When Did Tolerance And Kindness Become Edgy?
From the American Prospect
Each of the Big Three networks, plus Fox’s broadcast network, have rejected a paid advertisement from the United Church of Christ that bears the tagline, “God doesn’t reject people. Neither do we.” Viacom’s gay-targeted cable channel, LOGO, has also rejected the ad, which conveys a message of inclusiveness, even depicting a gay couple.
The UCC’s “ejector-seat” ad speaks to the rejection of various categories of people by unnamed Christian churches — a touchy subject for a nation that deems itself to be among the most God-fearing on Earth. It shows people who represent frequent targets of discrimination being ejected — into the air — from a church pew via a mechanism involving springboards hidden in the pews, controlled by an unseen party represented by an apparently white, male hand pressing a button.
First to be ejected is an African-American woman trying to quiet her crying baby. Next are two men who appear to be a gay couple, a man who looks to be of Middle Eastern descent and an elderly woman whose walker is tossed up with her. The spot ends with the contrasting message that the UCC church, a descendent of the early Puritan churches, rejects no one…
[Meanwhile] ABC [has] accepted paid advertisements from the religious right organization, Focus on the Family, whose leader, James Dobson, has vilified gay people.
The god that our fearful leaders invoke is Satan or None at all. They worship money, power, dominance, and everything else that goes along with it.
Jesus Christ and his teachings are strictly of the Communist or Socialist affiliation. There is nothing about Christ that aligned with greedy capitalists.
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25).
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The god that our fearful leaders invoke does not exist.
As far as Jesus’ teachings go….I see it as more of a humanism than a “communist” or “socialist” affilliation. Reducing it to some political “ism” cheapens it, I think.
And besides, Jesus didn’t have secret police and executions, ala Castro and Stalin.