I recently attended a wedding in a Catholic church and as we exited the church I couldn’t help noticing, on the wall, I colour depiction of a smiling Jesus pointing at the viewer like uncle Sam and it was captioned:
Don’t make me come down there!
WTF ?
I went back and took a picture of it I found it so curious.
There are two churches on my ride to and from school that always have dumb sayings. One week I think they were trying to out do each other in mean sayings.
One said “You meant it for evil”
The other said “Your ticket to hell”
In the student paper a colmnist wrote about how they were both mean and wouldn’t win college students over with that. Then a preacher (priest, rev not really sure?) from one of the churches responded saying they were mean to be positive phrases. Needless to say most students were confused as how “you meant it for evil” was a positive thing.
There’s a church (perhaps it’s abandoned) near the Decarie Autoroute on St-Jacques Street here in Mtl. that as long as I can remember (being driven past it a few times a year) has advertised a seminar on “YOUTH IN ASIA.”
I think someone made an oopsie. Perhaps it was so embarrassing that they closed the church.
That just goes with the song: “My God is a clingy, smothering God” right?
I actually like these from time to time. I can appreciate a well-turned phrase or lameo pun without getting hung up on the “churchy” aspect of it. As far as catchy slogans go, they have it all over “Coke is it!” or “Mr. Pibb – put it in your head!” Bad grammar/punctuation = damning to hell though, as far as I’m concerned.
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there used to be a sign visible from one of the off-ramps of the Don Valley Parkway in a certain well known Canadian city. In big bold text it proclaimed “Jesus is Coming. Call Jim NNN-NNNN” I liked the slightly jarring juxtaposition of the names and used to imagine that perhaps Jim had an inside line on the second upcoming. I was tempted to call and ask if I could get tickets.
You’re a decent person. If I had gone far enough to actual approach the sign, I probably would have found a stray letter “T” to slide in front of that word.
tee-hee.
The funniest thing is that the same church had a sign last week that said
For all you do, his blood’s for you.
It makes me giggle that they would use a beer slogan (altered) one day and then spout this out the next.
On the upside-- I really want to go to class the next day just to snicker at the signs.