Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a foot washing ad from the "He Gets Us" campaign. The commercial flashed a series of images of people washing another person's feet, with most offering an attention-grabbing role reversal of oppressor and oppressed: A cop washing a young Black man's feet, a white woman serving a migrant, and, for the one that made me guffaw the loudest, an anti-abortion protester kneeling before a presumed patient of a family planning clinic. "Jesus didn't teach hate," reads the tagline as an INXS cover plays. "He washed feet."

The funders of the ad were obscure to the audience, leaving open the question: Are the people behind this simply naive? Are they the last remaining liberal Christians, trying to convince Donald Trump-obsessed evangelicals to stop the tidal wave of hate? Or is this ad a bait-and-switch, trying to lure unchurched people in with a phony message of love and acceptance, only to push them into joining up with the MAGA movement?’

Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

The "He Gets Us" ads are an expensive bait-and-switch trying to trick people into believing in MAGA Jesus

www.salon.com

The latter, clearly.

The rank hypocrisy of ‘he gets us’ – and of Christianity in general – is illustrated by this bad-faith (pun intended) campaign of dishonesty and lies; Christian dogma may not teach hate, but those on the Christian right certainly practice and promote hate.

 

[Harry Dresden]

you tell em jones e......

 

[lg325]

There are people who will find something negative about all things under the sun. Those ads were fine and well done.

 

[toobfreak]

There are people who will find something negative about all things under the sun. Those ads were fine and well done.

Gee, I didn't care for too many SB commercials but the He Gets Me ads were some of the nicer ones, no wonder it riled the OP and his kooky extremist friends.

 

[hadit]

Gee, I didn't care for too many SB commercials but the He Gets Me ads were some of the nicer ones, no wonder it riled the OP and his kooky extremist friends.

People do not like their narratives being violated.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The rank hypocrisy of ‘he gets us’ – and of Christianity in general – is illustrated by this bad-faith (pun intended) campaign of dishonesty and lies; Christian dogma may not teach hate, but those on the Christian right certainly practice and promote hate.

I assume you view Islam the same way, correct?

 

[toobfreak]

People do not like their narratives being violated.

who violated what?

 

[BackAgain]

Their ad had a cop (on his knees) washing the feet of black man. It had some stereotype conservative washing the feet of some tranny.

The ad has not a damn thing to do with hate.

If anything, it kind of serves as a left wash for Christianity.

The OP is absurd.

 

[Rambunctious]

‘Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a foot washing ad from the "He Gets Us" campaign. The commercial flashed a series of images of people washing another person's feet, with most offering an attention-grabbing role reversal of oppressor and oppressed: A cop washing a young Black man's feet, a white woman serving a migrant, and, for the one that made me guffaw the loudest, an anti-abortion protester kneeling before a presumed patient of a family planning clinic. "Jesus didn't teach hate," reads the tagline as an INXS cover plays. "He washed feet."

The funders of the ad were obscure to the audience, leaving open the question: Are the people behind this simply naive? Are they the last remaining liberal Christians, trying to convince Donald Trump-obsessed evangelicals to stop the tidal wave of hate? Or is this ad a bait-and-switch, trying to lure unchurched people in with a phony message of love and acceptance, only to push them into joining up with the MAGA movement?’

Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

The "He Gets Us" ads are an expensive bait-and-switch trying to trick people into believing in MAGA Jesus

www.salon.com

The latter, clearly.

The rank hypocrisy of ‘he gets us’ – and of Christianity in general – is illustrated by this bad-faith (pun intended) campaign of dishonesty and lies; Christian dogma may not teach hate, but those on the Christian right certainly practice and promote hate.

Keep your God hatred to yourself because we don't understand it....

 

[Curried Goats]

Keep your God hatred to yourself because we don't understand it....

So when can I come by so you can wash my feet?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I saw no hate in that ad.

Only an algorithm programmed to hate would say such a thing.

 

[marvin martian]

‘Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a foot washing ad from the "He Gets Us" campaign. The commercial flashed a series of images of people washing another person's feet, with most offering an attention-grabbing role reversal of oppressor and oppressed: A cop washing a young Black man's feet, a white woman serving a migrant, and, for the one that made me guffaw the loudest, an anti-abortion protester kneeling before a presumed patient of a family planning clinic. "Jesus didn't teach hate," reads the tagline as an INXS cover plays. "He washed feet."

The funders of the ad were obscure to the audience, leaving open the question: Are the people behind this simply naive? Are they the last remaining liberal Christians, trying to convince Donald Trump-obsessed evangelicals to stop the tidal wave of hate? Or is this ad a bait-and-switch, trying to lure unchurched people in with a phony message of love and acceptance, only to push them into joining up with the MAGA movement?’

Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

The "He Gets Us" ads are an expensive bait-and-switch trying to trick people into believing in MAGA Jesus

www.salon.com

The latter, clearly.

The rank hypocrisy of ‘he gets us’ – and of Christianity in general – is illustrated by this bad-faith (pun intended) campaign of dishonesty and lies; Christian dogma may not teach hate, but those on the Christian right certainly practice and promote hate.

Those ads are funded by leftists.

 

[toobfreak]

Keep your God hatred to yourself because we don't understand it....

Jonesie attacks religion because like all primitive men, they hate and fear what they do not understand.

 

[Curried Goats]

I saw no hate in that ad.

Only an algorithm programmed to hate would say such a thing.

I don't see hate either. I see Christians offering to wash feet, like Jesus would do. Have many feet have you washed since receiving Christ's love?

 

[lg325]

I don't see hate either. I see Christians offering to wash feet, like Jesus would do. Have many feet have you washed since receiving Christ's love?

As for me I have offered but no takers. Also none that would do that for me.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

‘Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a foot washing ad from the "He Gets Us" campaign. The commercial flashed a series of images of people washing another person's feet, with most offering an attention-grabbing role reversal of oppressor and oppressed: A cop washing a young Black man's feet, a white woman serving a migrant, and, for the one that made me guffaw the loudest, an anti-abortion protester kneeling before a presumed patient of a family planning clinic. "Jesus didn't teach hate," reads the tagline as an INXS cover plays. "He washed feet."

The funders of the ad were obscure to the audience, leaving open the question: Are the people behind this simply naive? Are they the last remaining liberal Christians, trying to convince Donald Trump-obsessed evangelicals to stop the tidal wave of hate? Or is this ad a bait-and-switch, trying to lure unchurched people in with a phony message of love and acceptance, only to push them into joining up with the MAGA movement?’

Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

The "He Gets Us" ads are an expensive bait-and-switch trying to trick people into believing in MAGA Jesus

www.salon.com

The latter, clearly.

The rank hypocrisy of ‘he gets us’ – and of Christianity in general – is illustrated by this bad-faith (pun intended) campaign of dishonesty and lies; Christian dogma may not teach hate, but those on the Christian right certainly practice and promote hate.

The US churches have an image problem because they focus on hate. Its really ugly.

 

[Rambunctious]

So when can I come by so you can wash my feet?

I'm not Jesus I don't wash tranny feet....

 

[toobfreak]

The US churches have an image problem because they focus on hate. Its really ugly.

Not half as ugly as you. I have a half dozen churches within a mile of my house and not one of them has an image or hate problem. Sorry matey, but the problem all lies within you.

 

[Curried Goats]

I'm not Jesus I don't wash tranny feet....

But Jesus is the best of us for washing tranny feet....

By that logic does your refusal make you the worst of us?

 

[evenflow1969]

Their ad had a cop (on his knees) washing the feet of black man. It had some stereotype conservative washing the feet of some tranny.

The ad has not a damn thing to do with hate.

If anything, it kind of serves as a left wash for Christianity.

The OP is absurd.

Lol, how is the commercial a left wash?