White Sox need a ‘He Doesn’t Get Us Day'

 White Sox need a ‘He Doesn’t Get Us Day'

My beloved Chicago White Sox won’t see me at Sox Park July 9. The Pale Hose are hosting a ‘He Gets Us’ Day against the St. Louis Cards. Billed as ‘Faith and Family: He Gets Us’, the He, of course is Jesus. The He Gets Us movement, formed last year by The Servant Christian Foundation, has spent a hundred million in advertising at sporting and other events to “Reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible.”

The campaign is billed as apolitical. But its founders, rich conservatives Evangelicals such as David Green, Hobby Lobby founder, are anything but. I viewed a He Gets Us Super Bowl ad. It was a slick mix of faux social inclusivity and conservative sound bites. One of the latter claimed that Jesus was “canceled” for being “an influencer”. I get it…lefty atheists killed him.

Don’t know how much dough the Sox got to host He Gets Us July 9, but with the campaign planning to spend a cool billion over the next 3 years, it’s likely not peanuts.

I have no problem with my White Sox co-mingling religion with baseball. Not being a governmental entity, they’re free to promote religion to put paying customers in their pews…I mean seats. But it sure would be nice for Southside to reserve a special day for us non-theists. We’re still one of the fastest growing but still marginalized segments of America’s pluralistic society.

If they did, our attendance would offer no prayers for a Sox victory. With their un-heavenly roster, even the Big Guy would be incapable of granting them that miracle.