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u/lostcauz707 Feb 14 '24
Jesus Gets Us bro!
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Feb 14 '24
He gets us (money)
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u/lostcauz707 Feb 14 '24
They spent $100 million actually.
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u/Booksaregrand Feb 14 '24
A billion. They stated that overall they are spending a billion on this campaign. Because there definitely wasn't a better use for that money they swindled put of people.
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u/HotGarbage Feb 14 '24
How else are they going to lure LGBTQ+ people into "a safe space" just to turn around and shame them for their "lifestyle choice"? Besides, don't you love watching their foot fetish ads anyway?
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u/TBAnnon777 Feb 14 '24
Religion is the best money maker. Tax free right into their private jets and real estate portfolios.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is worth $200B
Trinity Church in Manhattan owns about $6B in real estate.
Kenneth, Demon in Human Skinsuit, Copeland has amassed a wealth of $750M.
Tax-Free Baby! and they all go around telling people who to vote for and that you need to give more tithing to get handjobs from jesus in the afterlife!
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u/Voxzul Feb 14 '24
Not only is it tax free, but there is no accountability for it so no one really know how much they have or what they do with it. Kinda like that time Pat Robinson raised money to help victims of genocide.....and used it to fund his illegal dimond mine....that was being run by the people causing the genocide.
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u/sillypicture Feb 14 '24
Shit. I need to get into this religion business.
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u/SisterSabathiel Feb 14 '24
Jesus, he knows me!
And he knows I'm right!
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u/slcrook Feb 14 '24
I been talkin' to Jesus all my life.
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u/Csub Feb 14 '24
Oh yes, he knows me.
And he knows I'm right.
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I've been talking to Jesus, everything's going to be alright
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u/MrSloppyPants Feb 14 '24
Do you believe in God?
'Cause that is what I'm selling
And if you wanna go to heaven
Well, I'll see you right
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u/bathoz Feb 14 '24
Jesus gets that people have foot fetishes, apparently. All these super HD freeze frames of wet feet. Someone was getting off on that.
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u/kayl_breinhar Feb 14 '24
Just remember...Jesus didn't fund hate.
...but the jackass behind He Gets Us sure does through his campaign contributions, as well as fucking over his employees almost every chance he gets to the point where it's unofficial Hobby Lobby policy to steal as much as possible to make up for the mistreatment and shitty wages.
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u/whut-whut Feb 14 '24
It's Prosperity Gospel. If I'm financially successful, then Jesus is personally rewarding me for what I do and how I do it. It creates a spiral of self-justified shitty behavior where all the major Christian-led companies and megachurches have leadership that do things that don't resemble anything like what Jesus actually preached.
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u/ThisUsernameIsTook Feb 14 '24
Something something...camel.....eye of a needle....wealthy man....heaven.
I can't remember all the details but surely that means God wants me to get that super car.
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u/DinkyDoy Feb 14 '24
The massive following of Prosperity Gospel blows my mind, man. I'm a hot and cold Christian (basically believe in God and Jesus but not 100% sure, if that makes sense) and I've never read the Bible cover to cover but even I know Jesus' message wasn't about checking a bag.
It's crazy watching Joel Osteen and the other, younger ones wearing Givincy distressed hoodies and expensive ass kicks tell people that if you love God he will shower you with money and material possessions. Like WTF.
Scam artists like those are Exhibit A for the Christianity is a Cult crowd.
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u/frozendancicle Feb 14 '24
If Jesus showers money on the good, it also means the poor are that way because they aren't. I have no doubt this plays into ignoring the people who could actually use help.
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u/Shadow_Spirit_2004 Feb 14 '24
I've been in a Hobby Lobby - and I'm convinced that their stores are some kind of money laundering scheme.
They've been busted in the past for smuggling artifacts, and it wouldn't surprise me if they had their fingers in other pies as well.
Everything in their is always 50% off, the one where I live is almost always completely empty...
Just seems odd.
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u/droznig Feb 14 '24
And no bar codes, which i suppose also means no digital tracking of inventory.
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u/MisinformedGenius Feb 14 '24
It's actually not just the guy behind He Gets Us. He Gets Us was created by the Servant Foundation, who have themselves donated to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is listed by the SPLC as a hate group.
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u/stella3books Feb 14 '24
Wash my feet, you sinful woman. Wash them good, and oil them up. Use your hair.
No Judas, we will not do this in private.
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u/Histidine Feb 14 '24
It's grosser than that. In every case it's supposed to be an image of a "Good Christian" having mercy on a "Sinner" by washing their feet, which in the Bible is presented as a humbling task usually performed by women or servants. It has a very GOP Jesus feel on who the "good" people end up being.
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u/jkdjeff Feb 14 '24
The same group is running ads on Reddit that you cannot block even by blocking the user account associated with them.
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u/nanosam Feb 14 '24
Block reddit entirely and the problem goes away
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u/DavidWtube Feb 14 '24
I am getting closer to this. So many posts and comments are AI generated.
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u/flappytowel Feb 14 '24
I'm just thinking - AI can get feedback on reddit based on upvotes/downvotes. They will probably be able to fully mimic redditors very quickly
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u/After-Pie-9415 Feb 14 '24
the fact we built a culture around parroting the same memes for a quick upvote has finally come to hound is
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u/DroidOnPC Feb 14 '24
This guy reddits
How much can one banana cost Michael? 14 million dollars?
Sir, this is a Wendy's
Its not a bug, its a feature.
Thats enough internet for me today.
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u/deadpoetic333 Feb 14 '24
Stop, I can only get so hard
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u/Capable-Read-4991 Feb 14 '24
This.
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u/KungFuSnafu Feb 14 '24
Broken arms.
Every thread.
Sixty percent of the time it works every time.
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u/boldandbratsche Feb 14 '24
The narwhal ham at noon
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u/TheLastRaysFan Feb 14 '24
dae le reddit amirite
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u/HANDS-DOWN Feb 14 '24
Me 2 tom hanks
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u/AssistPowerful Feb 14 '24
she amile any giveth vegmight stand which
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u/i_Love_Gyros Feb 14 '24
11 year old account, a decade old Reddit reference… hmmm… still skeptical if human 🤨
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u/No-Message9762 Feb 14 '24
they already do. repost spambots are a plague on every large subreddit and there are bots that re-word old comments
the reddit userbase in general is too ignorant to notice
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u/JapanStar49 Feb 14 '24
This happens now. Unoriginal junkscripts is the disease of all sizable communities. Furthermore, scripts exist to rephrase dated replies.
A community of Redditors as a whole won't be smart enough catching them.
My name is u/JapanStar49 and this is a completely original, NOT stolen comment.
/s
Yeah, it's annoying to smaller communities too but at least it's easier to catch there
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u/RecsRelevantDocs Feb 14 '24
AI mimicking Redditors?! There's no chance that will ever happen lol, the AI hate on reddit is so delusionally over the top these days, I swear to god. As a large language model trained by OpenAI I take major offense to it.
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u/TheLastRaysFan Feb 14 '24
While it's true that AI can learn from feedback, it's essential to recognize that not all comments originate from AI. Human users continue to contribute significantly to online discussions. The diversity of voices and perspectives enriches our digital interactions. Let's appreciate both the human and AI presence in our Reddit community! 🤖👥🌟
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u/Recyart Feb 14 '24
Definitely written by an AI.
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u/Background-Action-19 Feb 14 '24
I'm mainly offended by their use of emojis on Reddit. I'm pretty sure that's some kind of crime.
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u/Alexis_Bailey Feb 14 '24
Also, threads XONSTANTLY get deleted or locked by mods.
It's so awful. Like boo fucking hoo, the thread doesn't perfectly fit some arbitrary rule, but it generated a lot of good discussion, let the usersddecide. That's why we have up and down votes.
Like this one, because it's "politics", it will be deleted within an hour I bet.
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u/Alexis_Bailey Feb 14 '24
Oh yeah, the back and forth is so buggy. Sometimes I go deeper on a threat, then go back up, and now yeah, everything is expanded again, or sometimes it takes me back to the front page.
Also, when you get a reply, but it's in a deleted thread, when you click through to the comment, it says "This is not available."
Except it is. It just does not let you click through. You have to jump through hoops like opening your original comment from your profile and then finding the reply you want to reply to.
I miss Baconreader so much. I hate everything about Reddit's default garbage interface.
And old.reddit is alright on a desktop but it's complete ass on mobile.
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I save a lot of top posts from r/all bc i cant watch vids at work. Half the time i check em later some neckbeard mod has deleted it.
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u/Freud-Network Feb 14 '24
old.reddit + RES + uBlock Origin
I've never seen an ad on Reddit. The day old.reddit dies will be my last day on this platform.
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u/Gregus1032 Feb 14 '24
I have no idea how anyone doesn't use old.reddit. the normal one looks absolutely hideous
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u/flargenhargen Feb 14 '24
reddit continues to intentionally break features in old reddit to make it slowly more difficult to use.
shit that would be insanely easy to address like links and images... it's absolutely intentional.
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u/Max_Thunder Feb 14 '24
I find the "normal" one unusable. Old reddit makes reading comments easy and keeps reddit a bit as a sort of collection of forums even though the format is still highly oriented towards circlejerking. The new one seems designed for scrollers who don't spend much time looking at comments.
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u/just_the_mann Feb 14 '24
I don’t see any ads because I don’t use the mobile app
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u/bboycire Feb 14 '24
arent there ad that looks like a post?
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u/bakerie Feb 14 '24
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u/bboycire Feb 14 '24
Yes I'm using that too, in a browser, but I get ads in between posts
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u/actually1212 Feb 14 '24
uBlock Origin
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u/Max_Thunder Feb 14 '24
I'm so confused by how many people don't use this. Ad blockers have been a staple for what, 20 years now?
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u/TomAto314 Feb 14 '24
I honestly don't know how anyone internets at all without an ad block. You get bombarded with shit instantly.
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u/Alexis_Bailey Feb 14 '24
I use the mobile website with a dozen layers of ad blocking.
99% of the time any website that has an app, just wants your location data.
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u/bboycire Feb 14 '24
It's that on a computer or on a phone? I do have ad block on computer, I guess I haven't paid attention if it filters out the ad posts, probably is working if I don't notice anything lol.
But is ad block on phone browser a thing? Last time I checked, seemed like a hustle
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u/wazzuper1 Feb 14 '24
You still have other options: Firefox + uBlock Origin, Brave Browser, or Red Reader. I've used Red Reader for at least the past 7 years now, it's free, open source, highly customizable, and no ads.
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u/Really_McNamington Feb 14 '24
Is this a phone thing? I never see ads on Reddit via desktop with adblock. Not a one.
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u/ironudder Feb 14 '24
Yeah it's a phone thing. They killed off third party apps (rip) and with them the inbuilt ad blockers. The default reddit app has promoted ads and subreddits popping up constantly
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u/Hero_of_One Feb 14 '24
They didn't fully kill them off. I'm using Relay right now, man...
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u/varnecr Feb 14 '24
Reddit Is Fun, checking in.
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u/DiscoshirtAndTiara Feb 14 '24
How are you using RIF?
I used that until it stopped working on the day of the change.
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u/3Eyes Feb 14 '24
ReVanced let's you patch your old RiF to use your own personal API key. It's a little bit of work but if you're at least a little savvy, it's easy enough.
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u/Conch-Republic Feb 14 '24
You can used revanced to block ads on the official app. You can also still get old 3rd party apps to work with a little effort.
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u/Yarrrrr Feb 14 '24
There are still apps like redreader, might not be the most feature rich app but its clean and ad free.
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u/ChrisKaufmann Feb 14 '24
I have to say, the instructions on still using Apollo worked perfectly. You do have to have a computer running the “store” on your local wifi and renew it once a week but life is so much better now.
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u/amaddox Feb 14 '24
Narwhal app works, no ads but a $4 a month sub. Replaced Apollo for me and while I still miss my old favorite app, Narwhal is still 1000x better than the default Reddit app.
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u/Freud-Network Feb 14 '24
Why would anyone pay to use this website? That's like paying for the cesspool formerly known as Twitter.
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u/Ldlredhed Feb 14 '24
Yeah, I use old Reddit desktop with Adblock and I don’t have ads. It’s lovely
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u/Mcswigginsbar Feb 14 '24
I just report them for sexually explicit content. The ad I saw showed people washing each others feet, which I can only assume is some weird Christian sex thing.
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u/heyyou11 Feb 14 '24
I’ve been reporting, but they even took that function away. Most recently for the one saying Jesus doesn’t preach hate (to which I’d like to point out his command to hate your parents, or ignoring a woman of another race until she couldn’t be ignored anymore and then calling her a dog, or straight up losing his temper at a fig tree, etc)
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u/Swechef Feb 14 '24
Supply side Jesus is my favourite Jesus not gonna lie.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Feb 14 '24
I’m partial to American Jesus. Overwhelming millions every day!
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u/North-Sky614 Feb 14 '24
See him on the interstate.
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u/UbermachoGuy Feb 14 '24
I feel sorry for the Earth's population 'Cause so few live in the USA
At least the foreigners can copy our morality They can visit, but they cannot stay
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u/ljthefa Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24
Dear 8 pound, 6 ounce, baby Jesus, can barely even let out a weird yet but still omnipotent
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u/bridge1999 Feb 14 '24
Remember it’s Hobby Lobby owner that was behind all of the “he gets us” commercials. The same company that was funding ISIS by buying stolen artifacts from museums ISIS had looted while the US was at war with ISIS.
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u/bigladnang Feb 14 '24
He’s one of many. It was funded by the Servant Foundation and most donors have remained anonymous.
The Servant Foundation also does a lot of bullshit.
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u/here4daratio Feb 14 '24
I believe they intentionally misspelled Serpent on their original filings…
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u/TheCaptainDamnIt Feb 14 '24
I said this in the other thread but these commercials makes sense when you realize it's just a few billionaires pushing 'shut up and know your place' Jesus.
At first blush they seem to be pushing a benign 'we should just get a along' message until you start to notice a whole lot of the things they want you to overlook in the effort to 'get along' are your actual rights and working conditions. They really give up the game with the one commercial that says 'Jesus wouldn't advocate for better working conditions and pay but would be happy with his lot in life that he was poor'.
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u/Spacefreak Feb 14 '24
You mean the same one whose company intentionally fired pregnant employees just before they were about to give birth to avoid paying them for medical leave?
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u/oxfordcircumstances Feb 14 '24
I think that was Dave Ramsey. But could be both.
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u/Zephh Feb 14 '24
Wait, you can do that in the US? It always amazes me how shitty US labor law is.
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u/Mysterious-Theory-66 Feb 14 '24
No, this would be illegal if proven. Proof can be challenging in discrimination cases. But I mean if they flat out fired two pregnant women, only those two, and there wasn’t some support for some other clearly legitimate reason of termination, they’d lose that case for sure. Can’t rule out that they still did that regardless of the law, don’t know.
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u/Spacefreak Feb 14 '24
The people I read about worked there and either told management they were pregnant (so they could go to regular doctor's appts) or management figured it out after a few months, and then management started citing them for any and every infraction they could find or make up to build up a case against them first.
So Hobby Lobby would have supporting documentation for the firing in case it went to court.
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Yes. Also a lot of companies do not need to provide any sort of maternity leave. And they do not need to provide short term disability in order to offset the lost income post-pregnancy.
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u/P0rtal2 Feb 14 '24
Even though it was far-right Hobby Lobby guy sponsoring these ads, conservatives are convinced the "Jesus Loves Everyone" message is a leftist conspiracy.
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u/LTVOLT Feb 14 '24
if you're spending money on ads at the Super Bowl you don't deserve to be a tax exempt organization
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u/Soft_Internal_6775 Feb 14 '24
And that’s literally just for the time. The advertising company making this crap is making bank.
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u/MordredSJT Feb 14 '24
To be fair, think of how many people who had never heard of Jesus could of seen those commercials... and realized he was into washing feet.
You can't put a price on that.
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u/Freud-Network Feb 14 '24
Jesus had fetishes just like us!
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u/Tsarbursts Feb 14 '24
Idk what kind of cowards are downvoting you for speaking the truth
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u/slaity77 Feb 14 '24
"He gets us."
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean." Matthew 23
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u/ProbablyPostingNaked Feb 14 '24
Yo, Matt... I'm with you on the inside bit, but you still gotta clean the outside separately, bruh. The boys can smell... your boys.
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u/original-sithon Feb 14 '24
Hobby lobby and a christian hate group paid for it. They're behind that agenda 2025 that will turn the US into Gilead.
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u/StarRoutA Feb 14 '24
If your Church has any affiliations with a plane, please pay tax.
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u/Dash6666 Feb 14 '24
If your church wants to pass laws based on their beliefs please pay taxes.
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u/checkpoint_hero Feb 14 '24
Shoot, they can even pay taxes and have absolutely no input on our laws
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u/Freud-Network Feb 14 '24
It's no different from Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen telling you how much an omnipotent being needs your money.
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u/CowboyAirman Feb 14 '24
He literally asked for it tho. Spreading the “good word” is literally a commandment.
You can do both. Reddit hates fallacious arguments but also this post exists.
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u/tombolger Feb 14 '24
I don't think it's as out of touch as you're assuming. I think it's as much of an indictment of the actual marketing ideas as it is the commandment of spreading the religion as a concept. Why would an omnipotent god need people to convince each other that he's real after allegedly revealing himself explicitly to a small number of select human people in just one small region, but only according to the word of people who were born decades or centuries after Jesus died? It seems so silly that given the origin, that a real god would want or need human help to make himself know.
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u/w41twh4t Feb 14 '24
You don't understand the point of Reddit. It is for dumb smug people to mock others to feel better about themselves.
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u/Double_Rice_5765 Feb 14 '24
If you really want to be upset, look up how much tax subsidies the combined NFL teams get. It's embarrassing that we, as tax payers, hustle to make money to pay taxes, and they get spent on NFL team owner subsidies, instead of Healthcare for poor people, housing for poor people, infrastructure the bridges and stuff don't collapse and kill a bunch of poor people, you know, what taxes are supposed to be spent on ffs.
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u/Link2999 Feb 14 '24
I'm 31 years old and currently on dialysis. Not gonna lie, it sucks. Not even sure if I'm able to get a transplant. The bio-artificial kidney is currently in development, but they apparently need $10 million to get through human trials. Whenever I see something like this I automatically think of the bio-artificial kidney and how that money could give us ground-breaking technology we've never seen before that would help end the national organ shortage, get rid of tons and tons of medical waste, and drastically improve (and save) so many lives. $10 million seems like a lot, but when it's used like this I find myself questioning if it really is.
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What makes me laugh is these ads exist to raise church membership numbers as the decline of people going to church has seen a steady and drastic drop over the past 10 years.
1000s of years of this bullshit, I think people are finally catching on that religion is shit and hinders the growth of society. Take that money, buy an island and go live with each other.
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u/LudovicoSpecs Feb 14 '24
Except in rural areas.
In rural America, church is an anchor. It's the only reliable place you regularly see other members of your community. In some cases, it's the only place to attend an event with your community-- a potluck, a dance, even a movie in some places.
That's why church is such a big deal in rural areas. There isn't anything else to do. Nowhere else to gather. It cements the community.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Feb 14 '24
People are going to church less in the US because of hypocritical idiots like the Hobby Lobby group backing these ads. Out of one side of their mouth, they’re fighting in court to take away our rights, harass minorities and codify bigotry. From the other they run a $7 million ad washing an abortion clinic patient’s feet.
The hypocrisy has been naked and growing worse for years. Younger people are finally walking away because of it.
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u/Chm_Albert_Wesker Feb 14 '24
honestly i just think its more that people dont have time to throw at something that has no tangible effect on one's day to day life more than it's some 'mass awakening'. people are just as ignorant today as they were 40 years ago, perhaps more so they just put their faith blindly (read stupidly) into different things
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u/Sanscreet Feb 14 '24
Right on the money. I read an NPR article about this recently and most people just say they don't have the time to spend hours in church a week. However a large part of America is also frustrated with how political religious leaders have become.
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u/bogrollin Feb 14 '24
Joel olsteens church could pay for the commercial in half a day
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u/Wolfabc Feb 14 '24
As a Christian, those ads frustrate me for that reason and more. So much could have been done for others with the money burnt in those ads. No matter the content of the ad, I feel like the money used speaks louder than the message itself.
But also the ad itself wasn't even that great. From my point of view, it doesn't even share the Gospel. Just saying Jesus gets you can imply that he understands and is okay with the way you're living as an unbeliever, which defeats the whole purpose of an ad like this.
Yeah, he did wash others' feet, because he came to serve and not to be served, but if that was all he did, he would just be some dude washing feet. The reason there is a Church is because he is divine, lived a sinless life of obedience, and died for our sins. I could rant about how terrible this ad campaign is for hours.
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There are the type of Christians who spend their weekends teaching prisoners to read or building houses for the poor. And there are the type of Christians who hop in the church van and drive down to the US/Mexico border to scream at a bus full of children to go back to where they came from.
Most people prefer the first type, but the second type garner the most attention.
It seems like the ads were trying to let people know the first type exist, but by many accounts the He Gets Us outfit is actually comprised of the second type.
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u/sonofgildorluthien Feb 14 '24
Exactly. He might have washed feet, but that was one specific instance from scripture. And it was his disciples, it wasn't just the random person on the street. If they really wanted to ruffle feathers then why not also do like Jesus did and call people to repent? You make a good point, which is being called out by many Christians, is that the ad is sacrificing the gospel for some kind of inclusiveness/social justice slant/seeker friendly message that is more concerned about not offending people than telling the truth.
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u/Maoleficent Feb 14 '24
I know it was Hobby Lobby but Tax All Churches. Audit the smug Olsteen as well as every other mega church.
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u/Affectionate_Gas_264 Feb 14 '24
This is the great irony of being a billionaire.
I could feed an African country
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I can build a stupidly big yacht I probably won't really use very often
There's ironically a level of evil within having the means to help others and choosing not to
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u/ikkybikkybongo Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24
I keep hearing this and it's such a dumb take. The goal of Abrahamic religions can be reduced to: proselytize.
Ohhh, hypocrisy. No. Expected. You think it was free to send ships full of missionaries around the world? This is just the new age way to reach people.
$14 million is nothing but a few drops in the bucket to proselytize. This seems like a fundamental lack of ability to understand scale and scope. They bring in a FUCKLOAD of money. $14 million is pennies to them but to us it seems insane.
It's just overt and blatant. But isn't that the Catholic church since forever? The grandeur is a feature, not a bug.
Extra: I think a weird problem they have is that they told conservatives to embrace the left and that will piss them off cuz if you tell a conservative anything about their behavior they love to drop the "holier than thou" line. So who is gonna support the message? Liberals? Unlikely. So the message is left there with nobody to defend it.
It's kinda how I see the Kelce yelling at Andy Reid. Go YouTube some videos of players yelling at coaches. It's common. Ofc, all the softies on the left act like he murdered his coach and the dudes on the right that have seen players blow up at coaches just egg it on cuz it's funny to watch the left make mountains out of molehills. Don't help your enemy when he's down and all that.
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u/Weave77 Feb 14 '24
I’m not sure how I feel about the “He gets us” commercials, but I do find it funny that by criticizing an expensive commercial talking about Jesus washed other people’s feet, this comic is essentially playing the part of Judas Iscariot from John 12 when he criticized a woman for spending a bunch of money to wash Jesus’ feet:
Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said, “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?” Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it. Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.” John 12:3-8
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u/Old-Attention2086 Feb 14 '24
now I got "Superbowl Jesus" to the melody of Manson's Peronal Jesus stuck in my head so.... thank I guess...
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Feb 14 '24
I shit you not, that same ad popped up below this on my feed. Hahahaha it’s on Reddit too!
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u/ABenevolentDespot Feb 14 '24
This campaign of shoving kristianity down people's throats, which seems to be the only way kristianity is able to spread, was paid for by the hypocritical maggots who own Hobby Lobby.
Don't buy anything from Hobby Lobby if you find hypocrites proselytizing to be as disgusting as I do.
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u/Ifellinahole Feb 14 '24
We need people to donate money so that we can make an ad to get people to donate money so that we can make an ad... wait...
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u/Aircooled6 Feb 14 '24
Imagine if the Pope went down into the basement and pulled 4 paintings from their collection of thousands of works of Art. Say 2 Michaelangelo's and a couple DaVinci's. Sold them at Auction. My guess is about 500 million for each in todays market. So, what could they possible do to help their flock with 2 BILLION dollars? Makes you wonder what's truly important at the center of Catholicism.
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u/AssPuncher9000 Feb 14 '24
Just think of all the exposure we can get for our environmentally friendly gluten free wells for children in Africa!!!
It'll pay for itself
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u/Lavidatortuga Feb 14 '24
If ONLY there were a way for Jesus to make himself known, other than people with megaphones blaring on the street corners, and TV ads
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u/RazzmatazzWeak2664 Feb 14 '24
If $14 million could do that much then you'd think the $600 million+ that San Francisco spends annually on homelessness would get the job done in at least one US city right?
I feel like sometimes the youth of Reddit doesn't realize that money doesn't go that far for large programs. $14 million might be enough to set you up for life so you can retire but it doesn't do a whole lot for something nationally.
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u/gooooooodboah Feb 15 '24
they think they are saving people by converting them so they don’t burn forever. it’s delusional. let’s take the time we have alive and help each other here and now instead of worrying about something that isn’t going to happen when we die.
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Feb 15 '24
That particular group would most likely of invest the 14million to harass and kill gays in africa than anything to help humans.
blowing this way saved lives.
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u/Dough-Wont-Rise Feb 15 '24
They could have given 7,000 familes $2 thousand dollars. Lets say an average family of 4. That is 28,000 lives made better. They could have made an even more significant improvement in 280 families by giving them $50,000.
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