While chasing them may provide much needed exercise, christians are sometimes loaded with fat, artificial chemicals, and antibiotics. Sometimes they are armed and refuse to accept thier fate, so may inflict damage upon your pet. Much better to feed your lions butcherd meat sourced from domesticated livestock.
It is offensive, but somewhat mittigated by the fact that you cannot take seriously a threat to feed Christians to Lions in this day and age. I think it would be the same effect as a sticker saying “So many Witches, so few Witchfinders” or “So many Balsphemers, so few stonings”
Not offensive. A little annoying- but the one that rubs me the wrong way the most is the one about not thinking in church. I can not stand people who act or talk like people who are religious are stupid(especially Christians, double especially conservative or evangelical or fundamentalist Christians).
On the other hand, I would probably assume that anyone who had that bumper sticker, especially in conjunction with the others described was not someone I would have a great deal of interest in spending much time with.
I’m not a big advocate of prayer in schools- especially formal, ritualized prayer. But, I react very badly to the assumption that spirituality indicates an inability or unwillingness to think for oneself.
The reason I dislike the saying “Christians Aren’t Perfect, Just Forgiven” so much is that I have met a few proclaimed Christians who use it as a “Free sin” pass card. If they are rude, unthoughtful, arrogant, or basically act like a jerk, it doesn’t matter. They are already forgiven!
One person in particular I know is notorius for this. He’s was late to a family function, failed to call in (we’re talking a few days late here) and pretty much had the entire family worried that he was dead. When he arrived at last, apparently after some sightseeing, and told how worried his disappearance had made everyone his response was, “Oh well, God will forgive me.”
The point he and these bumper stickers fail to grasp is this: You are only forgiven if you are actually sorry for being an asshat!
I’d say the others represented a valid opinion; seperation of church and state. The fish and chips one was on the border; no message but silly. But the lions one wasn’t a political message, it was a hostile one directed against people. So it crossed the line and was offensive.
I find the lions sticker about as offensive as the “forgiven” sticker. For some reason, I find the “forgiven” sticker more grating, though. Perhaps it’s the whole “get out of sin free card” thing that Blackclaw mentioned.
The fish ‘n’ chips sticker, OTOH, is hilarious. I want one.
Well, I assume the person didn’t mean it seriously, but it was still offensive.
“So Many Uppity Blacks, So Few Lynch Mobs”
“So Many Gays, So Few Phelps”
“Lorena Bobbitt for Surgeon General”
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems you need a lot more baggage to take offense at a “Christians Aren’t Perfect, Just Forgiven” sticker than the one in the OP. And the Darwin fish back and forth are something else entirely.
No, it doesn’t. The infamous “Judge not, lest ye be judged” passage condemns hypocrisy, not judgmentalism per se. (Hence Christ’s exclamation of “You hypocrites!” as well as the exhortation to remove the plank in one’s eye before pointing out the speck in someone else’s.)
No, I can’t tell you where in the bible it says that. I’ve just heard it. I guess I don’t know what I’m talking about.
I don’t think being judgmental is a good character trait. I prefer to live and let live. Most of what other people do is absolutely none of my business. I’m not going to judge them for things I know nothing about. The decisions and actions they make are their business, not mine.
That’s not to say I don’t ever find myself making a judgment, but I do try to be aware of it. And of course, I have to make decisions based on what’s best for me, so that may sometimes include dropping someone as a friend or voting for one candidate over the other, etc.
On the other hand, I saw a bumper sticker some time ago that said “Doing my best to piss off the Religious Right.” I suppose that’s offensive, too, but if I could find one, I’d put it on my car!
I’m not a Christian, but I’d find that bumper sticker somewhat offensive. Any hostility directed at an ethnic or religious group is deeply uncool in my book.
No, you had it right the first time. Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
James 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Offensive but funny. Of course, I live in a town that is about 50% Mormon and 50% Baptist. The back of my truck has a very round fish that says “Buddha.”
In other words, judging another person’s conduct, attitudes, beliefs, values, history, public statements and treatment of others–whether good or bad–is okay sometimes?
I think the lion sticker is funny because it conjures up an amusing image in my mind.
Whereas I’d be horrified if Christians were really fed to lions today, because many of my loved ones are Christians, and even I could be called a Christian depending on who is doing the categorizing.
Yet the Christians are forgiven sticker rubs me the wrong way.