homophobic super bowl ads

[Toy Revolver]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec

this is insidious- if you're watching the game today keep in mind who these monsters really are

"he gets us" is a hate campaign designed to lure in young people by associating christ with other liberal causes

these people are spending many millions to try to divide us but we're not going out like suckers - they're the suckers wasting their money - they cannot stop our solidarity

[Rubber Soul]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec

this is insidious- if you're watching the game today keep in mind who these monsters really are

"he gets us" is a hate campaign designed to lure in young people by associating christ with other liberal causes

these people are spending many millions to try to divide us but we're not going out like suckers - they're the suckers wasting their money - they cannot stop our solidarity

Yeah, I admit they had me duped. I was hoping they would be one of the United Church of Christ bunch who really were inclusive. They really don't get that at best, Jesus, or at least the way he's depicted in the Bible, would probably have been a pro-life liberal, even a socialist, in this era.

[Toy Revolver]

he was obsessed with helping the poor

he was definitely a socialist

the entire new testament promotes radical pacifism and elevating the poor

[ribbons]

^ Agree 100%. 

Thanks for the link.  I have to read more about this, but am automatically suspicious of any religiously-themed organization that spends millions on Super Bowl advertising.

[Toy Revolver]

that meme is hilarious 😂

[Lexi Darling]

This slogan is such a load. If Jesus "gets all of us", including me, you'd think his followers would accept and embrace me for who I am instead of calling me an evil sinner and trying to ruin my life. If Jesus thinks I am sinning and I must be "saved" from my evil transgender ways, then no, he doesn't actually "get me" at all.

[Toy Revolver]

my dad told us that when he was a kid he thought jesus was a "girl" (i don't think he ever used the word "woman" in his life) because he had long hair

back then long hair on a man was not gender normative

[Trollheart]

WWJD? Not what you arseholes are doing, that's for sure. Conservative Christianity is so fucking up itself; what about that gobshite Republican in the wheelchair (can't remember, some crazy name like Carson or something) who didn't even know that all the "Christian" figures he was talking about in the OT were of course Jews? Idiot. This is exactly the opposite of what Jesus wanted, if he existed.

[Jwb]

he was obsessed with helping the poor

he was definitely a socialist

the entire new testament promotes radical pacifism and elevating the poor

assuming you ignore that the end of the story is 99% of the world being cast into the lake of fire,  sure, Jesus gave a few bums and whores a break while he was still walking around in human form. What a fucking Saint!

I just hate bs attempts to repurpose some lame ass religion to make it cool again. Or to smooth out all the archaic edges that make us uncomfortable.  As if they all weren't written by utter stone throwing savages.

[Jwb]

Like people seem to misinterpret stories like Jesus saying "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" about the woman who was about to be killed for adultery.

They make the understandable assumption that the story is in some way saying that adultery doesn't deserve such a harsh punishment.  His actual message was that we all deserve said punishment,  not just that one whore, and that's why we all need Jesus. 

It's not at all a humane decision,  just a recognition of the fundamentally putrid nature of humankind after the fall of man.

[Toy Revolver]

i get what you're saying; to find value in the new testament you really do have to weed out the charles manson like narcissism of the christ character and all the supernatural mumbojumbo. However, with the ridiculousness ignored the core message is pacifism and generosity. A contemporary interpretation of the text should be about the philosophical merits not about some sort of supernatural roadmap to salvation.

As for cast the first stone, I see it as a fundamental truth that we all have blood on our hands in the same way I think it's hypocritical to pass judgment against others on social media since the very platform couldn't exist without exploiting the poor. I still do it but the fact is we are all part of the problem and we cannot escape that paradigm. So the contemporary interpretation is that we all need to be more self-reflective and understand that our very existence is problematic as well.

I do not see literature as static and confined only by the author's intent but rather as living documents that we are free to re-evaluate and reinterpret.

I also think the Christ character would've hated America so I identify with that.