Does PETA even realize how offensive the term ‘Jesus People’ is to Christians? With their track record, we bet they do.
PETA continues to exploit religion in their ever growing number of attention grabbing campaigns. Yep. Religion.
PETA’s Jesus People for Animals has been pitching a fit recently over SeaWorld’s upcoming music festival and their scheduled performers, Steven Curtis Chapman, Fred Hammond and others.
Attacking SeaWorld? That’s nothing new for PETA. Neither is Jesus People for Animals. It’s just a continuation of their offensive radicalism.
Beginning in the late 1990’s, PETA launched a campaign to spread vegetarianism by targeting Christians. And like everything else PETA does, they showed contempt for Christians and engaged in offensive tactics with no regard for the consequences.
PETA would intensify their efforts around Christmas and Easter – launching their billboard campaigns, protests and press releases. PETA’s Vegetarian Campaign coordinator even bragged about “enlisting Jesus as its newest spokesperson,” in a March 2000 press release.
Perverting scripture to suit their messaging, PETA claimed Jesus was a vegetarian. This became the centerpiece of their campaign.
So what type of messages did PETA put out for their ad campaign focusing on Christians? Here’s some:
Billboards
Cow Pope with a cow on a crucifix in Boston, 2004
This 2001 Easter Card
Yep. Total contempt for Jesus and Christians.
This brings us to Jesus People for Animals.
Type in the web address featured in the offensive ads above into your browser – www.JesusVeg.com.
You are directed to another site … wait for it … wait for it – It’s Jesus People for Animals!
The filth has been repackaged into a shiny new site. Same people, but a nice new name.
Folks got tired of PETA engaging in a totally disgusting ad campaign and PETA discontinued their “Jesus Was A Vegetarian” efforts. But that hasn’t stopped their plans to co-opt Christians into their radical agenda.
This latest campaign may not be as in-your-face as their previous venture but it is every bit as insulting.
First, the absolute absurdity of the name – Jesus People for Animals. Besides being a derogatory term towards Christians, it’s a cheap PR move designed to trick people into believing they’re a real Christian group. This in itself is an insult to Christians’ intelligence.
Even when attempting to assume the identity of Christian believers they cannot help but mock them.
The website is rife with subtle barbs and insults that are either planned or PETA is so uneducated about Christianity that they cannot relate.
Second, their radical interpretation of the Gospels and twisting scripture for political gain is something that is incredibly offensive to Christians. Modern Christian scholars have slammed these PETA tactics.
Animal advocates have nothing to gain and all to lose from fabricating the Bible for their own campaigning ends.
– The Rev. Prof. Andrew Linzey, Oxford University
Will they ever learn?
Twisting the truth, straight out lying and insulting people’s personal beliefs (especially religion) is no way to convince someone to support your cause.
But we guess if you’re trying to rally people behind an agenda as absurd as PETA’s you wouldn’t have logic or reason on your side, so you’d need to employ unethical, insulting tactics.
Jesus People for Animals. Really, PETA?
Source material and images via: Holy Cows: How PETA twists religion to push animal “rights”