# Disturbing Church Marque Message **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895 "2004-05-06T18:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/21 "2004-05-07T14:12:53Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > I drove by again this evening and it seems I’d remembered the phrasing a little wrong, although the gist is the same. > > _You were planned for God’s pleasure_ This is crazy. Yesterday I was in Ventura, CA and I saw a church with the _exact_ same phrase on its sign. I wonder if there is some sort of newsletter with suggested phrases from which to choose. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/22 "2004-05-07T21:03:48Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > This is crazy. Yesterday I was in Ventura, CA and I saw a church with the _exact_ same phrase on its sign. I wonder if there is some sort of newsletter with suggested phrases from which to choose. > > Haj It wouldn’t surprise me if there were. The reliably goofy church down the road currently sports _I serve a risen Savior_. And every time I drive past it, I think “Yeah, well, I only give my guests unleavened Jesus.” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/23 "2004-05-07T23:53:43Z")
Unleavened Jesus would be a great band name. What? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/24 "2004-05-08T00:07:48Z")
Yay for church signs. Bringing the comedy to us as we are trapped in our cars. Proving to us that absurdity and pervisity are everywhere. [Gas Station Hijinks](http://www.boners.com/grub/788580.html) . Note: Other pics in the link may not be safe for work. (boobies, butts and elephant poo alert) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/25 "2004-05-08T00:32:58Z")
[Exhibit A](http://www.boners.com/grub/788382.html) [The Irony](http://www.boners.com/grub/788268.html) [Not pertaining to anything](http://www.boners.com/grub/788337.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/26 "2004-05-08T00:35:29Z")
The above links have pictures that are Not Safe For Work! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/27 "2004-05-08T00:48:07Z")
[Another one](http://www.boners.com/grub/787755.html) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/28 "2004-05-08T16:32:21Z")
To ruin the blasphemy-fest with an actual fact _G_, “You were planned for God’s pleasure” is a quote from THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE ---
**Author:** ![Satyricon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Satyricon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyricon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/29 "2004-05-08T17:07:04Z")
The church near me didn’t have a disturbing marquee, but it had a lame one: Easter is here! and then, under that, I kid you not: Yay God! **"YAY GOD"**??? Ran out of ideas, eh? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/30 "2004-05-08T17:44:45Z")
Those are some great links… ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/31 "2004-05-08T19:45:50Z")
I may have posted this a while back, but a church near where we used to live had a sign out front that said: Come hang out with the guy that hung for you! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/32 "2004-05-08T21:03:38Z")
“God answers knee-mail.” Don’t even want to know what kind of porn spam that generates… ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/33 "2004-05-08T21:41:38Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > > [@Homebrew](#): > > > > I drove by again this evening and it seems I’d remembered the phrasing a little wrong, although the gist is the same. > > > > You were planned for God’s pleasure > > This is crazy. Yesterday I was in Ventura, CA and I saw a church with the _exact_ same phrase on its sign. I wonder if there is some sort of newsletter with suggested phrases from which to choose. > > Haj ['Twould appear so.](http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/churchsigns.php) (8th one down on the left.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/34 "2004-05-13T01:25:52Z")
[Oh God!](http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=16827) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/35 "2004-05-13T01:30:07Z")
[Paging Gay Dopers](http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=5927) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/36 "2004-05-13T01:56:36Z")
There’s a church (in an industrial building near the Oshawa train station) named “World Harvest Church”. I find this name vaguely creepy; it makes me think of some vast judgemental intellect coolly plucking screaming people from the surface of the earth and stuffing them into its collection basket, like the Martians did in _War of the Worlds_… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/37 "2004-05-13T02:32:13Z")
Hey, Sunspace, I’ve seen that place (I live in Oshawa, used to work in Whitby). Ever seen the church a little ways from the Oshawa Center? Got a blue bordered marquee out front. Their marquee is a good one for this sort of thing. The one I remember most is ‘You can’t stumble when you’re on your knees’. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/38 "2004-05-13T03:27:29Z")
Hi, **Tengu**! Yes, I grew up in Whitby and lived in Oshawa for a time. My first summer job was at GM. Which side of the OC is that church on? ‘You can’t stumble when you’re on your knees’? Isn’t that another way of saying, ‘There’s nowhere to go but up!’? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/39 "2004-05-13T03:39:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hi, **Tengu**! Yes, I grew up in Whitby and lived in Oshawa for a time. My first summer job was at GM. Which side of the OC is that church on? It’s on King just towards Whitby (uhm, so, West, then.) It’s just after King goes 2-way. Or just before if you’re driving East. > [@](#): > > ‘You can’t stumble when you’re on your knees’? Isn’t that another way of saying, ‘There’s nowhere to go but up!’? Heh. I never even thought of that interpretation. The two unfortunate interpretations that came to mind immediately (the first even before parsing that they actually meant ‘You can’t go wrong with God!’ and the other as an immediate response to that): 1. BJs. Always with the divine BJs. 2. ‘Well, no, but you can’t move forward at any sort of reasonable pace, either. And, dammit, that hurts.’ Oh, I meant to include this in my earlier post - the first time I saw World Harvest Church, I had much the same reaction - although my mental image included a scythe and a cackling minister. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895/40 "2004-05-13T03:45:49Z")
So many things to be disturbed about today, and church marquees bother you? The intolerance for Christians on this board disturbs me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-church-marque-message/243895.md?page=3)