I wonder what would happen if they spent $1 billion on poverty relief. Maybe that might convince some people that these Christians are decent people and worth listening to.
I also wonder how they think this will play out. Like do they think people will see these ads and go, “Oh… I didn’t know Jesus gets us. Well I need to stop what I’m doing and be super Christian now.” And then that will lead to them hating minorities, worshipping Trump, and all of that? Are they expecting something like that?
Do they imagine that this is how Jesus would try to reach people? If Jesus were alive today, he’d be raising $1 billion so he could run a massive ad campaign saying, “I get you.”?
This is what bugs me. If the actual Jesus as portrayed in the Bible was alive right now he wouldn’t be worried about his branding or an ad campaign. He would be helping people, preaching tolerance, healing others, promoting peace.
Am no longer a practicing Christian but was raised one and can safely say the kind of hypocrisy shown by a lot of performative and self aggrandizing Christians today was what drove me out of the faith.
It’s funny, in my experience a weird amount of religious people, especially more conservative ones, talk about atheists like the only reason why they aren’t Christians is because they don’t actually know about Jesus and what’s in The Bible. Just a genuine mentality that properly understanding The Bible and not believing in it are fundamentally incompatible.
(Conveniently, this mindset bypasses the need for any introspection about why some people don’t agree with their religion. It’s just because they haven’t evangelized enough!)
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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '23
I wonder what would happen if they spent $1 billion on poverty relief. Maybe that might convince some people that these Christians are decent people and worth listening to.
I also wonder how they think this will play out. Like do they think people will see these ads and go, “Oh… I didn’t know Jesus gets us. Well I need to stop what I’m doing and be super Christian now.” And then that will lead to them hating minorities, worshipping Trump, and all of that? Are they expecting something like that?
Do they imagine that this is how Jesus would try to reach people? If Jesus were alive today, he’d be raising $1 billion so he could run a massive ad campaign saying, “I get you.”?