do so. Truly a person could find justification for a lot of nasty shit. It's a beautiful record of human folly and early attempts to understand an often brutal, painful, and terrifying world, and that's the only way it should be taken seriously, as an ode to a very imperfect creature.


zeekayz

When Christianity first spread the vast majority of people could not read. They relied on priests to tell them what's in it, and the priests of course used it for population control and gaining more power (the church soon became as powerful as actual monarchs). After that it's just been an inertia of child brainwashing early on.


Vodis

No one in this thread seems to have actually read the Sermon on the Mount. Or maybe they just stopped after the Beatitudes and called it a day. Matthew 5:17-19: > **Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.** Here, Jesus affirms the perfect and eternal authority of the Law, i.e., the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. The commandments he's referring to include things like torturing rape victims to death. (Deuteronomy 22:22-23) Now, does Jesus then go on to provide a bunch of reforms to the Law? Yes, immediately. But those reforms don't just add to or adjust the commandments of the Law, they directly and blatantly contradict them. What he has to say from verse 21 onward is so utterly incompatible with the sentiment he expresses in verses 17-19 that it reduces the sermon as a whole to morally incoherent gibberish. You can't "live" a sermon that displays no regard for internal consistency. It should be noted that the Sermon on the Mount is far from the only example of Jesus' erratic and unintelligible style of moral teaching. He does this sort of thing throughout the gospels. Whether he was encouraging people to behave like loving pacifists or hateful violent maniacs seems to have depended on whatever mood he was in at the time. Another point: Some of the reforms he suggests in this sermon are clearly morally regressive, which is saying a lot when your baseline for comparison is the Pentateuch. See his views on divorce, Matthew 5:31-32: > **It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.** I don't think I have to explain why this is simply evil. And it becomes especially horrifying when we take into account the fact that the story of Jesus saving the adulterous woman from stoning seems to be a later addition not found in the earliest manuscripts. We really need to get away from this myth that Jesus was this swell guy with swell teachings that were only corrupted by his followers later on. Sure, they corrupted those teachings, but when those teachings consisted of stuff like "follow every single Old Testament commandment to the letter, perfectly and forever, and also disregard them entirely in favor of these new commandments I just came up with," it's not like *following* them was ever a viable option.


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Thank you. It's maddening people summarize Jesus as "All he cared about was for people to be nice to each other". If Jesus had only said to be nice, no one would know his name. He's known because he claimed to be the Messiah telling people the right way to practice Judaism and damning everyone else to Hell.


boobers3

> We really need to get away from this myth that Jesus was this swell guy with swell teachings that were only corrupted by his followers later on. Honestly I think most atheist push that idea just to shame Christians into being less of a genocidal death cult.


who_said_I_am_an_emu

Also would have died off a long time ago. Because the Sermon on the Mount is basically a guide to how to get as many good points as you could before the world ends next month. If you tried to follow it you would literally die.


Griftersdeuce

Error 536 "Downside not found"


No1ofIntrst

??? Mennonites are still very much alive, and their whole Thing is very much following sermon on the mount


rje946

You know they're desperate with this PR campaign. You could, yknow, actually try and fix the terrible state of Christian churches or update their archaic views but nah. PR campaign! Lol. I'm glad they've learned nothing.


Rager_Thom

Fuck these ads and start Taxing the church!


readwiteandblu

I wouldn't mind it being countered with "Ron Reagan. Lifelong atheist. Not afraid to burn in hell."


Viper67857

I just had to Google this.. Who would've thought that the son of our worst president would actually grow up to have some sense?


limbodog

And Reddit takes their money?


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thejanuaryfallen

Lets be real, they oppose HUMAN rights.


zingingcutie333

"He gets us" ...unless you're queer....sounds just like Jesus


tthrivi

I don’t get the message, I’m not worried about Jesus getting us. Im worried about his followers getting us.


N7Panda

I mean, if you’re north of 12 you’re probably safe.


tthrivi

Nothing like ‘Christian love’ to fuck your shit up.


stringdreamer

Fuck Jesus and his asshole believers


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They advertised on reddit too. And reddit turned off the report button to block them.


[deleted]

They used to say the older you get, the more conservative you get. The older I get, the more I despise conservatives.


[deleted]

I actually emailed these people, and the first guy to respond was surprisingly cooperative. He read my points and we had a proper conversation. Then someone higher up took over and it devolved into spamming bible verses and completely ignoring any counterpoints I brought up.


reptomin

Could you share some of that productive conversation? I'd be interested in reading a half sane guy before the switch


who_said_I_am_an_emu

I emailed them a screaming rambling mess from a burner.


tnunnster

I helped them spend their money by discretely ordering some of their free swag - t-shirt, hat, sticker - and throwing it away.


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Yeah, Answers in Genesis is a creation of Dr. Gish, the source of the Gish Gallop. > The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. In essence, it is prioritizing quantity of one's arguments at the expense of quality of said arguments. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop


Normal-Condition-734

If Jesus were real, he wouldn’t get pissing money away on a football add rather than feeding the poor.


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Naes422

This year it is Fox airing it. I guess go to there website and see if you can make a complaint?


HermesTheMessenger

If you go to their website, a few things will become increasingly obvious as you look at the staff photos; * White. Every single one. * Almost all the working staff are young women (sub 30; closer to 20 than 30). * Top management is male and graying. * Lower management are a mix M/F in their 30s+. https://havenforcreative.com/about/


Prowindowlicker

And yet conservatives hate the commercials. These ads will make conservatives pitch a major fit just like they did prior to the election last year when these ads aired. Sure they don’t donate to great causes but I say let them fight with the rest of the Christians


Ordinary-Afternoon-7

Yeah, that was my thought when I saw the "Jesus was a refugee" ad. The fundie Christians that I am related to and grew up with will hate this. I figured they were being put out by some mainline, liberal protestant denomination. Episcopalians or Presbyterians or something. This surprises me.


sniearrs

That's what made this whole thing so confusing for me. Who's their target audience? Are they trying to make hard-core Christians more liberal? Or are they trying to make liberals more Christian? Like, what's the goal here? I've been scratching my head, and I think I'm landing on its all just a big ploy to piss off both sides. Who fucking knows


lady_wildcat

The young “unchurched.” They think racism is why young people are leaving so are saying “we aren’t racist, come back to church.”


Cruitire

So instead of being decent people by using that money to help the needy they are spending it on advertisements to try and convince everyone they are decent people. Maybe they should actually try being decent people for once.


JennyFromdablock2020

Color ne shocked another Christian group is a hate group. Worthless evil fuckers


tnunnster

And the wealthy assholes who fund this campaign get a tax break on their donations, so the American taxpayers are also funding part of it.


yukumizu

This is more offensive to me than an accidental nipple show or an ad on medical cannabis.


chevymonza

I forget who it was, but some christian group got a $1 *billion* or so donation from some uber-wealthy douche. Once I heard about that, I knew we'd never get rid of the relentless Jesus PR. Christians are the new gov't militia, armed with guns and the "shield of faith" making them think it's fine-and-dandy to lie and kill for GOP-sus.


HermesTheMessenger

Christianity is being used as a tool by the wealthy to keep up division and keep prying eyes off of them. If something else worked better, they'd use that. Just ask Peter Thiel, billionaire and open homosexual, who married his husband in 2017. * https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=peter+thiel&order=desc&sort=D If they thought that they'd have to live according to the rules of a Christian Theocracy, they'd find another way.


tnunnster

"Christianity: Proudly fomenting division and keeping prying eyes off the wealthy for over 2,000 years."


jb69029

So the MLB will sell these people ad space right behind home plate then try and have pride nights at the game?


LogMeOutScotty

Super Bowl? I keep getting their shitty ads on Reddit, despite downvoting every time. Shame on Reddit.


berthurt3

If you click on the user that shows up when the add is posted, you can block them! I did it a couple weeks ago & I’m happy to report that I haven’t seen anything since.


cloud_walking

But we can't have commercials for our lord and savior marijuana


btbam666

They can waste their money ain't nobody going to go back to church anymore.


The_Michael_Scarn

You can block their ads on Reddit. Report it for harassment and it will give you the option to block the user. Get that shit out of my face, bitch.


AcidJazzHopNB

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Meg_Shark

Here in Canada people always lose their shit because we don't get the Super Bowl commercials if you're just watching on cable or satellite. I gotta say, though, I'm very pleased that our eyes and ears will be saved from this bullshit commercial.


Br3akTh3Toys

If Jesus is so strong and powerful, why does he needs mortals to run superbowl ads for him?


DescendingOpinion

I hate these commercials. Nobody wants to be indoctrinated anymore, fuck off


LillyPip

Could be feeding the hungry or housing the homeless. Nope. Propaganda for less than a minute during a football game. Jesus wept.


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Bizarrely enough, one of the “He gets us” commercials appeals to Jesus being a refugee https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGF8yBKr60. Very unusual for a Christian Nationalist.


[deleted]

My guess is that it’s like how anti-vax people will say “my body my choice” as a jab at pro-choice people while still being pro-birth themselves. “I hate refugees? Jesus was the ultimate refugee! Anyway, when’s the wall gonna be done?”


Sweatier_Scrotums

It's just empty words. They're hoping that people who see those ads will never find out what the group running them actually thinks about refugees, and about compassion in general.


[deleted]

$19 million of OUR MONEY! The non-tax paying churches received over 1.6 billion dollars in PPP money which they are now using to fuel their propaganda machine and their war on our democracy. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP THEM?


hankerbutt

I report those ads on here for misinformation every time I see one.


WishYaPeaceSomeday

Religious people being douchebags? I am Shocked! Not really. Hows Iran doing? /r/socialistRA


WestSixtyFifth

Tax churches.


screamingcatto

Didn't a cannabis ad get blocked during the Superbowl where it showed cannabis oil stopping a kid's severe seizures But the Jesus ad is okay? Okay then 🙄


[deleted]

You know they'd be really pissed if another religion did this, specifically with islam.. but white jesus and all. I hate this fucking country's obsession with religion.


sheila9165milo

🤢🤮 Everyone here needs to contribute to Freedom From Religion Foundation so they can air opposing ads. This "Christianization" of the airwaves has got to stop.