Considerin' the price of a Superbowl ad, I smell a bunch a rich motherfucking wolves in sheepskins tryna squeeze an elephant sized camel through the eye of a fucking needle.
As Christians who have, theoretically, read the Bible, I bet the get all teary-eyed over the Prodigal Son story when they proselytize how Jesus saved THEM, a horrible icky, SINNER, and absolutely never in their wildest dreams would ever think they might just poooooossibly be the "good" brother who's pissed that the father welcomes the wayward son back so easily and happily when THEY'VE BEEN THERE WORKING THERE NICELY THE WHOLE TIME AND WHERE'S MY PARTY, DAD???
The whole foot washing thing is the reason I've always justified pedicures as the one luxury it's okay to splurge on even when finances are a little tight. For $50 ($40 for the service and a $10 tip) I can get a nice back massage, have someone scrub my feet and legs for an hour, take out my slightly ingrown toenails (they're not needs-a-podiatrist bad, just annoying), get all the callouses off, and leave my feet soft and silky smooth.
When finances are a LOT tight I'll do it myself, but it's just not the saaaaame. And I can never get the polish on my toes straight.
I mean, if all I have to do for a free foot wash is wear some capri jorts that seems totes worth it. I can always change out of them after my feet are clean.
I hated this commercial for several reasons* but the biggest one was it used a cover of one of my all time favorite songs :(
*The staggering amount of $ spent on the ad could have been used to actually do things that Jesus would have supported, the abhorrent groups that paid for the ad, it was totally creepy, and who owns the rights to INXS’s music and gave permission to this abomination?
Basically Jesus was all about "you don't have a leg to stand on regarding judging other, you better leave that up to God" - you know that whole "mote in your neighbor's eye" stuff. Also too the set of lessons about sharing and caring for those around you based on need.
But none of that flies with the current crop of Xtians - it almost makes me wish the whole narrative was true so that once they get to judgement day they will find out just how short they fell of God's grace.
This is unsurprising since I've seen some of those comments about how Jesus hates sin and sinning (and sinners as well because of course).
These people simply worship the Jesus they want to worship and not any other Jesus, and the Bible has plenty of leeway for them to build their own Jesus.
There is a difference between actual Christians and members of the Jesus Club. Actual Christians are like unicorns even you find one. So rare and precious and they just don't understand why Christians get such a bad reputation, because they do so much good to help everyone they can and don't get too preachy toward those they help etc etc. I've met maybe 4 of those my entire life, and 1 I was friends with long enough to see transition into a hateful Jesus Clubber. See, the Jesus Club is a social networking club that meets mostly on Sundays and clearly defines the out-groups that they collectively hate, and have team building social outings to verbally, emotionally, and sometimes physically assault the people they hate because gawd-a-mightee tells them it's the right thing to do (but only because they are too emotionally stunted, illiterate, and ignorant to actually read and comprehend the overall message of their faith). I'm glad I'm not a Christian or a Jesus Club member, I am not into washing people's feet. I do give a good foot massage. I don't be tickling or nothing.
The thing is that the Christian doctrine in the Bible itself supports the formation of ingroups to love and outgroups to hate so it's not surprising that Jesus clubs arose from those teachings and how "nice innocent Christians" eventually became Jesus clubbers.
They were simply following what the Bible said, parts of it anyways.
Parts of it being operative. Most are clearly Paulites, following Paul's retcons of the earlier teachings in the gospels. For our modern American evangelical movement we have to take that heaping dose of Paul, filter it through the coarse oily cloth of Calvin, and then dilute it with 2 parts muscular Christianity, 6 parts prosperity gospel, 3 parts Tinkerbell, and 5 parts doomsday cult rapture fantasies. Shake well and strain into a warm stiff sock.
Learning about the genealogy of the early Christian sects was pretty eye opening. Some of them died out because of their own beliefs (the sects that preached against having children inevitably ran into population problems), others were stamped out by rival sects who declared them heretics, and then they were almost all wholly subsumed by Roman Catholicism until the the Reformation in Europe caused them to splinter again over a thousand years later.
In the meantime, around the rest of the world, the remaining non-RC sects continued doing their own thing - they had been too far away from the Holy Roman Empire to get forced into the hegemony. Some of them are still practicing a 2,000 year old form of Christianity that avoided the Council of Nicea entirely.
Nestorian Christians made up a large portion of the early converts to Islam, and initially Islam was viewed as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church.
The Eastern Church was basically written off by European Christendom after the rise of Islam. But there are some small sects still kicking around out there, and bigger ones as well like Coptics.
Considerin' the price of a Superbowl ad, I smell a bunch a rich motherfucking wolves in sheepskins tryna squeeze an elephant sized camel through the eye of a fucking needle.
As Christians who have, theoretically, read the Bible, I bet the get all teary-eyed over the Prodigal Son story when they proselytize how Jesus saved THEM, a horrible icky, SINNER, and absolutely never in their wildest dreams would ever think they might just poooooossibly be the "good" brother who's pissed that the father welcomes the wayward son back so easily and happily when THEY'VE BEEN THERE WORKING THERE NICELY THE WHOLE TIME AND WHERE'S MY PARTY, DAD???
The whole foot washing thing is the reason I've always justified pedicures as the one luxury it's okay to splurge on even when finances are a little tight. For $50 ($40 for the service and a $10 tip) I can get a nice back massage, have someone scrub my feet and legs for an hour, take out my slightly ingrown toenails (they're not needs-a-podiatrist bad, just annoying), get all the callouses off, and leave my feet soft and silky smooth.
When finances are a LOT tight I'll do it myself, but it's just not the saaaaame. And I can never get the polish on my toes straight.
After a careful reading of all this...
Fuck Joel Berry. I'm pretty sure that covers it.
"[B]ullying, for want of a better word..."
No, that word is perfectly fine.
I mean, if all I have to do for a free foot wash is wear some capri jorts that seems totes worth it. I can always change out of them after my feet are clean.
wait all i want is to get my feet washed. is that a thing?!??!
Start calling all the churches around the neighborhood where you live. Tell them it’s your birthday and you want your feet washed.
Keep calling.
Ms. Robyn!
Dunno about Jesus "getting us"...
But you sure as fuck do!
Yas, Queen! 🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻
One thing the ad couldn't cooperate was because Jesus.
I hated this commercial for several reasons* but the biggest one was it used a cover of one of my all time favorite songs :(
*The staggering amount of $ spent on the ad could have been used to actually do things that Jesus would have supported, the abhorrent groups that paid for the ad, it was totally creepy, and who owns the rights to INXS’s music and gave permission to this abomination?
Of course the band doesn’t own the rights to their music
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-michael-hutchence-adviser-used-tax-haven-to-exploit-unheard-songs
Ta, Robyn. I'm glad I didn't see the commercial. And I'd be very picky about whom I would allow to wash my feet; I'm very particular about them.
[about keeping her virginity]
Cher : You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.
Basically Jesus was all about "you don't have a leg to stand on regarding judging other, you better leave that up to God" - you know that whole "mote in your neighbor's eye" stuff. Also too the set of lessons about sharing and caring for those around you based on need.
But none of that flies with the current crop of Xtians - it almost makes me wish the whole narrative was true so that once they get to judgement day they will find out just how short they fell of God's grace.
This is unsurprising since I've seen some of those comments about how Jesus hates sin and sinning (and sinners as well because of course).
These people simply worship the Jesus they want to worship and not any other Jesus, and the Bible has plenty of leeway for them to build their own Jesus.
That's basically what they have done.
so apparently there is a nationwide problem with dirty feet??//!!!!
F.F.S.
There is a difference between actual Christians and members of the Jesus Club. Actual Christians are like unicorns even you find one. So rare and precious and they just don't understand why Christians get such a bad reputation, because they do so much good to help everyone they can and don't get too preachy toward those they help etc etc. I've met maybe 4 of those my entire life, and 1 I was friends with long enough to see transition into a hateful Jesus Clubber. See, the Jesus Club is a social networking club that meets mostly on Sundays and clearly defines the out-groups that they collectively hate, and have team building social outings to verbally, emotionally, and sometimes physically assault the people they hate because gawd-a-mightee tells them it's the right thing to do (but only because they are too emotionally stunted, illiterate, and ignorant to actually read and comprehend the overall message of their faith). I'm glad I'm not a Christian or a Jesus Club member, I am not into washing people's feet. I do give a good foot massage. I don't be tickling or nothing.
/End Rant
The thing is that the Christian doctrine in the Bible itself supports the formation of ingroups to love and outgroups to hate so it's not surprising that Jesus clubs arose from those teachings and how "nice innocent Christians" eventually became Jesus clubbers.
They were simply following what the Bible said, parts of it anyways.
Parts of it being operative. Most are clearly Paulites, following Paul's retcons of the earlier teachings in the gospels. For our modern American evangelical movement we have to take that heaping dose of Paul, filter it through the coarse oily cloth of Calvin, and then dilute it with 2 parts muscular Christianity, 6 parts prosperity gospel, 3 parts Tinkerbell, and 5 parts doomsday cult rapture fantasies. Shake well and strain into a warm stiff sock.
🎯🎯🎯
Learning about the genealogy of the early Christian sects was pretty eye opening. Some of them died out because of their own beliefs (the sects that preached against having children inevitably ran into population problems), others were stamped out by rival sects who declared them heretics, and then they were almost all wholly subsumed by Roman Catholicism until the the Reformation in Europe caused them to splinter again over a thousand years later.
In the meantime, around the rest of the world, the remaining non-RC sects continued doing their own thing - they had been too far away from the Holy Roman Empire to get forced into the hegemony. Some of them are still practicing a 2,000 year old form of Christianity that avoided the Council of Nicea entirely.
Nestorian Christians made up a large portion of the early converts to Islam, and initially Islam was viewed as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church.
The Eastern Church was basically written off by European Christendom after the rise of Islam. But there are some small sects still kicking around out there, and bigger ones as well like Coptics.