Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Right; not a thing for some of us.

 

Absolutely true.

But the foundational premise - that the surahs were the unaltered and direct words of God, dictated verbatim to Muhammad - still obtains.

The differences in how humanity chooses to act on or ritualize those words is the distinction, I guess.

 

Also: American beer, American trucks and American Jesus at the Super Bowl.

Thoughts?

Does the King of Kings really need the ad buy?

 

I’ve seen this pop up a few different places today. It feels like the critics are making the same mistaken assumption conservatives make about the BLM movement - that it is all one giant, organized conglomerate doing business as Jesus Inc. There are probably thousands of organizations spending money in Jesus’ name in in hundreds (if not thousands) of different directions.

 

For an outsider like me, that's the beauty of Torah and Talmud and the absolute beauty of Judaism - the articulation and poetry and passion of doubt, of arguing directly with G*d.

 

That's why I'm curious about this specific instance. It wasn't a generic pump-up-the-attendance "message from your local churches."

It's Hobby Lobby and a couple others rebranding the Son of God.

'He Gets Us': A Kansas campaign spent $20 million on Super Bowl ads to rebrand Jesus Christ

 

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Weren't they the quitters?

 

Those ads have been airing around here for months. I figured it was the Mormons.

 

“The money for X could have gone to Y” dates back to at least Matthew 26:8-9.

This is one of the hard things about the religion I’ve chosen to follow. I’m expected to at least metaphorically join hands with those I don’t necessarily like very much.

 

A small piece, but yes.

 

Sure, but when one of them pays for multiple Superbowl ad buys, people will be curious about the money

 

The ads ain't for Jesus.