In about ‘92 I bought three stickers saying, "While you’re rockin’, God’s still knockin’". I put one on the car of my good friend who had a history of being into Christian metal.
He took it off. I put on another one. He took it off. I put on the third one. He took it off. I took the second off the door of his dorm neighbors, where he’d put it to embarrass them, and put it back on his car.
Fuuunnnyyy.
I used to call the local Christian bookstore “The Jesus Junk Store.” Who wants erasers that say, “Jesus”? I guess if you’re in 1st grade you don’t notice the tackiness, but that doesn’t really excuse the adults.
And don’t get me started on the employees who had so little idea of the seminal band Daniel Amos that they filed the albums under “A”. (It’s a band with a person-sounding name, like Jethro Tull or Pink Floyd.)
When the atheists and agnostics go door-to-door on Saturday mornings to get you out of bed and pester you to convert, and when they start yelling nonsensical diatribes in the college quad about how the students are all deluded fools that must see the light, and when they get their own Saturday-morning TV shows to preach to the masses about the goodness of a godless life, then I’ll concede you have a point.
A friend of mine saw one a few years ago that said “Get off the crack before Jesus gets back.” Like anybody’s going to stop smoking rock because of your bumper sticker.
As a fellow Christian, I’m begging you to keep this out of this thread, and out of this forum. Please.
If you want to have this discussion, go to Great Debates. And don’t EVER expect to get away with “pithy” comments like that on this board. You will be challenged, and in some cases, even intelligently. If you want to learn how to do this well, go search for threads including comments by Libertarian and Triskadecamus.
Dave, I wasn’t trying to start a war, or a discusion on the issue, I was just saying. That is all, I know to go to debates, to debate. It’s all cool. Just calm down. If anyone took offense, I’M SORRY! I realy mean that.
The “God is my co-pilot” one used to be quite popular here in Calgary, every time I got stuck behind one I would mutter to myself “another f***ing arsehole refusing to take responsibility for their own driving.”
[teeny tiny hijack]
perhaps we could come up with a list of religious bumper stickers we would like to see:
Well, I started a thread about the decal I saw that had Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) bowing down and praying to a Christian cross. I thought that was rather strange, myself.
Why not Calvin peeing on Satan?
I saw a “religious” bumper sticker for sale on the internet once that said “Militant Agnostic–I don’t know, and you don’t either!” I rather liked that one.
The best followups to “Jesus loves you” I’ve ever seen were “Jesus loves you, but then again so does Barney” and “Jesus loves you, everybody else thinks you’re garbage wrapped in skin.”
For the record, I’m not anti-Christian. I’m anti-jerk. The next time I see a holier-than-thou, smug, idiotic Jewish or Buddhist bumper sticker I’ll rag on that too. I don’t particularly like some of the more caustic Pagan slogans either.
On a completely unrelated note – the I key on my keyboard isn’t working well … I wonder if there’s a deep philosophical meaning hidden in that?
Amusing take-offs I’ve seen:
‘Jesus is coming- no wait, he’s just breathing hard.’
‘The wages of sin are death- but after taxes all that’s left is a sort if tired feeling.’
An actual scary sign, held at a protest of a New Age bookstore by bonafide Jack-Chick-tract-passing scary Christians that most assuredly make the other ones look bad:
‘God hates nakedness!!’
wha…?!
