Tim Graham: The Comedy of Liberals Hating Liberal “Jesus” Ads

Fox’s Super Bowl 57 broadcast had some lighthearted advertisements. However, the messages were serious and in black-and white. “Jesus: He Gets Us.”

This large ad campaign clearly aims to reach young people by using Christian messaging in modern terms. It features ads that claim “Jesus was a refugee” or a misunderstood defendant criminal. It’s a comedy of liberals, furious that anyone would recruit people for Jesus worship as if it was a huge right-wing Christian conspiracy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.” Joy Reid, MSNBC host, mimicked the scene a little on TV for those who thought it was too lazy to repeat. “I think it is fair to say Jesus Christ wouldn’t spend millions of dollars on television ads promoting His image.”

Bible tells Christians to spread the gospel of Jesus to anyone who is interested. It isn’t “fair to say” Jesus would oppose it. It’s fair to say liberals hate it because they see religion — organized or unorganized — as a malignant right-wing sickness that ruins the culture.

True, some Christians of conservative faith fund these ads. Hobby Lobby’s owners are one example. Haven, the ad maker, has previously worked on ads for conservative groups like Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund. This is where the real problem lies.

CNN arrived on the conspiracy trail early, Jan. 27, at 7:01 a.m. Reporter Tom Foreman called Chrissy Stroop, a transgender atheist woman, to help him denounce the conspiracy. “strategically developed by right-wing evangelicals to rope people in with inclusive-sounding messaging and get them plugged into local churches that will eventually teach them that to be a Christian means to support right-wing politics.”

Stroop’s Twitter pin tweet is “Conservatism leads to abuse because conservatism *is* abuse.”

NPR was then created, which had a left-leaning approach. The dishonestly named “All Things Considered” They turned to Bob Smietana, a Religion News Service reporter, on February 3. “I think it goes back to the problem that American evangelicals in particular face is that their political ambitions and their deeply held religious beliefs and ethical beliefs are in conflict right now. So the things that will help them win politically will alienate people.”

Smietana was an Associated Press reporter for 2020. He promoted Joe Biden’s chatter of loving his rosary, but not his. “political ambitions” his Catholic Church “religious beliefs” We are at war

On Feb. 11, weekend “All Things Considered” Anchor Michel Martin invited Josiah Daniels from Sojourners to join him, “progressive Christian” website. He raised a red flag. “I think that it’s sort of the height of Christian hypocrisy to, on the one hand, say we really want to accept everyone, but then on the other hand, you’re taking money from people who have worked to curb access to abortion rights or they’ve worked to curb LGBTQ rights.”

The obvious hypocrisy is in the secular leftist media’s failure to recognize this. “accept everyone.” NPR puts on Daniels to insist Christians with zero dissent “should disassociate from these groups who are working to curb marginalized people’s rights.”

Jesus’ final words are heard “divisive” Matthew, the book: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” Jesus doesn’t accept everyone. He asks all to accept Him. Jesus warned against “false prophets.” These networks and the conspiracy-decrying specialists that they support fit the definition.

Tim Graham is the director of media analysis for the Media Research Center. He also serves as the executive editor of NewsBusters.org. Visit www.creators.com to learn more about Tim Graham, and see cartoons and features written by other Creators Syndicate writers.

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