IMO, all religious bumper stickers are bad. Religion is a very personal and often complex thing, and if you can capture your theology on a bumper sticker, you obviously haven’t thought about it much.
Of couse, I’m an atheist, so what do I know? I guess I should put a blank bumper sticker on my car. 
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Please, make more generalizations on this board…
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But back to the rapture/light traffic connundrum:
(All of us driving around in hell)
“Damn, its hot as hell here!”
“Yeah, but isn’t the traffic nice?”
Wheere I live, there arre a lot of cars wwith Christian stickerrs (Rapture/unmanned, Christian fish, WWJD, PromiseKeepers, Calvinish boy/“Dear LLord forgive me for unrinating on XXXX”, etc.).
One bumper sticcker I do not understtand is “De Colores”, usually with some sort of rainbow design in the bbackground or thhe letters themselves in rainbow coloors.
A coupple of the carrs I have seen also hhad anti-homosexual sloggans plastered on tthem, so I can likkely rule out some sort of gay pride ideal. Annd as I am usually travellling on the highwway at aa good clip when I see tthem, I cannott ask the driver whatt it means.
Any ideaas?
(Sorry abbout the typinng, but the cold medicaation is doing weird things to the brrain right nnow and I’m ttoo tired to sleepp.)
De Colores is a traditional Mexican folk song that has some religious overtones. For more info, here’s a link:
http://members.aol.com/alanj32020/curfaq.htm#A4.
Here’s the first verse:
De Colores
De colores, de colores se visten los campos en la primavera,
De colores, de colores son los parajitos que vienen de afuera.
De colores, de colores es el arco ires que vemos lucir.
Y por eso los grandes amoes de muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Y por eso los grandes amoes de muchos colores me gustan a mi.
It’s actually a cute little song, though I never learned past these first lines.
ArchhiveGuy
Thannks.
I’lll get it translated in the moorning.
Noww to sleep.
Perchaance to dream.
(Likely somme reallly weird stufff)
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I’m reminded of a sig that a friend from the old AOL SDMB had, which started out as a bumper sticker :
“God is my co-pilot”
… which she then added …
“but then we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.”
Well here’s the translation of the lyrics give above. I threw it into altavista/babelfish… perhaps some of you geniuses can make more sense of this than I can.
**Colors Of colors, colors the fields in the spring get dressed, Of colors, colors are the parajitos that come from outside. Of colors, of colors ires is the arc that we see shine. And for that reason great amoes of many colors like my. And for that reason great amoes of many colors like my. **
WTF are amoes?
like my what?
<sigh> I never was very good at spanish
“My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter”
Amen to this. I’m not exactly offended either. A lot of the bumper stickers mentioned just sound plain corny and stupid. If I were to have a Christian bumper sticker, it would have to be clever without condemning anyone to Hell (like the “You’d be smiling too if you were going to Heaven”…that just seems rude to me. Who’s to judge on who’s going to heaven and who’s going to hell?).
As for me, when I get a car I want a little Jesus fish on my bumper, plain and simple. That’s all. No words, no fish eating Darwin fish or vice versa.
RTFirefly said:
That’s a message many Christians should hear. But I don’t think I’d advise telling some of them that, except maybe from a distance.
As for the OP, I’ve mentioned this one in other places as something that baffles me–if I hadn’t had people I knew were Christians tell me they liked it, I would think it was meant to make fun of Christians. It’s a hockey bumper sticker:
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Jesus Saves!
And Gretzky gets the rebound and scores!
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Which is saying, in effect, that Wayne Gretzky can beat Jesus–not a notion I would associate with Christianity.
okay, i know spanish:
Of colors, of colors you see in the fields in the spring,
of colors, of colors are the birds that come from outside.
of colors, of colors is the rainbow that we see shining.
guessing “amoes” was a mistyped “amores”, archiveguy???
And for this the great loves of many colors please me.
And for this the great loves of many colors please me. [something like that]
“Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven”
Aaarrggghh! How annoying is that? Yeah, I do as much crap as everyone else, but because I happen to believe in Jesus, I’m going to Heaven and you’re going to Hell. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!
I wanted to point out that De Colores is actually a Christian movement associated with the National Cursillo Center. The only link I could find was for a local De Colores movement based out of Texas, but it explains a lot about how the whole program is run.
http://www.cursillogary.faithweb.com/
My parents have belonged to this movement for years. They have helped set up temporary homeless shelters out of church basements, staffed soup kitchens, arranged emergency shelter for domestic violence victims, organized gift giving parties at their church for children from low income families, etc.
And before you say it, my parents are not religious fanatics at all. They both work full-time, own a RV and travel the state with it during the summers, attend church when they can, tell dirty jokes and eat meat on Fridays. But they both have such strong faith in God and this program is their way of helping the community.
I was out driving yesterday, and was absolutely lost in my life, and very unhappy in general, when suddenly the answer hit me. I discovered that Jesus Saves! Ay, Dios Mio! Where was my life going before it was interrupted by the blessed overpass which bore this beautiful message? I would like to use this post to thank whomever it was who sprayed this and every other overpass in the nation with these words so that lost souls such as I could look upon them and achieve salvation at long last.
Another problem. When i was 16 I worked in a grocery store an d one day while pushing a line of about 8 carts in from the parking lot, I was nearly run down by a volvo station wagon (what else?) with a God Is My Co-Pilot sticker on it.
Well, I thought, I hope one of you is insured…
“God please save me from your followers”
I think this one rigs true pretty much universally.
Whoops! Serves me right for not proofing it well enough (I copied it from somewhere else). Yes, it is “amores”.
ShamaFrog–LOL! My spanish is rusty, but I knew I didn’t want to risk it using one of those services (though my misspelling obviously didn’t help)
I’ve only seen one:
“God is dead”, Neitchze.
Neitchze is dead", God.
sorry if I misspelled that.
What RTFirefly said.
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hehehehehe, I like that one!
Exactly! I was just thinking about this on my morning commute. Ever since I first saw these Jesus Fish eating the Darwin Fish magnets/stickers I’ve chuckled about that.
Here’s one I saw today that I think is silly:
**The Big Bang Theory: God spoke and bang it happened **
Is this a justification of the Big Bang theory that attributes the impetus of creation in this manner to God? In other words, does it say that the scientific explanation of the Big Bang is correct (but directed by God) and the Bible version of creation is a parable and not the actual version of creation?
I think not. I think it is a not very well thought out attempt to co-opt the Big Bang Theory and turn it into a ‘witty’ religious bumper sticker.
Around here we have bumper stickers that say Aint stud’n the Devil (typed exactly as they are on the sticker). Can anybody tell me what this is supposed to mean?