A surge of violent reaction over Super Bowl Jesus ad continues

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“Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.”

by the Southern Poverty Law Center.The site running the Super Bowl Jesus ad says “we’re not ‘left’ or ‘right’ or a political organization of any kind.”

And while left-wing anger at the campaign online was focused on the people behind it – and its vast expense, money which some argued would have been better spent elsewhere – criticism by conservative activists was triggered by the content of the advertisement itself. Many singled out an advert that tells the story of Jesus’ family while images of Latin American families fleeing toward the United States flash up on the screen. The commercial ends with the words: “Jesus was a refugee.”“Do you think open borders are biblical?” Mr. Kirk asked before the game.

Along with all the tweets, Google data showed a big spike in searches for the Super Bowl Jesus ad campaign during the game. “The goal is that the two commercials will not only inspire those who may be skeptical of Christianity to ask questions and learn more about Jesus but also encourage Christians to live out their faith even better and exhibit the same confounding love and forgiveness Jesus modeled,” said Jason Vanderground,

 

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