So when these two commercials came on, they were different, and I thought they were effective. In the first commercial, the He Gets US campaign, which they had Jesus, and they kept the US and said he gets us. And it centered on the teaching to be more childlike. And they replayed images of children coming together, coming out of quarantine and sharing the space, whether it was a black and white child coming together
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:45
You don't belong on this platform. I don't hear that here. I hear people welcoming the conversation, and I really want to see more of that. And it really invigorates me and my resondetra, for sure, but it's a compelling time to ask that question, and I'm glad you asked it, and I'm sure we'll hear more voices here. Thank you
I saw a part of a bit where they're interviewing the guy from this website, and he's talking about unfortunately, there's a lot of when people hear Christianity or anything related to it, there's a connection with Hypocrisy, and they're wanting to change that. And then they show you another bit of information, how younger generations are leaving the churches at historic numbers
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hey, Christina, you touched on something that I think is so spot on. I mean, I watched the ads and I looked around the room and I was trying to see if anybody was even remotely moved, and nobody was. I understand that there might be some people that are, but I highly, highly, highly, highly doubt that the vast majority of people that saw that ad thought to themselves, like, oh, my gosh, I've moved too far away from Jesus
And then the same with the images of the confrontations. But in my mind, if you already perceive the world through your own lenses of what is right and wrong, regardless of whether they share your faith and those right and wrongs, but you're still judging them that way, then you're not going to forgive their quote unquote sin if they're not repentant, right?
Auhona Dutta
@aspeakstoday · 3:59
They try to understand their perspective and change it. But at the same time, that's not how it works on other social media platforms. So if someone's called out, just canceling culture is actually beneficial in some ways, in the sense that it really often targets people with really faulty, flawed views. For example, people with misogyny and things like that. Yeah, of course there are some people that support that and in fact, they get a fan base and become massive celebrities
Theo Seibold
@Thatoneweirdo · 4:59
And we have to figure out a way to be able to disagree with each other and even with facts or experiences or whatever we may bring to the discussion, even if we continue to not agree, we still have to be able to agree on the capacity to disagree. And I think that is a lost art and we need to find a way to regain that. We really, really do. We're not going to make it through that's just the facts
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:50
So to answer your question, no, I did not see this one about trying to rebrand Jesus in Christianity, but I did see some commentary online about it, and perhaps it's because of the circles that I run in. Well, some of them were from Yahoo and wherever else, but my take is Theo, same as Christina, in that I think they missed the mark
And so we don't have access to some of those videos right away, eventually, but not right away. And so maybe I just didn't find them because of the different routes that I took. I don't know. But even the articles that I found, the news articles, we're discussing these other videos I found instead of the two that you mentioned. Anyway, it's an interesting thought if it is something that they did
I would say that Jesus's mission, if you will, was utterly and totally accomplished, not canceled. So as Christians, we serve a king, not a victim. And in the same Way, when we as believers, I Believe, are mocked or scorned or persecuted or even Martyred, we're actually experiencing vicar in Christ because to Live Is Christ and to Die His game, as Paul says. So we Too are able to Escape Victimhood when we choose to Abide in Christ, in my opinion
And John Pevlovitz said that Jesus knows us, but many, many Christians don't know him, especially conservative. Christina. And I think it's very, very telling that the people that organized this messaging during the Super Bowl are the same people that have given money to overturn Roe v. Wade, that are supporting politicians, that are introducing all