This is definitely a trend for the hateful, christofascist, religious reich. Hobby Lobby did the same thing at previous Super Bowls.
It’s right wing, Islamophobic, homophobic, anti-abortion Christian nationalism, masquerading as “caring” religion.
The Servant Foundation: the power behind the ads
The $20 million "He Gets Us" campaign about Jesus - is funded by an influential donor to some of the most active and litigious Shadow Network groups working to undermine church-state separation.
The Servant Foundation
The Servant Foundation, also known as The Signatry, is behind the “He Gets Us” ad campaign that debuted during the 2023 Super Bowl. Over the next three years, the Servant Foundation plans to spend “about a billion dollars” toward this public relations campaign. They’ve hired a PR firm to address, in the firm’s words, the problem of “How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?”
Of course, they’re the cause of their own problem – not only has the Servant Foundation funded hate groups, but the PR firm, Haven, has represented these organizations. Key Shadow Network members Focus on the Family and Alliance Defending Freedom are in their portfolio. ADF is a noted anti-LGBTQ hate group that has argued repeatedly in courts that religion, and specifically Christianity, is a license to discriminate; they have one such case pending before the Supreme Court right now.
The money trail
The Servant Foundation is one of ADF’s biggest financial backers. A recent exposé reports that, “between 2018-20, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom and that those contributions “were among the five largest donations given out by the foundation in each of those three years.”
Other recipients of the Servant Foundation’s billion dollars in assets include:
Nearly $8 million went to Answers in Genesis, creationist Ken Ham’s fundamentalist ministry behind the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, an organization that has been championed by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a former ADF attorney.
Over $1 million was designated for the anti-LGBTQ Campus Crusade for Christ (rebranded as “Cru” since 2011).
$374,800 went to Al Hayat Ministries, an organization that seeks to “respectfully yet fearlessly unveil the deception of Islam,” and runs an Arabic-language Christian satellite TV station with the goal of converting Muslims to Christianity.
In 2020 alone, we found donations to prominent Shadow Network members American Center for Law and Justice, First Liberty Institute, and Liberty Counsel.
Can’t help to wonder what’s going on through his head right now…
a (what was supposed to be) study of Twitter/X user @/migrainzxxl art style. I didn’t like the way it turned out so I scrapped it and just posting the lineart. Also a study Damien’s helmet and attachments so I can feel more comfortable drawing the details.
Zen position, Blood & Brine time, Good ol' Razzle Dazzle, All things I admired about ADF's. I used to own a few, my most fond memories of my frogs Potion and Knight, but they've long passed away. In their memory I have created a few of my favorite positions they would display. I hope to one day have a bunch of little frogs swimming and singing again.
Taking a break from writing. The real writer's-bore has set in, and I think maybe I need a break to simmer or I'll really boil over. Either way, I look forward to returning to writing Timeline chapter 1 on December 22nd, 2023, right at the beginning of the break! If I still can't write then, I'll contemplate some more and possibly extend my break. I'm feeling the pains of not writing in tiny bursts here and there already so probably not. I think things will go back to normal when I give my brain a break. I hope so, too.
Give yourself time to relax. I know we all love to write for long hours, and there's nothing wrong with that. That's one of the best moments of my days, second only by worshipping God. But sometimes it can be tiring and too much. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with what you're doing currently. There's always a break from something. Just let yourself wait for a few days - or however long you need - and then come back brand new.
Honestly I hope my own advice works for me. Pray that it does!
And after 5 days my weight has gone from 282 down to 274.6 this is the lowest i have seen since before i had my son almost 2 years ago. This makes me want to just keep fasting cuz the refeed will make it go up 😓 but hopefully wont be too much and get right back on track, i will be breaking the fast this afternoon. Just 6 more hours to complete a full 5 days which is when i'll be breaking later today
It's Anzac Day here, and in the grand tradition of such morose and weighted occasions, here's a sample of Anzac humour:
'At Tel-el-Kebir at one point [Egypt, in 1916], a battalion of Australian soldiers is put on parade to be informed that the General Officer Commanding, an Englishman, desires the use of bad language to be cut out, most specifically the words 'fuck' and 'c-nt', as in any case he understands that these two words are not used in Australia.
'At this point, a voice rings out from the back of the parade: 'The fucking c-nt's never been there!'
Or my fave:
'Perhaps the lack of deference [to the English officers] is just in the Australian blood? ... when a British officer told off an Australian for not saluting him, the friendly Australian reached out, gave him a pat on the shoulder, and said, 'Young man, when you go home, you tell your mother today you've seen a real bloody soldier.'
[Both quotes are taken from Peter Fitzsimons' book, Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell which I re-read every April in memorium.]
I really got inspired by a post from a former commando (2CDO) over on instagram (@/scott_ryder_zero79) that showed the commandos on a recovery exercise in a casino and so I decided to whip up a little something with Damien ;)
I’ll colour this one day, but I really just wanted to post this now 🐻❤️ close ups:
Watch as the aquatic african dwarf frog derps at their prey- gulping them down with abandon before returning to their natural state of being fat, lazy, frooooogs.