I caught someone peeling my Darwin fish off my car once.
Me: “Hey? What the hell are you doing?”
Them: “This is an affront to God.”
Me: “Yeah? Isn’t stealing?”
Them: “…” :runs off:
But Calvin does/did pray in the strip (frequently while trying to cover up something bad he did).*
But anyway, as I mentioned, I don’t think that most people realize it’s Calvin. As wonderful C&H was, I seriously doubt that it was a big force in most people’s lives. I think most people see a kid with a mischievous expression taking a whiz on a Ford or Chevy logo, or whatever.
RR
*On an ironic note, the praying Calvin was copied from a strip where Calvin was prostrating himself before the television. I think he was offering it a bowl of tapioca.
A Christian should argue that Christ is alive indeed. Supports the OP that the statement across the rear windows is, in a way, misguided (unless he was an evangelical atheist).
Ok, so on my way to work this morning, I saw one and I just don’t even get WTF it was supposed to mean:
**My **preacher says God “bless” America.
The bolded words were in red, the others in blue. Anyone able to explain this one? 
A reference to the sermon regarding racial inequality/injustice in which the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (the pastor at Sen. Obama’s former church) said "not ‘God bless America,’ but ‘God damn America’ " for (IIRC) its sins and injustice.
It’s the whole Obama/Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy thing. If you missed it, Rev. Wright, in what can only be called a jeremiad about America’s supposed failings, said something like “God bless America? No, God damn America!” Pundits had a field day associating Obama with an extreme-sounding black preacher who used a naughty word.
So essentially, in an oblique way, the bumper sticker is just another oblique way of saying “I’m white.”
Ahhh, I try desperately to avoid the trainwreck that is the democratic party, no wonder I didn’t know anything about this. Thanks both of you for explaining it.
As opposed to the trainwreck that is the Republican party? 
We have a Brazilian family down the block that is intensely Christian and determined to let the world know. One of their two cars has God/Jesus bumper stickers (mostly in Portugese) over the entire rear surface of the car, including about ~1/2 of the rear window. The second has one of those perforated see-through decal things covering the entire rear window, which is a giant version of one of the bumper stickers on the other car. Apparently, Jesus loves them a lot.
JRB
This would have made a lot more sense if you had said “I try despaerately to avoid the trainwreck that is the political commentariat.”
Well, it would have made a lot more sense if I had just (honestly) said “I don’t watch the news unless my eyes are nailed open and I am super-glued and duct-taped to the chair while being fed sedatives intravenously”, but well, ya know, we don’t always say things exactly correctly the first time. Sounds familiar…oh, wait, maybe something like the OP?
I once saw a car sporting a big Mother Mary icon in the middle of the rear window. At the edges of the same window were two of the bimbette silhouettes. Mixed messages, anyone?
BTW - anyone else notice that the fish stickers almost always swim to the left? Wonderful irony.
“…and I’m the kind of guy who always asks people ‘How come THEY call each other nigger all the time but WE can’t say it?’”
When I was living in Florida, a common redneck-ish sight was large pickup trucks with pithy phrases or pet truck names printed on vinyl decals which were mounted on the top of the front window.
The phrase printed on the front window of one truck I saw, a jacked-up mud-bogging beast, read …
I AIN’T COMPSENSATIN’!
Damn five minute edit window and hanging …
There’s this one which I saw posted on some message board a while ago …
Dear God. Wouldn’t it be tempting to pull up next to him and give a thumbs up, alogn with a cheerful “Allahu akbar!” and a smile?
Not worth getting shot over, but still funny. That’s a guy with issues.
Is that really the way he had it spelled? Or was Gaudere joining the thread?
That’s great - that means we’re getting to them.
Hey, anybody know where I can get a fish decal that says “Fish” in it? Preferably with an x’ed out eye?
Haw. One of the very funny things in a very UNfunny movie–well, actually, it was in the outtakes, in the extras–Steve Hahn, the Funniest Human Being Ever, is adlibbing to nature footage. We see a Moose, and his voiceover is something like: “The Moose is a very stupid animal. In fact, if the moose had a Porsche, it would have a vanity plate that said, PORSCHE.”
I never understood the “God is my copilot” stickers. Excuse me, aren’t you supposed to be a follower of God? Isn’t he your Lord? So why have you relegated him to the subordinate role? Shouldn’t God be your pilot, Sparky?
I nominate that one for the “just not thinking it through” category.
I am still wanting the “God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him.”