For a lot of people, Christmas basically starts the day after Halloween.
And that means that for a lot of people, it’s also time for the annual Christmas tradition of coughing up tiresome, grating takes on Jesus.
On November 1, a popular anti-racist troll known as Fifty Shades of Whey offered up this gem:
It's November 1st. The War on Christmas has officially begun. Jesus wasn't white. Yep, that's right. Your son of God is not a white man. He's as brown as me. pic.twitter.com/N6uVl0nVOH
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) November 1, 2021
Progressive Pastor John Pavlovitz must’ve seen that and figured he could do even better:
Jesus was born in the Middle East.
He was Jewish.
He didn't speak English.
He wasn't white.
He wasn't Evangelical.
He wasn't a Republican.
He wasn't American.
Heck, he wasn't even Christian.
(Sorry to break it to you, MAGA Evangelicals.)https://t.co/YvfmeCW3vo— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) November 17, 2021
Much original. Such groundbreaking.
Whoa. All the people who have those "My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter" bumper stickers are going to be totally surprised to hear Jesus wasn't a Christian. https://t.co/Q6RNnO9qHB
— Shaner (@shaner5000) November 17, 2021
Oh wow you just destroyed Christianity I can’t believe it omg wow impossible what no pls how no my whole belief system https://t.co/gT6NyMGKIE
— Alexis de Wokeville (@AlexisdeWoke) November 17, 2021
Like, wow.
This is utterly Pavlovian.
— Ron Bassilian (@Ron4California) November 17, 2021
Pavlovitz et al. literally can’t help themselves.
https://twitter.com/roundscomplete/status/1461019254719926277
So utterly banal https://t.co/oXwTePFvFi
— Max (@MaxNordau) November 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/TheH2/status/1460974304028508166
https://twitter.com/literarilyl/status/1460976471418277893
https://twitter.com/AVincIer/status/1460998249423196165
John Pavlovitz seems to think he knows a lot about Jesus:
BREAKING: Actual followers of Jesus don't justify, defend, or celebrate someone killing 2 people with a weapon of rapid carnage—period.
Sorry, that's just how this works.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) November 16, 2021
Maybe John should cool it with the Jesus takes for a while.
