During the Super Bowl, leftists crusaded to recreate Christ in a cultural Marxist mode

[mystery-ak]

February 12, 2024
During the Super Bowl, leftists crusaded to recreate Christ in a cultural Marxist mode
By Andrea Widburg

Jesus Christ was not a hater, but he believed in Jewish moral strictures and the idea of sin. He also believed in the power of redemption, something entirely different from embracing Marxist social justice concepts that demand aborting children, bowing before hostile faiths, or embracing homosexuality, among other things. Nevertheless, according to a very well-funded ad campaign that bought a video during the Super Bowl, those are exactly the precepts Jesus advanced. This is part of an increasingly visible campaign to reframe Jesus as a leftist and impose a new form of Christian supremacism on America.

I first took note of this movement more than a decade ago. In 2011, The Guardian published an essay in which the writer insisted that new evidence revealed that

    Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay. He and his disciples formed a same-sex coterie, bound by feelings of love and mutual support. There are recorded instances of same-sex activity – the "beloved disciple" plays a significant role – and there is affirmation of the joys of friendship and of living and loving together.

I bet you didn’t learn that in Sunday school.

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/during_the_nfl_leftists_crusade_to_recreate_christ_in_a_cultural_marxist_mode.html

[PeteS in CA]

Ummmmmmmmm ... Okay. The article cites all sorts of articles written years ago, but to what 2024 Superbowl ad Andrea Widburg allude without a link, a quota, or even a sort of description? ETA: I missed the ad and the description thereof, thinking a line of four ads/links was the bottom of the article. My comment that the Superbowl ad was missing was wrong. I saw most of the Superbowl ads, but did take a break to empty and load our dishwasher. I did not see anything like an ad advocating:

* Government taking over businesses, like Marxism-Leninism did;

* Government ending private property, like Marx advocated;

* Government killing business people and wealthy people, like Marx advocated;

* Government creating Gulags for people with differing political and social views, like Lenin and Stalin did.

If Andrea Widburg "needed" to use eisegesis - i.e. a dishonest straw man argument - to object to an actual ad, maybe she needed to be made uncomfortable by the actual message of the ad.

[Polly Ticks]

Ummmmmmmmm ... Okay. The article cites all sorts of articles written years ago, but to what 2024 Superbowl ad Andrea Widburg allude without a link, a quota, or even a sort of description? I saw most of the Superbowl ads, but did take a break to empty and load our dishwasher. I did not see anything like an ad advocating:

* Government taking over businesses, like Marxism-Leninism did;

* Government ending private property, like Marx advocated;

* Government killing business people and wealthy people, like Marx advocated;

* Government creating Gulags for people with differing political and social views, like Lenin and Stalin did.

If Andrea Widburg "needed" to use eisegesis - i.e. a dishonest straw man argument - to object to an actual ad, maybe she needed to be made uncomfortable by the actual message of the ad.

It was this one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4NP3XCOj9Q

It was both included in the article as well as described, by the way.

Regardless, I am a little bit flummoxed by the whole thing.  Persons of liberal persuasion are both celebrating the message that Jesus loves you and that's all that matters and don't you dare also point out that Jesus call us to righteousness, and simultaneously angsting about the fact that this group is apparently funded at least in part by the evil anti-abortion owners of Hobby Lobby.

[mountaineer]

Here Comes the He Gets Us Campaign Again: Why Its Portrayal of Jesus is Still a Problem
By Natasha Crain / February 6, 2024

Last year, I wrote an article called “7 Problems with the He Gets Us Campaign,” in which I critically responded to the $100 million advertising campaign featuring a website, billboards in major cities, a book, and ads that have been viewed more than 300 million times. Perhaps most visibly, the campaign’s ads were featured in last year’s Super Bowl. When thousands of people went searching for more information on it, my article came up, and it went viral—actually pulling down my site at one point! Clearly, a lot of people are interested in knowing more about the nature of these ads.

Fast forward to 2024. Super Bowl Sunday is in a few days, and He Gets Us will once again be running ads that generate widespread curiosity. Given the reach of the campaign and high interest level, I wanted to do an updated evaluation of what He Gets Us is doing today. To that end, I’m going to answer four questions:

    Does the He Gets Us Campaign get skeptics interested in Jesus?
    Does the He Gets Us Campaign get skeptics interested in the right Jesus?
    Do the He Gets Us campaign reading plans take people to the next level of understanding Jesus (beyond the slick website and TV ads)?
    Does the He Gets Us campaign direct people to theologically solid churches for continuing their search for truth? ...

https://natashacrain.com/here-comes-the-he-gets-us-campaign-again-why-its-portrayal-of-jesus-is-still-a-problem/?fbclid=IwAR1NU9UdenENIXmrMepTFM0rNvvyXlZ1y8m2Bw8TtWMh_MnjUJvMLHOahvc

[roamer_1]

Go, and sin no more...

Everybody forgets that part, and if you stop to dwell on it, it is impossible to get around.
There have always been those who interpret Yeshua as license.

They are wrong.

Sin, btw, by definition, is transgression of Torah. Many Christians are surprised to find that out.

[jmyrlefuller]

The irony of it all is that all the cultural Marxists looked at the video, said "it was sponsored by the Hobby Lobby guy. **** THAT!" and basically said "If they had 7 million dollars for a Super Bowl ad, they should be helping the poor!" (Which, I note, is directly channeling the traitorous Judas Iscariot.)

So if it was their goal to get the Left to come to Jesus, they failed miserably.

[Polly Ticks]

I might also make note that the feet that Jesus washed were those of His disciples and not those of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

[mountaineer]

This ‘He Saves Us’ Ad Redeems Everything Wrong With The ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Spot
Jesus preached a gospel of radical repentance, not tolerance or acceptance of sin.
By: Jordan Boyd
February 13, 2024

Pastor Jamie Bambrick released a new ad that seeks to redeem the “He Gets Us” campaign’s theologically ambiguous take on Jesus with a more biblically accurate depiction of what it means to follow Christ.

The controversial “He Gets Us” Super Bowl LVIII spot, Bambrick said, was “perhaps well intentioned” but “failed to convey anything of the gospel to the hundreds of millions who saw it.” Cue Bambrick’s take.

The slideshow posted to the pastor’s YouTube page begins with Kat Von D, a celebrity tattoo artist who left witchcraft to become a baptized Christian. It then cycles through several photos of people including John Bruchalski, an abortionist turned OB/GYN.

The titles atheist, jihadist, Ku Klux Klan member, drug addict, gang leader, drag queen, onscreen prostitute, LGBT activist, and more appear to convey hopeless sinners who should have no heavenly future. Yet the still black-and-white images show smiling, joy-filled people. The “former” text in classic “He Gets Us” yellow confirms the pictured people abandoned their old, evil ways of thinking and living to follow Christ and it’s completely changed them forever.

“Jesus doesn’t just get us,” the closing text reads. “He saves us. He transforms us. He cleanses us. He restores us. He forgives us. He heals us. He delivers us. He redeems us. He loves us.”  ...

More at The Federalist (link to video there).

[PeteS in CA]

It was this one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4NP3XCOj9Q

It was both included in the article as well as described, by the way.

Regardless, I am a little bit flummoxed by the whole thing.  Persons of liberal persuasion are both celebrating the message that Jesus loves you and that's all that matters and don't you dare also point out that Jesus call us to righteousness, and simultaneously angsting about the fact that this group is apparently funded at least in part by the evil anti-abortion owners of Hobby Lobby.

Thanks @Polly Ticks for pointing out my error. I edited my post above.

It's kind of hard for me to express simply and clearly, but there is a tension among professing Christians between those who ignore sin and the need for salvation while imagining they can create a Paradise on earth through humanitarian efforts (the "Social Gospel") and those who staunchly profess the problem of sin and the need for salvation and regard with suspicion advocacy of humanitarian action as possibly disguised "Social Gospel" teaching.

I'm over-simplifying, of course. The teachings of Jesus and the New Testament as a whole teach both, in balance, emphasizing making disciples who live godly and loving lives. WRT the He Gets Us ad, it would have been difficult to squeeze the "Four Spiritual Laws", an altar call, and advocating being loving all into a 30- or 60-second ad (even without a verse of "Just As I Am").

The top part of the OP article remains dishonest, tarring the He Gets Us people with POVs they do not hold. If you don't like the He Gets Us people, criticize them for what they do say, not for things they did not and would not say.

[mountaineer]

One take:

Clandestine
@WarClandestine
The “HeGetsUs” Super Bowl commercial is nothing but a sick woke fantasy, using Christianity as a shield to subliminally shit on Conservatives.

Let’s break down the imagery by slide:

1: Black man getting feet washed by police officer

2: They/them lib getting feet washed by traditional-looking pretty blonde white girl

3: Native American getting feet washed by country white man

4: Girl getting her feet washed outside the abortion clinic by older white woman protesting abortion

5: Drug/alcohol-addicted woman getting feet washed by young white girl

6: Asian woman with “clean air now” poster getting feet washed by older white man surrounded by oil rigs

7: Illegal immigrant mother getting off the bus from over the border and getting feet washed by traditional looking white woman

8: Islamic family getting feet washed by white Christian family

9: Pro-censorship protester getting feet washed by anti-censorship protestor

10: Older white and black men washing feet together

11: Flaming gay black man getting his feet washed by a Priest

Each slide contains a Left-wing talking point, and the imagery is used to make them look superior and us to be their humble slaves. It’s humiliation porn for Libs.

All of this imagery is a not-so-subtle attack on Conservative Americans. The commercial has nothing to do with Jesus, and is essentially an excuse to tell Conservatives that they are lesser than, and must kneel at the feet of the Liberals and their ideology.

And people wonder why Conservatives are sick of the woke bullshit.
5:06 PM · Feb 12, 2024

[Polly Ticks]

This ‘He Saves Us’ Ad Redeems Everything Wrong With The ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Spot
Jesus preached a gospel of radical repentance, not tolerance or acceptance of sin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV3AnTUPiDY

Good stuff.

[Fishrrman]

I never watched the Super Bowl, not once, ever.

I have no intention of ever doing so (I have no interest in football).

I have seen the famous 1984 Apple commercial that was run only once during the Super Bowl. It stands on its own.

[mountaineer]

I like football, and actually watched some of the big game. Sorry to say the Chiefs won, but that's life.

We had the sound muted for much of the game, but did see the "He gets us" ad, and immediately had the same objections as mentioned above. It in no way, shape or form reflects the actual gospel of Jesus Christ, as described in the Holy Bible. It presumes to present a "rainbows and unicorn farts" version of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that has absolutely nothing to do with what is presented in the Bible. It's a fake, woke Jesus, and it's not the real Jesus.

Yeah, I know, other than that, Mr. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?

[DefiantMassRINO]

The meek shall inherit the Earth,
but the Bolsheviks shall take it from them.

[Bigun]

I never watched the Super Bowl, not once, ever.

I have no intention of ever doing so (I have no interest in football).

I have seen the famous 1984 Apple commercial that was run only once during the Super Bowl. It stands on its own.

I can't say that, but it's been quite a while since I've watched a second of any pro football and I doubt I ever will.

[Bigun]

All of this imagery is a not-so-subtle attack on Conservative Americans. The commercial has nothing to do with Jesus, and is essentially an excuse to tell Conservatives that they are lesser than, and must kneel at the feet of the Liberals and their ideology.

 

[roamer_1]

My only interest is the half time show, which, through many iterations, is always devil worship. Always, anymore.