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The religious right's hypocrisy now on full display

1 - interesting picture

2 - there's a special place in hell for these grifters (if you believe in hell)
 
"We can't admit children of gays and lesbians as students in Christian schools, because our other students might come to see them as friends and fellow human beings and not targets of hatred and fear." Doesn't sound very "Christian" to me.

 
The founder of Hobby Lobby is behind the "He Gets Us" campaign just in case you were wondering if it's politically driven. They have a Super Bowl ad, because you know, that's what Jesus would want.
 
It looks like it worked on her. She was convinced this campaign came from the secular critical theory social justice warriors, not the conservative Christian right.

www.kcur.org

'He Gets Us': A Kansas campaign spent $20 million on Super Bowl ads to rebrand Jesus Christ

The campaign will ultimately spend $1 billion to humanize Jesus and Christianity, asking “How did the world's greatest love story become known as a hate group?” The ads are funded, in part, by Hobby Lobby, known for its advocacy of conservative causes.
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This guy gets it:

Tellis, the marketing professor, said he was impressed with the campaign because it does two things he tells his students to do: tell a story and be controversial, because both will bring attention to the ads. The campaign’s target audience is younger people who have more liberal views and often watch a lot of sports, he said.

But ultimately, Tellis thinks the campaign will not succeed, despite its religious underpinnings.

“I don’t think it’s going to happen,” Tellis said, “because when these people go to these conservative places and hear the homilies, they’ll be turned off and they won’t go a second time.”
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This is good evidence that He Gets Us is a Trojan horse for white evangelicals.

How is the money spent?

According to its latest tax filing, the Signatry reported net assets in 2021 of nearly $977 million, and the group's $20 million for the “He Gets Us” campaign is hardly its only — or even its largest — donation.

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The list of smaller grant recipients includes multiple individual churches, organizations devoted to spreading the gospel, Christian universities, anti-abortion counseling centers — often called crisis pregnancy centers — and anti-abortion groups, assorted faith-based museums, publishers, legal organizations and Christian fellowship groups.

A small donation, $5,000, went to the Academy for Climate and Energy Analysis Inc. in Shawnee, Kansas, a climate-change-denying group whose spokesperson is former meteorologist Mike Thompson, now a Republican Kansas state senator in Johnson County.

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$16.7 million to Alliance Defending Freedom, which is behind the campaign to limit legal protections for LGBTQ people.

$10.5 million to Answers in Genesis, a Kentucky group that takes a strict creationist view of the Bible and is known for its Noah’s Ark-themed amusement park and its Creation Museum, which promotes Young-Earth Creationism (the view that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old).

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$2 million to Human Condition, an anti-abortion group.
$1 million to Live Action, an anti-abortion group.
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WFFaithful said:
natashacrain.com

7 Problems with the He Gets Us Campaign | Natasha Crain

If you're going to "market" Jesus, it better be an accurate message about Him, lest you’re actually leading people away from the truth.
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There is definitely some irony in that, after having spent all these years since the rise of the Moral Majority in the 1970s tying Jesus hand and foot to the political and Religious Right, the steady decline in church attendance (including most Evangelical churches), is leading conservative groups to fund massive ad campaigns basically trying to to trick people into attending conservative churches in the hope they can be indoctrinated into staying. Good luck with that.
 
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