I saw something making the rounds again that originally got attention a couple of years ago, so I decided to test it for myself.
Coca-Cola’s personalized bottle/can feature would not allow me to use “I love Jesus.” Their fine print DOES say names or phrases may be rejected if they are religious or political in nature, which I can understand as a general policy.
But when you try “I love Satan,” it IS allowed. I also tried “Buddah,” and that was allowed. So if the goal is simply to filter religious references, the filter certainly doesn’t seem to be applying that rule consistently.
Coca-Cola does acknowledge in the fine print that the system may get things wrong and gives people a way to ask for a review, so this could simply be a poorly designed automated filter. But, this feature was made available in like 2024 and people complained about it then and it’s still happening now in 2026, so clearly they’re not trying that hard.
What do you think? Is this just a faulty automated filter, or does the inconsistency concern you?
I just tried this on their web site. You are 100% correct.
I simply put, “I love Jesus!” and got the read letter sob story and ‘no can do’. Then I typed, “I love Satan!” and within milliseconds it was there.
Really sad but expected. There are underground military bases which upon entering, you have to sign a form declaring you will not say the name, “Jesus” under any circumstances. Even if you stub your toe and say His name disrespectfully!
As I pondered your provocation I came up with several potential reasons why this may be so, and all of them are positive for our Christian Testimony.
It may be the Coca-cola company regards Jesus as being real, and the other so-called deities as being unreal, and so the others are all fair game for corporate exploitation.
It may be the Coca-cola company feels the name of Jesus may be offensive to the largest portion of their consumer base, but the other names would only be offensive to a small portion of their consumer base. It may only be about the money. Do you think?
It may be that Christian affiliation being discriminated against and treated unfairly by the world is expected, we should embrace it, it is just as Jesus told us life would be.
It may be that our Father offers us many opportunities to testify to the suffering of Christ by being treated unfairly while returning good for evil; praying for God’s enemies, turning the other cheek, etc.
It may be that God has no need of having His Holy Name used to sell soda. It may be a divine grace that God Himself puts the kybosh on this practice to prevent the Coca-cola company from using His name in vain.
I’m sure if I thought about it more, more graces might come to mind. Even so, I say, If the name of Jesus is being prevented from being displayed on a soda can, that is GREAT!
For those in the US, I am just amazed of all that is happening. In short I believe what we are witnessing is a dying dinosaur of globalism (neo socialism). As quaint as it may sound, it would seem Britian would still represent the Old World of imperialism through globalist green/woke policies. And for decades America was led down this path by the nose. So it is really startling to see a genuine effort of reversal going down. Unlike anything this country has seen.
When Marxist socialism or communism is historically in view, there is a tendency to belittle and oust Christianity. As it has been known to honor a higher allegiance and constitute government competition for obedience. Since the USA has been under a decades old flood of socialist propaganda in our schools, it would seem we have arrived at a political flowering of sorts. One where we see contrasts in the extreme to biblical organic nationalism vs socialism/communism. Attested by the kinds of far left radical political victories conquering the democratic party in America. So we are seemingly in a real race for what America ultimately becomes. A true nationalist convention or just another Western woke enterprise with a human smiley face on it.
Ultimately of course Coca-Cola would be influenced to pressure Christianity out of existence because of the enemy blinding them to do his bidding. But the context in which we find the enemy so doing is quite a spectacle. And is an amazing moment in history to witness. So I guess i would see Coca-Cola’s social editing to just be doing their part in a long haul experiment to capture America by socialist fiat. Much of the Western world is already leaning in that direction any way (thankfully places like Argentina and El Salvador, not so much). But i bring it up in this context because it is par for ma course eschatologically to likely see the downing of globalism. If true, what an amazing time to be alive. And try as Coca-Cola may, I just don’t think they got the memo yet…lol.
Very interesting and fun article concept. Thanks Jenny.
Probably because the Christian population is not radical and quiet so corporations don’t fear Christians unless it is totally and obviously insulting. We are a quiet majority for the most part and very tolerant
