To be fair, the fundamental utility of all god concepts is that each person can make up the attitudes and opinions of the deity so that it agrees with their own. All gods are divine sock puppets.
@@WDRhine I’m furiously thumbing through my Bible, searching for the passage where Jesus tells us “America First” and then commands us to “Make America Great Again”. I’m sure it’s in there somewhere, unless the deep state has somehow excised it from the text. No worries, I’ll find it. And when I do, it will be “checkmate, sinners”. [“checkmate sinners” would be an awesome biblical quote]
@@MeredithDomzalski Brittany Dawn Nelson, formerly Brittany Dawn Davis He actually tagged her on the video but she probably removed it, and blocked him, just like she does with anything that doesn't agree with her bullshit.
@@plagueangel Aint she a sensitive thing. She removes all negative comments. One can tell, most channels have at least 1 negative comment or critical. Instead all are positive.
@@undomiel152003 considering her vapid bullshit meaningless content and all her shameless lies, one would think she has countless negative comments, so i don't understand how stupid her fans must be to not realise what a poser she is...if u never wondered how come she has such amount of folllwers, just look at her engagement rate... She CONSTANTLY buys followers BY THE THOUSANDS and acts as if she were really popular.... I really really dislike her and everything she does
When she says “they’re choosing to partake in the world”, the irony I find of people watching the Super Bowl, which is a simile of the Roman colosseum gladiator games, and saying they’re worried about other sinners not on the narrow path. 🙃
@MarcosElMalo2 Ironically that story about throwing the first stone was a later addition to the Bible. It was a popular story from Rome, not something that Jesus experienced.
"The disciples got their feet washed because they picked up their crosses and turned away from sin." Yeah, and less than 24 hours after that, Peter is telling people "Oh, that Jesus guy? I don't know him." 😄
"Jesus would never dine in our sin." Idk, Jesus has his whole last meal with about 12 sinners that all revered and worshipped Him, that were just absolutely trying to do their best by Him. Not to mention, Jesus already knew they would sin, and told them directly what their sins would be. Jesus also, very frequently, communed and preached to a bunch of sinners, sometimes all at one time, and absolutely loved them unconditionally anyway. Honestly not sure what this lady is talking about, and I don't think she has any clue either.
Notice too that her message is so insular that it encourages people to cast out sinners instead of saving them as Jesus did by example. The act of washing feet is an act of humbling oneself before another. Of gaining their trust so they can hear your word. Acts of service are actually the best way to open someone up to the lessons of the Gospel. But she is closed off to that notion and clearly wants to other people who identify and act in a way she finds inappropriate. It is a great way to protect an in-group, but it fails the mission that Jesus gives his disciples to spread his word. The religion is being let down in order to prop up the social norms.
I don't understand why they put so much money behind this campaign when evangelical Christians keep gatekeeping and marginalizing the ppl the ads are trying to target.
Christianity needs new converts. They are on a decrease. Those people who give the money for ads don't care as long it brings them new converts. And in 100 years the masses will accept what they criticise today. I mean Evangelicals when mentioning the number of Christians world wide include every Christian, doesn't matter if its a unitarian, JW etc.
@JopJio That's a remarkable fact, and you have it exact. And why do xians adopt such phony, authoritative tones when they speak? Nary a good faith argument in sight. If she had anything credible to say, she could just say it without all the "look at me, I'm super holy, you can hear it in my voice" garbage they be solemnly barfing up anywhere and everywhere.
_"It paints a beautiful message, but it's not a biblical one."_ That's all I needed to hear out of her mouth. Keep up the good work Dan, even knowing that 99.99% of Christians won't get it, a few will be moved. I'm still shaking my head. She actually said the message was beautiful but unbiblical, admitting, it seems, that her interpretation of a "true" biblical message would be that it's ugly. You can't make this stuff up.
She has had a lot of interesting takes on things, and it's a shame that she has such a following of people who just believe what she says. Many seem to be new Christians and young women who really look up to her.
@@andrew5184more troubling about this person is she was just sued by the State of Texas for scamming tons of women out of their hard earned cash. She became an evangelical influencer after she was caught.
"He would not dine with us in our sins." I guess she just ignores all the passages where Jesus literally dines with people who are still in their sins, e.g., all the publicans and sinners? That's practically all who Jesus dined with. Fantastic video, Dan!
That line reminds me that as an Aussie kid my family had an LP of Johnny Cash’s Jesus movie. One of the lines in it was expressing the disgust of the good people of the day that “he dines with publicans and sinners!” When I first heard the word Republican, I thought- “he dines with Republicans and sinners!” I always thought it was considered unpleasant in the US to dine with ‘those’ people 😂
Yeah, the evangelical misinterpretation of scripture has to be willful and/or indoctrinated because it's not subtle. You just read the Gospels anywhere at random and it's not long until you encounter a counter-cultural message like that.
Apparently quoting the lyrics gets your comment deleted from RUclips, but you can listen to those same lyrics sung on RUclips just fine! So I nstead of quoting the lyrics, I just want to put ‘Chop Suey’ by ‘System of a Down’ out there as a potential follow up song in your ‘Christian’ playlist.
That ad creeped me out because, of course, why not spend that money actually helping instead of talking about helping? But people being offended that the ad was too kind to marginalized people? Even creepier. It’s all so creepy.
I was offended by it because it's an obvious attempt to paper over all the problems in all the various churches and just pretend it's all positive. It's not.
Because we've lost sight of the purpose. The term Christianity is a term I'm coming to resent because the ordinal name, The Way, while very generic, is way more on the nose. First people have to be aware of a different way of doing things before they can change their current ways. This was preaching the good news. And despite all the churches, many people have never really heard it.
What an exceptionally awful way to misinterpret what is otherwise a wonderful message. Thanks as always, Dan, for providing clarity and data to combat the dogma out there :D
Seriously. If a person sees a message that can be summed up as "love and serve your neighbor" and their reaction is "this doesn't feel like God" that sure says a lot about their thoughts on God.
The clear and calm manner even speaks to my daughter as she is seemingly otherwise plugged into another world. "I like this guy, what he says makes sense." Thank you.
I recall the quote from one of the Data Over Dogma episodes, it's Brigham Young who said it, apparently. I'm not a Mormon, but the quote just stuck with me. It's so badass!
Reading the comments gives me the warm fuzzies. However, yesterday i caught myself saying, "The city commision may be all of the same party, but they're hardly univocal." The group just stared at me.
Imagine thinking you're one of the christians who will go to heaven after saying we shouldn't help sinners. I can picture their face now, when Jesus looks at them, asks why they didn't help the queer people and they look Jesus in the eyes and say "because they are a sinner" and Jesus looks right back at them and says "I helped sinners"
It's remarkable how they forget that, by their own doctrine, *everyone is a sinner* . Evangelicals really like to have their cake and eat it too on the doctrine of salvation and works.
Because as long as he isn’t a left-wing politician like Dan wants then he isn’t the real Jesus. Boom, rebuttal to an idiotic take from someone too easily impressed w/ a commentator who they think sounds smart, but is actually just an advocate for a political agenda and uses people’s faith to manipulate them to his side.
Bet she goes to one of those rich people money-worshipping churches that considers the Sermon on the Mount to be "lib talking points". Got some of those folks in my family.
I was just reading the speeches of preachers who praised the Nazis, and it was unsurprisingly familiar language. "Full of longing did a people look for a liberator from the suffering. Then came the Führer. Out of all the ruin he salvaged the faith, where nothing was to be seen; [he salvaged] the hope, where nothing was to hope anymore... a miracle has happened with us. There was a new people again, which went to work again with new courage; people could laugh again, and be happy... think about it and be thankful." He made Germany great again, in other words.
@@Himmiefanit's certainly heresy. Any scheme to tiptoe around Biblical mandates to love and serve is heresy and presents a false Gospel. She seems really caught up with everyone else's sin, but I hope she repents of her own sin that is blinding her for the sake of comfort and convenience within her tribe.
Even worse. She is a grifter who operated for a while as a fitness influencer by scamming people of millions of dollars. She ended up being sued by the state of Texas and settling for a measly $400,000. When she flailed at being a fitness grifter, she pivoted to conservative christian grifter. She runs christian conferences and retreats, charging thousands of $$ for people to heat and talk about jesus. It's proving much more lucrative than her fitness scam. Oh, and her husband is a corrupt ex cop who beat civilians up so bad he was kicked out of the police force. They are a real piece of work.
"So when people talk about turning from sin and being separated from the world they are overwhelmingly serving the interest of the world and they don't even know it." Amen
Thank you Dan, this is one of my favorites from you so far (as a former seminary Student and Evangelical minister). It's not only a word-perfect rebuttal of of this creator's content specifically, but also Evangelical Christianity in general.
Hey Dan, my 5 year old says you're really cool and he would like to be friends with you. He wants to know your favorite Bluey episode. His is the barbeque episode. We actually live nearby if you ever want to come over for a Bluey barbecue.
My favourite episode, if anyone cares, is the cricket one. It hasn't made it to the US yet, I think (and may never), but the cricket playing world is going nuts over it.
Christians: [spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign to try to improve their image and show that they're not so bad] Also Christians: [condemn the ad and say, "No, no, we actually are that bad"]
"[Jesus] would never willingly dine in our sin..." Matt 9:10 "While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. " (also in Mark and Luke) I don't know if she is deliberately ignorant or has just been misled, but to claim that Jesus would never hang out with or serve sinners? That's just bizarre. According to the bible, he explicitly does so. And the bible is clear as to why (because you need to treat the sick, not the healthy). But you go on, lady, and shun them, alienate them, drive them away. Because that's what Jesus would do? What a warped message.
@@Billsbob How do you know? You cannot use the Bible and prove that it is "pro-life". I can show you that it promotes abortion. If your wife cheats on you and is pregnant by another man, you can force her to have an abortion and make her unable to reproduce anymore according to Numbers 5.
@@Billsbob Some Gospel stories include a call to repentance and some don't. Matthew 9 alone includes Jesus healing 6 people, and none of them are "explicitly" called to repent of anything.
@@Billsbob Your account name is demonic. I’m going to point this out on your various comments. “Billsbob”. Haha. You come here identifying as a demon and as a deceiver.
@@Billsbob that is exactly the accusation the priests used against Jesus. Does it make you proud to be siding with those who handed Jesus over to Rome to be executed?
These folks always believe that their view is the biblical view. They have no clue about the contrary verses for every issue. They're just sheepishly repeating their cherry-picked verses and values.
Sounds like you’re describing Dan. You don’t think it’s odd he only pipes up when someone expresses what he believes is a right-leaning view and how he conveniently couch’s all the good virtues of Jesus interpretations as Left-leaning? This guy is the most insidious kind of hypocrite, leaning on his credentialism and oratory skills to draw people away from truth to his political agenda.
@@Billsbob Your "insidious" ad hominem against Dan aside, your statement is false. Dan also "pipes up" to critique views across the spectrum he believes the data disagree with, including views of what you'd likely label "liberal" and/or "leftist". Dan will also point out when "right-leaning" points are in line with the data. If you're going to attack and critique, you'd do well to better familiarize yourself with the person's content and methods. Also, you've ironically accused Dan of leading people "away from the truth", while failing to disclose what that truth is. Aren't you just validating and demonstrating my point from the main comment, that you believe your view of select verses from the bible is the truth?
What we need to keep in mind is the amount of money that Christian spent in that ad. $7 million for 30 seconds of ad time. With that money, we could've fed the poor.
Wow, this video is amazing- Genuinely! I'm blown away by how good this is. This is by far my favourite video of yours I've seen. This might be my favourite piece of information that I've seen anywhere in my life. This is exactly what we need to hear & understand. Thank you so much for this. 💗
Dan, once in a while you surpass your own excellence of distinction, explication and dissertation. This was almost soul-shaking for me to watch you react to this person who recalled so many dangerous, closed-minded, and ignorant religious dogmas from my childhood. Thank you.
7:35 - Modern American evangelical Christianity _is_ New Age spirituality*! A bunch of ex-hippies burned out on their experiments in Western esotericism or the inward-looking aspects of Eastern spirituality filtered into charismatic Christianity in the 70s and brought all that Me First thinking into their picture of Christianity: No need to serve others, no need to be good stewards of the Earth for future generations, no need to meet people where they are, just prosperity gospel, "those people deserve what they get", "I'm going to heaven and other folks will just be Left Behind" and the full-on embrace of capitalism. *(And this is no disrespect to those neopagans, heathens, Buddhists, Hindus, indigenous peoples etc. seeking genuine spiritual fulfillment or practicing or reconstructing the traditions of their cultures--I'm talking about the people who took selfish and harmful lessons from their experiences in other spiritual practices and wedded them to Christianity and capitalism.)
I find it amazing that she believes God might condemn a self professed Christian to eternal torment, while at the same time be completely confident she isn’t one of those poor souls.
Same. Idkw she said. I was too distracted by those spider legs attached to her eye rims. I wonder why she's not satisfied with the lashes God gave her. I'm sure they're very pretty...& much safer.
The previous _He Gets Us_ controversy was that the campaign was created by a bunch of plutocrats who demonstrated by their own behavior they didn't actually adhere to the doctrine expressed by the commercials, rather saw it all as branding by which to direct fans and followers into an information-scraping campaign. It put into sharp bas relief that Jesus and Christianity have become a brand, a banner under which self-identified Christians can rally and be directed to labor or soldier as ministries saw fit. But in the last few years, we've been hearing stories with increasing recurrence of Christian nationalists objecting when their minister preaches about the beatitudes, or Jesus' proscription against accumulating wealth and possessions. So the objections against Jesus washing feet, or the notion that Christians should be willing to wash feet or engage in subservient behavior for their neighbors, or to regard everyone as neighbors (they are obligated to love) are not surprising. Evangelical Protestant Sociologists (not to be confused with Evangelical Protestant Socialists, though there's probably some intersection) warn that if the Christian Nationalist movement succeeds in neutering the democratic features of the US, or perpetuates this campaign of hatred and othering the marginalized, that it may tarnish Evangelical Protestantism (if not all of Christianity) as a hate group the way the KKK or Neonazis are painted, and this will impede the Great Commission for a long, long time.
@@Billsbob Your account name is demonic. I’m going to point this out on your various comments. “Billsbob”. Haha. You come here identifying as a demon and as a deceiver.
Thankyou so very much for pointing out the political and power aspects of that commercial and the uses that that power is being put to! It needs to be said way more often. Thankyou!
I think people have a tendency to gloss over the enormity of the time span that Biblical stories cover. The "in-universe" time span from the birth of Abraham to the death of Jesus is about 1,900 years. And while the actual writing of the Bible didn't cover quite so many years, the various parts were written over several centuries, and assembled over several more centuries. In contrast, look at something like the US Constitution, which is only about 200 years old. The folks who wrote that believed that the conflict between the idea of "providing for the general welfare" and the idea of slavery was not an insurmountable conflict. Here we are just 200 years later, and the vast majority of Americans disagree - you can't take care of your people and allow slavery at the same time. And even just mentioning this usually starts a conversation about how that isn't really what the writers meant, because........insert any one of several popular arguments about what is the "right" way to read the Constitution. We accept the fact that the relationship between the static written document and the dynamic culture that reads the document is complex and evolving when it comes to the Constitution, but when it comes to something written so long ago that the ability to smelt iron was a novel innovation for the authors.....nope. The Bible has only one meaning that is the same now as it was when people mixed straw into mud and let it dry in the sun when they wanted a new house.
I never wanted to share a post more than this one. Additionally, I definitely know one thing Jesus would not have done, and that would be spending an obscene amount of money to advertise his beliefs, rather take the money, and put it towards what he truly believed, and that was helping people who needed it.
You mean it accurately depicted the religion of Christianity? There is a difference. The Christian Jesus is a myth, since the religion of Christianity is not in the Bible. The ekklēsia (called out followers) mentioned in Acts 11 were Jews and proselytes into Judaism. See Acts 6:5.
@@waitstill7091 "the religion of Christianity" rather than "the message of Jesus Christ"? Personally I'd prefer "a core message of Jesus Christ" but certainly a message common to all the gospels.
@@PastPresented The truth matters way too much to settle on personal preferences. “In a time of universal deceit - the truth is a revolutionary act.” Unknown
@@waitstill7091 And the other half of Acts that deals with Paul opening that up to the Gentiles? Or Paul's epistles (which predate Acts), that specifically tell Gentiles that they do not need to follow Jewish practices? Yes, the modern religion of Christianity is not in the New Testament, but there is an early church that does not follow Jewish custom.
@@WFierce In Acts 21, we read Paul was teaching the Jewish followers to forsake the Law. Jesus most certainly opposed those who practiced lawlessness. See Matthew 7:23 "...and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs." Acts 21:21 Paul's letters further confirm he was anti-Judaism. "Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision." Philippians 3:2 In Matthew 23, we read Jesus instructed his followers to obey the Pharisees. Today it's called Rabbinic Judaism. “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore ALL that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them." Matthew 23:1-4 Paul was the Joseph Smith before there was a Joseph Smith. "For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ." Galatians 1:12
7:55 - “the terrifying reality…” is that she thinks her version of the made up supernatural frienemy is reality. Hers, mind you, not yours or anyone else’s! So you’d better think how she thinks or Jesus is going to ghost you at the end of your life. *The wrong kind of Christian:* “Hey Jesus, you’re real! Yes! I told all those atheists and believers in other faiths, but they wouldn’t listen.” *Jesus:* “Um, who dat?” *The wrong kind of Christian:* “It’s me, Dale! Don’t you remember? We talked A LOT over the years!” *Jesus:* “You must have had the wrong number. Depart from me.” 🤣
Amazingly well said sir. Every word was inspired, inspiring and effective. I didn't even see the commercial yet I can see it now through your commentary in relation to hers. Thank you for telling the truth.
The best commercial to get Christian’s to tell on themselves. The commercial was just meeting people where they are with compassion. Christian’s are like “noooo! My job is to judge. Not to actually do anything!” So they make videos judging! It’s awesome.
I have only recently found your channel, but have enjoyed your thoughtfulness and intelligence. These elements are often seriously lacking by many who claim the name Christian in today’s society
Celebrity pastor Paul would certainly disagree with Dr. McClellan on that point! "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain." 1 Corinthians 15:13-14
@@DoloresLehmann saying univocal doesn’t undermine the straight line of truth contained in the Bible and Dan uses ‘univocal’ to pick and choose when truth matters according to his political priors and not his relationship w/ Christ.
@@Billsbob But there is no straight line of truth. Paul clearly contradicts Jesus on several occasions. And what does Pauls opinion on the importance of resurrection to do with the Bible being univocal or not?
@@DoloresLehmann If the Christian bible isn't univocal on the doctrine of salvation, then Paul's salvation by faith in a resurrected Jesus gospel is wrong!
Ah yes ma'am, I forgot about that part in the Bible where Jesus explicitly doesn't ever come in contact or aid the marginalized or less fortunate. Must have been in between the Good Samaritan where we are taught to be kind without a thought to the other person's identity and His multiple criticisms of the Pharisees who used Scripture to maintain political power
Can you talk about what the Jesus of the Bible would think about the amount of money spent on SB ads instead of serving the marginalized? I think a lot of people would find this helpful in current discourse. Love this vid! Love your content!
"Jesus wouldn't have dined with and served sinners" is one of the wildest takes I've ever heard. One of the most consistent and ubiquitous messages in the Gospels is that Jesus accepted and loved sinners in spite of their sin
I never saw a flamethrower work quite that way. Clear, detailed explanation, level tone throughout, with the malefactors being reduced to ash by the time it's over.
The ad sounds like it was inclusive, but I'm wary of any campaign that gets a big chunk of funding from David Green and Hobby Lobby, since they are explicitly engaged in the bad kind of boundary maintenance.
I really don’t get why people can’t stop freaking out about this. If their money is going towards a message on inclusiveness, who cares? I mean sure, call them out on the hypocrisy, but people acting like these ads are going to brainwash everyone into hating gay people sound a little unhinged to me
@@Jd-808 He's an awful anti-labour capitalist who tries to restrict his employees' legal freedoms and uses the largess of his ill-gotten gains to fund terrorists who sell him artifacts he uses not to further human knowledge and culture, but his authoritarian agenda.
@@Jd-808 a lot of times the initial inclusive message is a move to get someone's foot in the door. A "LGBTQ+ are welcome here" message can give way to a "But homosexuality itself is still a sin "
The take from last year's round of this was that they're trying to use a soft friendly version of Jesus to get people back in their churches to to hear that right wing message. It's a softened up teaser to get you to expose yourself to the hardline message.
@@Jd-808 I’m with ya 💯x💯% concerning the outcry of any Super Bowl commercial. I was already fed up with the Alpha Male-Conservatives 4 Christ-Boycott Initiative for T Swift when all this commercial stuff started happening. I was a little suspicious at how much of the TV commercial outcry came from those I thought were boycotting the game. Jesus Christ pick a lane already. The one thing I didn’t get was the worry that these commercials could brainwash people into hating gay people. Most of the “Christians” I saw complaining about the mentioned SB advertisement didn’t have much of a problem hating gay people to begin with. So I’m not sure I was following you. Later.
the He Gets Us ad was perfectly constructed to be a litmus test for who are the followers of Christ and who are the white christian nationalists. A WCN will always take the stance of "the bible doesn't say we have to be nice to minorities" while a follower of christ would see that there are no significant inconsistencies between the teachings of Jesus and the He Gets Us ad
3:00 The point of the good Samaritan story is that Jesus commands us to be neighbors to everyone by showing mercy to everyone. Because the point of the story is to change our "neighbor" from the one who is owed love, to the one who does the loving. Its something that I didn't pick up on until I read it in the Harper Collins Study Bible. But now that I have seen it, it seems obvious.
P.S. Your refutation is terrific. However, this is the whole problem with "religion." It is used to justify everything. As it is written, "Religion is very effective at getting good people to do horrible things."
It's so impressive that of all of the trimmings and trappings of the Super Bowl, that this ad is what some Christians have decided at which to take aim.
This lady might be one of those who asks, "When did we ever see you naked, hungry, or in jail?" and won't be able to say she did anything for them because those are icky people.
How so? And What have you done? She is literaly telling everybody sinner and people who have GOD in thier lips but dont know him, to the world? Which is correct. If you a sinner we gonna tell you to stop because GOD is real and everybody who is false we have to call it out because you go to hell if you believe them.
@@rezznine6670 meet their needs before you preach at them. Remove the plank in your eye before removing the speck in your brother's. As for me, I've dedicated my life to providing mental health care.
This whole “controversy” is so interesting to me, because I randomly turned on the tv right before this ad was shown and thought it was beautiful. I had NO idea people would watch the same thing I did and get a completely different feeling from it. It’s kind of wild, but thank you for doing this video. It encapsulates my thoughts exactly without even knowing all the biblical references you used.
@@francescocarlini7613 Several. First, as Dan would say, and as blksmagma already also said, the Bible is not univocal. There are several different, partially mutually exclusive messages present. So why should one overrule the other? The only way one overrules the other is if you *choose* that it does so. And your choices say more about you than they do about the Bible. Also, you should look up the story as it is presented in Mark (the earlier version) and then in Matthew. You can literally see how the more "Jewish" gospel, Matthew, which is all about Jewish supremacy and the law of Moses, makes Jesus increasingly exclusive and nasty towards the woman compared to Mark. In the Mark version, he doesn't tell her that he came exclusively for the children of Israel, but for them first. That's a difference. He's referring to the Ancient table order: First the father would be served, then the mother, then the children, and then the house dogs. So, yes, in a sense, he's comparing the gentile to a dog, but not to make the point she's "a filthy gentile" and "a dog person", but that she doesn't belong to the children of Israel and therefore has a lesser rank. Jesus was driven by the prophetic vision to bring about the Kingdom of God to Israel, and that then the gentiles would see how a truely godly nation lives and be drawn in to follow their example. That's why he didn't think of a gentile mission in and of itself. He's basically saying: "Wait your turn." And she replies "But while you're already at it, can't you afford a little extra time to put me in first?" And he's like: "OK, then." And finally, the parable of the Good Samaritan is only found in Luke, the story of the gentile woman is found in Mark and Matthew. Is there any good reason why one gospel should overrule the others?
@@DoloresLehmann Firstly, you are ignoring Markan priority. Mark is the original gospel, therefore it must always overrule the others. Secondly, and more importantly, the idea that Jews have any sort of superior status is fucking racist. These people, the bootlickers and sycophants of an evil god who carried out the extermination of the Caananites to steal their land, are supposed to be moral authorities for the rest of mankind? Look at all the horrors perpetrated by Christians and Muslims (including those against the Jewish people, because what goes around comes around) to see where that road leads...
One of the ad's problems was that after 2,000 years, the best images to use were those generated by AI. Actually, it's not really a problem of the ad, but of something else, deeper.
"Jesus didn't come here to make friends"
Me, a Quaker: I take that rather personally
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This is beautiful 😂
HA!
It's hard not to, right?
Looking at history, that's deep but darkly funny.
Is her point that the commercial wasn't hateful enough?
I guess so.
Yes.
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Yes.
"This doesn't _feel_ like God."
Well, isn't that convenient? You can just toss aside whatever you don't like.
Yes, the classic "God's most important relationship is the one He has with ME."
"Mmm... could it be... SATAN?!?"
-C. Lady
To be fair, the fundamental utility of all god concepts is that each person can make up the attitudes and opinions of the deity so that it agrees with their own. All gods are divine sock puppets.
That's Brittany Dawn for ya. It upsets me that she has such a big following...
@@WDRhine I’m furiously thumbing through my Bible, searching for the passage where Jesus tells us “America First” and then commands us to “Make America Great Again”. I’m sure it’s in there somewhere, unless the deep state has somehow excised it from the text.
No worries, I’ll find it. And when I do, it will be “checkmate, sinners”.
[“checkmate sinners” would be an awesome biblical quote]
getting strong "eye of the needle was a city gate" vibes from this lady.
Just google her name, and you will understand.
@@plagueangelWho is she? I don't see her name in the video.
@@MeredithDomzalski Brittany Dawn Nelson, formerly Brittany Dawn Davis
He actually tagged her on the video but she probably removed it, and blocked him, just like she does with anything that doesn't agree with her bullshit.
@@plagueangel Aint she a sensitive thing. She removes all negative comments. One can tell, most channels have at least 1 negative comment or critical. Instead all are positive.
@@undomiel152003 considering her vapid bullshit meaningless content and all her shameless lies, one would think she has countless negative comments, so i don't understand how stupid her fans must be to not realise what a poser she is...if u never wondered how come she has such amount of folllwers, just look at her engagement rate... She CONSTANTLY buys followers BY THE THOUSANDS and acts as if she were really popular.... I really really dislike her and everything she does
I feel like the reactions to the Super Bowl commercial is a good way to examine people’s personal beliefs and how they impose it on the Bible.
When she says “they’re choosing to partake in the world”, the irony I find of people watching the Super Bowl, which is a simile of the Roman colosseum gladiator games, and saying they’re worried about other sinners not on the narrow path. 🙃
@@ArtsCraftsAntiquity Let he who is without sin score the first touchdown.
@@MarcosElMalo2 it’s “Let he who is without pig skin, cast the first block”. 62% of scholars believe your translation may or may not be accurate.
@MarcosElMalo2 Ironically that story about throwing the first stone was a later addition to the Bible. It was a popular story from Rome, not something that Jesus experienced.
@@88marome So you do think scoring the first touchdown is appropriate? Or do you kick off to the opponent and let them try?
"The disciples got their feet washed because they picked up their crosses and turned away from sin." Yeah, and less than 24 hours after that, Peter is telling people "Oh, that Jesus guy? I don't know him." 😄
Jesus? Never heard of him. Maybe he brought me coffee?
Very trumpian of him.
"The commercial was beautiful, but..."
Nothing a person says before the word "but" is sincere.
The problem with buts is that they always have bunch of crap behind them
@pickyyeeter haha. Never heard that one before. I like that.
Watching Game of Thrones for the first time, and yep! Anything before “but” is BS.
Wait that's not always true. Everyone needs the word "but" every now and then.
"Jesus would never dine in our sin."
Idk, Jesus has his whole last meal with about 12 sinners that all revered and worshipped Him, that were just absolutely trying to do their best by Him. Not to mention, Jesus already knew they would sin, and told them directly what their sins would be.
Jesus also, very frequently, communed and preached to a bunch of sinners, sometimes all at one time, and absolutely loved them unconditionally anyway.
Honestly not sure what this lady is talking about, and I don't think she has any clue either.
Exactly!!!
Exactly.
And he knew Judas was betraying him to the Romans. And Peter was going to deny him three times
Notice too that her message is so insular that it encourages people to cast out sinners instead of saving them as Jesus did by example.
The act of washing feet is an act of humbling oneself before another. Of gaining their trust so they can hear your word.
Acts of service are actually the best way to open someone up to the lessons of the Gospel.
But she is closed off to that notion and clearly wants to other people who identify and act in a way she finds inappropriate.
It is a great way to protect an in-group, but it fails the mission that Jesus gives his disciples to spread his word. The religion is being let down in order to prop up the social norms.
One could argue his ministry, as presented in the synoptics, was based on "dining in sin".
I don't understand why they put so much money behind this campaign when evangelical Christians keep gatekeeping and marginalizing the ppl the ads are trying to target.
People, even really rich ones, have internal conflicts they aren't always aware of.
They're more interested in the money they'll get back from the campaign than in the message put out.
@_Niddy_ I'd rather take their money and do something better.
Christianity needs new converts. They are on a decrease. Those people who give the money for ads don't care as long it brings them new converts. And in 100 years the masses will accept what they criticise today. I mean Evangelicals when mentioning the number of Christians world wide include every Christian, doesn't matter if its a unitarian, JW etc.
@JopJio That's a remarkable fact, and you have it exact. And why do xians adopt such phony, authoritative tones when they speak? Nary a good faith argument in sight. If she had anything credible to say, she could just say it without all the "look at me, I'm super holy, you can hear it in my voice" garbage they be solemnly barfing up anywhere and everywhere.
_"It paints a beautiful message, but it's not a biblical one."_
That's all I needed to hear out of her mouth. Keep up the good work Dan, even knowing that 99.99% of Christians won't get it, a few will be moved.
I'm still shaking my head. She actually said the message was beautiful but unbiblical, admitting, it seems, that her interpretation of a "true" biblical message would be that it's ugly.
You can't make this stuff up.
@jarredvalls7951 The ironies never end.
Modern American Christians seem to be bent on destroying Christianity. Then they wonder why people are leaving the church.
She has had a lot of interesting takes on things, and it's a shame that she has such a following of people who just believe what she says. Many seem to be new Christians and young women who really look up to her.
@@Mimi-hn6ivI’ve never heard of her. It troubles me to learn she’s known and has an audience.
@@andrew5184more troubling about this person is she was just sued by the State of Texas for scamming tons of women out of their hard earned cash. She became an evangelical influencer after she was caught.
"He would not dine with us in our sins." I guess she just ignores all the passages where Jesus literally dines with people who are still in their sins, e.g., all the publicans and sinners? That's practically all who Jesus dined with.
Fantastic video, Dan!
That line reminds me that as an Aussie kid my family had an LP of Johnny Cash’s Jesus movie. One of the lines in it was expressing the disgust of the good people of the day that “he dines with publicans and sinners!” When I first heard the word Republican, I thought- “he dines with Republicans and sinners!” I always thought it was considered unpleasant in the US to dine with ‘those’ people 😂
Yeah, the evangelical misinterpretation of scripture has to be willful and/or indoctrinated because it's not subtle. You just read the Gospels anywhere at random and it's not long until you encounter a counter-cultural message like that.
So, what I’m hearing is I need…🎶My own, personal, Jesus🎶
Good song!
The Johnny Cash version.
Great now I'm stuck with that as an earworm. I hope you're happy. 😂
Apparently quoting the lyrics gets your comment deleted from RUclips, but you can listen to those same lyrics sung on RUclips just fine!
So I nstead of quoting the lyrics, I just want to put ‘Chop Suey’ by ‘System of a Down’ out there as a potential follow up song in your ‘Christian’ playlist.
@@boboak9168 I don’t have a Christian playlist. This was just a reference to something Dan said in the video.
That ad creeped me out because, of course, why not spend that money actually helping instead of talking about helping?
But people being offended that the ad was too kind to marginalized people? Even creepier. It’s all so creepy.
And that's exactly why the ad was worth the money.
I was offended by it because it's an obvious attempt to paper over all the problems in all the various churches and just pretend it's all positive. It's not.
Because we've lost sight of the purpose. The term Christianity is a term I'm coming to resent because the ordinal name, The Way, while very generic, is way more on the nose. First people have to be aware of a different way of doing things before they can change their current ways.
This was preaching the good news. And despite all the churches, many people have never really heard it.
@travis1240 I didn't get that at all. To me, as a non Christian, the commercial seemed to be about sparking conversation amongst Christians.
Because the people that fund those ads. Also give funding to hate groups. Good Christian things!
Beautiful message and commentary in today's video.
What an exceptionally awful way to misinterpret what is otherwise a wonderful message. Thanks as always, Dan, for providing clarity and data to combat the dogma out there :D
The majority of known campaign donators are anti-LGBT and anti-abortion
Seriously.
If a person sees a message that can be summed up as "love and serve your neighbor" and their reaction is "this doesn't feel like God" that sure says a lot about their thoughts on God.
The clear and calm manner even speaks to my daughter as she is seemingly otherwise plugged into another world. "I like this guy, what he says makes sense." Thank you.
Well to her I say:
If we go to hell, we'll just kick out the devils and turn it into heaven! (Damn that's one heck of a quote).
One of my favorite quotes.
I recall the quote from one of the Data Over Dogma episodes, it's Brigham Young who said it, apparently. I'm not a Mormon, but the quote just stuck with me. It's so badass!
Reading the comments gives me the warm fuzzies. However, yesterday i caught myself saying, "The city commision may be all of the same party, but they're hardly univocal." The group just stared at me.
You too- bringing the univocals out of nowhere? 😂
@@audreyvachss597 its almost like you two are univocal about univocality
Wait until you find yourself saying, "ginning up excuses to structure power," in your daily conversations 😂
@@chronoplague Oh no. Didn't think about that!
good one😂
Imagine thinking you're one of the christians who will go to heaven after saying we shouldn't help sinners. I can picture their face now, when Jesus looks at them, asks why they didn't help the queer people and they look Jesus in the eyes and say "because they are a sinner" and Jesus looks right back at them and says "I helped sinners"
Sin is the absence of love only to be corrected not punished (Jesus Christ) 🙏
It's remarkable how they forget that, by their own doctrine, *everyone is a sinner* . Evangelicals really like to have their cake and eat it too on the doctrine of salvation and works.
"Maybe think a little more critically about where your Jesus came from."
Boom. Mic drop. Beautifully put!
Because as long as he isn’t a left-wing politician like Dan wants then he isn’t the real Jesus. Boom, rebuttal to an idiotic take from someone too easily impressed w/ a commentator who they think sounds smart, but is actually just an advocate for a political agenda and uses people’s faith to manipulate them to his side.
@@Billsbob Nice try, but no. ♥♥
@@BillsbobFalse.
@@Billsbob He isn't the real Jesus either way.
Perfect ending for someone like Brittany Dawn (just google her name...)
Bet she goes to one of those rich people money-worshipping churches that considers the Sermon on the Mount to be "lib talking points". Got some of those folks in my family.
I was just reading the speeches of preachers who praised the Nazis, and it was unsurprisingly familiar language.
"Full of longing did a people look for a liberator from the suffering. Then came the Führer. Out of all the ruin he salvaged the faith, where nothing was to be seen; [he salvaged] the hope, where nothing was to hope anymore... a miracle has happened with us. There was a new people again, which went to work again with new courage; people could laugh again, and be happy... think about it and be thankful."
He made Germany great again, in other words.
Yep! Mind-blowing. She also sounds Reformed to me with how it's twisted scripture.
@@Himmiefanit's certainly heresy. Any scheme to tiptoe around Biblical mandates to love and serve is heresy and presents a false Gospel. She seems really caught up with everyone else's sin, but I hope she repents of her own sin that is blinding her for the sake of comfort and convenience within her tribe.
Even worse. She is a grifter who operated for a while as a fitness influencer by scamming people of millions of dollars. She ended up being sued by the state of Texas and settling for a measly $400,000.
When she flailed at being a fitness grifter, she pivoted to conservative christian grifter. She runs christian conferences and retreats, charging thousands of $$ for people to heat and talk about jesus. It's proving much more lucrative than her fitness scam.
Oh, and her husband is a corrupt ex cop who beat civilians up so bad he was kicked out of the police force.
They are a real piece of work.
@@jonathonpolk3592 just google her name and see how bad it actually is. Brittany Dawn.
Christians: “Everything I don’t like is unbiblical!”
Yep. Like slavery. Many Christians don't like it but it is very biblical.
And "demonic"! 😆
Nailed it.
@@SicMundus7they usually say “satanic”. 😂
"So when people talk about turning from sin and being separated from the world they are overwhelmingly serving the interest of the world and they don't even know it."
Amen
Not always, imho. Just here.
Thank you Dan, this is one of my favorites from you so far (as a former seminary Student and Evangelical minister). It's not only a word-perfect rebuttal of of this creator's content specifically, but also Evangelical Christianity in general.
A few of Dan’s videos have crossed my radar over the past few days, but this video made me a subscriber.
Hey Dan, my 5 year old says you're really cool and he would like to be friends with you. He wants to know your favorite Bluey episode. His is the barbeque episode.
We actually live nearby if you ever want to come over for a Bluey barbecue.
My favourite episode, if anyone cares, is the cricket one. It hasn't made it to the US yet, I think (and may never), but the cricket playing world is going nuts over it.
What a beautiful message...on your T-shirt!❤
Christians: [spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign to try to improve their image and show that they're not so bad]
Also Christians: [condemn the ad and say, "No, no, we actually are that bad"]
"[Jesus] would never willingly dine in our sin..."
Matt 9:10 "While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. "
(also in Mark and Luke)
I don't know if she is deliberately ignorant or has just been misled, but to claim that Jesus would never hang out with or serve sinners? That's just bizarre. According to the bible, he explicitly does so. And the bible is clear as to why (because you need to treat the sick, not the healthy). But you go on, lady, and shun them, alienate them, drive them away. Because that's what Jesus would do?
What a warped message.
He also explicitly calls each to repentance. He would never, ever give some poor soul a ride to planned parenthood because that’s “service.”
@@Billsbob How do you know? You cannot use the Bible and prove that it is "pro-life". I can show you that it promotes abortion. If your wife cheats on you and is pregnant by another man, you can force her to have an abortion and make her unable to reproduce anymore according to Numbers 5.
@@Billsbob Some Gospel stories include a call to repentance and some don't. Matthew 9 alone includes Jesus healing 6 people, and none of them are "explicitly" called to repent of anything.
@@Billsbob Your account name is demonic. I’m going to point this out on your various comments. “Billsbob”. Haha. You come here identifying as a demon and as a deceiver.
@@Billsbob that is exactly the accusation the priests used against Jesus. Does it make you proud to be siding with those who handed Jesus over to Rome to be executed?
These folks always believe that their view is the biblical view. They have no clue about the contrary verses for every issue. They're just sheepishly repeating their cherry-picked verses and values.
Sounds like you’re describing Dan. You don’t think it’s odd he only pipes up when someone expresses what he believes is a right-leaning view and how he conveniently couch’s all the good virtues of Jesus interpretations as Left-leaning? This guy is the most insidious kind of hypocrite, leaning on his credentialism and oratory skills to draw people away from truth to his political agenda.
@@Billsbob Your "insidious" ad hominem against Dan aside, your statement is false. Dan also "pipes up" to critique views across the spectrum he believes the data disagree with, including views of what you'd likely label "liberal" and/or "leftist".
Dan will also point out when "right-leaning" points are in line with the data. If you're going to attack and critique, you'd do well to better familiarize yourself with the person's content and methods.
Also, you've ironically accused Dan of leading people "away from the truth", while failing to disclose what that truth is. Aren't you just validating and demonstrating my point from the main comment, that you believe your view of select verses from the bible is the truth?
@@jon4574Yeah, this guy clearly hasn’t watched enough of Dan’s videos.
What we need to keep in mind is the amount of money that Christian spent in that ad. $7 million for 30 seconds of ad time. With that money, we could've fed the poor.
It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs. 😅
There is no reason to exclude either.
I dunno mate. Jesus himself let the woman wash his feet with perfume, instead of feeding the poor... Again, nothing univocal.
Exactly. it's about talking the talk not walking the walk
@@schen7913 He didn't spend $7 million for that footbath.....
Dan, you're talking at such a high level she wouldn't possibly understand these criticisms.
Wait, is she saying God will say we did a good job on earth if we don't show kindness to a person because they're homosexual?
Yes, I guess that's what she's saying.
Yep
And if we show kindness, we are endorsing their "sin" and will be punished for it.
Yes. Furthermore she is believing in salvation by works - or in this case, salvation by hate.
Wow, this video is amazing- Genuinely! I'm blown away by how good this is. This is by far my favourite video of yours I've seen. This might be my favourite piece of information that I've seen anywhere in my life. This is exactly what we need to hear & understand. Thank you so much for this. 💗
First time I've seen Dan raise his voice and get strident in a vid. And a very worthy subject to do so for.
This time and when Francesca was criticized only for be a female scholar.
Well, that woman Brittany Dawn is quite infuriating...
Dan, once in a while you surpass your own excellence of distinction, explication and dissertation. This was almost soul-shaking for me to watch you react to this person who recalled so many dangerous, closed-minded, and ignorant religious dogmas from my childhood. Thank you.
She is a very dangerous person, and the worst is the amount of people who follow her...
My problem with the commercial is with the organization that put it together.
7:35 - Modern American evangelical Christianity _is_ New Age spirituality*! A bunch of ex-hippies burned out on their experiments in Western esotericism or the inward-looking aspects of Eastern spirituality filtered into charismatic Christianity in the 70s and brought all that Me First thinking into their picture of Christianity: No need to serve others, no need to be good stewards of the Earth for future generations, no need to meet people where they are, just prosperity gospel, "those people deserve what they get", "I'm going to heaven and other folks will just be Left Behind" and the full-on embrace of capitalism.
*(And this is no disrespect to those neopagans, heathens, Buddhists, Hindus, indigenous peoples etc. seeking genuine spiritual fulfillment or practicing or reconstructing the traditions of their cultures--I'm talking about the people who took selfish and harmful lessons from their experiences in other spiritual practices and wedded them to Christianity and capitalism.)
I can't thumbs up this comment enough!!!
The “Prosperity Gospel” is far older than the 1970s.
I find it amazing that she believes God might condemn a self professed Christian to eternal torment, while at the same time be completely confident she isn’t one of those poor souls.
It happens all the time with evangelicals.
Thank goodness I wear reading glasses. Those lashes darn near poked me in the eye.
Same. Idkw she said. I was too distracted by those spider legs attached to her eye rims. I wonder why she's not satisfied with the lashes God gave her. I'm sure they're very pretty...& much safer.
As a bigot, that commercial didnt give me a good vibe, therefore its ungodly
That is basically what I've been trying to say for years. Dan puts it much clearer and eloquently than I could ever articulate.
One of the best takes on this issue I have seen since this whole debacle of infighting and disunity got rebooted.
Thank you Dan. I'm not a Christian, but I'm glad there are people like you out here countering harmful views. I wish you the utmost success in this.
The previous _He Gets Us_ controversy was that the campaign was created by a bunch of plutocrats who demonstrated by their own behavior they didn't actually adhere to the doctrine expressed by the commercials, rather saw it all as branding by which to direct fans and followers into an information-scraping campaign.
It put into sharp bas relief that Jesus and Christianity have become a brand, a banner under which self-identified Christians can rally and be directed to labor or soldier as ministries saw fit.
But in the last few years, we've been hearing stories with increasing recurrence of Christian nationalists objecting when their minister preaches about the beatitudes, or Jesus' proscription against accumulating wealth and possessions. So the objections against Jesus washing feet, or the notion that Christians should be willing to wash feet or engage in subservient behavior for their neighbors, or to regard everyone as neighbors (they are obligated to love) are not surprising.
Evangelical Protestant Sociologists (not to be confused with Evangelical Protestant Socialists, though there's probably some intersection) warn that if the Christian Nationalist movement succeeds in neutering the democratic features of the US, or perpetuates this campaign of hatred and othering the marginalized, that it may tarnish Evangelical Protestantism (if not all of Christianity) as a hate group the way the KKK or Neonazis are painted, and this will impede the Great Commission for a long, long time.
Outstanding Christian message. . .against Christian nationalism of all things.
And Christian nationalism has what to do w/ an Ad trying to soften Jesus’ call to repentance?
@@BillsbobChristian nationalism has to do with not being like you, because you are a Christian nationalist.
@@Billsbob Your account name is demonic. I’m going to point this out on your various comments. “Billsbob”. Haha. You come here identifying as a demon and as a deceiver.
Wait until the original creator finds out who funds "He gets us" campaign (and who they, in turn, fund)
By “original creator” are you referring to the Jesus curator or God? If the later, that will only happen if someone snitches.
People that hate that commercial are the same people that would’ve hated the Good Samaritan story.
Nope
🎵 🎵 "Your own, personal Jesus" 🎵🎵
Brilliant! Absolutely a mic drop moment there, Dan.
Thankyou so very much for pointing out the political and power aspects of that commercial and the uses that that power is being put to!
It needs to be said way more often. Thankyou!
I think people have a tendency to gloss over the enormity of the time span that Biblical stories cover. The "in-universe" time span from the birth of Abraham to the death of Jesus is about 1,900 years. And while the actual writing of the Bible didn't cover quite so many years, the various parts were written over several centuries, and assembled over several more centuries.
In contrast, look at something like the US Constitution, which is only about 200 years old. The folks who wrote that believed that the conflict between the idea of "providing for the general welfare" and the idea of slavery was not an insurmountable conflict. Here we are just 200 years later, and the vast majority of Americans disagree - you can't take care of your people and allow slavery at the same time.
And even just mentioning this usually starts a conversation about how that isn't really what the writers meant, because........insert any one of several popular arguments about what is the "right" way to read the Constitution. We accept the fact that the relationship between the static written document and the dynamic culture that reads the document is complex and evolving when it comes to the Constitution, but when it comes to something written so long ago that the ability to smelt iron was a novel innovation for the authors.....nope. The Bible has only one meaning that is the same now as it was when people mixed straw into mud and let it dry in the sun when they wanted a new house.
I never wanted to share a post more than this one. Additionally, I definitely know one thing Jesus would not have done, and that would be spending an obscene amount of money to advertise his beliefs, rather take the money, and put it towards what he truly believed, and that was helping people who needed it.
As cringey as the commercial was, it very much accurately depicted the message of Jesus Christ.
You mean it accurately depicted the religion of Christianity? There is a difference.
The Christian Jesus is a myth, since the religion of Christianity is not in the Bible. The ekklēsia (called out followers) mentioned in Acts 11 were Jews and proselytes into Judaism. See Acts 6:5.
@@waitstill7091 "the religion of Christianity" rather than "the message of Jesus Christ"? Personally I'd prefer "a core message of Jesus Christ" but certainly a message common to all the gospels.
@@PastPresented The truth matters way too much to settle on personal preferences.
“In a time of universal deceit - the truth is a revolutionary act.” Unknown
@@waitstill7091 And the other half of Acts that deals with Paul opening that up to the Gentiles? Or Paul's epistles (which predate Acts), that specifically tell Gentiles that they do not need to follow Jewish practices? Yes, the modern religion of Christianity is not in the New Testament, but there is an early church that does not follow Jewish custom.
@@WFierce In Acts 21, we read Paul was teaching the Jewish followers to forsake the Law. Jesus most certainly opposed those who practiced lawlessness. See Matthew 7:23
"...and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs." Acts 21:21
Paul's letters further confirm he was anti-Judaism.
"Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision." Philippians 3:2
In Matthew 23, we read Jesus instructed his followers to obey the Pharisees. Today it's called Rabbinic Judaism.
“The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore ALL that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them." Matthew 23:1-4
Paul was the Joseph Smith before there was a Joseph Smith.
"For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ." Galatians 1:12
7:55 - “the terrifying reality…” is that she thinks her version of the made up supernatural frienemy is reality. Hers, mind you, not yours or anyone else’s! So you’d better think how she thinks or Jesus is going to ghost you at the end of your life.
*The wrong kind of Christian:* “Hey Jesus, you’re real! Yes! I told all those atheists and believers in other faiths, but they wouldn’t listen.”
*Jesus:* “Um, who dat?”
*The wrong kind of Christian:* “It’s me, Dale! Don’t you remember? We talked A LOT over the years!”
*Jesus:* “You must have had the wrong number. Depart from me.”
🤣
Amazingly well said sir. Every word was inspired, inspiring and effective. I didn't even see the commercial yet I can see it now through your commentary in relation to hers. Thank you for telling the truth.
The best commercial to get Christian’s to tell on themselves.
The commercial was just meeting people where they are with compassion. Christian’s are like “noooo! My job is to judge. Not to actually do anything!”
So they make videos judging! It’s awesome.
I have only recently found your channel, but have enjoyed your thoughtfulness and intelligence. These elements are often seriously lacking by many who claim the name Christian in today’s society
Dan; I really appreciate what you do! Secondly; I don't think you could state "the Bible isn't univocal" enough times to my personal liking. 😆
Celebrity pastor Paul would certainly disagree with Dr. McClellan on that point!
"But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain." 1 Corinthians 15:13-14
@@waitstill7091 What has that quote to do with the supposed univocality of the Bible?
@@DoloresLehmann saying univocal doesn’t undermine the straight line of truth contained in the Bible and Dan uses ‘univocal’ to pick and choose when truth matters according to his political priors and not his relationship w/ Christ.
@@Billsbob But there is no straight line of truth. Paul clearly contradicts Jesus on several occasions. And what does Pauls opinion on the importance of resurrection to do with the Bible being univocal or not?
@@DoloresLehmann If the Christian bible isn't univocal on the doctrine of salvation, then Paul's salvation by faith in a resurrected Jesus gospel is wrong!
Ah yes ma'am, I forgot about that part in the Bible where Jesus explicitly doesn't ever come in contact or aid the marginalized or less fortunate. Must have been in between the Good Samaritan where we are taught to be kind without a thought to the other person's identity and His multiple criticisms of the Pharisees who used Scripture to maintain political power
This one gave me chills, Dan. Excellent analysis. Also: awesome t-shirt.
Can you talk about what the Jesus of the Bible would think about the amount of money spent on SB ads instead of serving the marginalized? I think a lot of people would find this helpful in current discourse. Love this vid! Love your content!
"Jesus wouldn't have dined with and served sinners" is one of the wildest takes I've ever heard. One of the most consistent and ubiquitous messages in the Gospels is that Jesus accepted and loved sinners in spite of their sin
"You know that you created God in your own image if he happens to hate the exact same people as you."
I got a bit distracted by Bandit on the T-Shirt. One of the best cartoon series ever made. Love that wonderful dog family.
I never saw a flamethrower work quite that way. Clear, detailed explanation, level tone throughout, with the malefactors being reduced to ash by the time it's over.
I could smell her burning hair and eyelash extensions from North Carolina.
@@IKilledEarl She isn't the worst. I bet she believes it. Just swallowed the propaganda.
Over the years I've distilled my view of Jesus to three teachings: Judge not, love your neighbor as yourself, and love God with all your heart.
I wish more people of faith would approach faith as thoughtfully as you do, Mr. McClellan.
Thanks, Dan, for helping bring clarity to the interpretations people have about all of this.
Dan, you earned a "thumbs up" with the T-shirt alone. Keep up the great work!
The ad sounds like it was inclusive, but I'm wary of any campaign that gets a big chunk of funding from David Green and Hobby Lobby, since they are explicitly engaged in the bad kind of boundary maintenance.
I really don’t get why people can’t stop freaking out about this. If their money is going towards a message on inclusiveness, who cares? I mean sure, call them out on the hypocrisy, but people acting like these ads are going to brainwash everyone into hating gay people sound a little unhinged to me
@@Jd-808 He's an awful anti-labour capitalist who tries to restrict his employees' legal freedoms and uses the largess of his ill-gotten gains to fund terrorists who sell him artifacts he uses not to further human knowledge and culture, but his authoritarian agenda.
@@Jd-808 a lot of times the initial inclusive message is a move to get someone's foot in the door. A "LGBTQ+ are welcome here" message can give way to a "But homosexuality itself is still a sin "
The take from last year's round of this was that they're trying to use a soft friendly version of Jesus to get people back in their churches to to hear that right wing message. It's a softened up teaser to get you to expose yourself to the hardline message.
@@Jd-808 I’m with ya 💯x💯% concerning the outcry of any Super Bowl commercial. I was already fed up with the Alpha Male-Conservatives 4 Christ-Boycott Initiative for T Swift when all this commercial stuff started happening.
I was a little suspicious at how much of the TV commercial outcry came from those I thought were boycotting the game. Jesus Christ pick a lane already.
The one thing I didn’t get was the worry that these commercials could brainwash people into hating gay people. Most of the “Christians” I saw complaining about the mentioned SB advertisement didn’t have much of a problem hating gay people to begin with. So I’m not sure I was following you. Later.
the He Gets Us ad was perfectly constructed to be a litmus test for who are the followers of Christ and who are the white christian nationalists. A WCN will always take the stance of "the bible doesn't say we have to be nice to minorities" while a follower of christ would see that there are no significant inconsistencies between the teachings of Jesus and the He Gets Us ad
A Christian organization comes out with a message I can get behind and the response from many Christian’s is “no we want hate!”
Thank you Dan. It's wonderful that someone can articulate what many of us think, but struggle to express.
Anybody else get Depeche Mode in their head painting their own......personal.....Jesus?
But in the end, the Green's certainly don't get us.
Who could ever forget the most classic Jesus line, "Serve thy neighbors! *terms and conditions apply"
Damn, Dan gave me shivers. It always feels good to watch these videos and feel the inclusiveness Dan demonstrates.
This is why I love your work!! Well done, sir!!
3:00 The point of the good Samaritan story is that Jesus commands us to be neighbors to everyone by showing mercy to everyone. Because the point of the story is to change our "neighbor" from the one who is owed love, to the one who does the loving. Its something that I didn't pick up on until I read it in the Harper Collins Study Bible. But now that I have seen it, it seems obvious.
I already said this on another video but I really appreciate you going into the *function* of the creator's content.
Simply put, the Bible can be used to say and defend anything about anything depending on your beliefs and motivation.
P.S. Your refutation is terrific. However, this is the whole problem with "religion." It is used to justify everything. As it is written, "Religion is very effective at getting good people to do horrible things."
Religion is great at making horrible people do even worse things
One of your best videos! Thanks for what you’re doing!
It's so impressive that of all of the trimmings and trappings of the Super Bowl, that this ad is what some Christians have decided at which to take aim.
Nothing ever changes. Some people came unglued when Mr. Rogers washed the black mailman's feet on the show too.
Dan is spitting fire today. Totally on point as always…
My problem with the commercial is that they spent that much money when they could have actually gone around helping people with that kind of money.
This lady might be one of those who asks, "When did we ever see you naked, hungry, or in jail?" and won't be able to say she did anything for them because those are icky people.
How so? And What have you done? She is literaly telling everybody sinner and people who have GOD in thier lips but dont know him, to the world? Which is correct. If you a sinner we gonna tell you to stop because GOD is real and everybody who is false we have to call it out because you go to hell if you believe them.
@@rezznine6670 meet their needs before you preach at them. Remove the plank in your eye before removing the speck in your brother's. As for me, I've dedicated my life to providing mental health care.
I still have no idea how these folks can read Matthew 25:31-46 and walk away thinking that the primary message of Jesus is "every man for himself."
No, it’s “America First”.
@@MarcosElMalo2 That's not what white Evangelicals think. Their in group does NOT extend to all Americans.
This is brilliant and valuable, Dan. Thank you. 🖖
Thanks for your insight Dan. Keep up the great work.
One of your best Dan, keep up the much needed reality check!
When I first saw the title and thumbnail I misread it as "umbilical."
I love your stuff move every time I watch you
More great information. I hope to see a tuxedo shirt one of these day Dan. Stay dapper.
This whole “controversy” is so interesting to me, because I randomly turned on the tv right before this ad was shown and thought it was beautiful. I had NO idea people would watch the same thing I did and get a completely different feeling from it. It’s kind of wild, but thank you for doing this video. It encapsulates my thoughts exactly without even knowing all the biblical references you used.
Brilliant. Thank you Dan.
America is a strange place to me
3:10 Well, the encounter with the Caananite woman- a filthy Gentile, a dog-person- overrules the Good Samaritan, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't.
@@DoloresLehmann I'm sure you'll give a good reason for that LOL
It really doesn't since, again, the Bible isn't univocal. The Gospels most certainly aren't univocal
@@francescocarlini7613 Several.
First, as Dan would say, and as blksmagma already also said, the Bible is not univocal. There are several different, partially mutually exclusive messages present. So why should one overrule the other?
The only way one overrules the other is if you *choose* that it does so. And your choices say more about you than they do about the Bible.
Also, you should look up the story as it is presented in Mark (the earlier version) and then in Matthew. You can literally see how the more "Jewish" gospel, Matthew, which is all about Jewish supremacy and the law of Moses, makes Jesus increasingly exclusive and nasty towards the woman compared to Mark.
In the Mark version, he doesn't tell her that he came exclusively for the children of Israel, but for them first. That's a difference. He's referring to the Ancient table order: First the father would be served, then the mother, then the children, and then the house dogs. So, yes, in a sense, he's comparing the gentile to a dog, but not to make the point she's "a filthy gentile" and "a dog person", but that she doesn't belong to the children of Israel and therefore has a lesser rank. Jesus was driven by the prophetic vision to bring about the Kingdom of God to Israel, and that then the gentiles would see how a truely godly nation lives and be drawn in to follow their example. That's why he didn't think of a gentile mission in and of itself.
He's basically saying: "Wait your turn." And she replies "But while you're already at it, can't you afford a little extra time to put me in first?" And he's like: "OK, then."
And finally, the parable of the Good Samaritan is only found in Luke, the story of the gentile woman is found in Mark and Matthew. Is there any good reason why one gospel should overrule the others?
@@DoloresLehmann Firstly, you are ignoring Markan priority. Mark is the original gospel, therefore it must always overrule the others.
Secondly, and more importantly, the idea that Jews have any sort of superior status is fucking racist. These people, the bootlickers and sycophants of an evil god who carried out the extermination of the Caananites to steal their land, are supposed to be moral authorities for the rest of mankind?
Look at all the horrors perpetrated by Christians and Muslims (including those against the Jewish people, because what goes around comes around) to see where that road leads...
I agree with everything said here, but I also heard that the ad itself cost $14 million. I think that money could have been used for something else.
One of the ad's problems was that after 2,000 years, the best images to use were those generated by AI. Actually, it's not really a problem of the ad, but of something else, deeper.