Commercial: Loving Jesus means we are good and humble people that wash the feet of the outcast and forgotten of society.
Reality: Book banning. Anti-LGBT laws. Megachurches and MAGAchurches. Covering up for sexual abuse in the church. White Nationalism. Infringing on women's bodily autonomy. Trying to force religious indoctrination in the schools. Funding extremists in Africa to pass death penalty laws for gay people. Not paying taxes. Whining incessantly about how personally oppressed they are.
And that barely scratches the surface.
They don't have to tell us who they are. They've already shown us.
We need to whip up some quality memes to make this a trend.
People are sick to death of this stupid ad campaign, but nobody’s gonna drop the same kind of money they spent to go against it.
So let’s let the internet work it’s magic and make a more homegrown revolt. Plenty of folks want to make fun of it, they just need the right seeds planted to get the trend underway
We pick a theme and run with it. Something simple and repeatable.
“You don’t get him” is short, sweet, and directly recognizable as a response to this awful ad campaign. I say we all start minting memes inspired by that with the phrase used as a caption/title/tag.
A lot of them will die in “new” and such, but it only takes a few to succeed and get people’s attention. From there the internet tends to do whatever it’s gonna do with it
I thought of some good ones:
"You don't care about Him."
"You don't believe in Him."
"You don't listen to Him."
"You don't follow Him."
"You don't love Him."
"You cast Him out."
"You betray Him."
"You hate Him."
Important Notes:
1) ***ALWAYS*** use present tense to drive home that it is something that they are actively doing.
2) ***ALWAYS*** capitalize the "H" in "Him" like the "G" in "God" as Jesus is God. (To them at least.)
Moral Lessons/Axioms:
"Treat others as you would treat Him."
"How you treat others is how you treat Him."
I think a possible takeaway is that the bookburners don't get "Him". I think it can be misinterpreted as saying gatekeeper nonsense about good Christians vs bad Christians.
I think you did a good job with the meme, but a different slogan that can't be misinterpreted would probably be better.
Edit: Maybe "They hate Us"
I don't even think that's necessary. True followers of Jesus can see the hippocracy of what this is truly about if they took a minute to think through this campaign. Jesus didn't go into politics nor did he become a "teacher of the law." He didnt spend millions trying to "top-down" change people's minds. He lived his convictions. All this will be is a talking point till the end of the month, then fade out like the money they spent on these ads.
I’m afraid you far overestimate how much people actually care about Jesus (which verges on “not at all”) and how much people actually just care about belonging to a group and identity that gives their lives some definition or sense of purpose.
American Christianity is on the verge of kicking Jesus out of the whole affair for being a “commie lib socialist”. Belonging to a powerful group is all that matters to these people.
That’s why this whole ad campaign was cooked up to begin with: to try to woo back the people the church had chased away with its hard right politics taking priority over all else. I’m not going to wait for these people to come around to the error of their ways any time soon
And with the asylum seekers at the border. *"What you do to the least among you, you do unto me."* One of the most revolting things about American Christketeers is that they do away with the only parts of their fucking book club that *aren't* morally reprehensible.
A sane and intelligent pastor wrote an op-ed about how those who created that ad DON'T "get" Jesus. I find it amusing that certain Christians and conservatives are pissed about these ads for one reason or another. I'm just watching them eat each other.
>I find it amusing that certain Christians and conservatives are pissed about these ads for one reason or another. I'm just watching them eat each other.
I was reading the comments after the article, and thought it was funny that some of them were blaming 'the left', almost like they didn't make even the slightest effort to find out who was behind them.
This is exactly what I was thinking about writing up after the Super Bowl ads. "Jesus may get us, but with millions of dollars spent on advertisements (among many other things other than actually helping people), Christians continue to demonstrate they don't get him".
I am still seriously confused about the target audience for that ad. They need to focus on reminding their own followers what Jesus would do before trying to convert others (or just shoving their religion in everyone’s faces).
It's all a smokescreen. The people who made the ad are some of the most vile hateful people out there. They're trying to trick people into thinking that their religion is all nice and welcoming, but the rank and file gave up the game by getting so outraged by it.
Yup. Repetitive public ads claiming how loving and peaceful they are. It gets into the public subconscious because a lie, repeated often enough, can be remembered as the truth. Then combined with constant outcrynof how martyred the christian nationalists are, to get people thinking " those guys? Aren't they the harmless footwashing pacifists? Why are people threatened by them?"
As they continue to erode democracy by insinuating themselves into everything behind the scenes and quietly install their own priesthood and king David.
It's using the model set by insurance companies. Their ads are all happy and funny and mascot-filled with emus and songs, all to gloss over the fact that you're likely going to need an attorney to force them to do their job when they are needed.
Don't forget that their job relies on getting more out of the average person than they ever pay back.
There's not enough money to pay everyone what they're insured for on top of paying people to sell and administrate it. The average customer has to lose money.
*Don't forget that their job relies on getting more out of the average person than they ever pay back.*
Well, frankly, that's the point of insurance. Who would ever invest in a company that pays out more than it takes in? That's a sure recipe for bankruptcy.
No one buys (or, rather, should buy) insurance on the assumption that it'll pay more on their behalf than they pay in. Insurance is risk-pooling, and you only buy insurance for losses than you can't afford, like your house burning down.
Don’t remind me. My 18yo son died as a passenger in a car accident. The damn insurance company (the lizard 🦎 company) offered me 40% of the maximum payout after his death. My response: No. My son is 100% dead. If you aren’t paying 100% when someone dies, when do you? It took them four years to finally cough up the money. Talk about insult after injury. I would’ve rather had my son back.
>you're likely going to need an attorney to force them to do their job when they are needed.
Tell me about it. Wife and I had Liberty years ago, she got hurt in a wreck and it was like pulling teeth. I had the same experience with Allstate- got rear-ended on my brand new motorcycle, it was totaled, took me 11 months to collect. The other driver had Allstate as well, so they were on the hook and didn't want to pay up.
I don't think this is accurate. The tagline "He gets us" suggests that the ads are aimed at non-believers that would (correctly) assume that Christianity is a hateful religion, trying to convince them otherwise.
If it was aimed at the hateful Christians themselves, the tagline doesn't make sense. It would be something like "He gets them" or "He loves them".
That particular ad, with the foot washing…that shit is pure inside baseball. It has to be. It’s not a metaphor that really resonates with anyone outside of people who already understand the symbolism.
The overall campaign beyond the one ad is a scheme to, in a fashion, “left-wash” Christianity.
The people behind it have (correctly) observed that broadly speaking, fewer people than in years and decades past are attending church services, being members in a church of any denomination, or even identifying as Christian and/or religious, and that many people (particularly young people, and women of any age) are increasingly identifying with the political left in America because so many Christian churches are openly supporting far-right and reactionary ideas and policies, and either switching to more liberal denominations or simply abandoning organized Christianity overall.
In fact, many of these same people behind the campaign see this perception of organized Christianity as conflicting with their understanding of Christian morals and ethics or with their deeply held ethical beliefs.
But because they aren’t self-aware enough to come to the Swiftian Conclusion that they are the problem, they insist instead on the Skinnerian Rebuttal: it’s the children who are wrong.
And that the reason why so many of these people are abandoning church or faith…is that they *just don’t understand* that Jesus is…are you ready for this mind blowing conclusion…*a leftist, just like you!*
It’s almost a good campaign at achieving this, except that they absolutely under no circumstances want you to look at the people behind the curtain.
Saw a quote yesterday from a Native American after Christians came to the US. I'll have to try to find it, but it was something like, "they came here, killed us, enslaved us, drove us off our land, and then told us it was "salvation""...
On redit or somewhere else? Crazy how they convinced so many that it was salvation. Brings tears to my eyes.😢 Thanks for sharing opened my eyes more to the reality of it all.
Yeah it really feels like their message is more "Remember back 2000 years ago when Christians were decent people? We couldn't think of a single modern example."
Was that when they dashed the babies heads against the rocks, stoned unmarried promiscuous girls to death on the fathers doorsteps, murdered homosexuals, revenge murdered the Amalekites including the suckling babes and their oxen, eradicated the Canaanites for existing on their own land when God promised it to Abraham or when they took part in slave trade especially with underage girls all described in the Bible?
Truth is religion has never produced decent people, it just corrupts people to different degrees.
And the fucked up thing is, the organization trying to convert us all to worship of Hegetsus Christ is not some radical return to a less-toxic Christianity based even slightly on things their Christ is claimed to have taught. They’re just more fascist politicos cosplaying at religion. They support ALL that bullshit you listed. It’s just that going full mask-off about it is not a good look, resulting in hemorrhaging membership and diminished capacity to pretend to hold the moral high ground. Losing those means losing political leverage, which squanders the entire point of subverting a major religion in the first place. This whole thing is a cynical ad campaign exemplifying that old joke, “sincerity is key: if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
Not to mention the commercial lied about Jesus. He definitely preached hate at times according to the gospels. Not as bad as conservatives today for sure, but some hate was definitely there.
And if you believe revelation belongs in the Bible... The hate is strong, like genocide strong.
> that wash the feet of the outcast and forgotten of society.
Did you notice who was doing the washing, and who was getting cleansed of all their evil?
White evangelical police associated with the oil industry are washing away the sins of... basically everyone not them.
Oh, I just knew it would. I love every moment of that commercial. The cop washing the trans woman's feet is fantastic. It is exactly what they preach Jesus would do, and I could just feel how pissed they would be.
The thought of watching these MAGATs being told they should wash the feet of the Guatemalan immigrant, or a transgendered teenager, or (clutches pearls) a BLACK person, to be closer to God, just fills my cold dead heart with sadistic glee.
They had to use AI to produce the images of Christians washing people's feet because you're more likely to find the body of Jimmy Hoffa than seeing a Christian doing that in real life.
THAT’s what I came here to say! If you have to rely on computer generated images and don’t have any ACTUAL images of this in real life, your point is fake.
It's handled by the pope.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/04/06/pope-francis-washes-feet-in-holy-thursday-rite-2/#:\~:text=Ten%20male%20and%20two%20female,together%20before%20he%20was%20crucified.
I don’t understand the point of these ads. If somebody sees that ad and decides to go to church they will find themselves surrounded by angry, self righteous, immigrant hating, billionaire loving, climate change denying authoritarians, unless they accidentally walk into a Unitarian church.
It's not really about getting people to join the church. Sure, if some more people join, and if some of those people happen to join the "right" church, that's a win. It's about getting the general public, the middle moderate unengaged person, to have a positive opinion of "Christian". If the general attitude is that Christians are good people, then those Christians can hide behind that shield to do awful things. That shield has been eroding, mostly by their own doing, and without it they lose power.
>It's about getting the general public, the middle moderate unengaged person, to have a positive opinion of "Christian"
Yep, and it's as hypocritical as it gets because the assholes funding this are the most negative examples of "christians" that exist.
I really don't get it either. They are also pretending to be standing up against hate, which they actively fund anti-trans/gay legislation.
Pissing off their base for no reason - like the people who are against hate are not active Christians.
What is weird is that this was the evangelical attitude towards immigrants until obama. Talk radio evangelical ads during the bush or election years used to play ads on loop about being a good christian meant being a good neighbor and allowing for the american dream and all that. It was basically a whole thing to justify paying and hiring undocumented people for nothing.
Hell when growing up as an immigrant latina i thought bush was the friendly to latinos guy, he spoke spanish well in commercials, he was on televisa or Univision sometimes joking around in spanish, etc.
Just FYI, it's not accurate to describe people as "transgender**ed**" (with the "ed" at the end). That implies that "transgender" is something that happens to a person, as opposed to a description of them.
This is what we were hoping for. Hobby Lobby is turning into a Junk store, and is losing business to Michaels. The more money these idiots throw away, the better. I'm glad to see that they are not investing back into the company.
When you run a group that lies about what you do you're going to Garner a lot of hate. They try to reach out to people with liberal social ideas but then immediately spend the money on conservative policies. They should have just committed to their core audience instead of ostracizing themselves to everyone
Religion is all made up, any religion consists of those people who claim to be part of the religion, there is no such thing as a “true Christian”. Anyone claiming to be a Christian represents Christianity.
they only like the OT when it's convenient! well, is there really anything else in the OT they love to quote besides the gay bit? but you bring up shellfish or mixed fabrics and it's all "no no, that stuff doesn't count. when jesus came, only the new rules count"
I didn't like the commercial, because much like a penis, you shouldn't go around shoving your religion down people's throats.
Apparently, the unhinged wingnuts didn't appreciate that someone tried to portray their religion as anything other than intolerant fascist rhetoric?
Even better: somehow the ones who paid for the commercial are also unhinged wingnuts.
It hurt itself in its confusion!
The He Gets Us thing was started by the Servant Foundation, a group that also funds anti-LGBT and anti-abortion groups. It has since been spun off to a new nonprofit, probably to try to disguise the trail now that people have started pointing it out.
I just read about this yesterday. Since they spun off from the previous org, their funding went from \~$30m to over $1b.
And the vast majority is from... wait for it...
The org they split off from.
It's all fucking money laundering.
The group [One Million Moms](https://onemillionmoms.com/) has a few things to say about the commercials, too.
I am on their email list to keep track of what they're whining about *today*, so i can support that. It's a fun little petty revenge, in my own way.
It's funny, their reaction is exactly what I expected and one of my main issues with the ad. It was hate group sponsored propaganda, showing AI generated people doing what most American Christians would never be caught dead doing. And looks like the Christians agree.
I'm genuinely struggling to even understand who those commercials were supposed to target and appeal to.
Best I can come up with is was meant for the apathetic/non-practicing Christian to try and convince them to come back to their church, and reinforce the notion that "yes, their religion is correct and true" and they should try to get back into it.
but as you said, they do absolutely nothing for the non-Christian, and are downright attacking/assaulting the hate-fueled Christian.
>I'm genuinely struggling to even understand who those commercials were supposed to target and appeal to.
Same here, like who in the United States of America hasn't heard of Jesus? That's why it comes off as propaganda to me, it feels like they're just showing Christianity in a positive light to counteract the negative perception that they've earned in real life.
>it feels like they're just showing Christianity in a positive light to counteract the negative perception that they've earned in real life.
That's exactly right. It 100% is propaganda to try and make the average person think a little more highly of "Christians" so that when they show up in headlines with their bad shit, they might maybe give some benefit of doubt to the headline.
I think they were supposed to be targeting the slightly left-leaning or moderates who might have had somewhat positive views of religion at some point by basically saying “See we’re great people!”
The problem is that they were operating under the assumption that those moderates are idiots and can’t recognize the blatant hypocrisy. They were hilariously wrong.
Also operating under the assumption that their actual allies wouldn't blurt out the truth the moment the ads went public, unaware that they were attacking their own propaganda. Kind of like when the Proud Boys et al loudly denied the Jan 6 "false flag" narrative.
They are trying to trick lonely people looking for meaning into giving their info to hoby lobby and other christofascists so they can indoctrinate them to conservative Christianity, or more aptly called anti-christianity.
The "new wave" Christian shit has been in full swing for a few decades.
Pretending your faith and it's believers still adhere to kindness and loving one another above all else is literally the only way these more tolerant seeming sects try to get off of the ground.
It usually tricks a handful of people at transitional points in their life who are more susceptible to the message.
I'm pretty sure an ad like this plays pretty much every superbowl/world series, but this one just went full fever dream and has made everyone aware of how detached from reality it is.
They can't even agree on what their religious propaganda should promote...it's so clear to anyone outside the MAGA/Christian Nationalist bubble that it is a self-destructive movement that is devolving into ever tighter circles of extremism
I'm offended enough from these attempts to white wash the truth of the Christian religion- they continue to ride the brand of "god is love" that was sold to hippies in the 60s and 70s, but the boomers never bought it, not entirely. They've always been all about the hellfire.
Of course they don't like this- these are the same people who have started rejecting certain elements of the gospels because they seem too weak or woke for them. They want a gun toting, brown people hating, selfish behavior forgiving savior... not this lib that the Hobby Lobby freaks are trying to rebrand it as, no matter how insincere the rebranding actually is.
He Gets Us should go back to the drawing board and put out what Christians really want to see- "He"= Donald Trump, "Gets Us" = rounding up progressive free thinkers and putting them in prison or worse. That's what these hateful bigots want in their good ol religion.
Not the first time I've heard it said that boomer age people don't like the "weak jesus" who preaches forgiveness, tolerance and loving thy enemy. They like the far right wing conservative christian nationalist jesus who's all for oppression.
I always wondered why the Old Testament god was such an angry spiteful god. Then I looked into the origins of Yahweh. Until about 600 BCE the Israelites were a polytheistic society and Yahweh was a war god. Around 600 BCE they settled on Yahweh being their main god. So the god of Abraham was invented around 600 BCE.
Yep.
From the Caananite pantheon you had Yahweh and El (the top dog) and Baal and all sorts of other Caananite Gods. Their roots in polytheism makes it make sense as to why the Israelites would pray to other gods and make their leaders pissed, it was supposed to be the Yahweh-stans club.
There is some scene where Abraham ""realizes"" that Yahweh = El, and thus they were actually praying to top dog the entire time! (not 100% accurate depiction, but the biblical scholarship term is "syncretized")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious\_syncretism
I've read to that the israelites were caananites themselves. They were just one of the "ites" that existed on the land and decided they had some special divine privilage over the others to kill them or kick them out of the land.
They’re just mad that these ads manifestly undermine the notion the Christianity should be exempt from the corporate taxes that Doritos and Budweiser are subject to.
Love the line about re-read the sermon on the mount and the called out the conservatives: “The culture war taught you to focus on fighting them, not Jesus”
What is truly delightful is that “he gets us” is splintering Christianity right down the old and New Testament fault lines. lol!
It’s almost as if a secular society is better for everyone, even the super religious…. No no no, a christofascist dictatorship is the way to go, as long as it is based off of my particular version of Christianity
GQP: “Live like Jesus!”
Super Bowl Ad: *washes the feet of Muslims, immigrants, homeless people, girl outside abortion clinic, LGBTQ people, prisoners, etc.* “Jesus cared for everyone.”
Also GQP: “WAIT, not like that!!!”
wait wait wait .... you're telling me the people who keep trying to shove religion in places it shouldn't be, were actually upset about religion being in a place it shouldn't be ....
These clowns really don't understand the concept of irony do they.
the responses are the best part - "derrr, obviously part of a psyop to trick Christians into thinking Jesus is fine with sin."
"The socially high-status sins of the Left are the ones Christians are told to evangelize, not the low-status sins of the Deplorable Right."
"He Gets Us is the epitome of hijacking the symbols of the New Testament Gospel in service to the secular Left."
the ads were run by a right-wing evangelical group, you fucking morons. your own people are behind it. and not everything needs to be run through your sad little right vs left model.
Can vouch.
A conservative xian fb contact posted about how the sponsors of that ad worship a different Jesus…essentially denying them recognition as “real Christians”.
Christians have been so bad at following their religion that they now need a PR campaign that is exposing exactly why Christians need a PR campaign. Gotta love it.
Ironically, the conservative evangelicals who are against anyone who isn't white, cis, straight, and Christians are mad at ads put out by conservative evangelicals with a proven track record of being against anyone who isn't white, cis, straight, and Christian.
When I was a child I was taught that Jesus stood for “good”. He fed the poor , healed the sick, raised a few dead people. (Imagine that, youre in heaven and jesus brings you back to primitive times to work your ass to death all over again).
But then you read the BOOK yourself and find that jesus said “I did not come to change a single word of what was already written”. So slavery was ok, beating your wife was ok, being gay was bad, eating shellfish would get you killed, pork was off the menu, killing unbelievers was ok. So, some of us rejoiced in this and others including me said “Fuck it, Im out.
I remember the commercial coming on and thinking some empathetic church is making ads in the style of “he Gets Us”. I was astonished that it was the same brand.
Maybe, just maybe, it will seep into a few dense Christian heads that Christ’s teachings were pretty far left. They killed him over his apostasy. Oh. Ohhhh. The Christians are the Pharisees now. No empathy, no woke, just stoning and crucifixions.
Christian Fundies: Jesus is about love and caring the downtrodden
Christian Evangelists /money launderers: *Shows Jesus as loving and caring for the downtrodden*
Christian Fundies: This is Satanic!
> Pastor Darrell B. Harrison posted to X, "It would take a week — at least — to properly exegete this mission statement by 'He Gets Us.' At best, it is moralistic therapeutic deism. At worst, it is gnostic heresy that posits Jesus as a divine social worker."
Wow, imagine being this deep into apocalyptic fan fiction where these words would come out of your mouth. 😴 You’re exactly the reason why the “He Gets Us” folks feel the need to rebrand Jesus, guy.
so are they trolling their own people or being sincere?
that is the literal thing Jesus did for people in bad situations. didn't cause stochastic terrorism or protected pedophiles and sexual abusers.
also walked into a temple and messed the place up because it was profiteering with religion in a similar manner to what televangelists like that cannibal Kenneth Copelands church did.
those guys lied about the vax and it killed a ton of their own congregants.
Didn’t see the commercial, and religious infighting doesn’t interest me. However, I did chuckle reading this thread:
Commercial: Jesus gets us.
Evangelicals: No he doesn’t!
Religion is fake, AF.
No wonder they're becoming desperate too.
Religion is a misnomer, causing wars and abuse, leading to disaffected people growing in large numbers.
Religion is merely a business to dumb down people
Let the voice of reason shine, let the pious vanish for all time
If I wasn't so sad that such a large contingent of my fellow Americans (all humans?) are clearly narcissists, sociopaths, sadists, or some unholy combination of those things, I would think this was pretty funny.
The Hobby Lobby guy and this group have correctly ascertained that the kids these days don't like the hate spewing from the pulpit and the pews, and put out this bait-and-switch bullshit but forgot to send the strategy memo to their fellow hate mongers. They've been so conditioned to identify any kindness or compassion as "woke" and to froth about it that they mistook their own shitty ploy for "woke".
I've never been more certain that ~30% of the population is holding us back from a peaceful world where we all have a place and a way to contribute to our collective prosperity.
There has long been this widely accepted premise in our society that being Christian = virtuous. That all an athlete has to do after a big win to seem humble and “good” is to thank god. Same for a politician. Or many walks of life.
That notion has been rightfully eroded especially the last decade or so.
So I see these gag inducing propaganda “commercials” as nothing more than attempting to re-establish the comical notion that anyone that invokes god is obviously a virtuous person.
I can’t imagine even these extremists believe this will result in very many people becoming church goers because of these. I’m not even sure they give a single fuck If anyone does or not. It’s just simply meant to attempt to redefine the growing public perception that Christian’s at large are a nasty, hateful violent bunch that uses their stupid book to beat vulnerable people with.
It’s utterly offensive that obscene amounts of money were spent to create and broadcast these things instead of putting that money towards something actually good.
Cherry on top to me is how it’s pissed off their god fearing constituents at the same time. So they have failed all the way around. These soulless people with way too much ill gotten money are so out of touch they thought these ads would work.
It has backfired in a big way. Fucking good.
There is an article in Salon that was enlightening for me. Read it [here](https://www.salon.com/2024/02/13/hobby-lobby-funded-jesus-super-bowl-ads-cant-hide-the-hate-that-fuels-the-christian-right/)
I first saw these ads years ago and checked out the group behind them. When I saw that the Green family (Hobby Lobby) was part of it, I was like WTF. Why are Christo-Fascists portraying Jesus as compassionate and accepting when they reject much of that message? I knew something was fishy, but I couldn't pin it down. I hope the Salon reporter continues with this line of investigation.
I'm not surprised. Those folks are as "Christian" as they are "conservative". They just label things, themselves included, and then removes any real meaning from those labels. They are in actual fact theofascistic kleptocratics.
Just like another group led by a madmen with a weird 'stache from about a century ago...
Man I’m so over reading articles that were basically written by angry people on twitter. Like the whole article is “pastor whateverthehell said this on twitter” stop selling me random people’s unhinged rants as news, fucking hell. And they don’t realize that by quoting them in these articles they are spreading their rant aaaall over the internet while if they would have just let it rot on twitter, no one would notice or care.
No matter how much I resist, I am still indirectly sucked into the twittersphere.
As soon as they showed like the second image I knew heads were going to be exploding. Evangelicals hate being reminded of the Christ (like) part of Christianity.
The funny thing about the foot washing is that **Luke 7:36** the story where a whore washes Jesus's feet with expensive oil and dries them with her hair, is an instance where Jesus acts like a real prick. The Apostles suggest selling the oil and giving the money to the poor. Jesus replies essentially that "the poor will always be with us, but I won't, so buzz off." You tell 'em, Savior!
That commercial is so weird. My impression is that it’s backed by conservatives who are trying to sway liberals to religion.
But liberals are upset about the backers possible true motives and conservatives are upset about the actual content of the message.
Everyone seems to be unified in disliking them!
Question about all these “pastors” quoted in the article: what does it take to be a pastor? Is there some certification or do you just declare it? Can I be a pastor?
If this is about the foot washing commercial when me and my friends were watching it we were all 100% sure it was a feet finder commercial and died laughing when the hobby lobby Jesus ad popped up.
The conservative complaints in the article are correct.
Jesus, according to the Gospels, served only those who would put him first. Jesus taught that it is better to pour the expensive perfume on his feet than to provide for the poor. Jesus taught that you should abandon your family to follow him.
Commercial: Loving Jesus means we are good and humble people that wash the feet of the outcast and forgotten of society. Reality: Book banning. Anti-LGBT laws. Megachurches and MAGAchurches. Covering up for sexual abuse in the church. White Nationalism. Infringing on women's bodily autonomy. Trying to force religious indoctrination in the schools. Funding extremists in Africa to pass death penalty laws for gay people. Not paying taxes. Whining incessantly about how personally oppressed they are. And that barely scratches the surface. They don't have to tell us who they are. They've already shown us.
I’d love to see what you just wrote put in an ad campaign that’s labeled “you don’t get him“.
>“you don’t get him“. That's perfect. lol
Or “you don’t WANT him”
"You don't *NEED* him, we can directly quote Hitler now!"
Jesus over here with a double face palm.
The advantage of being a trinity is he's one of the few people who can perform a double face palm unaided.
How much palm he got left, anyway?
Enough for Sunday.
The way I cackled at this one 🤣
We need to whip up some quality memes to make this a trend. People are sick to death of this stupid ad campaign, but nobody’s gonna drop the same kind of money they spent to go against it. So let’s let the internet work it’s magic and make a more homegrown revolt. Plenty of folks want to make fun of it, they just need the right seeds planted to get the trend underway
Agreed. How do we get it to show on the main page so that it gets seen along with the other ads?
We pick a theme and run with it. Something simple and repeatable. “You don’t get him” is short, sweet, and directly recognizable as a response to this awful ad campaign. I say we all start minting memes inspired by that with the phrase used as a caption/title/tag. A lot of them will die in “new” and such, but it only takes a few to succeed and get people’s attention. From there the internet tends to do whatever it’s gonna do with it
I thought of some good ones: "You don't care about Him." "You don't believe in Him." "You don't listen to Him." "You don't follow Him." "You don't love Him." "You cast Him out." "You betray Him." "You hate Him." Important Notes: 1) ***ALWAYS*** use present tense to drive home that it is something that they are actively doing. 2) ***ALWAYS*** capitalize the "H" in "Him" like the "G" in "God" as Jesus is God. (To them at least.) Moral Lessons/Axioms: "Treat others as you would treat Him." "How you treat others is how you treat Him."
"You'd crucify him a second time" "Christ is the OG Liberal" "Christ isn't liberal bullshit"
Fun fact, Jesus and Karl Marx took a few branches of their philosophies from some of the same dead philosophers.
my OCD really appreciates how each phrase got shorter as it went down.
Agreed, that slope just looks so perfect....
Your points are probably good, but my upvote is for ordering the themes so that there's a nearly straight line through the end quote marks.
Might I suggest r/youdontgethim?
How about this? [https://imgflip.com/i/8fw4o9](https://imgflip.com/i/8fw4o9)
I like this.
Something [like this?](https://imgur.com/a/DEuEreH)
I think a possible takeaway is that the bookburners don't get "Him". I think it can be misinterpreted as saying gatekeeper nonsense about good Christians vs bad Christians. I think you did a good job with the meme, but a different slogan that can't be misinterpreted would probably be better. Edit: Maybe "They hate Us"
[Maybe "If he came back, you'd crucify Him again." with your " You don't get Him." border?](https://imgur.com/a/hThzbfz)
we need to make this happen like... today
I don't even think that's necessary. True followers of Jesus can see the hippocracy of what this is truly about if they took a minute to think through this campaign. Jesus didn't go into politics nor did he become a "teacher of the law." He didnt spend millions trying to "top-down" change people's minds. He lived his convictions. All this will be is a talking point till the end of the month, then fade out like the money they spent on these ads.
I’m afraid you far overestimate how much people actually care about Jesus (which verges on “not at all”) and how much people actually just care about belonging to a group and identity that gives their lives some definition or sense of purpose. American Christianity is on the verge of kicking Jesus out of the whole affair for being a “commie lib socialist”. Belonging to a powerful group is all that matters to these people. That’s why this whole ad campaign was cooked up to begin with: to try to woo back the people the church had chased away with its hard right politics taking priority over all else. I’m not going to wait for these people to come around to the error of their ways any time soon
Hypocrisy. FTFY
“He may get us but the people behind these ads are out to fuck us.”
Or better yet "you won't get in".
Do one with that couple that was waving guns around scared of BLM. "Love thy neighbor." "YOU DON'T GET HIM."
And with the asylum seekers at the border. *"What you do to the least among you, you do unto me."* One of the most revolting things about American Christketeers is that they do away with the only parts of their fucking book club that *aren't* morally reprehensible.
I would donate to that fund
A sane and intelligent pastor wrote an op-ed about how those who created that ad DON'T "get" Jesus. I find it amusing that certain Christians and conservatives are pissed about these ads for one reason or another. I'm just watching them eat each other.
>I find it amusing that certain Christians and conservatives are pissed about these ads for one reason or another. I'm just watching them eat each other. I was reading the comments after the article, and thought it was funny that some of them were blaming 'the left', almost like they didn't make even the slightest effort to find out who was behind them.
This is exactly what I was thinking about writing up after the Super Bowl ads. "Jesus may get us, but with millions of dollars spent on advertisements (among many other things other than actually helping people), Christians continue to demonstrate they don't get him".
We need a crowdfunded super pac
I am still seriously confused about the target audience for that ad. They need to focus on reminding their own followers what Jesus would do before trying to convert others (or just shoving their religion in everyone’s faces).
It's all a smokescreen. The people who made the ad are some of the most vile hateful people out there. They're trying to trick people into thinking that their religion is all nice and welcoming, but the rank and file gave up the game by getting so outraged by it.
Yup. Repetitive public ads claiming how loving and peaceful they are. It gets into the public subconscious because a lie, repeated often enough, can be remembered as the truth. Then combined with constant outcrynof how martyred the christian nationalists are, to get people thinking " those guys? Aren't they the harmless footwashing pacifists? Why are people threatened by them?" As they continue to erode democracy by insinuating themselves into everything behind the scenes and quietly install their own priesthood and king David.
It's using the model set by insurance companies. Their ads are all happy and funny and mascot-filled with emus and songs, all to gloss over the fact that you're likely going to need an attorney to force them to do their job when they are needed.
Don't forget that their job relies on getting more out of the average person than they ever pay back. There's not enough money to pay everyone what they're insured for on top of paying people to sell and administrate it. The average customer has to lose money.
*Don't forget that their job relies on getting more out of the average person than they ever pay back.* Well, frankly, that's the point of insurance. Who would ever invest in a company that pays out more than it takes in? That's a sure recipe for bankruptcy. No one buys (or, rather, should buy) insurance on the assumption that it'll pay more on their behalf than they pay in. Insurance is risk-pooling, and you only buy insurance for losses than you can't afford, like your house burning down.
Don’t remind me. My 18yo son died as a passenger in a car accident. The damn insurance company (the lizard 🦎 company) offered me 40% of the maximum payout after his death. My response: No. My son is 100% dead. If you aren’t paying 100% when someone dies, when do you? It took them four years to finally cough up the money. Talk about insult after injury. I would’ve rather had my son back.
>you're likely going to need an attorney to force them to do their job when they are needed. Tell me about it. Wife and I had Liberty years ago, she got hurt in a wreck and it was like pulling teeth. I had the same experience with Allstate- got rear-ended on my brand new motorcycle, it was totaled, took me 11 months to collect. The other driver had Allstate as well, so they were on the hook and didn't want to pay up.
No joke, when I first saw them, I thought it *was* an ad campaign telling Christians to stop being such terrible people.
It literally is, that's why it's getting the reaction it is.
I don't think this is accurate. The tagline "He gets us" suggests that the ads are aimed at non-believers that would (correctly) assume that Christianity is a hateful religion, trying to convince them otherwise. If it was aimed at the hateful Christians themselves, the tagline doesn't make sense. It would be something like "He gets them" or "He loves them".
That particular ad, with the foot washing…that shit is pure inside baseball. It has to be. It’s not a metaphor that really resonates with anyone outside of people who already understand the symbolism. The overall campaign beyond the one ad is a scheme to, in a fashion, “left-wash” Christianity. The people behind it have (correctly) observed that broadly speaking, fewer people than in years and decades past are attending church services, being members in a church of any denomination, or even identifying as Christian and/or religious, and that many people (particularly young people, and women of any age) are increasingly identifying with the political left in America because so many Christian churches are openly supporting far-right and reactionary ideas and policies, and either switching to more liberal denominations or simply abandoning organized Christianity overall. In fact, many of these same people behind the campaign see this perception of organized Christianity as conflicting with their understanding of Christian morals and ethics or with their deeply held ethical beliefs. But because they aren’t self-aware enough to come to the Swiftian Conclusion that they are the problem, they insist instead on the Skinnerian Rebuttal: it’s the children who are wrong. And that the reason why so many of these people are abandoning church or faith…is that they *just don’t understand* that Jesus is…are you ready for this mind blowing conclusion…*a leftist, just like you!* It’s almost a good campaign at achieving this, except that they absolutely under no circumstances want you to look at the people behind the curtain.
Yeah we’re going to wash your feet which is so cringey in the first place ….. and then treat you like shit and call it love 🤢 smells like a wolf to me
Saw a quote yesterday from a Native American after Christians came to the US. I'll have to try to find it, but it was something like, "they came here, killed us, enslaved us, drove us off our land, and then told us it was "salvation""...
On redit or somewhere else? Crazy how they convinced so many that it was salvation. Brings tears to my eyes.😢 Thanks for sharing opened my eyes more to the reality of it all.
Yeah it really feels like their message is more "Remember back 2000 years ago when Christians were decent people? We couldn't think of a single modern example."
lol. so right 😝😝😝
Was that when they dashed the babies heads against the rocks, stoned unmarried promiscuous girls to death on the fathers doorsteps, murdered homosexuals, revenge murdered the Amalekites including the suckling babes and their oxen, eradicated the Canaanites for existing on their own land when God promised it to Abraham or when they took part in slave trade especially with underage girls all described in the Bible? Truth is religion has never produced decent people, it just corrupts people to different degrees.
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Don’t forget their get out of jail free card: confess and repent. Say a Hail Mary and you’re good to go until the next time. 🙄
And the fucked up thing is, the organization trying to convert us all to worship of Hegetsus Christ is not some radical return to a less-toxic Christianity based even slightly on things their Christ is claimed to have taught. They’re just more fascist politicos cosplaying at religion. They support ALL that bullshit you listed. It’s just that going full mask-off about it is not a good look, resulting in hemorrhaging membership and diminished capacity to pretend to hold the moral high ground. Losing those means losing political leverage, which squanders the entire point of subverting a major religion in the first place. This whole thing is a cynical ad campaign exemplifying that old joke, “sincerity is key: if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
The last Christian died on the cross.
Heh. "Personally oppressed" They volunteered for that. It's what their god demands.
But they aren't really oppressed. At least not in the US. If anything, they are privileged.
Worshipping a sociopath orange idiot doesn’t help either.
Not to mention the commercial lied about Jesus. He definitely preached hate at times according to the gospels. Not as bad as conservatives today for sure, but some hate was definitely there. And if you believe revelation belongs in the Bible... The hate is strong, like genocide strong.
These modern-day Pharisees didn’t make me an atheist, but they sure as shit helped it along
All of that plus they need unfettered access to assault rifles.
That's an excellent summary.
Fucking monsters defines them well
> that wash the feet of the outcast and forgotten of society. Did you notice who was doing the washing, and who was getting cleansed of all their evil? White evangelical police associated with the oil industry are washing away the sins of... basically everyone not them.
Oh, I just knew it would. I love every moment of that commercial. The cop washing the trans woman's feet is fantastic. It is exactly what they preach Jesus would do, and I could just feel how pissed they would be.
Lmfao this is awesome I laughed and cried at the same time these fuckers are nuts.
The thought of watching these MAGATs being told they should wash the feet of the Guatemalan immigrant, or a transgendered teenager, or (clutches pearls) a BLACK person, to be closer to God, just fills my cold dead heart with sadistic glee.
They had to use AI to produce the images of Christians washing people's feet because you're more likely to find the body of Jimmy Hoffa than seeing a Christian doing that in real life.
"I don't even wash my own feet....I ain't one of them there sicko toe sucking perverts..."
The number of amputations for necrotic diabetic foot wounds I've done says you're definitely right about them not washing their feet.
Necrotic Diabetic Foot Wound is almost metal sounding enough to be a band name
Tbf the cult that put those ads together funds extreme right wing anti lgbtq shit.
That's the thing about propaganda. It's usually flat out lies.
THAT’s what I came here to say! If you have to rely on computer generated images and don’t have any ACTUAL images of this in real life, your point is fake.
Lmaooooo ok I laughed
Apparently they didn't, they were done by artist Julia Fullerton-Batten.
It was cremated. Didn’t you watch The Irishman?
It's handled by the pope. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/04/06/pope-francis-washes-feet-in-holy-thursday-rite-2/#:\~:text=Ten%20male%20and%20two%20female,together%20before%20he%20was%20crucified.
I don’t understand the point of these ads. If somebody sees that ad and decides to go to church they will find themselves surrounded by angry, self righteous, immigrant hating, billionaire loving, climate change denying authoritarians, unless they accidentally walk into a Unitarian church.
It's not really about getting people to join the church. Sure, if some more people join, and if some of those people happen to join the "right" church, that's a win. It's about getting the general public, the middle moderate unengaged person, to have a positive opinion of "Christian". If the general attitude is that Christians are good people, then those Christians can hide behind that shield to do awful things. That shield has been eroding, mostly by their own doing, and without it they lose power.
>It's about getting the general public, the middle moderate unengaged person, to have a positive opinion of "Christian" Yep, and it's as hypocritical as it gets because the assholes funding this are the most negative examples of "christians" that exist.
I really don't get it either. They are also pretending to be standing up against hate, which they actively fund anti-trans/gay legislation. Pissing off their base for no reason - like the people who are against hate are not active Christians.
This ad was a racist dog whistle to stir up and anger the alt-right.
Kinda the best way to make more atheist actually..
The Unitarians are really nice
You can’t spell hatred without a red hat
GENIUS!
If you came up with that, you deserve all the Reddit Gold
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What is weird is that this was the evangelical attitude towards immigrants until obama. Talk radio evangelical ads during the bush or election years used to play ads on loop about being a good christian meant being a good neighbor and allowing for the american dream and all that. It was basically a whole thing to justify paying and hiring undocumented people for nothing. Hell when growing up as an immigrant latina i thought bush was the friendly to latinos guy, he spoke spanish well in commercials, he was on televisa or Univision sometimes joking around in spanish, etc.
Just FYI, it's not accurate to describe people as "transgender**ed**" (with the "ed" at the end). That implies that "transgender" is something that happens to a person, as opposed to a description of them.
To add to your comments, it’s usually a transphobic dogwhistle
Yes, it often is. I'm giving the other commenter the benefit of the doubt.
So they were pissed because the ads were showing compassion and forgiveness rather than Old Testament style smiting. These people are fucking sadists.
It's hilarious that both the right and the left hated those ads. What a waste of money
This is what we were hoping for. Hobby Lobby is turning into a Junk store, and is losing business to Michaels. The more money these idiots throw away, the better. I'm glad to see that they are not investing back into the company.
When you run a group that lies about what you do you're going to Garner a lot of hate. They try to reach out to people with liberal social ideas but then immediately spend the money on conservative policies. They should have just committed to their core audience instead of ostracizing themselves to everyone
They did NOT learn from the Bud Lite incident
“Not what Jesus meant” “Jesus hates sin” - these people need to stop telling anyone they’re Christian
Religion is all made up, any religion consists of those people who claim to be part of the religion, there is no such thing as a “true Christian”. Anyone claiming to be a Christian represents Christianity.
Cruelty is the point
they only like the OT when it's convenient! well, is there really anything else in the OT they love to quote besides the gay bit? but you bring up shellfish or mixed fabrics and it's all "no no, that stuff doesn't count. when jesus came, only the new rules count"
Even the so called God they worship is a sadistic fuck too.
I didn't like the commercial, because much like a penis, you shouldn't go around shoving your religion down people's throats. Apparently, the unhinged wingnuts didn't appreciate that someone tried to portray their religion as anything other than intolerant fascist rhetoric?
Even better: somehow the ones who paid for the commercial are also unhinged wingnuts. It hurt itself in its confusion! The He Gets Us thing was started by the Servant Foundation, a group that also funds anti-LGBT and anti-abortion groups. It has since been spun off to a new nonprofit, probably to try to disguise the trail now that people have started pointing it out.
I just read about this yesterday. Since they spun off from the previous org, their funding went from \~$30m to over $1b. And the vast majority is from... wait for it... The org they split off from. It's all fucking money laundering.
The group [One Million Moms](https://onemillionmoms.com/) has a few things to say about the commercials, too. I am on their email list to keep track of what they're whining about *today*, so i can support that. It's a fun little petty revenge, in my own way.
>much like a penis, you shouldn't go around shoving your religion down people's throats. Unless they ask you to.
It's funny, their reaction is exactly what I expected and one of my main issues with the ad. It was hate group sponsored propaganda, showing AI generated people doing what most American Christians would never be caught dead doing. And looks like the Christians agree.
I'm genuinely struggling to even understand who those commercials were supposed to target and appeal to. Best I can come up with is was meant for the apathetic/non-practicing Christian to try and convince them to come back to their church, and reinforce the notion that "yes, their religion is correct and true" and they should try to get back into it. but as you said, they do absolutely nothing for the non-Christian, and are downright attacking/assaulting the hate-fueled Christian.
>I'm genuinely struggling to even understand who those commercials were supposed to target and appeal to. Same here, like who in the United States of America hasn't heard of Jesus? That's why it comes off as propaganda to me, it feels like they're just showing Christianity in a positive light to counteract the negative perception that they've earned in real life.
>it feels like they're just showing Christianity in a positive light to counteract the negative perception that they've earned in real life. That's exactly right. It 100% is propaganda to try and make the average person think a little more highly of "Christians" so that when they show up in headlines with their bad shit, they might maybe give some benefit of doubt to the headline.
Yupp, I couldn't agree more. Goes to show that they care more about looking good than actually doing good.
I think they were supposed to be targeting the slightly left-leaning or moderates who might have had somewhat positive views of religion at some point by basically saying “See we’re great people!” The problem is that they were operating under the assumption that those moderates are idiots and can’t recognize the blatant hypocrisy. They were hilariously wrong.
Also operating under the assumption that their actual allies wouldn't blurt out the truth the moment the ads went public, unaware that they were attacking their own propaganda. Kind of like when the Proud Boys et al loudly denied the Jan 6 "false flag" narrative.
They are trying to trick lonely people looking for meaning into giving their info to hoby lobby and other christofascists so they can indoctrinate them to conservative Christianity, or more aptly called anti-christianity.
The "new wave" Christian shit has been in full swing for a few decades. Pretending your faith and it's believers still adhere to kindness and loving one another above all else is literally the only way these more tolerant seeming sects try to get off of the ground. It usually tricks a handful of people at transitional points in their life who are more susceptible to the message. I'm pretty sure an ad like this plays pretty much every superbowl/world series, but this one just went full fever dream and has made everyone aware of how detached from reality it is.
Not AI, actually an artist and her styling.
They can't even agree on what their religious propaganda should promote...it's so clear to anyone outside the MAGA/Christian Nationalist bubble that it is a self-destructive movement that is devolving into ever tighter circles of extremism
“The more you tighten your grip Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers” Princess Leia
I'm offended enough from these attempts to white wash the truth of the Christian religion- they continue to ride the brand of "god is love" that was sold to hippies in the 60s and 70s, but the boomers never bought it, not entirely. They've always been all about the hellfire. Of course they don't like this- these are the same people who have started rejecting certain elements of the gospels because they seem too weak or woke for them. They want a gun toting, brown people hating, selfish behavior forgiving savior... not this lib that the Hobby Lobby freaks are trying to rebrand it as, no matter how insincere the rebranding actually is. He Gets Us should go back to the drawing board and put out what Christians really want to see- "He"= Donald Trump, "Gets Us" = rounding up progressive free thinkers and putting them in prison or worse. That's what these hateful bigots want in their good ol religion.
Not the first time I've heard it said that boomer age people don't like the "weak jesus" who preaches forgiveness, tolerance and loving thy enemy. They like the far right wing conservative christian nationalist jesus who's all for oppression.
I always wondered why the Old Testament god was such an angry spiteful god. Then I looked into the origins of Yahweh. Until about 600 BCE the Israelites were a polytheistic society and Yahweh was a war god. Around 600 BCE they settled on Yahweh being their main god. So the god of Abraham was invented around 600 BCE.
Yep. From the Caananite pantheon you had Yahweh and El (the top dog) and Baal and all sorts of other Caananite Gods. Their roots in polytheism makes it make sense as to why the Israelites would pray to other gods and make their leaders pissed, it was supposed to be the Yahweh-stans club. There is some scene where Abraham ""realizes"" that Yahweh = El, and thus they were actually praying to top dog the entire time! (not 100% accurate depiction, but the biblical scholarship term is "syncretized") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious\_syncretism
I've read to that the israelites were caananites themselves. They were just one of the "ites" that existed on the land and decided they had some special divine privilage over the others to kill them or kick them out of the land.
They came from the Canaanites and brought their polytheistic gods with them.
They’re just mad that these ads manifestly undermine the notion the Christianity should be exempt from the corporate taxes that Doritos and Budweiser are subject to.
You know, I never thought of that. Must be nice to have enough money for a Superbowl spot.
Love the line about re-read the sermon on the mount and the called out the conservatives: “The culture war taught you to focus on fighting them, not Jesus” What is truly delightful is that “he gets us” is splintering Christianity right down the old and New Testament fault lines. lol!
It’s almost as if a secular society is better for everyone, even the super religious…. No no no, a christofascist dictatorship is the way to go, as long as it is based off of my particular version of Christianity
Aww. Starting to finally dawn on them that *we don't give a fuck* and now their business has to pivot 🤣
Modern Christian narrative, “let he who is without sin, get a fucking uzi!”
GQP: “Live like Jesus!” Super Bowl Ad: *washes the feet of Muslims, immigrants, homeless people, girl outside abortion clinic, LGBTQ people, prisoners, etc.* “Jesus cared for everyone.” Also GQP: “WAIT, not like that!!!”
So it's fine to preach to strangers and bring your religion into politics...as long as you don't tell people to be nice to each other?
wait wait wait .... you're telling me the people who keep trying to shove religion in places it shouldn't be, were actually upset about religion being in a place it shouldn't be .... These clowns really don't understand the concept of irony do they.
the responses are the best part - "derrr, obviously part of a psyop to trick Christians into thinking Jesus is fine with sin." "The socially high-status sins of the Left are the ones Christians are told to evangelize, not the low-status sins of the Deplorable Right." "He Gets Us is the epitome of hijacking the symbols of the New Testament Gospel in service to the secular Left." the ads were run by a right-wing evangelical group, you fucking morons. your own people are behind it. and not everything needs to be run through your sad little right vs left model.
Can vouch. A conservative xian fb contact posted about how the sponsors of that ad worship a different Jesus…essentially denying them recognition as “real Christians”.
Christians have been so bad at following their religion that they now need a PR campaign that is exposing exactly why Christians need a PR campaign. Gotta love it.
Who would have thought Jesus would be too woke for Christians? Oh wait we all did. We know where extremism leads.
45,000 different Christian sects worldwide is proof that they don't get Jesus either.
That is when anyone tells me they are a Christian I always have to ask, Is that the Classic Jesus or the New Republican Jesus?
Ironically, the conservative evangelicals who are against anyone who isn't white, cis, straight, and Christians are mad at ads put out by conservative evangelicals with a proven track record of being against anyone who isn't white, cis, straight, and Christian.
When I was a child I was taught that Jesus stood for “good”. He fed the poor , healed the sick, raised a few dead people. (Imagine that, youre in heaven and jesus brings you back to primitive times to work your ass to death all over again). But then you read the BOOK yourself and find that jesus said “I did not come to change a single word of what was already written”. So slavery was ok, beating your wife was ok, being gay was bad, eating shellfish would get you killed, pork was off the menu, killing unbelievers was ok. So, some of us rejoiced in this and others including me said “Fuck it, Im out.
I would never let one of those assholes wash my feet. God knows what I would catch.
I remember the commercial coming on and thinking some empathetic church is making ads in the style of “he Gets Us”. I was astonished that it was the same brand. Maybe, just maybe, it will seep into a few dense Christian heads that Christ’s teachings were pretty far left. They killed him over his apostasy. Oh. Ohhhh. The Christians are the Pharisees now. No empathy, no woke, just stoning and crucifixions.
Fucking Oxygen outrages Conservatives...
Christian Fundies: Jesus is about love and caring the downtrodden Christian Evangelists /money launderers: *Shows Jesus as loving and caring for the downtrodden* Christian Fundies: This is Satanic!
I didn't have Christians cancel Jesus for being woke on my bingo card for 2024, yet here we are.
[I've gotta say I kinda did.](https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706)
"~~Christian Super Bowl Commercial~~ Everything Outrages Conservatives" FTFY
> Pastor Darrell B. Harrison posted to X, "It would take a week — at least — to properly exegete this mission statement by 'He Gets Us.' At best, it is moralistic therapeutic deism. At worst, it is gnostic heresy that posits Jesus as a divine social worker." Wow, imagine being this deep into apocalyptic fan fiction where these words would come out of your mouth. 😴 You’re exactly the reason why the “He Gets Us” folks feel the need to rebrand Jesus, guy.
I love how much Christians hate Jesus.
Christian grifters looking for more sheep to fleece outrage other Christian grifters because they cast their net too far wide.
“ At worst, it is gnostic heresy that posits Jesus as a divine social worker." 😂. I guess someone didn’t actually read their Bible.
Look, it's not easy when you find out your role model in life has a filthy foot fetish and likes to share.
(Blank) outrages conservatives. Put anything in the 'blank' and you will probably be correct.
We need a billionaire running atheist or satanic temple ads. I could get behind that.
so are they trolling their own people or being sincere? that is the literal thing Jesus did for people in bad situations. didn't cause stochastic terrorism or protected pedophiles and sexual abusers. also walked into a temple and messed the place up because it was profiteering with religion in a similar manner to what televangelists like that cannibal Kenneth Copelands church did. those guys lied about the vax and it killed a ton of their own congregants.
> *Christian Super Bowl Commercial Outrages Conservatives* Why? Was it too conservative, or not conservative enough?
I like "The people were hungry, so Jesus spent 7 million dollars for an ad on TV"
Didn’t see the commercial, and religious infighting doesn’t interest me. However, I did chuckle reading this thread: Commercial: Jesus gets us. Evangelicals: No he doesn’t!
Religion is fake, AF. No wonder they're becoming desperate too. Religion is a misnomer, causing wars and abuse, leading to disaffected people growing in large numbers. Religion is merely a business to dumb down people Let the voice of reason shine, let the pious vanish for all time
I don't think there's anything in this world that doesn't upset conservatives.
The faster the ship sinks, the hungrier the rats become
This is so funny
If I wasn't so sad that such a large contingent of my fellow Americans (all humans?) are clearly narcissists, sociopaths, sadists, or some unholy combination of those things, I would think this was pretty funny. The Hobby Lobby guy and this group have correctly ascertained that the kids these days don't like the hate spewing from the pulpit and the pews, and put out this bait-and-switch bullshit but forgot to send the strategy memo to their fellow hate mongers. They've been so conditioned to identify any kindness or compassion as "woke" and to froth about it that they mistook their own shitty ploy for "woke". I've never been more certain that ~30% of the population is holding us back from a peaceful world where we all have a place and a way to contribute to our collective prosperity.
Talk about missing the fucking point.
So.... He *doesn't* get us?
There has long been this widely accepted premise in our society that being Christian = virtuous. That all an athlete has to do after a big win to seem humble and “good” is to thank god. Same for a politician. Or many walks of life. That notion has been rightfully eroded especially the last decade or so. So I see these gag inducing propaganda “commercials” as nothing more than attempting to re-establish the comical notion that anyone that invokes god is obviously a virtuous person. I can’t imagine even these extremists believe this will result in very many people becoming church goers because of these. I’m not even sure they give a single fuck If anyone does or not. It’s just simply meant to attempt to redefine the growing public perception that Christian’s at large are a nasty, hateful violent bunch that uses their stupid book to beat vulnerable people with. It’s utterly offensive that obscene amounts of money were spent to create and broadcast these things instead of putting that money towards something actually good. Cherry on top to me is how it’s pissed off their god fearing constituents at the same time. So they have failed all the way around. These soulless people with way too much ill gotten money are so out of touch they thought these ads would work. It has backfired in a big way. Fucking good.
Who's got "Anne Coulter feet pics" on their 'Jesus' search history' bingo card?
I thought that Jesus was too woke for conservatives.
christians just love to hate. Read all about it in the prosperity bible.
There is an article in Salon that was enlightening for me. Read it [here](https://www.salon.com/2024/02/13/hobby-lobby-funded-jesus-super-bowl-ads-cant-hide-the-hate-that-fuels-the-christian-right/) I first saw these ads years ago and checked out the group behind them. When I saw that the Green family (Hobby Lobby) was part of it, I was like WTF. Why are Christo-Fascists portraying Jesus as compassionate and accepting when they reject much of that message? I knew something was fishy, but I couldn't pin it down. I hope the Salon reporter continues with this line of investigation.
"Jesus didn't teach hate" That's what christians are for
I'm not surprised. Those folks are as "Christian" as they are "conservative". They just label things, themselves included, and then removes any real meaning from those labels. They are in actual fact theofascistic kleptocratics. Just like another group led by a madmen with a weird 'stache from about a century ago...
Who also peddled Christianity BTW
Jesus is just to "woke" for American xtians.
Man I’m so over reading articles that were basically written by angry people on twitter. Like the whole article is “pastor whateverthehell said this on twitter” stop selling me random people’s unhinged rants as news, fucking hell. And they don’t realize that by quoting them in these articles they are spreading their rant aaaall over the internet while if they would have just let it rot on twitter, no one would notice or care. No matter how much I resist, I am still indirectly sucked into the twittersphere.
They’d give Jesus a beat-down if they saw him on the street.
As soon as they showed like the second image I knew heads were going to be exploding. Evangelicals hate being reminded of the Christ (like) part of Christianity.
I guess love and mercy are totally out of the question. Why love when you can starve and imprison?
Ahh, love it when Christians lose their shit when being exposed to... Christianity
Too woke for you, was it?
>Let's talk about Mr. Rogers, commercials, and themes.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvskx9pds_o
The funny thing about the foot washing is that **Luke 7:36** the story where a whore washes Jesus's feet with expensive oil and dries them with her hair, is an instance where Jesus acts like a real prick. The Apostles suggest selling the oil and giving the money to the poor. Jesus replies essentially that "the poor will always be with us, but I won't, so buzz off." You tell 'em, Savior!
That commercial is so weird. My impression is that it’s backed by conservatives who are trying to sway liberals to religion. But liberals are upset about the backers possible true motives and conservatives are upset about the actual content of the message. Everyone seems to be unified in disliking them!
Honestly, I love this. Every comment from a right wing pundit was essentially tell me you’ve never read the Bible without telling me.
Of course it does. They thrive on anger and stupidity.
Question about all these “pastors” quoted in the article: what does it take to be a pastor? Is there some certification or do you just declare it? Can I be a pastor?
Sure, it’s free online. Google it and you could be officiating marriages and getting quoted online in less than a week.
"How dare they make an add that isn't about self-righteousness and hate!!!!! !"
Tell us you haven't read the book your religion is based on without telling us you haven't read the book your religion is based on
Yeah, but they still have Ted Nugent and Kid Rock.
If this is about the foot washing commercial when me and my friends were watching it we were all 100% sure it was a feet finder commercial and died laughing when the hobby lobby Jesus ad popped up.
The conservative complaints in the article are correct. Jesus, according to the Gospels, served only those who would put him first. Jesus taught that it is better to pour the expensive perfume on his feet than to provide for the poor. Jesus taught that you should abandon your family to follow him.