# Jesus Loves You **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901 "2002-07-08T13:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/1 "2002-07-08T13:14:26Z")
I really hate people who wear t-shirts with “Jesus Loves You” on them. What is their problem??? ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/2 "2002-07-08T13:54:07Z")
Would it bother you if their shirt said “Jesus _ **doesn’t** _ Love You”? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/3 "2002-07-08T14:05:09Z")
How about “Jesus wants to kick your ass”? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/4 "2002-07-08T14:13:23Z")
I suppose they (and me) are Glad Jesus loves them. You wouldn’t wear a shirt with your loved one’s name on it? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/5 "2002-07-08T14:37:41Z")
I don’t care how much Jesus professes to love me, I’m still not putting out on the first date. I’m just not that kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/6 "2002-07-08T14:57:31Z")
Yeah! And, I also hate people who put rants in the wrong forum! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/7 "2002-07-08T16:37:30Z")
Wow. You literally “hate” them? Or do you hate the fact they wear their faith on their sleeve, so to speak. I usually reserve my hatred for terrorists and their ilk, not for people who wear clothing that I don’t like or have faiths other than my own. But to each his own. Happy ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/8 "2002-07-08T19:41:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Happy Lendervedder \* > \*\* > I usually reserve my hatred for terrorists and their ilk, not for people who wear clothing that I don’t like or have faiths other than my own. > \*\* You clearly have time-management skill deficiencies! If you work at it, you too can hate more! Its just a question of applying yourself! 😃 Jesus doesn’t love me. I slept with his mom. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/9 "2002-07-08T19:46:03Z")
Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you’re an asshole. -Dirty ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/10 "2002-07-08T19:52:55Z")
I don’t understand wearing _anyone’s_ name on my clothing, be it religious figures, loved ones or designers. When Anne Klein starts wearing _my_ name on _her_ clothes, then I will think about it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/11 "2002-07-08T19:57:18Z")
_Jesus loves me This I know Because the Koran Tells me so._ ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/12 "2002-07-08T20:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*Jesus doesn’t love me. I slept with his mom. :smack: \*\* ROFLMSAO! Man, you are _so_ going to hell… ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/13 "2002-07-08T22:07:04Z")
one of my close friends (an extremely conservative christian) put “have a nice day, please, and Jesus loves you!” in her email signature, so every time she emails me, i have to see that. i’m a very stubborn wiccan, and she knows what i believe and that i have no intention of converting, but the “Jesus loves you” doesn’t offend me all that much. sure, i get really annoyed during her long speeches (the girl can talk forever without taking a breath, and i’m rather quiet) that almost always draw in religion, but saying “Jesus loves you” is harmless. sometimes i tease her by replying “Satan/Cernunnos/Cthulu/Ganesha/etc. loves you,” but she’s a Jesus freak. yep, of all people, she picked me (the insane bisexual wiccan) as a friend. funny how the world works, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/14 "2002-07-08T22:32:25Z")
I saw a little kid once, wearing a t-shirt that looked at first as if it said “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” but on closer inspection said “Jesus is the Only Master of the Universe.” My problem with taking any firmly held belief and putting it onto a t-shirt or a bumper sticker is that it trivializes your belief by bringing an al-ecompassing faith in God’s grandeur down to the level of a fondness for the Beatles. Or He-Man. I also saw a t-shirt once, worn by someone who was at a baseball game with a church group, that said, “Gonna live forever if the good die young.” A bunch of the group-members were wearing these shirts, and had obviously had them printed for some occasion. Why would a church group advertise being bad? (Please don’t suggest that it was some kind of tacit acknowledgement of the stain of original sin that we all carry within us; Southern Baptists are not, as a rule, that theologically sophisticated.) Plus I’m reminded of someone (I disremember who it was) who said in some context, “I was in danger of verbalizing my moral impulses out of existence.” I don’t think they were talking about t-shirts, but the point is there. ---
**Author:** ![NetLord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90ced4/32.png) [@NetLord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetLord)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/15 "2002-07-08T22:46:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Jesus Loves You So does Barney. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/16 "2002-07-08T22:51:49Z")
… but Ronaldo nets the rebound! 😃 (sorry, thought it said Jesus saves) ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/17 "2002-07-09T01:44:54Z")
My favourite t-shirt: > [@](#): > > Jesus is Coming. > > Look Busy! ---
**Author:** ![Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/2bfe46/32.png) [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/18 "2002-07-09T01:49:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Jesus doesn’t love me. I slept with his mom. I do believe you then have testicular fever. I hear she got around a lot. You know, what with the scandalous stories involving God an all. ---
**Author:** ![Stiletto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Stiletto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stiletto)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/19 "2002-07-09T01:53:06Z")
Jesus doesn’t love me. He never calls. He never writes. He always made me buy dinner. And, honestly, the sex was lousy. 🙂 -Stil ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-loves-you/117901/20 "2002-07-09T02:03:45Z")
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