{"id":1582,"date":"2013-02-05T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/god-made-another-super-patriotic-truck-ad-for-the-superbowl.html"},"modified":"2013-02-05T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:12:00","slug":"god-made-another-super-patriotic-truck-ad-for-the-superbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/god-made-another-super-patriotic-truck-ad-for-the-superbowl.html","title":{"rendered":"God Made Another Super Patriotic Truck Ad For the SuperBowl!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Today, I found myself in the middle of some serious, if not heated discussions via text message and facebook and twitter (what\u2019s new?) about the Dodge \u201cGod Made A Farmer\u201d ad during the Super Bowl. Apparently, asking one simple question about the commercial apparently is enough to offend some people to \u201cunfriend\u201d me or whatever. I care not. Here\u2019s what I do care about. First things first, if you enjoyed the ad, no I don\u2019t think you\u2019re racist or whatever. More power to you. Second, if a multinational corporation makes a claim about God in public, as a Christian intellectual, it is my duty to ask questions. No claim about God is ever innocent or objective. None. Ever. This is coming from a Jesus-following, bible-believing, creed-affirming Christian. Just because it looks like a company is saying good things about \u201cgod\u201d or people does not mean they are about reproach or criticism.<\/span><\/div>\n
1st, So I ask Dodge Ram, which \u201cgod\u201d made the farmer you are referring to in this ad? Which \u201cgod\u201d are you talking about?<\/span><\/div>\n
2nd, simply put, how did the farmers get their land? How did \u201cgod\u201d provide land for these farmers? Was it perhaps the Homestead Act that Abraham Lincoln signed in\u00a01862<\/a>\u00a0so that whites could be squatters and \u201csettlers\u201d on First Nations Peoples\u2019 land? Was it Manifest Destiny? The Trail of Tears? A Plantation? I want to know, just how did \u201cgod\u201d provide land for his ELECT White American male farmer?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Today, I found myself in the middle of some serious, if not heated discussions via text message and facebook and twitter (what\u2019s new?) about the Dodge \u201cGod Made A Farmer\u201d ad during the Super Bowl. Apparently, asking one simple question about the commercial apparently is enough to offend some people to \u201cunfriend\u201d me or whatever. 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