@@mewmew6158their narcissism really makes them believe that Jesus/God is an amalgamation of white conservative consciousness based on the fact that they cannot challenge that they themselves may not actually be God.
Which is something, I'm not mad about. I understand, that the idea of the campaign is to reverse social hierarchies. Wp having their feet washed by Black people happened in real life and I dont want to see modern "xtian" representations of that.
It just really destroyed me to see how furious evangelicals got at this ad because they thought it showed too much grace and mercy. Edit: forgot to say that they came up with an alternative he gets us ad. It's pretty bad. The difference was that it showed random people: "ex witch," ex gay, ex trans, etc., to supposedly drive home the more important message of repentance.
honestly i find it interesting (and horrifying) that these people are not only blatantly evil, but are so unrepentant and obvious about it. like, they don't even try to hide the fact they are racist.
@@comyuse9103 Well they don't try to hide their hatred but they'll try to frame it as not really hate. That's their way of "hiding" it. Just claim they aren't what they are because so many people will believe them or already believe the same/similar things.
Oh my god, the “Only Human” cover!! I can’t see! Too many tears from silent laughing/crying/slowly falling off my couch ded. GOLD. Pure, God refined in the fires of pearl-clutching, rich white lady “my niece’s school had a book with lesbians, my god, I’m oppressed”, spiritual GOLD.
Omg I'm barely 5 minutes in and you're *Only Human* cover sounds like Strongbad and The Cheat and now I might need to rewatch stuff on HomeStarRunner. Don't worry, I'll watch the rest of your video first lol
@@Lady_Phoenix OHMIGOD you’re right!!! That must have been part of what got me laughing so much! We’ve been introducing our kids to Strongbad emails… Just like with Honestar Runner, it’s imperfection done TO perfection making it oh so hilarious.
These ads are definitly NOT targeted at the marginalised communities depicted: this is about making "bleeding-hearts" Liberal xtians feel good about themselves, about their faith and about their national history. 🤦🏾♀️
I find that one is particularly insidious. It implies that indigenous people require some kind of forgiveness for their identities. At best it’s ignorant and in poor taste. Edited because I didn’t like some of my wording.
Right? 😂 It's giving "Oops people are fleeing churches, gotta pretend we aren't the problem!!" Evangelicals are desperate, but not enough to make changes. They haven't changed a bit, and I left a decade ago! 😂
Tbh, it was on mine. I was raised deep in the thought that the biggest problem with Christians that people don't like is that they don't say their message nicely enough. Not that the message itself is wrong, just that it needs to be couched in a polite tone and the language of "love".
I shouldn’t even be surprised at this point. I had to stop watching this ten minutes in because I was relating it to the doc “Bad Faith” that I watched yesterday
Jesus never said one word about abortion, same sex relationships, or trans people. He did say love your neighbor. Care for the sick and the hungry and people in prison. He said the first shall be last and the last shall be first. And he said, whatever you do to the least of these you do to me. These people must never read their own bible.
21:20 I know what they mean by "blaming gender dysphoria on the fall" but I think it's really funny to think the entire season of Autumn makes people trans.
Sidenote, I'M A CHANNEL MEMBER??? FOR 18 DAYS NOW?!? How did this happen WHO GIFTED ME??? I only noticed now 😭 My card isnt attached to anything bc I can't pay for things like this on it so that's not an option for what happened lol
As a Christian, I would like to share this tidbit from the 3rd chapter of the book of Titus. I have purposely chosen the ESV bible here, since it's the most "Evangelical" of all the translations: "But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned." Allie Stuckey does exactly that - she dives in to foolish controversies, quarrels, fights about the law, and it's all useless and empty. Donald Trump is a divisive person that is twisted by sin and self-condemned, so it would seem. Strange - our own New Testament says being liberal and woke is GOOD and warns us not to be CONSERVATIVE. Imagine that! Cheers Jen and James - from a Christian Jennonite in Springfield Missouri!! I still want to see you two do the "Josh Hawley drinking game" where you read his book "Manhood" on the air and drink a shot every time you encounter the phrase "woke liberal" :) :)
Love this! As a Christian, imma bout to go read Titus again! Also, why suggest the drinking game? Are you wanting Jenn and James to become martyrs of the faith???
Yep, one of my closest friends is a Biblical scholar/ pastor at an affirming church, and she's the truest actual Christian (ie, a big ole woke leftie) I know. She is one of the loudest voices in her community against injustice.
Glenn Beck saying that Jesus loves those who hate "us" is about as disconnected as we can expect this campaign to be. Rather than, "Jesus loves those who we hate," they cannot see themselves as anything but a victim. They don't know how hateful they are.
These commercials are like: we know you (middle class white Christian) have to pretend to show some grace to literal refugees, or those pesky climate change activists. But it’s okay Jesus get Us (white Christians). Jesus also had to pretend he liked sinners, we will get through this together 🙏
I first saw the ads on Reddit. I hated them instantly because I do not believe that Christians have my best interests at heart. I started reporting them and writing rude things in the comments of the ads. Now I no longer see them in my Reddit feed. I actually forgot about it because, by some luck, I just wasn't seeing the ads anywhere else, largely thanks to adblocking software. Maybe it's because I'm old, pissed off and jaded but I do not trust ads. I do not trust the media. And I especially do not trust ads that have a "media blitz campaign." The billionaire class who is funding this is not to be trusted. Project 2025 is being funded by the same groups. They want to put us in camps if we don't do what they say. They only care about power over everyone else. They are mad that they can't control us and they are trying to make us comply. The Christian power players don't care about Jesus and they don't care about you. If Jesus came back today, they'd try to have him assassinated.
I’m a Christian, and I honestly feel like they would drone strike Jesus if he came back in the modern day. And the Reddit ad campaign on mobile has gotten out of control. They have now turned comments off, upvotes and downvotes don’t work, and you’re not allowed to block or flag them. I’m so sick of seeing this bullshit in my feed on the daily. I don’t know who they bribed at Reddit for that, but we’re all tapping out and Reddit needs to read the room. Christian Nationalism threatens everyone. Period.
I’m not sure how true this is but supposedly the ad on Reddit targets profiles that are subbed to/active in non Christian subs. As soon as I started using a vpn and reporting the ads they finally went away. Much like you I completely forgot about it
The papa Murphys near me has a sign that says "save time" (which... but you still have to cook it but whatever). However, the T and I fell off so it now reads SAVE ME and I like to think the employees are in on it
@anneprice705 your statement about cooking is true in context, because Papa M does not save time for the consumer when compared with other pizza chains (especially factoring in delivery). There are reasons to choose Murphy’s, saving time has never been one of them.
I'm a more progressive Christian and I can see the appeal of the ads. However, knowing the characters behind the ads makes me think the campaign will slowly push harder right.
My Catholic mom was like Yay, how nice when they came on during this year’s Super Bowl commercial lineup. I went OFF! I can tell that they were making money off of it. It definitely went against Matthew 6:5-8!
Conservative Christians try not to sound like literal cartoon supervillains challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) This 150 year stuff sounds like an actual anime speech.
I knew it was trap when I saw it because no self respecting, god honoring person would spend millions on a super bowl campaign when they could help so many people with that money. *edited for grammar*
Listening to Jen and James perform the best cover I’ve ever heard has made my day infinitely better. Like I had to pause, explain to my partner why I was cackling so hard, then went back and listened again. 10/10 would buy an album of the Reverend’s covers 😂
Ok, so when you said "Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg Virginia," I got shivers. I live in the Leesburg area, and that place is creepy AF. They churn out right-wing candidates for local elections like they're some sort of factory. "So-and-so attends Cornerstone Chapel" has kind of become a local political dogwhistle. They're charismatic evangelical, extremely well-funded, very into the rapture and end times (and more than a little dominion theology), and they're trying hard to take over Loudoun County.
The money behind these campaigns is truly frightening. Great episode. And Def knew the ads were underhanded and pure trickery. They creeped me out tbh.
@15:45 THAT IS SO TELLING. "He loves *who we hate*"... I was always told to love the sinner, hate the sin, but boy do these people not believe in that.
I first became aware of he gets us because they were blasting ads all over Reddit. To the least receptive audience possible. I vaguely remember some of the ads being in dialog with the reception with post titles with the sentiment of “why do you think we’re propaganda 😢”.
1.) I loathed these ads before. My feelings are only intensified now. 2.) Dear Reverend Jen, please consider a career in song parody. Maybe weird Al is looking for an apprentice.
The freedom the hobby lobby guy wants is the freedom of having no government at all. No taxes. Just rich and poor. Like in the good old days when Kings were guys who shared with their friends and everyone else was desperately poor.
He probably peed in excitement when SCOTUS made their ruling this week. (Whereas anyone with common sense, regardless of political alignment is horrified - even those outside the U.S)
Yeah. Agents of order who need to know the truth and believe that without this POV the world will end. Terrifying, fear-based, destructive, but oh so old. Thanks a lot, “Judeo-Christian tradition.”
Papa Murphy’s is also super helpful for people who live very rural. You take and bake the pizza because it takes an hour or so to get home from the pizza place. That way you can have hot pizza even if you live far away.
My mother volunteers at a pregnancy crisis center in Eastern Missouri. She pays them to volunteer and they are 'training' this 80+ year old woman to run an ultrasound machine and to be a counselor. She will be 'certified' or 'licensed' by them to work as such there when she finishes paying for their courses. Doubt she will be legally able to be a counselor or ultrasound technician after they drain all her money.
Uh no…. Ultrasound tech has a degree & certifications with it and their are subdivisions (heart vs uterus vs other areas). Julie Jo (walkingonlexapro) is a licensed tech I feel for your mom cause yeah they are taking her $.
@@mojaveknitter I know that and you know that, but they are telling this elderly lady that she will be saving babies and convincing pregnant girls to give up these babies for adoption. I have no doubt that if she finishes these course before she runs out of money to give them, she will be running their ultrasound machine and giving dubious counseling advice to girls that think that they are really getting health care. I worry that she will get sued like the pregnancy crisis center on the east coast that is being sued. Either their 'trained' ultrasound technician couldn't identify an ectopic pregnancy or didn't tell the couple for fear that they would abort the pregnancy. The woman almost died and she lost her fallopian tube. The story kept changing on why she wasn't told she had an ectopic pregnancy. These places scam vulnerable women and girls and they scam their own volunteers.
@@mojaveknitter they can, but if I report it, I would just be repeating what she said and she would deny it. And I am sure that they have enough legal backing in the county that they could circumvent any kind of investigation. They could just claim she was confused when she told me. Or that I am some baby-killing liar. Who would you believe, some obvious murdering commie that works for public education, or some sweet old lady that is living her faith by providing for pregnant girls? Unfortunately, it is going to take some tragedy to get eyes on the place.
@@mojaveknitter I wrote a huge paragraph that I think didn't get posted. They 'can' get reported, but considering how red the county is, I don't think that they would take my word over my mother's. I am from out of the county and my mother is a sweet elderly lady that is local. The pregnancy crisis center probably claim that my mother was confused and that isn't what they say. I think that it would have to come from someone that worked there or was serviced there.
I was one of those Papa Murphy’s kids! 😂 I grew up on food stamps and every month, basically the day they dropped (the 15th lol), we would get Papa Murphy’s pizza! It was the ONLY time we got to “eat out” so I was very thankful they accepted EBT! 😂❤
Didn't grow up on food stamps, but Papa Murphy's was a treat. Like, I knew it was a special day if Mom went out to grab Papa Murphy's... or if we picked one up on the way to my grandmother's place.
FR love me some Papa Murphy's, it's way better than the other pizza chains! They have some really excellent vegetarian options, which often seem like an afterthought at other places.
"He only washed the feet of his disciples" - that's.... An unintentionally good point? Jesus wasn't out there washing the feet of oppressors. He never gave Caesar a back rub. Huh. Maybe these campaigns are bringing the right and left together over common ground in hating them. 😂
These ads gave me the heeby jeebies immediately and I'm so glad you dug into it...I knew there was something lurking there. You should do a video about Far Above Rubies. My 8 yr old niece just got out into one of those groups 😔
I dislike how I block or say I am not interested in that… and I always see their ads. I do this for many things and never see that stuff again. Why this!?
omg!! i saw these trucks last october driving around campus near UT austin that said "Jesus welcomed the weird" and I took a picture of it because i thought it was so ridiculous. This is what it was! I thought it was a local church because so many churches here love to do that kind of branding, especially around college campuses.
40:30 - THANK YOU JAMES!! My small town used to have a PAPA MURPHYS, which was the only place I could get 5 meals worth of a HEAVY-ASS stuffed pizza full of fresh veggies & protein, for about $10! I have missed it so much since they started trying to make our town look more fancy & middle/upper class, which means pushing out all affordable places to eat & shop, and removing as many HUD housing as they legally can, so it's very hard to live anymore. Of course, moving is impossible when we can't even afford a vehicle...
Seeing the “I’m a Mormon” ads in your video are so funny. 😂 I grew up LDS, and my uncle co-owns a film company that has collaborated with the church (mostly in the 00’s and up to about the mid 10’s) and helped with the ads. 😂
My response to your sentiments (as always) is: PREACH IT, Reverend! My partner and I are sending lots of love to you and James. Please keep doing what you’re doing. I’m in a rough spot for now, but as soon as I’m able, I plan to donate to you. You and James are the best! Thank you for all your hard work and deep dives (which I love so much) that you both do! Side note (and FTR, I’m atheist/agnostic) but there is a church down the road from me that displays 6 doors, standing upright, on their front lawn (actual doors🚪) which are painted in the spectrum order of the rainbow. They also include the words, “Everyone is welcome at this church.” Out of sheer curiosity, I’ve been meaning to ask them, as a BQ in LGBTQ+, if they, indeed, welcome people like me, and without conditions. This episode has reminded me to do that!
There is a church in NC that says everyone welcome, and they mean that. You want to play basketball all night? They have a court with a light on a timer for you. House burn down? There's rooms in the church. Hungry? Come eat. Never once felt pressure, or even heard them talk about religion, they were just nice people.
the pandering theme of this reminded me of Lecraes new podcast episode with a “former gay” who demonizes the pride flag. he’s on tiktok and he just got fired im being nosy as hell
quick note on the people saying Jesus only washed disciples' feet: in Luke he met a prostitute/sinful woman (depending on version) who washed his feet with her tears, dried them with her hair, kissed them, and doused them in perfume. He wasn't the only one doing all that. Maybe the oil tycoon's the prostitute of the situation, we don't know 🤷♂
It's insulting that this campaign is attempting to portray modern Christianity as "inclusive" when in fact it's been weaponized against as many marginalized groups as possible. There was a brief trend of "Jesus is my Homeboy" t-shirts back in the mid-aughts and that was the first thing that came to mind when I first saw these ads
Fun fact: Papa Murphy’s had a convention at a hotel I used to work at in the early 2010s, and they got kicked out and banned after employees took a golf cart while drunk and went whipping around a super crowded area holding beers😂
I can't stand that alert sound and I haven't figured out yet how to change it. But if I do, I have a feeling I'll just end up hating the new sound I picked.
Ok, I know this isn’t the most important detail, but Papa Murphy’s pizza isn’t frozen. It’s uncooked/raw. I know it’s a small thing, but I actually like their vegetarian pizzas so I can’t stop myself from being a 🤓. As for the ads, I was mostly pissed that I was being sneak attacked by evangelicals. The irony of them complaining about lgbtq+ people pushing our “lifestyles” in their faces when they do crap like that. So annoying.
I was going to point that out about the pizza too. I grew up on it because my dad figured out you can bbq them before they started putting bbq instructions. It has ended up being one of my favorite pizza places just because I prefer a softer crust and I don't like my pizza going cold on the drive home.
If the ppl making & backing the ads ACTUALLY believed & did what they said then I’d have zero problem with it/them. It is a beautiful message (love one another, be kind, etc.)…that the ones forcing it down our throats won’t ever use on their own hearts. 💔💔💔
I know. After the ruling I desperately need a video roasting the SCOTUS majority (or some of the others who enabled this). King James is the *only* thing close to a monarch this country needs.
I'm so glad you did this bc I was so confused. This is the kinda stuff my mom would have loved when she was a Disciples of Christ minister. She grew up Church of Christ and was so desperate for an idea of organized religion that was accepting, so I assumed they were trying to target that group to be weird about.
@@maryeckel9682 I'm so glad you were able to take that step! From everything she's told me it's huge to get out of CoC's grip, and DoC seemed like a common step out of the more awful sects at least in my church (hardcore baptists mostly there). My mom ended up getting so disillusioned with her fellow ministers behavior and refusal to even write their own sermons that she left the ministry and church in general
The first ‘he gets us’ commercial I saw I liked it. Til I saw the end and realized what it was for. I was like ‘ohhhhh so yall got millions for this ad but none for those that ‘Jesus gets’ 🤔 gross.
One of the most egregious bad features of the most recent ad campaign is that all the illustrations of feet washing is AI. All those images were created with AI instead of hiring real models and actors and real photographers in real locations. It's a slap in the face for creative professionals to see so much money going to the huge TV networks and their multinational corporate behemoths and no money going to creative professionals for creating the ad images
other people have already commented this but it's so VERY american christian to spend insane amounts of money on useless ads rather than anything that could actually help anyone in a real way
When I was deconstructing and justifying staying in the church, I took an Alpha class and was incredible disappointed by how vague it was. Now it makes sense why my church, who offered the class for free, left the UMC after the same sex marriage decision.
Mormons are super into genealogy and my parents stopped into a shop in salt lake back when we lived there when I was a kid. I wanted to hear more about my family history but the Mormon workers kept shuffling me over to this kids couch area that would just play a constant stream of Mormon tv ads. I was so weirded out as a non Mormon kid and bored as hell of the same style of commercial over and over again. Every time I see their ads I’m blasted back to this weird childhood memory. Their ads are practically identical in every way from now to back in the 2000s lol
The thing that stuck with me from those ads was who was in the position of Jesus (almost all the conservative figures) and who was in the position of the sinful apostles (almost all the liberal/foreign/stereotypical non-Christian)
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“Jesus loved the people we hate” WOAHHHHH that’s a wild admission of guilt right there. Cue the regina george meme of “so you agree? You ARE hateful?”
"No hate like Christian love"
And then the other guy with the switcharoo “Jesus loves the people who hate us” like check your hearing pal
Glenn Beck doing quick work to image control with “WEEEE don’t hate, theyyyyy do!!!!” Baby he said what he said!
@@alia.2684 This popped out to me soooo much. David Green says "Jesus loves who we hate" and Glenn Beck goes "He loves people who hate us, I agree"
They aren't supposed to hate anyone
Interesting how the marginalized people dont get to take the position of Jesus. Theyre always having their feet washed
Can't have conservatism without condescension, and especially not white Christian nationalism.
"White man's burden" never fell out of fashion among these types.
They really believe that no poc or queer people believe in God and it shows.
@@mewmew6158their narcissism really makes them believe that Jesus/God is an amalgamation of white conservative consciousness based on the fact that they cannot challenge that they themselves may not actually be God.
Which is something, I'm not mad about. I understand, that the idea of the campaign is to reverse social hierarchies. Wp having their feet washed by Black people happened in real life and I dont want to see modern "xtian" representations of that.
They want to spend 1 billion on an ad…. But not on any cause that could change millions of lives!?
And they're claiming God would want that on top of it all.. They're not helping their case of bringing people in.
Sounds like money laundering or tax evasion to me
Nothing says follower of Christ like worshipping money!
EXACTLY!!! TYVM!!!@@HeyitsBri_
Correct. Yeah you got it. There really isn't anything else to say other than "yes".
It just really destroyed me to see how furious evangelicals got at this ad because they thought it showed too much grace and mercy.
Edit: forgot to say that they came up with an alternative he gets us ad. It's pretty bad. The difference was that it showed random people: "ex witch," ex gay, ex trans, etc., to supposedly drive home the more important message of repentance.
honestly i find it interesting (and horrifying) that these people are not only blatantly evil, but are so unrepentant and obvious about it. like, they don't even try to hide the fact they are racist.
It's just amazing how much Evangelicals are so divorced from the actual messages of Jesus
@@lkqgirl3121 that kind of thing is what made me leave the church. When love and compassion are too far, well that's no God I want to worship
I honestly wasn't shocked to read this comment. I thought the ad was like..."oh they're being nice to gay people they're gunna hate this"
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Well they don't try to hide their hatred but they'll try to frame it as not really hate. That's their way of "hiding" it. Just claim they aren't what they are because so many people will believe them or already believe the same/similar things.
"He gets us"
These people can't even get his name or nationality right.
You don't get him.
*mic drop*
It rather sounds like a threat got a horror movie
The owner of Hobby Lobby unironically saying, “Wealth is a curse.”
Poor man. I will take that burden from him if he wants.
He is welcome to send that wealth to me. You're welcome!
"Jesus was cancelled" feels like something someone would say to make fun of youth pastors trying too hard to appeal to gen z.
it reminds me of this time i was like 13 and the paster of the youth group i was going to made a jesus to airpods metaphor
Oh my god, the “Only Human” cover!! I can’t see! Too many tears from silent laughing/crying/slowly falling off my couch ded. GOLD. Pure, God refined in the fires of pearl-clutching, rich white lady “my niece’s school had a book with lesbians, my god, I’m oppressed”, spiritual GOLD.
The backing a Capella beats were inspired
FundieFridays official Single out when?
Extra points if it also features James beatboxing 😂
Omg I'm barely 5 minutes in and you're *Only Human* cover sounds like Strongbad and The Cheat and now I might need to rewatch stuff on HomeStarRunner.
Don't worry, I'll watch the rest of your video first lol
@@Lady_Phoenix OHMIGOD you’re right!!! That must have been part of what got me laughing so much! We’ve been introducing our kids to Strongbad emails… Just like with Honestar Runner, it’s imperfection done TO perfection making it oh so hilarious.
THE NATIVE AND OIL TYCOON. As a Cherokee this pains me
That one had my jaw dropped. The AUDACITY.
Conservatives. Ffs.
These ads are definitly NOT targeted at the marginalised communities depicted: this is about making "bleeding-hearts" Liberal xtians feel good about themselves, about their faith and about their national history.
🤦🏾♀️
I find that one is particularly insidious. It implies that indigenous people require some kind of forgiveness for their identities.
At best it’s ignorant and in poor taste.
Edited because I didn’t like some of my wording.
Absolutely terrible. Christian Nationalism coded
Woke washing Christian nationalism was not something I saw on my fundamentalist bingo card lol
Right? 😂 It's giving "Oops people are fleeing churches, gotta pretend we aren't the problem!!"
Evangelicals are desperate, but not enough to make changes. They haven't changed a bit, and I left a decade ago! 😂
And they say it's the "woke agenda" that's putting big money into trying to engineer culture... But this is the shit we get? Wild.
@@joshua-we9xr And they keep saying we're the ones trying to take over media with a woke agenda... But this is what big money is paying for.
Tbh, it was on mine. I was raised deep in the thought that the biggest problem with Christians that people don't like is that they don't say their message nicely enough. Not that the message itself is wrong, just that it needs to be couched in a polite tone and the language of "love".
I shouldn’t even be surprised at this point. I had to stop watching this ten minutes in because I was relating it to the doc “Bad Faith” that I watched yesterday
Jesus never said one word about abortion, same sex relationships, or trans people. He did say love your neighbor. Care for the sick and the hungry and people in prison. He said the first shall be last and the last shall be first. And he said, whatever you do to the least of these you do to me. These people must never read their own bible.
He said that not everyone is made for a classic marriage. You could interpret that
It almost seems like he didn’t think that other stuff was important. Just the caring and kindness.
I swear, despite the channel name, I'm surprised every Friday by the premiers!
Same here. You aren't alone in this. Lol
This is my calendar. It’s either Friday or not Friday, occasionally it’s Fundee Sundee.
literally ME it’s like when you get a package after you’ve lost its object permanence and hell i even have notifications on lmao
the music ! 😂😂😂😂
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21:20 I know what they mean by "blaming gender dysphoria on the fall" but I think it's really funny to think the entire season of Autumn makes people trans.
Lmao
But it doesn't! That's the *whole point* of Halloween, Samhain, and the Spooky Season, dontcha know?
/s
You've heard of seasonal depression and hot girl summer, now get ready for Transgender Autumn!
Sidenote, I'M A CHANNEL MEMBER??? FOR 18 DAYS NOW?!? How did this happen WHO GIFTED ME??? I only noticed now 😭 My card isnt attached to anything bc I can't pay for things like this on it so that's not an option for what happened lol
Chlorophyll Eggshells, the leaves were always more beautiful than the green assigned at birth.
The “only human” rendition is great lmao
Jen was killing it with the vocals!
Yeah... im gonna request a full version release
only listenable version of that song
It was truly epic.
As a Christian, I would like to share this tidbit from the 3rd chapter of the book of Titus. I have purposely chosen the ESV bible here, since it's the most "Evangelical" of all the translations:
"But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned."
Allie Stuckey does exactly that - she dives in to foolish controversies, quarrels, fights about the law, and it's all useless and empty.
Donald Trump is a divisive person that is twisted by sin and self-condemned, so it would seem.
Strange - our own New Testament says being liberal and woke is GOOD and warns us not to be CONSERVATIVE. Imagine that!
Cheers Jen and James - from a Christian Jennonite in Springfield Missouri!!
I still want to see you two do the "Josh Hawley drinking game" where you read his book "Manhood" on the air and drink a shot every time you encounter the phrase "woke liberal" :) :)
Love this! As a Christian, imma bout to go read Titus again! Also, why suggest the drinking game? Are you wanting Jenn and James to become martyrs of the faith???
Yep, one of my closest friends is a Biblical scholar/ pastor at an affirming church, and she's the truest actual Christian (ie, a big ole woke leftie) I know. She is one of the loudest voices in her community against injustice.
Does Josh run that book to you the way he ran away from "his people" on January 6th?
Glenn Beck saying that Jesus loves those who hate "us" is about as disconnected as we can expect this campaign to be. Rather than, "Jesus loves those who we hate," they cannot see themselves as anything but a victim. They don't know how hateful they are.
These commercials are like: we know you (middle class white Christian) have to pretend to show some grace to literal refugees, or those pesky climate change activists. But it’s okay Jesus get Us (white Christians). Jesus also had to pretend he liked sinners, we will get through this together 🙏
Nailed it!
Good translation.
I first saw the ads on Reddit. I hated them instantly because I do not believe that Christians have my best interests at heart.
I started reporting them and writing rude things in the comments of the ads. Now I no longer see them in my Reddit feed. I actually forgot about it because, by some luck, I just wasn't seeing the ads anywhere else, largely thanks to adblocking software.
Maybe it's because I'm old, pissed off and jaded but I do not trust ads. I do not trust the media. And I especially do not trust ads that have a "media blitz campaign." The billionaire class who is funding this is not to be trusted. Project 2025 is being funded by the same groups. They want to put us in camps if we don't do what they say. They only care about power over everyone else. They are mad that they can't control us and they are trying to make us comply.
The Christian power players don't care about Jesus and they don't care about you. If Jesus came back today, they'd try to have him assassinated.
Love your energy here!
I’m a Christian, and I honestly feel like they would drone strike Jesus if he came back in the modern day.
And the Reddit ad campaign on mobile has gotten out of control. They have now turned comments off, upvotes and downvotes don’t work, and you’re not allowed to block or flag them. I’m so sick of seeing this bullshit in my feed on the daily. I don’t know who they bribed at Reddit for that, but we’re all tapping out and Reddit needs to read the room.
Christian Nationalism threatens everyone. Period.
They’re still all over Reddit for me. Despite all my downvoting/reporting and adblockers.
I’m not sure how true this is but supposedly the ad on Reddit targets profiles that are subbed to/active in non Christian subs.
As soon as I started using a vpn and reporting the ads they finally went away. Much like you I completely forgot about it
The papa Murphys near me has a sign that says "save time" (which... but you still have to cook it but whatever). However, the T and I fell off so it now reads SAVE ME and I like to think the employees are in on it
Papa Murphy’s has been trying for years in various ways to encourage people to order ahead of time, that’s probably what that sign was about.
.. putting something in the oven is hardly actually cooking but whatever
@@LottieDeLuscious okay, let's all calm down it was just a joke
Damn TI fell off again?
@anneprice705 your statement about cooking is true in context, because Papa M does not save time for the consumer when compared with other pizza chains (especially factoring in delivery). There are reasons to choose Murphy’s, saving time has never been one of them.
Ok, please keep Fundie Fridays karaoke covers going. I haven’t laughed that hard in awhile 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seconded!!!
my mom has fallen for these ads and she’s obsessed with them. i don’t have the heart to point out how problematic they are
I'm a more progressive Christian and I can see the appeal of the ads. However, knowing the characters behind the ads makes me think the campaign will slowly push harder right.
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@@jaimesfolly i totally agree! her heart is definitely in the right place
My Catholic mom was like Yay, how nice when they came on during this year’s Super Bowl commercial lineup. I went OFF! I can tell that they were making money off of it. It definitely went against Matthew 6:5-8!
Just make sure she doesn't start draining her bank account. :-/
Conservative Christians try not to sound like literal cartoon supervillains challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
This 150 year stuff sounds like an actual anime speech.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! GGs on that Only Human rendition.
Seriously, one of our favorite things on the channel now too lol. Thanks for encouraging our musical career!
I knew it was trap when I saw it because no self respecting, god honoring person would spend millions on a super bowl campaign when they could help so many people with that money.
*edited for grammar*
“Propaganda or Pandering?”
Yes.
Propapandering.
¿Por que no los dos?
Listening to Jen and James perform the best cover I’ve ever heard has made my day infinitely better. Like I had to pause, explain to my partner why I was cackling so hard, then went back and listened again. 10/10 would buy an album of the Reverend’s covers 😂
Ok, so when you said "Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg Virginia," I got shivers. I live in the Leesburg area, and that place is creepy AF. They churn out right-wing candidates for local elections like they're some sort of factory. "So-and-so attends Cornerstone Chapel" has kind of become a local political dogwhistle. They're charismatic evangelical, extremely well-funded, very into the rapture and end times (and more than a little dominion theology), and they're trying hard to take over Loudoun County.
The money behind these campaigns is truly frightening. Great episode. And Def knew the ads were underhanded and pure trickery. They creeped me out tbh.
@15:45 THAT IS SO TELLING. "He loves *who we hate*"... I was always told to love the sinner, hate the sin, but boy do these people not believe in that.
Ran to the comments as soon as he slipped that "he hates who..." up to see if someone else caught that. Very telling
I first became aware of he gets us because they were blasting ads all over Reddit. To the least receptive audience possible. I vaguely remember some of the ads being in dialog with the reception with post titles with the sentiment of “why do you think we’re propaganda 😢”.
That's where I see them most too. I always report them for being political
No group abuses the concept of compassion more than Christians.
CHRISTUSSY was absolutely insane I made it less than 3 minutes into the video before choking - okay time to continue but that took my breath away 😭
1.) I loathed these ads before. My feelings are only intensified now.
2.) Dear Reverend Jen, please consider a career in song parody. Maybe weird Al is looking for an apprentice.
I read that as weird A.I. and thought that was a read on the bad AI art for their ads
A lot of Yankovic fans wish we would go back to A.I.
Oooh then Jen + Al could do a spoof of Sorcerer's Apprentice but it'd be Satirist's Apprentice
The freedom the hobby lobby guy wants is the freedom of having no government at all. No taxes. Just rich and poor. Like in the good old days when Kings were guys who shared with their friends and everyone else was desperately poor.
He probably peed in excitement when SCOTUS made their ruling this week. (Whereas anyone with common sense, regardless of political alignment is horrified - even those outside the U.S)
Back when the there was no welfare and the rich got to decide which poor person was 'deserving' of charity scraps.....
“Agents of order” is a terrifying statement.
Yeah. Agents of order who need to know the truth and believe that without this POV the world will end. Terrifying, fear-based, destructive, but oh so old. Thanks a lot, “Judeo-Christian tradition.”
Ok but Jen, you and James HAVE to do more a cappella covers in your videos because DAYUM that was a vibe!!
I hate getting these ads on Reddit, they’re so frustrating as someone who’s left Christianity.
27:19 "Wealth is a curse. How do you handle the curse? I know. Pay your effing taxes!
These ads popped up on my Reddit and RUclips all the time. I felt like I was very specifically targeted as an atheist to market to. 😂
Papa Murphy’s is also super helpful for people who live very rural. You take and bake the pizza because it takes an hour or so to get home from the pizza place. That way you can have hot pizza even if you live far away.
Yes! This was us. I loved Papa Murphy's as a kid.
My mother volunteers at a pregnancy crisis center in Eastern Missouri. She pays them to volunteer and they are 'training' this 80+ year old woman to run an ultrasound machine and to be a counselor. She will be 'certified' or 'licensed' by them to work as such there when she finishes paying for their courses. Doubt she will be legally able to be a counselor or ultrasound technician after they drain all her money.
Uh no…. Ultrasound tech has a degree & certifications with it and their are subdivisions (heart vs uterus vs other areas). Julie Jo (walkingonlexapro) is a licensed tech
I feel for your mom cause yeah they are taking her $.
@@mojaveknitter I know that and you know that, but they are telling this elderly lady that she will be saving babies and convincing pregnant girls to give up these babies for adoption. I have no doubt that if she finishes these course before she runs out of money to give them, she will be running their ultrasound machine and giving dubious counseling advice to girls that think that they are really getting health care. I worry that she will get sued like the pregnancy crisis center on the east coast that is being sued. Either their 'trained' ultrasound technician couldn't identify an ectopic pregnancy or didn't tell the couple for fear that they would abort the pregnancy. The woman almost died and she lost her fallopian tube. The story kept changing on why she wasn't told she had an ectopic pregnancy. These places scam vulnerable women and girls and they scam their own volunteers.
Can these places be reported using unlicensed staff? I don’t know what other answer there is… it sucks & im sorry your mom is roped into this
@@mojaveknitter they can, but if I report it, I would just be repeating what she said and she would deny it. And I am sure that they have enough legal backing in the county that they could circumvent any kind of investigation. They could just claim she was confused when she told me. Or that I am some baby-killing liar. Who would you believe, some obvious murdering commie that works for public education, or some sweet old lady that is living her faith by providing for pregnant girls? Unfortunately, it is going to take some tragedy to get eyes on the place.
@@mojaveknitter I wrote a huge paragraph that I think didn't get posted. They 'can' get reported, but considering how red the county is, I don't think that they would take my word over my mother's. I am from out of the county and my mother is a sweet elderly lady that is local. The pregnancy crisis center probably claim that my mother was confused and that isn't what they say. I think that it would have to come from someone that worked there or was serviced there.
I was one of those Papa Murphy’s kids! 😂 I grew up on food stamps and every month, basically the day they dropped (the 15th lol), we would get Papa Murphy’s pizza! It was the ONLY time we got to “eat out” so I was very thankful they accepted EBT! 😂❤
Didn't grow up on food stamps, but Papa Murphy's was a treat. Like, I knew it was a special day if Mom went out to grab Papa Murphy's... or if we picked one up on the way to my grandmother's place.
FR love me some Papa Murphy's, it's way better than the other pizza chains! They have some really excellent vegetarian options, which often seem like an afterthought at other places.
The mean streets of Grand Haven... a lake town, one of the wealthiest lake towns. Yachts everywhere.
"He only washed the feet of his disciples" - that's.... An unintentionally good point? Jesus wasn't out there washing the feet of oppressors. He never gave Caesar a back rub. Huh. Maybe these campaigns are bringing the right and left together over common ground in hating them. 😂
These ads gave me the heeby jeebies immediately and I'm so glad you dug into it...I knew there was something lurking there. You should do a video about Far Above Rubies. My 8 yr old niece just got out into one of those groups 😔
I dislike how I block or say I am not interested in that… and I always see their ads. I do this for many things and never see that stuff again. Why this!?
I try this with political ads, and it then seems every ad I get is the one I blocked.
It took them six months of research to conclude Christianity has an ‘image problem’? Surely one Google search would have sufficed.
omg!! i saw these trucks last october driving around campus near UT austin that said "Jesus welcomed the weird" and I took a picture of it because i thought it was so ridiculous. This is what it was! I thought it was a local church because so many churches here love to do that kind of branding, especially around college campuses.
40:30 - THANK YOU JAMES!! My small town used to have a PAPA MURPHYS, which was the only place I could get 5 meals worth of a HEAVY-ASS stuffed pizza full of fresh veggies & protein, for about $10! I have missed it so much since they started trying to make our town look more fancy & middle/upper class, which means pushing out all affordable places to eat & shop, and removing as many HUD housing as they legally can, so it's very hard to live anymore. Of course, moving is impossible when we can't even afford a vehicle...
Seeing the “I’m a Mormon” ads in your video are so funny. 😂 I grew up LDS, and my uncle co-owns a film company that has collaborated with the church (mostly in the 00’s and up to about the mid 10’s) and helped with the ads. 😂
"He may get us, but they don't get IT.", Said this Pagan Minister.
It TOTALLY reminded me of the Mormon rebranding but when you said “fake woke” THAT hit the nail on the head
As someone who's family did have EBT growing up, Papa Murphey's was the best lol
That Only Human cover is a total hit.
''Propaganda or Pandering?'' It can always be both.
"If we could all be nicer, and especially if oppressed people can accept injustice, life would be so much better" 🥴🙄🙄🙄
Screaming at the “I’m only human after all” cover y’all kinda ate that up 😂
Jenn has the same reaction to email/meeting notifications as I do. “Can’t have shit 😠”
You two absolutely killed the "I'm Only Human" remix. Spotify when?? (genuinely, I WILL add this to my workout list)
"Generic for Christ" god i want that on a shirt
Could you do a video on project 2025? I just feel like more people need to be aware of what’s about to happen because it’s absolutely horrifying.
4:40 this cover made my life please always do this 🙏🏼😭🍓 not James beat boxing in the background 😂😂😂 "baOw baOw"
My response to your sentiments (as always) is: PREACH IT, Reverend!
My partner and I are sending lots of love to you and James. Please keep doing what you’re doing. I’m in a rough spot for now, but as soon as I’m able, I plan to donate to you. You and James are the best!
Thank you for all your hard work and deep dives (which I love so much) that you both do!
Side note (and FTR, I’m atheist/agnostic) but there is a church down the road from me that displays 6 doors, standing upright, on their front lawn (actual doors🚪) which are painted in the spectrum order of the rainbow. They also include the words, “Everyone is welcome at this church.” Out of sheer curiosity, I’ve been meaning to ask them, as a BQ in LGBTQ+, if they, indeed, welcome people like me, and without conditions. This episode has reminded me to do that!
There is a church in NC that says everyone welcome, and they mean that. You want to play basketball all night? They have a court with a light on a timer for you. House burn down? There's rooms in the church. Hungry? Come eat.
Never once felt pressure, or even heard them talk about religion, they were just nice people.
I thought it was a Mormon thing at first too, haha. They still do ad campaigns around the holidays but not at the same scale.
the pandering theme of this reminded me of Lecraes new podcast episode with a “former gay” who demonizes the pride flag. he’s on tiktok and he just got fired im being nosy as hell
I cringe at how much I used to look up to Lecrae and many others 😢
Why does Glenn Beck have those giant branded mic covers in front of his and his guest's faces? Related: Why does Glenn Beck?
Okay but your version of I’m only human, SLAPPED
quick note on the people saying Jesus only washed disciples' feet: in Luke he met a prostitute/sinful woman (depending on version) who washed his feet with her tears, dried them with her hair, kissed them, and doused them in perfume. He wasn't the only one doing all that. Maybe the oil tycoon's the prostitute of the situation, we don't know 🤷♂
It's insulting that this campaign is attempting to portray modern Christianity as "inclusive" when in fact it's been weaponized against as many marginalized groups as possible. There was a brief trend of "Jesus is my Homeboy" t-shirts back in the mid-aughts and that was the first thing that came to mind when I first saw these ads
Fun fact: Papa Murphy’s had a convention at a hotel I used to work at in the early 2010s, and they got kicked out and banned after employees took a golf cart while drunk and went whipping around a super crowded area holding beers😂
As a queer Christian myself... "He Gets Us" doesn't get us.
JEN YOU CANT TRIGGER ME WITH THE WINDOWS WORK EMAIL SOUND WHILE I'M WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS LMAOOO
I can't stand that alert sound and I haven't figured out yet how to change it. But if I do, I have a feeling I'll just end up hating the new sound I picked.
Not y'all's "only human" covers being bangin 😂😂😂
I know I was expecting it to be charmingly low effort, but it unironically slapped.
@@connorsullivan1855 seriously 😂😂
You and James doing your version of “I’m Only Human” I AM DECEASED 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
18:30 if we go back to Jesus' relevance from 2000 years ago does that mean he loses all relevance and becomes an obscure local figure?
Can not escape these ads. They’re everywhere and I hate them. I’m glad you covered them, great job!
Ok, I know this isn’t the most important detail, but Papa Murphy’s pizza isn’t frozen. It’s uncooked/raw. I know it’s a small thing, but I actually like their vegetarian pizzas so I can’t stop myself from being a 🤓.
As for the ads, I was mostly pissed that I was being sneak attacked by evangelicals. The irony of them complaining about lgbtq+ people pushing our “lifestyles” in their faces when they do crap like that. So annoying.
It’s the same way how I feel about these people pushing Christianity onto public schools but then again this could be done out of desperation
Yes, totally! And i appreciate James pointing out that it's an accessible option for people purchasing with EBT.
I like the vegetarian pizzas too!
I was going to point that out about the pizza too. I grew up on it because my dad figured out you can bbq them before they started putting bbq instructions. It has ended up being one of my favorite pizza places just because I prefer a softer crust and I don't like my pizza going cold on the drive home.
I’m one minute in, and the sarcastic humour already has me cackling 😂😂
Jen your such a ray of light in this world. When editing Jen chimed in my heart felt so full. You’re so comforting and doing the lords work 😉 hehe
The thing about the last missionary to the last person who "needs to hear the gospel" is because it's believed Jesus won't return until that happens.
I'm from Grand Haven, Mi and I didn't know about BrandHaven and He Gets Us..but it explains a lot about the bigotry in this town.
Greetings from SE Lower MI!
Doing your own cover of copyrighted music needs to be done more 👏👏👏
If the ppl making & backing the ads ACTUALLY believed & did what they said then I’d have zero problem with it/them. It is a beautiful message (love one another, be kind, etc.)…that the ones forcing it down our throats won’t ever use on their own hearts. 💔💔💔
Speaking of Project 2025....😮😮😮
I know. After the ruling I desperately need a video roasting the SCOTUS majority (or some of the others who enabled this).
King James is the *only* thing close to a monarch this country needs.
The real message is "You're welcome at our church, unless you don't change enough to suit us. Then we want you to leave."
I'm so glad you did this bc I was so confused. This is the kinda stuff my mom would have loved when she was a Disciples of Christ minister. She grew up Church of Christ and was so desperate for an idea of organized religion that was accepting, so I assumed they were trying to target that group to be weird about.
From CoC to DoC is a small step that I also made years ago.
@@maryeckel9682 I'm so glad you were able to take that step! From everything she's told me it's huge to get out of CoC's grip, and DoC seemed like a common step out of the more awful sects at least in my church (hardcore baptists mostly there). My mom ended up getting so disillusioned with her fellow ministers behavior and refusal to even write their own sermons that she left the ministry and church in general
Imagine a billion dollars feeding the hungry and clothing the naked...
The first ‘he gets us’ commercial I saw I liked it. Til I saw the end and realized what it was for. I was like ‘ohhhhh so yall got millions for this ad but none for those that ‘Jesus gets’ 🤔 gross.
Omgf your version of "I'm only human" was amazing. 😹 Just like your eye makeup and your energy. 😻 Oh Jen, I'm so happy to be along for the ride.
One of the most egregious bad features of the most recent ad campaign is that all the illustrations of feet washing is AI. All those images were created with AI instead of hiring real models and actors and real photographers in real locations. It's a slap in the face for creative professionals to see so much money going to the huge TV networks and their multinational corporate behemoths and no money going to creative professionals for creating the ad images
I mean it makes sense since conservatives tend to hate the arts and don't think it's real work
"thats more chinese in your thinking"
What the actual 🙈
Ok Jen where have you been hiding your incredible musical talent?!?? I need a full version of your Rag n' Bone Man cover. It is brilliant
RIGHT
other people have already commented this but it's so VERY american christian to spend insane amounts of money on useless ads rather than anything that could actually help anyone in a real way
Omfg that acapella was amazinggggggg Jen you got pipes!!
When I was deconstructing and justifying staying in the church, I took an Alpha class and was incredible disappointed by how vague it was. Now it makes sense why my church, who offered the class for free, left the UMC after the same sex marriage decision.
I am sorry as a UMC member who is very happy with the change.
"So new it hasn't filed taxes yet..." thats cute, they are pretending they will pay taxes
Mormons are super into genealogy and my parents stopped into a shop in salt lake back when we lived there when I was a kid. I wanted to hear more about my family history but the Mormon workers kept shuffling me over to this kids couch area that would just play a constant stream of Mormon tv ads. I was so weirded out as a non Mormon kid and bored as hell of the same style of commercial over and over again. Every time I see their ads I’m blasted back to this weird childhood memory. Their ads are practically identical in every way from now to back in the 2000s lol
It's kind of hilarious that they don't get that "washing feet" is a euphemism 🤦♂
The version of Only Human y'all recorded was more than worth the like and comment. 😂😂 Well done!
The thing that stuck with me from those ads was who was in the position of Jesus (almost all the conservative figures) and who was in the position of the sinful apostles (almost all the liberal/foreign/stereotypical non-Christian)