A regular sight in Denver and the Southwest was the fundamentalist Christian bumber sticker. It got to the point where *all* the stickers I saw were violently bigoted dogma-espousing rubbish, but the one that really got my goat was something I saw in Denver just before I came home.
Now, I'm no big fan of the Christian fish symbol stuck to the back of cars, but, you know, it's a fairly understated way of showing which gang you belong to. So I was mildly tickled by Darwinian version, which I know most people will have seen already:
I was therefore annoyed by, but not unimpressed with, the inevitable response:
(let's ignore for now the fact that the darwinian fish has already made it to land and is safe from the Jesus fish, floundering (hoho) in both water and an existence justified entirely by a fundamental lack of proof. Actually, let's not get me started on why religion angers me so the fuck much)
Unfortunately, the witty chap with the above image on his bumper also seemed to think the slogan "Truth not Tolerance" is one he'd like to espouse. And Christians have a hard time understanding why I find some of their number so hateful?
Posted by biondino at June 20, 2003 09:55 AMi'm a christian.... and i freakin hate that "truth not tolerance" bumper sticker. christians get so caught up in some sort of quasi-political culture that they forget that unity is in Christ.
i've been guilty of it, but i still think it sucks. i guess what i'm saying is, don't let christians determine what you think of Jesus -- we christians are just as screwed up as everyone else.
here's a bumper sticker i liked: "Lord, save me from Your followers"
Posted by: dave on November 21, 2003 05:22 PM