For the second year in a row, a religious Super Bowl ad campaign promised viewers that Jesus “gets us.”Two commercials shown Sunday night centered Jesus’ message to love your neighbors — even across ideological divides.
“Our goal is to really show that Jesus loved and cared for anyone and everyone,” He Gets Us campaign spokesperson Greg Miller told The Associated Press on Monday.
The “He Gets Us” campaign is now under a new charitable organization, Come Near, meaning the Servant Foundation is no longer overseeing it.
This is the 12th consecutive year the Church of Scientology has premiered a new ad during the Super Bowl, said spokesperson Erin Banks.
“The audience of the Super Bowl allows us to do that with the greatest potential reach.”___AP Religion News Editor Holly Meyer and reporter Deepa Bharath contributed.
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Jesus “, Jesus, Greg Miller, Roe, Wade —, —, ”, “, Mark Wahlberg, Erin Banks, Banks, Ron Hubbard’s, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Mary, ” Miller, Holly Meyer, Deepa Bharath
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Associated Press, Servant Foundation, Defending, Hobby, Paris Olympics, NFL, Republican, Democratic, of Scientology, Mental, “, ”, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP