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Those Christian Super Bowl Ads …
The Archangels Offer some Clarity and Guidance
I haven’t watched the Super Bowl in years, and I haven’t missed it a bit. My late husband was a sports fanatic, and I had my fill of all sports while he was living. However, the day after the Super Bowl, I usually look up the ads on YouTube and often enjoy them. This year, I started doing that, but after watching several and not finding any that I enjoyed, I stopped too early to see the “He Gets Us” Christian ads that aired. I found out about them, because the controversy surrounding them made the news, and several people addressed them on Medium.
I went back to YouTube and looked them up, watched them, and I really had to wonder why so many people were angry about them. The message might have been religious in nature, but the scenes and ideas portrayed were thoughtful and true. One was about seeing through the innocent eyes of children. It was beautiful and loving. Kids who were too young to be judgmental showing all of us a better way to treat others was a great message for everyone. Who doesn’t enjoy seeing children being kind?
The other ad showed a lot of angry people screaming at each other. It was as disturbing with its scenes as the children’s ad was comforting. At the end, the caption was something like, Jesus loves all the people we hate. It didn’t…
