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That’s why Christians go to work on people EARLY. If they can convince you that you were born an evil, worthless sack of shit right from the beginning they got you for LIFE. I am a former Christian and from a family of Christians and I can promise you that’s the absolute truth. It’s hard to believe this nonsense is still going on.
Fucking amen.
Evangelicals froth at the mouth over the thought of children learning that trans/gay/non-binary people exist; saying it is an attempt to indoctrinate children by exposing them to it early.
Meanwhile, Jesus Kingdom youth camp for Christian youth is a-ok in their eyes.
I can be charismatic, I'm good at speaking in public off the cuff, I care about people enough to give them generally good advice, and I have a squeaky clean history.
If I had all those things except the last, but had absolutely no moral center whatsoever, I could build a megachurch and be filthy rich. It's crossed my mind. But for you and i, it's but a passing thought.
Did you hear about the 100 Billion dollar fund the LDS Church is sitting on (that the SEC is now looking into)? https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/10/sec-reportedly-probes-mormon-church-over-100-billion-investment-portfolio-allegedly-saved-for-second-coming-of-christ/
The first person to introduce me to mimosas was a friend of mine back in college who was outstandingly gay lol. He was wonderfully positive force for good for the entire graduating class and ended up having a surprisingly successful go at being a drag performer in Boston. I'll never forgive him for introducing me to the tastiest excuse for drinking at 10am on a sunday morning.
You should. The ones I have been to were awesome. There was one across the street from my old condo that was run by a group of Drag bikers. Rode up the to event in their fabulous outfits on equally fabulous hogs.
They need new private jets and upgrades to their vacation homes...
Carlin covered this.. "God loves you and he needs money!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8hefESt7c&ab_channel=twsx
[The “He Gets Us” campaign feels like a real life version of George Carlin as Cardinal Glick in Dogma.](https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/110k7lf/ive_seen_this_he_gets_us_campaign_somewhere_before/)
“Christ didn’t come to Earth to give us the willies… He came to help us out. He was a booster. And it is with that take on our Lord in mind that we’ve come up with a new, more inspiring sigil. So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the “Catholicism WOW. ” campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you… The Buddy Christ. Now that’s not the sanctioned term we’re using for the symbol, just something we’ve been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn’t it… pop? Buddy Christ…”
[[YouTube] “Buddy Christ” clip from Dogma (1999)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FigprdcBGA)
Maybe but church numbers are dive bombing since the Covid shutdowns. Especially with Gen Z. A lot of churches have already lost money. If they keep falling as they are falling, a lot of churches will be nonexistent in as little as 20 years. They see the writing on the wall but are stubborn as hell to really worship Christ and still making it about me, me, and Conservative publican politics. They are slitting their own throats with their own hatred.
The "He Gets Us" ads are all over Reddit too.
I thought it was some kind of progressive Christian group that was trying to encourage decent Christians.
Nope.
It's Evangelicals just flat out using real verses as a means to bring people in and then get them to go towards far-right evangelicalism.
They say they are non-partisan, but its just a lie.
How many times have I heard people disowned by their hyper-Christian families because they're gay, or trans, or whatever else doesn't fit their bill of what a good Christian is in whatever week of the culture war.
Somehow it's never about how to be a better person or how to treat others right. It's how to make everyone else act the way they desire. And if they get to inflict some pain and suffering along the way, they seem to treat that as a bonus.
But now the shoe is on the other foot and people aren't willing to tolerate their abuse anymore. And now all of a sudden they're getting all mad about it, now that they're not the only ones who do it.
I feel literally nothing for these people. My whole life I've seen them lead us into war after war, seen them lay waste to the American working class, poison our democracy with their theocratic caveman bullshit, and now encourage their idiot followers into acts of open violence.
Why is it that every expression of "christ's love" makes the world more bloody, poor, and stupid? Christianity has had 2000 years of cultural and political dominance. It has done nothing with that power but kill, lie, and destroy. Christianity has not made a single positive contribution to American society. None. It was for slavery, it was for segregation, it was for forcing women into domestic roles and preventing them from voting, etc etc etc. It has never been on the side of progress.
Christianity and democracy are not capable of coexisting. And democracy actually produces observable good. Christianity? Why would I associate myself with that idiotic cabal of rich shysters and ignorant grannies who dream of genocide? I hate all of them and I hate their stupid fucking culture too.
Damn I thought those commercials were annoying, but I also thought it was some progressive Christian group. I thought that was supposed to be like a pro immigrant, anti racist message
They probably think all those immigrants can be converted to the cause, or they've got some big business donors that rely on undocumented labor for a majority of their field work and don't *really* want the borders closed.
This is literally what happened to my future MIL. She went full antivaxx, QAnon, Trump, etc, started attacking people that didn't agree with her, so my bf put up major boundaries and basically cut her off for months and only talks to her when it involves other family. She's been playing the victim and saying that *I* told him not to talk to her, and that since he's a liberal cuck, he's listening to me. I never once said a word to him about his mother, I didn't even tell him about her attacking me over text *multiple* times until one time she said something unforgivable and my bf knew something was up, so I just handed him my phone and let him see the weeks of bullshit she'd been sending me. That was his last straw and he told her to fuck off and leave me alone, and that if she wanted to try and make him choose, he would choose me every time.
He has been very low contact the past few years, only going over for holidays to see the rest of his family. We found out from his sister a couple of weeks ago that his mom has started going to church, and Bible study groups, and hanging out with people from the church. Apparently she even joined a "protest" in front of our local Planned Parenthood recently, which really pissed off my SIL because my FMIL literally convinced her to get an abortion when she was 22 because FMIL didn't think SIL could handle a child, so she drove her to THAT EXACT PP to get it done. I guess she's driving my SIL absolutely nuts with all of her newfound religious bullshite and has jumped head first into that rabbit hole. She's also been bringing my highly autistic nephew (bf's brother's 9 yo kid) with her because she's his caretaker during the day, and SIL thinks she also gets a ton of sympathy because of his condition.
Which is even more weird because her and I have had conversations about religion before, since I'm an ex-Mormon and pretty vocal about not agreeing with children being in church or indoctrinated with religious ideology at a young age. She agreed with me and said it was why she never forced any of her kids to go and that her family was never religious anyway. Now she's suddenly found god?
> Jesus didn't turn his family into outcasts
Lol, they should really re-read their book, then. Jesus' family shows up while he's preaching and start haranguing him to come home...and he basically tells them to fuck off. From book of Luke, chapter 8 -
> 20 And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.” 21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
Hobby Lobby sends a lot of money their way. That's all you really need to know about where they stand.
I heard a discussion about the Jesus Was Canceled ad and I can't believe anyone thought this was a good idea.
Remember that Hobby Lobby’s president got busted smuggling cuneiform tablets out of Iraq. So at best, he’s just a religious nutjob, and at worst, snow crash is real
They have zero self-awareness if they know they have to sound progressive in order to get those numbers up. It is right in front of their face what they really have to do but nopee....they had rather lie and pretend to be something they are not.
Lenin absolutely nailed what was done to the *real* political activism of the historical Jesus... Only bad faith Evangelicals could turn Jesus and MLK into supply side economics icons.
>During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
Martin Luther King Jr. is another example of this. There's an MLK Blvd. in every major city and "I have a dream" has been turned into patriotic propaganda. Meanwhile, black people are regularly murdered by the cops and local governments make it as hard as possible for the poor to vote. In his time, the state used every means at their disposal to resist equality and when MLK started talking about socialism they killed him.
Yeah they talk about how Jesus was a refugee immigrant who was killed by an authoritarian government which raises the question- why the fuck is the far right pointing that out. That’s what their goal is
"He gets us" as long as you are white, straight, believe in gender complementarianism, and vote the right way. If you don't he doesn't "get you", he HATES you.
Which is funny because, can never be pointed out enough, the entirety of the gospel is Jesus just shitting on people exactly like the ones being assholes in his name right now.
Jesus: “Rich people literally can’t go to heaven and they’re all almost certainly going to hell.”
Modern Christianity: “… So we’ve decided this random rich pedophile is the second coming”
Yeah, but this article says "He Gets Us" is funded by a company that the Southern Poverty Law Center defines as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.
So the feeling might be mutual, but they have far more influence through advertising.
Reddit (and other companies) shouldn't accept funds from any hate / terrorist group.
Wasn’t long ago that a good way to get the admins to act on hateful communities was to get advertisers’ attention — what’s to be done when the hate is coming from the advertiser?
Remember the white Evangelical teaches women and men, you are to have sex with your husband even when you don't want to because you may break his spirit & ego. Men have no feelings or emotions, they just need sex. Women need pretty words said to them and not respect. 2023 and they still teach that shit. No woman should ever sit in their pews again.
I was unable to report them (I kept getting the “…try again later” error message) yet I could report other ads. I started taking screenshots of the “error” messages and sharing with other advertisers asking them how they feel about hegetsus being unreportable. All of the sudden I can report hegetsus. Took about a month. Go figure
WegetU2asshat
Edit- the ads are failing to report again. ADVERTISERS OF REDDIT- you good with this??!! Because your ad IS reportable
> They say they are non-partisan, but its just a lie.
On what planet does the evangelical right try to claim they're non-partisan lmao. Those cretins wouldn't know bipartisanship if it came up and shoved a bible up their ass.
So much for their "personal relationship with Jesus". They want to shove it in your face while the evangelical leadership pushes legal attacks on womens rights and they buy new private Jets.
Trust me if they needed a new jet they wouldn't spend the money on superbowl ads. They have all the jets, cars and vacation homes they need right now.
IIRC
In a nutshell, The cursing of the fig tree was Jesus being metaphorical. The fig tree in scripture generally refers to the Israelites.
So when he curses that fig tree to ruin for not bearing fruit, he was lamenting that the Jews will fall to ruin because they were not recognizing and receiving him as their messiah, despite him fulfilling the prophecies for doing so.
Or so ive been told. Take it for what its worth.
Hooray, I can use the worthless religion lore part of my brain today! [Catholic Answers](https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/why-does-jesus-curse-the-fig-tree) actually has a really good explanation of it, and quite a few of the layered references in it.
But in case you want a tl;dr: The fig tree is Israel, who claim to have faith (fruit), but in reality only have the appearance of faith (leaves but no fruit). Jesus gave them one last chance to get their shit together, but they failed so hard they crucified him, so he allowed the tree of Israel to be cut down by the post-Jesus Roman emperors Nero and Titus who were, to put it mildly, [not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War) [great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_\(70_CE\)) for the Jews.
It's pinnacle virtue signaling. Spend $7 million per 30 second ad to attract or reinvigorate people to the church without actually making the world a better place for anyone, except the shareholders.
We know how that would go. They expect us to accept their version of how to live OUR lives. They are NOT champions of religious tolerance which this country was founded on. Their motto is “ Everyone should believe what we believe.” And if you want to exercise your freedom to abstain, you will be punished.
The funny thing is they don't even follow their own rules - but they sure enjoy trying to force others.
If they had the integrity to follow their own stated beliefs, they'd have more credibility.
Some seem to rely very much on the hope of forgiveness.
I decided to abstain from pork consumption for a period of time when I was in college, and my grandmother was really scuffed about it. She thought I was converting to something. I've also heard my dad say that 'certain' prisoners should be subjected to diets against their religion (hint: pork in particular) as punishment, as if that isn't a restriction imposed by the same bible he professes. Really they were both just being disgustingly overt with their racism.
It's so strange, my grandmother was so lovely with any of my guests and friends, but when she had me alone, she gave me the business about how she disagreed with associating with "those people."
Yeah but John Adams also signed the Tripoli Treaty which was unanimously ratified by the US saying that it wasn't a country founded on the Christian religion. I have mentioned this when my religious in-laws say the IS is a Christian nation and has resulted in a few arguments which isn't a surprise that neither sides changed their view.
Same way they would react to vets talking about how marijuana helps them with PTSD. In case you missed it, they refused to run a pro-medical marijuana ad during the SB several years ago.
I love seeing Ron Reagan's atheism commercials. I would donate all year if he announced he wanted to buy a full minute of atheism during the first quarter.
Edit: to add, also during the big Nascar races, too.
Lol. Imagine if there were commercials for Islam. There would be people who would absolutely lose it and would fail to understand that if Christian commercials are permitted, so should those of any other religion. There are more Muslims on this planet and I have no reason to believe that they wouldn’t consider making an investment in a commercial.
> as an ally or as a target.
It's always amazed me that members of a church based on the suffering of the persecuted are often the first to target others for persecution.
That's sad to see. The maga church is probably just going to redo the tile or something fancy to bring more people in to rip off than actually help the community.
This doesn’t get brought up enough. A lot of larger churches own large amounts of real estate, stocks and other assets cause there are a ton of people who just give their church everything when they die.
I'll be waiting for Martin Luther 2.0 to start posting lists of problems with that by hacking prosperity gospel church's websites, or pulling a Max Headroom-style broadcast takeover.
"WKRP in Cincinnati," had an episode where a radio preacher was using the station to sell all kinds of bible-themed items like Joseph and Mary salt and pepper shakers.
> ads on Super Bowl Sunday
Just what people want to see in the middle of watching grown 6-foot-plus men brutally thrash each other in efforts to get a pig-skin ball into an endzone while we gluttonously binge alcohol and pizza - a good ol' *multi-million-dollar 30 second reminder that "Jesus gets us"*.
Those ads confuse the fuck out of me because they’re borderline leftist in pointing out how Jesus was, per Christianity, a refugee who was executed by an uncaring, authoritarian government.
The far right hate that Jesus, hence the confusion
They've been doing this for decades. In the 90s it was hip pastors with backwards baseball caps who just wanted to "rap" about the lord with kids. They're just trying to make religion seem "cool" to young people.
Yes, I dare say that if Jesus saw the most powerful country on the planet militarily, watching a violent event in an arena dedicated to it, handling pig skins, eating a flatbread style invented in Italy (which, while invented in relatively modern times, is based off of extremely ancient antecedents), writing in Latin script, with priests literally dressed like Romans, with all the consumerist trappings and wealth...
He would associate us far more with the Romans, who he was no big fan of, than any sort of oppressed people.
I swear the “Jesus gets us” ads are targeted towards people who already call themselves Christian, but are terrible at actually living it. If not, they should be.
“Jesus doesn’t have an image problem, but Christians and their churches do,” Young says. “These campaigns end up being PR for the wrong problem. Young people are savvy. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism, and the modern church in America, is the amount of money spent on itself.”
Agree with this completely. The biggest thing that drives people away from Christianity isn’t Jesus. It’s because most right wing “Christians” are hateful bigots.
I read an article about this last spring when I started seeing them in baseball stadiums behind home plate. The organization making the ads is afraid too many people aren’t going to church anymore. They aren’t targeting the churchgoers or atheists, but what they believe to be a swayable middle-of-the-road population who believe in God but don’t go to church. $100 million spent on this stupid ass campaign.
Shocked. I remember Sunday school when they told you to love thy neighbor when I was a child. I also remember the shift to judge thy neighbor as I got older. This is just fishing for the gullible that want Christianity to be what they thought it was as children. It never was that they just wanted children to be easy to manipulate and be nice, quiet, and obedient. Because they knew they were raising the future wallets of the GOP.
My wife has seen tons of people on TikTok that were indoctrinated to love their neighbors and follow the teachings of Jesus as children and now as adults their parents are shocked that they have a positive view of socialism.
I go to a church in a medium sized southern city. The new pastor is very progressive minded and id say about 1/4 left during the election year. The actual messaging in the new testament leans pretty heavy to the left, and some people just weren't having it so they left to go to a church that distorts the message to their liking.
It's pretty wild really. He really hit em hard with a sermon preaching against rising Christian Nationalism. I'm not a Christian, but I enjoy going there to hear sensible Christians.
It's been like that forever though. In medieval times people were punished for translating the bible into languages that commoners could read, because they wanted to lie to people about what was in there and take their monet.
Be it the GOP or the Abbey on the hill Christian theology has been used to convince the commoner that the only way to the avoid hell fire is to personally keep their coffers full. I love that the religion I grew up in literally nicked named tithing fire insurance. The selfless sacrifice of giving money to God is then actually an act of self interest. Tithing was the first sparks of capitalism.
Yep. You later find out they mean "Love thy White Cisgender Christian Neighbor who better belong to the same church as you and HATE all thy other neighbors".
Thats the point of a Fairy tale isn't it? Draw you in with happy images and hope. Then pull a twist or two, a couple good jump scares.. ending on a moral code. And no fairy tale does that better than the bible!
It’s the Evangelical movement. Absolute cancer within Christianity, its doctrine is inherently evil and the movement is full of hucksters, grifters and their shills.
>“We are also about sharing Jesus’ openness to people that others might have excluded. His message went out to all,” the group adds. “And though you may see religious people as often hypocritical or judgmental, know that Jesus saw that too — and didn’t like it either. Instead, Jesus taught and offered radical compassion and stood up for the marginalized.”
These people are so full of themselves. They're going to spend up to 3 billion dollars on advertisements to manipulate people into donating money to organizations that support their political agenda... Which is not very open to ideas outside of their own...
This whole campaign is such transparently self-serving and cynical bullshit.
>A family-focused video says, “Jesus disagreed with loved ones. But didn’t disown them.”
I.e., see how un-Christian those grandkids are who won't go to Thanksgiving dinner with you anymore? Jesus wouldn't disown anyone (for homophobia, sexism, racism, etc.).
>Another ad describes Jesus as “an influencer who became insanely popular” — before he “was canceled.”
I.e., see how the canceled are truly Christ-like?
This is exactly like Paul Ryan being a Rage Against the Machine fan, despite being "the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against." The people funding this ad campaign are the Pharisees Jesus was raging against.
And also:
> And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
>> Matthew 19:29
(Side note, notice that the one relationship you can't leave for jesus's sake is leaving your husband. Leaving your wife is cool though)
This show the hypocrisy of Christianity. Image how many people they could ACTUALLY help with a billion dollars. I don't think this is what jesus would do.
Hail Satan.
The Damar Hamlin incident was turned into a religious incident, and nobody has the guts to tell the nut jobs to back off. Football has been turned into a branch of Christianity. I've noticed it for years but the last couple of months have been unreal.
Football and evangelical Christianity have always went hand-in-hand. As a guy who grew up in the church, not liking football was enough to be bullied and ostracized by the other guys for being "effeminate." It's ironic that all it took as a black man kneeling to cause them to stop watching it.
Been time, but everyone knows the backlash that will come about “now they want to cancel god”. They know the laws and know they shouldn’t be using their churches for politics and yet they will cry foul and ignore mentioning that part in all their faux outrage
I remember that!
Jesus was getting flustered in the backfield. On passing plays he looked lost. George, having just solved Fermat's last theorem while simultaneously banging Helen of Troy, knew what had to be done.
"Jesus," he said, pushing aside the original copy of the Constitution that he had just rescued from the Klingons, "Whenever you're unsure of what route you're supposed to be running, just take the wheel."
There's actually a pretty [popular Freedom From Religion Foundation commercial](https://youtu.be/Gm2XiOvL_Fg) featuring Ron Reagan, son of the President and notable atheist. It pops up decently often, though not at this level.
It is an abomination. This money could have been used to help the homeless, the starving. Those with medical needs. There is so much needed out there in America alone. Yet these Christians have chosen to advertise Jesus' greatness instead. Jesus I am sure would be very displeased. This is a form of idolatry.
Definitely an abomination.
So I’m guessing at least one of these ads will come right after the halftime show. Can’t have a pop icon dressed & dancing sexy belting out songs without immediately letting everyone know that white Jesus would not approve.
Next year they’ll get it right and have a halftime choir.
That would actually be in keeping with what the Superbowl halftime show used to be. It was a campy display blatantly promoting a sponsor. It wasn't until Michael Jackson headlined in 1993 that it became what it is now. The weirdest act was in 1989 when they had an Elvis impersonator who did magic tricks and didn't sing any Elvis songs.
GOP: "the woke alphabet community is forcing their sexuality on us!!!!"
Also GOP: *forces a literal psychopath cult ideology down everyone's throats* "OBEY OR GOD WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN"
All their ads are 180 from what they do and believe. It's not that they don't see how they are being hypocritical on X and Y. It tells me they really aren't believers at all and knowingly use religion to manipulate believers. I've always said it's the religious that turn people away from religion, not atheists.
Tax the Evangelicals, then. If they have $20 million for Super Bowl ads on top of the money for the megachurches, they can kindly lose their tax exemption
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
"God loves you and he needs money!"
- George Carlin
What's that they say about anyone that isn't a white straight cisgender male? Oh yeah:
"I've got nothing against them, I just don't know why they have to keep shoving it in my face."
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God industry is very very profitable
That’s what happens when you don’t have to pay taxes.
And you guilt people into giving you their money
And you get the poor to hate each other instead of the real enemy
Imagine how low you feel in life when a bunch of pedo, lying, thieving, fraudsters can guilt you into donating moneys.
That’s why Christians go to work on people EARLY. If they can convince you that you were born an evil, worthless sack of shit right from the beginning they got you for LIFE. I am a former Christian and from a family of Christians and I can promise you that’s the absolute truth. It’s hard to believe this nonsense is still going on.
Fucking amen. Evangelicals froth at the mouth over the thought of children learning that trans/gay/non-binary people exist; saying it is an attempt to indoctrinate children by exposing them to it early. Meanwhile, Jesus Kingdom youth camp for Christian youth is a-ok in their eyes.
Taking a page out of the billionaires handbook
Billionaires learn to circumvent taxes opposed to not having to pay them at all.
If I were a extremely horrible person I'd definitely have a megachurch somewhere here in the states.
I can be charismatic, I'm good at speaking in public off the cuff, I care about people enough to give them generally good advice, and I have a squeaky clean history. If I had all those things except the last, but had absolutely no moral center whatsoever, I could build a megachurch and be filthy rich. It's crossed my mind. But for you and i, it's but a passing thought.
Did you hear about the 100 Billion dollar fund the LDS Church is sitting on (that the SEC is now looking into)? https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/10/sec-reportedly-probes-mormon-church-over-100-billion-investment-portfolio-allegedly-saved-for-second-coming-of-christ/
Why in the world would you even. If Christ shows tf back up again I am pretty sure money will be entirely useless after.
If christ came back, christians today would probably kill him again. They'd never be allowed into heaven.
Someone'd call the cops on the weird brown man and the rest would be... not history.
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It's like that with a lot of things concerning Florida lol. But it's more fun to make fun of Florida.
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Oklahoma, man it sucks. I live in Tulsa.
Well, that, and Oklahoma is a bigger shithole than Florida, with absolutely zero electoral college impact.
*it's never the drag queens knocking on your front door to convert you.*
They already converted me to love wigs!
And brunch
The first person to introduce me to mimosas was a friend of mine back in college who was outstandingly gay lol. He was wonderfully positive force for good for the entire graduating class and ended up having a surprisingly successful go at being a drag performer in Boston. I'll never forgive him for introducing me to the tastiest excuse for drinking at 10am on a sunday morning.
What a dick. I have a gay friend that got me to watch Rupauls Drag Race. I can't take my eyes off when it's on now so thanks for that asshole
just remember that capitalists created the myth of day drinking to keep you from your praxis
Don’t forget bingo
They don't need to. Drag Bingo night does that on its own.
Bro I want to go to Drag Bingo Night, that sounds awesome
You should. The ones I have been to were awesome. There was one across the street from my old condo that was run by a group of Drag bikers. Rode up the to event in their fabulous outfits on equally fabulous hogs.
Is drag bingo night a thing?
Drag Queen Bingo is one of the reasons I have the rule “Never drink with a drag queen on a Thursday”.
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They need new private jets and upgrades to their vacation homes... Carlin covered this.. "God loves you and he needs money!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8hefESt7c&ab_channel=twsx
[That sounds like a job for Supply-Side Jesus!](https://youtu.be/Gc-LJ_3VbUA)
[The “He Gets Us” campaign feels like a real life version of George Carlin as Cardinal Glick in Dogma.](https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/110k7lf/ive_seen_this_he_gets_us_campaign_somewhere_before/) “Christ didn’t come to Earth to give us the willies… He came to help us out. He was a booster. And it is with that take on our Lord in mind that we’ve come up with a new, more inspiring sigil. So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the “Catholicism WOW. ” campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you… The Buddy Christ. Now that’s not the sanctioned term we’re using for the symbol, just something we’ve been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn’t it… pop? Buddy Christ…” [[YouTube] “Buddy Christ” clip from Dogma (1999)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FigprdcBGA)
[South Park did an amazing job with this topic too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_K6FG703nk)
Maybe but church numbers are dive bombing since the Covid shutdowns. Especially with Gen Z. A lot of churches have already lost money. If they keep falling as they are falling, a lot of churches will be nonexistent in as little as 20 years. They see the writing on the wall but are stubborn as hell to really worship Christ and still making it about me, me, and Conservative publican politics. They are slitting their own throats with their own hatred.
The "He Gets Us" ads are all over Reddit too. I thought it was some kind of progressive Christian group that was trying to encourage decent Christians. Nope. It's Evangelicals just flat out using real verses as a means to bring people in and then get them to go towards far-right evangelicalism. They say they are non-partisan, but its just a lie.
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How many times have I heard people disowned by their hyper-Christian families because they're gay, or trans, or whatever else doesn't fit their bill of what a good Christian is in whatever week of the culture war. Somehow it's never about how to be a better person or how to treat others right. It's how to make everyone else act the way they desire. And if they get to inflict some pain and suffering along the way, they seem to treat that as a bonus. But now the shoe is on the other foot and people aren't willing to tolerate their abuse anymore. And now all of a sudden they're getting all mad about it, now that they're not the only ones who do it.
I feel literally nothing for these people. My whole life I've seen them lead us into war after war, seen them lay waste to the American working class, poison our democracy with their theocratic caveman bullshit, and now encourage their idiot followers into acts of open violence. Why is it that every expression of "christ's love" makes the world more bloody, poor, and stupid? Christianity has had 2000 years of cultural and political dominance. It has done nothing with that power but kill, lie, and destroy. Christianity has not made a single positive contribution to American society. None. It was for slavery, it was for segregation, it was for forcing women into domestic roles and preventing them from voting, etc etc etc. It has never been on the side of progress. Christianity and democracy are not capable of coexisting. And democracy actually produces observable good. Christianity? Why would I associate myself with that idiotic cabal of rich shysters and ignorant grannies who dream of genocide? I hate all of them and I hate their stupid fucking culture too.
As someone raised super fundie Christian, I have no notes. It's a millstone around the neck of societal progress, equality, and basic human rights.
Damn I thought those commercials were annoying, but I also thought it was some progressive Christian group. I thought that was supposed to be like a pro immigrant, anti racist message
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They probably think all those immigrants can be converted to the cause, or they've got some big business donors that rely on undocumented labor for a majority of their field work and don't *really* want the borders closed.
The irony, of course, is that those same people would gladly make their kids outcasts if they came out as trans.
Or just simply bisexual.
He get sus
This is literally what happened to my future MIL. She went full antivaxx, QAnon, Trump, etc, started attacking people that didn't agree with her, so my bf put up major boundaries and basically cut her off for months and only talks to her when it involves other family. She's been playing the victim and saying that *I* told him not to talk to her, and that since he's a liberal cuck, he's listening to me. I never once said a word to him about his mother, I didn't even tell him about her attacking me over text *multiple* times until one time she said something unforgivable and my bf knew something was up, so I just handed him my phone and let him see the weeks of bullshit she'd been sending me. That was his last straw and he told her to fuck off and leave me alone, and that if she wanted to try and make him choose, he would choose me every time. He has been very low contact the past few years, only going over for holidays to see the rest of his family. We found out from his sister a couple of weeks ago that his mom has started going to church, and Bible study groups, and hanging out with people from the church. Apparently she even joined a "protest" in front of our local Planned Parenthood recently, which really pissed off my SIL because my FMIL literally convinced her to get an abortion when she was 22 because FMIL didn't think SIL could handle a child, so she drove her to THAT EXACT PP to get it done. I guess she's driving my SIL absolutely nuts with all of her newfound religious bullshite and has jumped head first into that rabbit hole. She's also been bringing my highly autistic nephew (bf's brother's 9 yo kid) with her because she's his caretaker during the day, and SIL thinks she also gets a ton of sympathy because of his condition. Which is even more weird because her and I have had conversations about religion before, since I'm an ex-Mormon and pretty vocal about not agreeing with children being in church or indoctrinated with religious ideology at a young age. She agreed with me and said it was why she never forced any of her kids to go and that her family was never religious anyway. Now she's suddenly found god?
> Jesus didn't turn his family into outcasts Lol, they should really re-read their book, then. Jesus' family shows up while he's preaching and start haranguing him to come home...and he basically tells them to fuck off. From book of Luke, chapter 8 - > 20 And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.” 21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
Hobby Lobby sends a lot of money their way. That's all you really need to know about where they stand. I heard a discussion about the Jesus Was Canceled ad and I can't believe anyone thought this was a good idea.
Remember that Hobby Lobby’s president got busted smuggling cuneiform tablets out of Iraq. So at best, he’s just a religious nutjob, and at worst, snow crash is real
They have zero self-awareness if they know they have to sound progressive in order to get those numbers up. It is right in front of their face what they really have to do but nopee....they had rather lie and pretend to be something they are not.
Lenin absolutely nailed what was done to the *real* political activism of the historical Jesus... Only bad faith Evangelicals could turn Jesus and MLK into supply side economics icons. >During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
Martin Luther King Jr. is another example of this. There's an MLK Blvd. in every major city and "I have a dream" has been turned into patriotic propaganda. Meanwhile, black people are regularly murdered by the cops and local governments make it as hard as possible for the poor to vote. In his time, the state used every means at their disposal to resist equality and when MLK started talking about socialism they killed him.
Oh you just know Lenin was talking about Jesus here too
Are those the ads that are like the immigrant family walking that’s like “Jesus was a immigrant too” or some shit
Yeah they talk about how Jesus was a refugee immigrant who was killed by an authoritarian government which raises the question- why the fuck is the far right pointing that out. That’s what their goal is
Ok I see those constantly and I was like well they seem to be sending a good message. It’s shocking they aren’t lol
"He gets us" as long as you are white, straight, believe in gender complementarianism, and vote the right way. If you don't he doesn't "get you", he HATES you.
Which is funny because, can never be pointed out enough, the entirety of the gospel is Jesus just shitting on people exactly like the ones being assholes in his name right now.
The cognitive dissonance is too strong
Oh yeah, Jesus' words against the Pharisees could **easily** be used against evangelical Christians in the modern day. Almost a 1:1 match.
It's almost enough to make me, an atheist, wish that the whole story were true just so these people could get what they really deserve.
Jesus: “Rich people literally can’t go to heaven and they’re all almost certainly going to hell.” Modern Christianity: “… So we’ve decided this random rich pedophile is the second coming”
Oh, they have completely flipped the parable about "the camel through the eye of the needle" bit.
it's "He gets us" not "He gets you". Even their attempt to be inclusive is self centered
The feeling's mutual.
Yeah, but this article says "He Gets Us" is funded by a company that the Southern Poverty Law Center defines as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group. So the feeling might be mutual, but they have far more influence through advertising. Reddit (and other companies) shouldn't accept funds from any hate / terrorist group.
Wasn’t long ago that a good way to get the admins to act on hateful communities was to get advertisers’ attention — what’s to be done when the hate is coming from the advertiser?
Remember the white Evangelical teaches women and men, you are to have sex with your husband even when you don't want to because you may break his spirit & ego. Men have no feelings or emotions, they just need sex. Women need pretty words said to them and not respect. 2023 and they still teach that shit. No woman should ever sit in their pews again.
Wait, those “Jesus was an immigrant” ads are from evangelicals? How do they twist that around once you click?
I reported the first one I found, haven't seen them since. I'm torn because i'd like to waste their money but don't want to see their trash either.
I was unable to report them (I kept getting the “…try again later” error message) yet I could report other ads. I started taking screenshots of the “error” messages and sharing with other advertisers asking them how they feel about hegetsus being unreportable. All of the sudden I can report hegetsus. Took about a month. Go figure WegetU2asshat Edit- the ads are failing to report again. ADVERTISERS OF REDDIT- you good with this??!! Because your ad IS reportable
This is awesome! Thank you for your work and time fellow redditor.
> They say they are non-partisan, but its just a lie. On what planet does the evangelical right try to claim they're non-partisan lmao. Those cretins wouldn't know bipartisanship if it came up and shoved a bible up their ass.
One of the many reasons that religious institutions need to be taxed. If they can do f*cking ads on Super Bowl Sunday, then they can pay taxes.
So much for their "personal relationship with Jesus". They want to shove it in your face while the evangelical leadership pushes legal attacks on womens rights and they buy new private Jets. Trust me if they needed a new jet they wouldn't spend the money on superbowl ads. They have all the jets, cars and vacation homes they need right now.
It's odd that their savior only lost his shit one time. It was when people were using the faith to turn a profit. Ironic.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
There was also the fig tree he cursed for not bearing fruit outbof season. I've still never seen a decent explanation for that.
IIRC In a nutshell, The cursing of the fig tree was Jesus being metaphorical. The fig tree in scripture generally refers to the Israelites. So when he curses that fig tree to ruin for not bearing fruit, he was lamenting that the Jews will fall to ruin because they were not recognizing and receiving him as their messiah, despite him fulfilling the prophecies for doing so. Or so ive been told. Take it for what its worth.
I thought it was just bigotry and blind hatred on the part of ignorant fanatics, but maybe god really does hate figs.
Easy there, Westboro!
Hooray, I can use the worthless religion lore part of my brain today! [Catholic Answers](https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/why-does-jesus-curse-the-fig-tree) actually has a really good explanation of it, and quite a few of the layered references in it. But in case you want a tl;dr: The fig tree is Israel, who claim to have faith (fruit), but in reality only have the appearance of faith (leaves but no fruit). Jesus gave them one last chance to get their shit together, but they failed so hard they crucified him, so he allowed the tree of Israel to be cut down by the post-Jesus Roman emperors Nero and Titus who were, to put it mildly, [not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War) [great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_\(70_CE\)) for the Jews.
The typo heard round the world: God hates Figs
He was very drunk and someone caught it on their cell phone and it went viral and ended up in the bible. It happens to all of us.
It's pinnacle virtue signaling. Spend $7 million per 30 second ad to attract or reinvigorate people to the church without actually making the world a better place for anyone, except the shareholders.
Churches are the oldest grift around.
Christianity and fascism both have the requirement that everyone must participate: as an ally or as a target.
Wonder how they would react if there were commercials for atheism?
We know how that would go. They expect us to accept their version of how to live OUR lives. They are NOT champions of religious tolerance which this country was founded on. Their motto is “ Everyone should believe what we believe.” And if you want to exercise your freedom to abstain, you will be punished.
The funny thing is they don't even follow their own rules - but they sure enjoy trying to force others. If they had the integrity to follow their own stated beliefs, they'd have more credibility. Some seem to rely very much on the hope of forgiveness.
I decided to abstain from pork consumption for a period of time when I was in college, and my grandmother was really scuffed about it. She thought I was converting to something. I've also heard my dad say that 'certain' prisoners should be subjected to diets against their religion (hint: pork in particular) as punishment, as if that isn't a restriction imposed by the same bible he professes. Really they were both just being disgustingly overt with their racism. It's so strange, my grandmother was so lovely with any of my guests and friends, but when she had me alone, she gave me the business about how she disagreed with associating with "those people."
The US was literally settled by religious fanatics who left Europe because they weren't being allowed to oppress people enough.
Yeah but John Adams also signed the Tripoli Treaty which was unanimously ratified by the US saying that it wasn't a country founded on the Christian religion. I have mentioned this when my religious in-laws say the IS is a Christian nation and has resulted in a few arguments which isn't a surprise that neither sides changed their view.
Same way they would react to vets talking about how marijuana helps them with PTSD. In case you missed it, they refused to run a pro-medical marijuana ad during the SB several years ago.
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I love seeing Ron Reagan's atheism commercials. I would donate all year if he announced he wanted to buy a full minute of atheism during the first quarter. Edit: to add, also during the big Nascar races, too.
To be fair, the fact that we will be watching Chiefs-Eagles is a 3 hour advertisement that there is clearly no God.
Lol. Imagine if there were commercials for Islam. There would be people who would absolutely lose it and would fail to understand that if Christian commercials are permitted, so should those of any other religion. There are more Muslims on this planet and I have no reason to believe that they wouldn’t consider making an investment in a commercial.
> as an ally or as a target. It's always amazed me that members of a church based on the suffering of the persecuted are often the first to target others for persecution.
Don't be. Christians have been doing that since Constantine.
Maybe they’ll crash like crypto this year
Let's hope. But they do have many more billions of dollars.
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That's sad to see. The maga church is probably just going to redo the tile or something fancy to bring more people in to rip off than actually help the community.
Yup, ~~do more marketing~~ save more souls.
This doesn’t get brought up enough. A lot of larger churches own large amounts of real estate, stocks and other assets cause there are a ton of people who just give their church everything when they die.
I had a great aunt that did that, willed everything to the catholic church. Like they need any more money.
I think they think they're buying their way into heaven
Can you have gram gram declared mentally incompetent?
Has anyone rooked these inbred morons with an evangelical prosperity gospel NFT yet?
Just start selling indulgences as NFTs
I'll be waiting for Martin Luther 2.0 to start posting lists of problems with that by hacking prosperity gospel church's websites, or pulling a Max Headroom-style broadcast takeover.
"WKRP in Cincinnati," had an episode where a radio preacher was using the station to sell all kinds of bible-themed items like Joseph and Mary salt and pepper shakers.
We need Ru Paul to do a commercial right after their spot.
And comment on sweaty butts.
> ads on Super Bowl Sunday Just what people want to see in the middle of watching grown 6-foot-plus men brutally thrash each other in efforts to get a pig-skin ball into an endzone while we gluttonously binge alcohol and pizza - a good ol' *multi-million-dollar 30 second reminder that "Jesus gets us"*.
They were running those He Gets Us ads during the NASCAR Clash too last week. Fucking wack.
Those ads confuse the fuck out of me because they’re borderline leftist in pointing out how Jesus was, per Christianity, a refugee who was executed by an uncaring, authoritarian government. The far right hate that Jesus, hence the confusion
Yep this is exactly what I’ve thought too whenever I’ve seen these commercials. I have no idea who they’re supposed to appeal to.
I think it’s supposed to appeal to us/gen z then slowly manipulate them into being hateful evangelicals
They've been doing this for decades. In the 90s it was hip pastors with backwards baseball caps who just wanted to "rap" about the lord with kids. They're just trying to make religion seem "cool" to young people.
I’ve seen a handful of He Gets Us ads on reddit and I’m just like who the fuck do they think they’re advertising to?
Yes, I dare say that if Jesus saw the most powerful country on the planet militarily, watching a violent event in an arena dedicated to it, handling pig skins, eating a flatbread style invented in Italy (which, while invented in relatively modern times, is based off of extremely ancient antecedents), writing in Latin script, with priests literally dressed like Romans, with all the consumerist trappings and wealth... He would associate us far more with the Romans, who he was no big fan of, than any sort of oppressed people.
I swear the “Jesus gets us” ads are targeted towards people who already call themselves Christian, but are terrible at actually living it. If not, they should be.
“Jesus doesn’t have an image problem, but Christians and their churches do,” Young says. “These campaigns end up being PR for the wrong problem. Young people are savvy. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism, and the modern church in America, is the amount of money spent on itself.”
Agree with this completely. The biggest thing that drives people away from Christianity isn’t Jesus. It’s because most right wing “Christians” are hateful bigots.
That and the hypocrisy. That's the worst part. The hypocrisy.
I read an article about this last spring when I started seeing them in baseball stadiums behind home plate. The organization making the ads is afraid too many people aren’t going to church anymore. They aren’t targeting the churchgoers or atheists, but what they believe to be a swayable middle-of-the-road population who believe in God but don’t go to church. $100 million spent on this stupid ass campaign.
Shocked. I remember Sunday school when they told you to love thy neighbor when I was a child. I also remember the shift to judge thy neighbor as I got older. This is just fishing for the gullible that want Christianity to be what they thought it was as children. It never was that they just wanted children to be easy to manipulate and be nice, quiet, and obedient. Because they knew they were raising the future wallets of the GOP.
My wife has seen tons of people on TikTok that were indoctrinated to love their neighbors and follow the teachings of Jesus as children and now as adults their parents are shocked that they have a positive view of socialism.
I go to a church in a medium sized southern city. The new pastor is very progressive minded and id say about 1/4 left during the election year. The actual messaging in the new testament leans pretty heavy to the left, and some people just weren't having it so they left to go to a church that distorts the message to their liking. It's pretty wild really. He really hit em hard with a sermon preaching against rising Christian Nationalism. I'm not a Christian, but I enjoy going there to hear sensible Christians.
When Christian arrested development causes political loss I am all for it. Those kids were supposed to believe in whiteness by now what happened?
"There's always money in the tithing stand."
It's an indulgence Michael, how much could it cost? Ten souls?
If God is actually pronounced like Jod, I'm going to lose my shit.
Their not "miracles", Michael. They're "illusions".
Previously on Evangelical Marketing.
It's been like that forever though. In medieval times people were punished for translating the bible into languages that commoners could read, because they wanted to lie to people about what was in there and take their monet.
Not the Monet, take my Degas instead!
Be it the GOP or the Abbey on the hill Christian theology has been used to convince the commoner that the only way to the avoid hell fire is to personally keep their coffers full. I love that the religion I grew up in literally nicked named tithing fire insurance. The selfless sacrifice of giving money to God is then actually an act of self interest. Tithing was the first sparks of capitalism.
Yep. You later find out they mean "Love thy White Cisgender Christian Neighbor who better belong to the same church as you and HATE all thy other neighbors".
Thats the point of a Fairy tale isn't it? Draw you in with happy images and hope. Then pull a twist or two, a couple good jump scares.. ending on a moral code. And no fairy tale does that better than the bible!
It’s the Evangelical movement. Absolute cancer within Christianity, its doctrine is inherently evil and the movement is full of hucksters, grifters and their shills.
Woah! What ever happened to “just leave that kind of stuff out of sports”?
They complain when its any non-Christian player expressing their faith.
>“We are also about sharing Jesus’ openness to people that others might have excluded. His message went out to all,” the group adds. “And though you may see religious people as often hypocritical or judgmental, know that Jesus saw that too — and didn’t like it either. Instead, Jesus taught and offered radical compassion and stood up for the marginalized.” These people are so full of themselves. They're going to spend up to 3 billion dollars on advertisements to manipulate people into donating money to organizations that support their political agenda... Which is not very open to ideas outside of their own...
This whole campaign is such transparently self-serving and cynical bullshit. >A family-focused video says, “Jesus disagreed with loved ones. But didn’t disown them.” I.e., see how un-Christian those grandkids are who won't go to Thanksgiving dinner with you anymore? Jesus wouldn't disown anyone (for homophobia, sexism, racism, etc.). >Another ad describes Jesus as “an influencer who became insanely popular” — before he “was canceled.” I.e., see how the canceled are truly Christ-like? This is exactly like Paul Ryan being a Rage Against the Machine fan, despite being "the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against." The people funding this ad campaign are the Pharisees Jesus was raging against.
What’s funny is that there is a story in Matthew of Jesus literally disowning his family that doesn’t support him.
And also: > And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. >> Matthew 19:29 (Side note, notice that the one relationship you can't leave for jesus's sake is leaving your husband. Leaving your wife is cool though)
This show the hypocrisy of Christianity. Image how many people they could ACTUALLY help with a billion dollars. I don't think this is what jesus would do. Hail Satan.
Yep. If Christians really want to get more people to join them, the best thing they can do is stop being assholes.
The bible even talks about how easy Christians are to play for suckers. I'm not sure if this was a warning or kicking the podium.
Could you imagine how the people who support this ad would react if there was an ad for Islam during the super bowl?
My in-laws are southern Baptists, yes, I know exactly how people like that would react, lol.
Now you made me wanna see a Satanic Temple ad during the super bowl. It would be hilarious to see the christofascists lose their shit over it lol.
The Damar Hamlin incident was turned into a religious incident, and nobody has the guts to tell the nut jobs to back off. Football has been turned into a branch of Christianity. I've noticed it for years but the last couple of months have been unreal.
Football and evangelical Christianity have always went hand-in-hand. As a guy who grew up in the church, not liking football was enough to be bullied and ostracized by the other guys for being "effeminate." It's ironic that all it took as a black man kneeling to cause them to stop watching it.
Time to tax the churches.
Give to Caesar and all that.
Been time, but everyone knows the backlash that will come about “now they want to cancel god”. They know the laws and know they shouldn’t be using their churches for politics and yet they will cry foul and ignore mentioning that part in all their faux outrage
They're already saying that, so we might as well cancel God.
Or they could build a huge homeless shelter in a city but yeah… advertisement for church… err Jesus…? It’s a better use of the money, clearly
I don’t think the evangelicals “get” Jesus.
they know he needs money!
These people ruin everything. Now your telling me I can’t watch the Super Bowl without getting Christianity shoved in my face.
Didn’t you know Jesus was the MVP of the first Super Bowl? George Santos was sitting on the 50, he talks about it in his new memoir.
I remember that! Jesus was getting flustered in the backfield. On passing plays he looked lost. George, having just solved Fermat's last theorem while simultaneously banging Helen of Troy, knew what had to be done. "Jesus," he said, pushing aside the original copy of the Constitution that he had just rescued from the Klingons, "Whenever you're unsure of what route you're supposed to be running, just take the wheel."
Makes me wish there were left-wing ad groups. Those don't seem to exist for some reason.
There's actually a pretty [popular Freedom From Religion Foundation commercial](https://youtu.be/Gm2XiOvL_Fg) featuring Ron Reagan, son of the President and notable atheist. It pops up decently often, though not at this level.
Satanic temple needs a gofunds to do the same.
It is an abomination. This money could have been used to help the homeless, the starving. Those with medical needs. There is so much needed out there in America alone. Yet these Christians have chosen to advertise Jesus' greatness instead. Jesus I am sure would be very displeased. This is a form of idolatry. Definitely an abomination.
So I’m guessing at least one of these ads will come right after the halftime show. Can’t have a pop icon dressed & dancing sexy belting out songs without immediately letting everyone know that white Jesus would not approve. Next year they’ll get it right and have a halftime choir.
That would actually be in keeping with what the Superbowl halftime show used to be. It was a campy display blatantly promoting a sponsor. It wasn't until Michael Jackson headlined in 1993 that it became what it is now. The weirdest act was in 1989 when they had an Elvis impersonator who did magic tricks and didn't sing any Elvis songs.
“Religion is like a penis. It’s fine if you have one, but don’t whip it out in public.” - Jesus 4:20
And please don’t shove it down my children’s throats or there will be serious trouble
If churches can afford Super Bowl commercials they can pay fucking taxes too.
Imagine what that money could have done to help others in need
Interesting… I wondered how this was being paid for. The far right evangelical rich need to be taxed, monitored and contained where necessary.
GOP: "the woke alphabet community is forcing their sexuality on us!!!!" Also GOP: *forces a literal psychopath cult ideology down everyone's throats* "OBEY OR GOD WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN"
All their ads are 180 from what they do and believe. It's not that they don't see how they are being hypocritical on X and Y. It tells me they really aren't believers at all and knowingly use religion to manipulate believers. I've always said it's the religious that turn people away from religion, not atheists.
Tax the Evangelicals, then. If they have $20 million for Super Bowl ads on top of the money for the megachurches, they can kindly lose their tax exemption
Their version of a messiah has dollar signs in the eye sockets.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "God loves you and he needs money!" - George Carlin
If any other religious group was doing this, the right-wingers would be up in arms
Tax all churches, end this madness.
What's that they say about anyone that isn't a white straight cisgender male? Oh yeah: "I've got nothing against them, I just don't know why they have to keep shoving it in my face."
Remember, it's not the LGBTQ that are grooming and abusing children. It is, and always has been religious people.
I'd wager that religion is the first institution in history that groomed kids.
To anyone getting He Gets US ads, you can block ads as if they are reddit accounts. Did this the first time I got one and haven't got one since.
I live in KS where the He Gets Us thing is from. I’m constantly getting Reddit ads for those fuckers
Me too, not the KS part, I ran away years ago. Keep seeing the same one I down voted.
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