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"He Gets Us" Isn't Offensive. It's Just More of the Same.

It's a mistake to confuse attention for belief.

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Samuel D. James
Feb 01, 2023
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If you’ve watched any televised football over the past 6 months, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of these ads. It would be tiresome to “dissect” any one of these. The premise of all of them is the same: Jesus is more like us than unlike us, despite the church-ified picture you may have gotten of him. Of course, it’s one thing to piously say this. …

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