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[–] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago

Right-wing fundamentalist Christians aren't racist enough for the current zeitgeist.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Only an American protestant could think "love thy neighbor" is heresy

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

It's funny because he "ironically" (just joking guys I promise!) calls himself a Theocratic fascist.

Dude's an evil psycho.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

American Catholics are freaking over this too. Bannon did a double feature with the false flag shooting and combined it into one unhinged segment of hate.

I hate this fucking country so damn much.

[–] BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can thank the Holy Roman Empire for spreading everything abrahamic.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

HRE was pretty bad at this and often in conflict with the entrenched power of the church, until Hussite Wars.
Kautsky wrote a book about foundations of christianity i would reccommend reading if you are interested about it.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kautsky did wrote few good books before he became renegade, Lenin was praising him often.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

lenin-cat This is true

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

It makes sense when you view religion as a weapon of war and Christianity as an exclusive club for white wasps like they do.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i'm curious exactly what the heresy is here, Matthew

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Walsh doing the “lynrd skynrd Jesus” bit from talledega nights but he’s like “I like to picture my Jesus as just a massive bigot, just constantly saying slurs, he let that one guy that fell out of the boat drown.”

[–] ChairmanSpongebob@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Uh Jesus wouldn't touch black people?

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Protestantism is devil worship in denial and AmeriKKKans are proof of that fact.

At least Catholics have the IRA.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Catholic church is the biggest pedo organisation in history.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That we know of at least

Given all of the connections epstein had to the cia they may actually surpass the church if he and maxwell weren't the only ones running a trafficking/blackmail operation like that for the agency

Well, they're specifically Provos... but aight...

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

They blew up a pedo yacht if nothing else

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Mainline protestantism are the only branch of Christianity that is inclusive of women and queer people and have been essential in American civil rights movements.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

screaming, bawling, as my handlers attempt to put the mask back on me

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years ago

I liked how nonsensical some of the footwashing photos were, like the one where they're in the middle of a busy road with oncoming traffic.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Walsh and Hegetsus fighting over the christians' collective mask

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love when these weirdo American Christians get reminded that the guy they worship would've been whipping them to chase them out of the temple for their sacrilege.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

The day I respect a respect a Christian is the day they storm a stock exchange denouncing the Molochites

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

More Christofascist infighting please.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Matt Walsh makes me so fucking repulsed like no other fash commentator does. He's just the most evil fucking shit head imaginable.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago

More like he get sus amirite

[–] chauncey@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What's the general consensus of these commercials?

I know they're funded by the same people funding horrible things.

But most people are likely passively watching them and walking away with a brief "maybe I shouldn't be so shitty to other people" message.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're bad. It's literally the flailing attempt of evangelicalism to rebrand and save their declining numbers through advertising. Just rich Christians thinking they can boost numbers by acting like they think good things instead of all the bad things that their churches actually say and do.

More like He Gets Sus indeed.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Idk but every chud including my dad seem to think it's woke propaganda lmfao. On the youtube video of it:

[–] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Conservatives have an immeasurable amount of brainworms

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s bad. It’s literally just marketing. Putting a superficially liberal coat on the same horrific views that most white evangelical Americans have. They want to get you in the door but I promise you on Lenin’s cat’s grave, once you are in the door you’re gonna hear the same message: turn away from your sin (including gay stuff), repent, and put your faith in Christ alone and his death on the cross for your salvation. Otherwise you will face an eternity of conscious torment in hell.

Like, people have posted chats with the hegetsus customer service or whatever it is, it’s just bog standard conservative evangelicalism.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

it's classic best foot forward type propo, lead with the vague and inspecific feel-good bullshit and save the hateful cult shit for when they're already sunk in

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I'd guess the horrible things they're funding make a lot more impact than a few TV spots that give warm fuzzies.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

The commercials have very big "hello fellow kids" energy

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Green family that funded these commercials are so stupid that they bought antiquities during a war and funded ISIS. It makes sense that they'd be like should we fix evangelicalism? Nah, it's a marketing problem

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh these are the hobby lobby freaks?

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They fund He Gets Me, but I have no idea if they're involved otherwise. It gives me Hillsong vibes, but I haven't heard anything specific about anyone else's involvement.

The Green family have this like 1950s Rockefeller's dying brain worms where they're like "let's create PMC Christians that are conservative to fight the wild hogs that we accidentally created" and are trying to do neo-evangelicalism again and "prove the Bible is right" with ~~stolen~~ new discoveries, but they also want to make money because they don't have Rockefeller philanthropy money so they're still directly appealing to the wild hogs through the Museum of the Bible and other shit. Something something contradictions

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

The real crime of that ad was the horrendous AI generated images

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where do the evangelical Christians get all this money to do anti-LGBT with? What the fuck? What kind of Wile E Coyote Acme nonsense is this? Do market downturns mean that they let off the gas and say something nice about a gay man?

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Where do the evangelical Christians get all this money to do anti-LGBT with

https://aerocorner.com/blog/american-pastors-with-private-jets/

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I think it's the opposite. As soon as they experience any kind of downturn, they retreat into their bigotry and hatred

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Go a basic google search that Walsh could uzve done with less effort than writing the tweet.

"Hegetsus major funding"

One of the first articles NPR almost exactly a year ago on the same question because they bought q Super Bowl ad...OMG Matt Walsh has gone WOKE sicko-hexbear-woke and parrots NPR!

The 'He Gets Us' commercials promote Jesus. Who's behind them and what is the goal?

The ads are funded in part by the family that owns the notably religious craft store chain Hobby Lobby, according to Christianity Today, as well as other evangelical groups, including a foundation called The Signatry. Other donors have kept their identities anonymous.

It's a white washing campaign on Christianity as a whole appealing to disaffected put off people because of the shitty actions directly from those same Christians. Matt Walsh should be thankful. Maybe he's just jealous because he was denied part of an obvious large grift potential.

Didn't see this one, but I did notice the "Neighbor" one. Flash a bunch of pictures of the types of people these freaks hate (mostly on the street and presumed homeless; black people; presumably trans woman in need of a shave; etc.) but all the pictures have some kind of grind core high contrast dirt filter. Then the message is that these people are all our neighbors. Okay, that's nice sentiment and something that evangelicals should be confronted with, but that filter felt like a Freudian slip that telegraphs how they see other people.