[MUSIC] You may have seen that commercial
promoting Jesus during the Super Bowl over the weekend, of course.
The people behind it, he gets us, Jesus' ads are the Christian group that well.
We'll get into them in just a moment and
tell you about their tight relationship with pretty intolerant, bigoted people.
[MUSIC] But before
we do here is
the commercial
itself portraying
something pretty
different from
the bigoted
stuff that we'll
discuss later.
So if you watch those ads like in a vacuum not knowing anything about
the organization behind them or the kinds of policies they have promoted,
it's an overwhelmingly positive message.
You don't see anything negative about those ads.
However, those Super Bowl ads, which cost he gets us $20 million, did receive
strong backlash online, including from representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Who simply tweeted this, something tells me Jesus would not spend
millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.
And by their own description, he gets us as a nonprofit organization with
the stated goal of helping people understand the authentic Jesus as he's
depicted in the bible, the Jesus of radical forgiveness, compassion, and love.
But what they've promoted in the past really does go against that message.
The problem is most people don't know that, and
putting out a nuanced tweet that compares the ads that we saw during
the Super Bowl to fascism, isn't gonna necessarily play well?
>> Okay, but there's twist after twist in the story.
>> Are there? >> Yes, because charlie Kirk also hates
the ads, so AOC and Charlie Kirk agree that ads are bad,
okay, but for completely different reasons, okay?
And I think there's a very nuanced conversation, I love the ads.
The reason behind the ads with her organization is doing is a different
question.
But first let's give you AOC Charlie Kirk, and
then we'll give you what the organizations, actually do.
>> I don't know what Charlie Kirk had to say.
>> No, I got you.
>> Okay, so AOC just tweeted that, something tells me, Jesus would not spend
millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.
Can we stop using the fascism label on everything you dislike?
>> Yeah, don't this is not fascism, no, by the way, there's potential bigotry, etc.
We'll talk about it, but I don't see how this is fascism at all, okay?
So Charlie Kirk tweeted the marketing group behind he gets us has done one
of the worst services to Christianity in the modern era.
The green family are decent, wonderful people who have been taken for
a ride by these woke tricksters, so sad.
So wait, are they fascists or woke tricksters starting to get confused?
So here's one of the two different sides don't like the left wing
doesn't like because a lot of money they raise,
then goes towards right wing groups that take away our rights, right?
The reason the right wing doesn't like them because they're showing a progressive
Jesus one that loves everyone.
So Charlie Kirk, this is terrible.
Remember, no, Jesus all about hatred hate the immigrants,
hate people that aren't like you, hate is awesome.
Why are they showing up, Jesus that loves people, woke tricksters?
Have you ever read the bible?
God, these guys are hilarious.
>> I don't know, Charlie, it might have to do with the fact that belief in
religious institutions is at an all-time low.
And it might have to do with the fact that young people especially are less
likely to be interested in these religious organizations
because of the hatred they preach.
The hatred, they represent the hatred that you want them to represent so
boldly in Super Bowl ads, apparently.
Maybe this has to do with trying to recruit new parishioners.
And it's real hard to do that when you display some of the more nefarious things
that have been funded by the organization behind these ads, right?
So that's what AOC is referencing, and it's totally fine to reference that.
But when you just put out a tweet for in response to an ad that looks
lovely that most people don't know the details about behind the scenes.
Then it's gonna look crazy when you just put out this like one sentence
tweet that compares it to fascism.
Do you get what I'm saying?
>> Literally, everyone I know that watch that ad was either liked it or
loved it, right?
So the ads are super effective and
if it's a trick then let's point out that it's a trick.
But don't without even saying that it's a trick to say those ads are fascist makes
everybody who watched them, which is tons of people during the Super Bowl.
Wow, you are weirdo radical.
How is that fascist?
That's telling you that Jesus was acceptable.
How could that be [INAUDIBLE] hogging, okay?
>> Right, if you look the ad, and you don't know anything else,
you don't know about the organization behind it, whatever, that's all you see.
And then you go on Twitter and you see AOC compared to fascism,
like how does she not know?
The biggest mistake anyone can make whether you're in the news or
in politics is assuming that everyone knows what you know.
Not everyone knows what you know AOC, what are you doing?
Okay, so let's actually get to the details here and
what I think motivated her to put that tweet out.
So last week TYT did talk about this and as JR had shared with you
last Friday he gets us is a subsidiary of the servant foundation.
Which is a Kansas based charity also known as the signatory that says it
exists to inspire and facilitate revolutionary Biblical generosity.
But between 2018 and 2020 the servant foundation donated more than $50
million to the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Which is also a nonprofit that's led big policy fights over abortion and
nondiscrimination laws at the Supreme Court and in states around the country.
The nonprofit is designated as an anti-LGBTQ+
hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Again, that is bad, obviously, but most people don't know that.
[LAUGH] So you have to explain it, so you can have people understand why you're
attacking the ads which on the surface look lovely, right?
Now the alliance defending Freedom says it helped draft the 2018
Mississippi abortion law at the heart of last year's Supreme Court decision.
The Dobbs decision, of course, which reversed Roe V wade.
Now, the alliance is leading a new Supreme Court case arguing that
businesses should be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers.
And as far as where he gets us gets their funding from,
some of the money has come from billionaire David Green,
the devout Christian co-founder of the arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby.
Green and Hobby Lobby fought the Obama administration's contraception
mandate all the way to the Supreme Court.
Leading to a 24 ruling finding that closely held corporations do not have
to comply with the mandate if their owner's voice religious objections.
So that's the issue with the people behind the ad.
That is what motivated the tweet coming from AOC.
Now, Genk fill us in more on this whole like right wing backlash to the ad.
>> Yeah, and then I want to tell you where I come out on it.
So they really don't like that, they're making Jesus look progressive.
But he is, [LAUGH] as I explained in my book, Justice is Coming,
we'll put the link down below.
Jesus was pretty much a communist, if you're shocked by that,
that means you haven't read the bible at all, Jesus is so far to the left of me,
it's not even close.
One of our members just wrote in on YouTube and not equipped road and
Jesus was the most woke.
Yeah, not only did he washed the feet of the poor,
prostitutes, immigrants, etc.
He said give away all of your worldly possessions and
come follow me to help the poor and the needy, right?
I wouldn't do that, okay, and
giving away all of your worldly possessions is literally communist.
Okay, so you can't get any further left in, Jesus, he threw out who the money
changes the bankers, that was the very first thing he did, right?
So the very last thing the right wing wants
you to find out is who Jesus actually was.
And so if you find out how progressive Jesus is, it ruins their whole scam.
Their whole scam is, no, Jesus was super greedy, and he loved prosperity,
preachers and tax cuts for the rich, and my God did he love corporations?
[LAUGH] They're a joke, but
they've tricked hundreds of millions of people into believing this madness.
So they're saying to these guys who are right-wingers guys stop the ads,
stop the ads.
You're gonna accidentally get people to find out,
Jesus is the biggest lefty in the history of the world, right?
He makes Karl Marx blush for how left he is.
So now back to what do I think?
Look, Anna, we're in a tough spot, right?
Because so the $50 million they spend is among the most they spend this group did
to help this really right wing legal organization, do these terrible things.
But tons of religious people are anti-choice and
anti-gay, I don't know what to do with them, like, so
I think those are awful positions, awful.
And I fight against them daily, but they are religious positions,
not of every religious person,
not of every Christian person, of course, right, but of a significant chunk.
So are we gonna say that all those people who believe that are fascists?
I don't think so, I don't think that's a good idea.
I think we have to somehow try to convince them, although we do have to fight them in
the battlefield of ideas and in the arena etcetera.
So I think that getting people to see the real Jesus is more subversive and
the better way to go then they just yell at him in this case.
So overall be careful with the group and I got to tell you the very important thing,
why are they doing these ads in the first place, and
why do they keep saying he's for all of us?
And they keep showing young people all over the ads?
>> Cuz they're trying to recruit young people,
go to their religious organizations.
>> Okay, and the reason for that is because religiosity among
the young is doing this in the graphs, nose diving among young people.
Almost nobody believes in religion anymore.
So much of the young have stopped believing in religion that in the 1990s,
of Americans believed in religion.
Now it's down to 63% and almost all the older people still believe in it,
so- >> I want to talk about this further
in our members only bonus episode today because for
the longest time I thought that was a good thing and only a good thing.
But it's actually far more complicated than that.
There are some pretty significant downsides to the lack of membership and
religious organizations that I wanna discuss in the bonus episode for
our members.
If you're not a member, you can become one by going to TYT.com/join or
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Have some nuanced opinions on this.
Some might be controversial, but I think it's important to talk about.
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