He Gets Us? Well, Okay

With great fanfare and financial backing that would make P.T. Barnum blush, an advertisement campaign has been launched called “He Gets Us.” By the looks of the ads, they are designed to make Jesus a more palatable deity to the “marginalized,” the “oppressed,” and the “misunderstood.” Basically, everyone except the readers of Identity Dixie and your normie MAGA hat-wearing White person. All this without any regard to His majesty, nor His titles, which among many are: the Lord God of Heaven, second person of the Trinity, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, Creator of all things, the very Word of God incarnate, Savior, etc.

Now, I’m a very ecumenical kind of guy, even though I am a very committed confessional Presbyterian; I don’t generally get into theological arguments with strangers. Honestly, I’m more in the line of the apostle Paul, who would gladly dismiss the errant preaching of Christ, even by those who preached him out of less than wholesome motives, because the name of Christ was exalted (and that’s always good). And I’m not here to discredit the ad campaign as a whole; God is sovereign, and He can use anything to bring His elect and sainted children into his bosom. Blessed be His name!

However, it appears that the creators of this fairly successful campaign want to present transvestites, gang members, unwed women expecting illegitimate children, ad infinitum, as those deserving of compassion and subservient humility from those of us that work hard, play by the rules, make wise decisions, get married, stay married, support our children, go to church every Lord’s Day, read and believe the Scriptures, writings that actually tell a much deeper and less than accommodating story about the Jesus expressed in these commercials. We are made to feel ashamed for our lack of compassion for the characters that are supposedly marginalized, as depicted in these ads. However, in reality, they are the most coddled in our decaying society. They are lifted up like saints in a post-modern catechism, worthy of praise and accolades, exalted for their lack of agency concerning the basic adult functions of taking care of themselves.

But, the Church, as a whole, does take care of these people most generously, with no acclaim, no thought of recognition, and very often after she has exhausted her resources and the bodies of her members in service to meet these needs; she is despised by the very people that she has helped out of genuine Christian charity. Ask your pastors, your priests, and your deacons how often they have helped nonbelievers in distress, and how often they have been vilified in the process. Walk through the downtown area of any medium to large city, you’ll find a homeless shelter run by Christians, you’ll see multiple hospitals that have the names of a Christian denomination or saints attached them. Homes for unwed mothers, abused women and children, and those addicted to narcotics are almost always attached to some Christian ministry, paid for by Christians. And in the South, this type of compassion and limitless kindness is magnified!

What these ads are trying to portray is a fiction, a narrative that does not exist, a defamation of God’s people, as if the Church has completely missed the expectations of those outside of her kindness. There are depictions of average people washing the feet of the downtrodden. It’s reminiscent of the Marxist paradigm of “oppressor and oppressed,” and it’s meant to evoke emotions of shame and humiliation on Christ’s Holy Church for not caring enough.

And although this ritual is very common in Middle Eastern culture, foot washing has little relevance in Southern culture, nor in the greater American context. So, why use foot washing to symbolize compassion? If you look back at some of the humiliation rituals done by normal Americans toward BLM adherents in the notorious recent past, you’ll find this ritual, even one performed by a former CEO of a chicken sandwich restaurant chain, one generally connected to the conservative Christian community. He washes and kisses the feet of some relatively famous black person. Brothers and sisters, this has sinister connections to a Marxist movement, not Our Lord and Savior. 

This campaign makes it seem as if Jesus randomly and often washed the feet of the oppressed, in condemnation of the religious community of his day. Yet, we only have one account of Jesus washing feet, and that of His disciples, His students, right before He sends them out to preach the Gospel of Repentance to the nations. And that’s the missing part: these ads call none of the “marginalized” to repentance unto life, to change the trajectory of their lives. No call to “go and sin no more,” which is the pattern Jesus would always leave for those He discovered in a sinful lifestyle.

My motto in life has been consistently verbalized and actualized in the proclamation that “no good deed goes unpunished.” I have had many conversations with my fellow Christians on this matter, but always with a caveat. We do not do good deeds for the praise of men, we do good deeds because they are good, and our God is good, and He demands we are to be like Him. 

In conclusion, brothers and sisters, do what is right and good, call sinners to repentance, just as Jesus calls us all. Do good unto all men, but especially to those of the household of faith. Love the unlovable, and especially and firstly among your own Southern people. Never listen to the godless when they try to shame you; never hear their cries about how much money comes into the congregations of the elect, and how that money should be spent on the “marginalized,” the “poor,” etc. It’s a deceptive tactic of hate. We have seen that same sentiment before, even some of the same words; they came from Judas, and the Scripture teaches that he said them because he was a thief and a traitor! 

Spend your time getting Jesus, and less time worrying about what the world thinks of you. 

Deo Vindice!

God save the South!