What the hell? I was in line behind a car at Burger King. He had a bumper sticker that said “I Love My AK-47”, which is a pretty weird thing to put on your car anyway. But get this. Underneath that sticker was another one that said…
Wait for it.
“Got Jesus??”
WTF???
What’s so weird about being religious and liking firearms??
All my cultist own guns, I’m sure Jesus’s followers would do the same . . .
The whole jesus/ak-47 thing doesn’t really confuse me too much. Religion and violence often go hand-in-hand
What really ties my brain up in knots though is what in the the hell possessed you to go to a Burger King. If you were being forced into it, at gunpoint, by the god-squad pointing an AK-47 at you then maybe I could understand
What’s more fun is when the bumper stickers don’t match the vehicle. I see a pick-up around town from time to time; the tailgate is almost covered with stickers proclaiming such things as, “Buy American!” and “America! Love it or Leave it!” along with numerous flags and NRA stickers and whatnot.
The pick-up? It’s a Toyota. I always end up behind it waiting to turn into Wal-Mart.
I know for a fact that Jesus only carried a 9.
Praise god and pass the ammunition!
Shortly after 9/11, I saw a truck in a neighboring town which sported a “9/11: We will Never Forget” bumper sticker. On the other side? A sticker which read “Whatever.”
Back in college, I used to see a Neon with a sticker on either side of the rear bumper. One said “PHISH”. The other said “Dole/Kemp”. Huh.
I’m a gun owner. Not the “stereotypical” gun owner who wears camo and has a closet full of AKs and 10,000rounds of ammo, but… I go to gun/outdoor websites that have political forums. Those places are full of people who think you can’t have guns without God and vice-versa. They will all tell you about a passage in the bible that says something like “You should have a sword. If you have no sword, sell your robe that you may acquire a sword” I’m paraphrasing. I’m an atheist. Yeah I get a lot of flak for being a gun owner and not going along with conservative docrine like some kind of drone.
There’s a car I sometimes see around my hometown that has a Bart Simpson bumper sticker adjacent to one that says “Kill your TV”.
I saw a car once with a “Pro-choice” sticker.
Right above it was a random one, “Shut up and do what I tell you to!” I want a sticker like that.
I saw one that said The Big Bang Theory: God spoke, and BANG! it happened.'' The one right next to that one said University of so-and-so, Science Graduate’’.
I saw a biker with “If you can read this the bitch has fallen off” on the back of his jacket.
On one of our cars it says “My other car is a bicycle” Which is stupid cos our other car is a golf. I mean we do have bikes but none of them are cars.
On the subject my friend has a T-shirt that says,in latin, “If you can read this you are over-educated” Being a bearer of this information before the rest of my friends when they asked him what it said I was capable of glancing at the T-shirt for a second and then off-handly ‘translating’ it. I’m now accused of being a roman on a regular basis.
The first time I met my current landlord (who’s a shaggy hippie-dude) he was wearing a t-shirt that said, “Peace in the rainforest” and had a picture of lots of happy animals frolicking in same.
His bumper sticker said “Republican and proud of it.”
Not that there’s anything inherently contradictory about the two; they’re just conflicting emblems of two very different American subcultures. I suspect the sticker was on the truck when he got it (it’s a fairly old work-truck).
I don’t see the problem.
Religious people often tend to be conservative.
Conserative people tend to be more pro-gun.
That and it’s not like there’s a contridiction between owning a weapon and following christian teachings.
I know a lot of gun owners. I am a gun owner.
One of the things that I’ve found is common among us is that we don’t tend to advertise our arsenals. Amongst ourselves, perhaps, but not to the general public. My guess is that anyone driving around with a “I Love my AK-47” bumper sticker neither owns nor has ever touched an AK. People who own them are generally far more serious than to have a silly bumper sticker like that on their car.
I’d consider it a joke. This person clearly has some kind of odd sense of humor if they’ve got bumper stickers at all, especially one that says “Got Jesus?” Doubtful that you’ve run into a born-again machine gun toter. I could be wrong, but I really doubt it.
Long ago, I saw a pair of stickers that made me want to pull the guy over to get his take on having a
“Let’s Keep Jim Wright [one o’ the greatest of all Big-Time Spender Liberals] Working For Us” sticker on the same bumper as a
“Join the Tax Revolt” sticker. I wonder if the space between the stickers - empty - was emblematic of this guy’s noggin.
The scientific culture does tend to be anti-religious, but there are plenty of scientists who are Christians. You can’t really be a Creationist and a scientist, but those of us who believe that Genesis is more symbolic than literal have no problem combining the two schools of thought.
And I love the Pro-Choice/Do-what-I-tell-you-to combo. Either it’s a joke, or somebody just doesn’t get it.
I’ve always wanted to cover my car entirely with bumper stickers. Those on the driver side would be from the political left. Those on the passenger side would be from the political right. The ones in the middle would just be weird.
As an added bonus, it would help hold my car together.
On my way to San Antonio from Tampa, just outside of New Orleans, I came up behind a car with the personalized liscence plate “The Dead”, and Grateful Dead stickers all over place. There was also a bumper sticker that said “God Bless Ronald Reagan”.
I thought to myself, “Self, there is only place in the world that that combination of sentiments could possibly exist, and that place is the US military.” And sure enough, as I passed him I saw the DoD decals that people have on their cars to give them access to military bases.