Why did I do it? It was asking for trouble...
I entered "JESUS" in the search engine at CafePress.com. I ended up with a long list of bumper stickers, some of which I'll share. Here are some of my favorites: (Ok, before the stones are thrown – I found these really funny. Some are truly horrible as well… just because I posted them does NOT mean I agree with them. …all)
I FOUND JESUS(He’s in the trunk of my car)
I FOUND JESUS (He was behind the sofa)
Christianity does not teach hate
Aslan is on the move
Christian who thinks
Jesus saves sinners! (And redeems them for valuable prizes)
The real Jesus forgives your jesus for being a greedy republican warmonger
Jesus would use His turn signal
Jesus was a social activist liberal
WWJT = Who Would Jesus Torture?
Get Real! Like Jesus would ever own a gun or vote republican
Jesus is coming ~ look busy
The fish symbol with “sushi” in it
Jesus told me to mock George W Bush
Hatred, bigotry and intolerance are not Christian values
Want less
Draft SUV drivers
So many Christians so few lions
Who would Jesus Bomb?
God doesn’t exist so I guess no one loves you
We’re making enemies faster than we can kill them
Ok, so stone me later... these were funny! I'm shopping for stuff to make my momivan "findable" in the parking lot. Honda's tend to congregate enmasse in this town. Gahhh!
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Yeah, I'll have to dig into the facebook bumper stickers and flair again soon. . . .
Didn't want you to get stoned by yourself. That would be just wrong.
This is the only one I'll comment on, and it's because the disrespect people have in this coundtry for our leaders is incomprehensible to me:
Yeah, whoever wrote that has no idea who Jesus is or what he taught, since he taught to respect authority, even when you don't like them, what they represent, or feel they are completely in the wrong.
ALL authority is put in place by God and is there on purpose.
The Jewish people hated the tax collectors and Jesus wouldn't have it, He told them to respect authority. Give to Cesar what is Cesar's and to God what is God's, or something like that. I'm appaled at how rude and disrespectful people are toward Bush. He's a man, doing his best at a tough job. You might not like him but why act like you're in middle school? Just makes you look like an a**. And no, you are most likely not smarter than him, no matter what you think.
I'm not saying you as in you, Carmen, I think you get what I'm saying. Sorry to vent on your comments. Feel free to delete this comment if you want. I just feel better having gotten that off my chest.
Several of those bumper stickers were quite humorous BTW.
I understand your point Angie but I don’t entirely agree. The reason “Jesus told me to mock President Bush” is a funny bumper sticker to me is because Bush suggested that his heavenly father (God) told him to invade Iraq. Now if Jesus can say both “love your enemy” and “execute a preemptive attack on Iraq” then there appears to be some contradiction. Since we know from the scripture the character of Jesus, and that God does not change… Well… So “Jesus told me to mock President Bush” is equally as problematic as “Jesus told me to invade Iraq” which is why the bumper sticker is funny to me. Well… it’s not funny, it’s a complete horror… but still
It was Kennedy who started Vietnam. He was a democrat.
God is both the lion and the lamb. We often see the lamb, and not the lamb. Are God is not angry but fierce. God was always leading his army to battle in the old testament. Telling them to kill everyone, man woman and child. Have people really changed that much from them?
And maybe Jesus wouldn't have a gun, but I am pretty sure he would defend himself if someone attacked him. Who wouldn't. There are some really radical pacifist who say that a man could break into their house and attack their wife and they wouldn't do anything. Isn't that against our human nature?
They say how can someone be both pro-life and death penalty, well I ask how can you be pro-choice and anti-war?
No matter who the president is, I am sure they are doing a better job than I can, right. I am not educated enough, I don't know all the knooks and cranies of politics, I hated history in school. To me it all comes down to the quote by Plato, "The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers are kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands, while the many natures now content to follow either to the exclusion of the other are forcibly debarred from doing so. This is what I have hesitated to say so long, knowing what a paradox it would sound; for it is not easy to see that there is no other road to happiness, either for society or the individual."
Hmmm....Look at the CROSS, did he defend himself, eventhough completly inocent? NO! He could have called down legions of angels to his defense, did he? NO. I'm one of those "radical pacifists" and you'd better believe it is against our human nature! BUT it is NOT against God's nature that he has placed within us. I do not believe that anywhere in scripture is there support for Christ ever giving us an example of where it is OK to take up arms. Even when he was arrested he healed the ear of the man who Peter whacked. And, we are no longer living by OT law, but by the love, grace and mercy that Christ taught and demonstratated while he was here on this earth. We are to love our enemies and I'm not sure how killing them is loving them. Now, all that said, I do not believe for one second that there should be no consequences for actions. When people do bad things there has to be consequencse for that, and as a society we are to hold people accountable for what they do.
OK, this is a comment, and I just realized it is turning into its own blog. I'll just leave it at that.
Blessings to ALL
Well now, hasn't this gotten interesting?!
Just for the record - Jesus WAS attacked, he did not defend himself and it didn't end well. Well, not for him anyway, but for us. That whole grace through the blood thing... It's pretty interesting. And amazing. Theology doesn't come from 9/11 or from Hitler, or even what is the natural human response. It's deeper than all that. And for me the central point of my pacifism is that scripture points out that God alone has the authority to end a human life. To step between Him and the dates on His calender is an act of supreme rebellion. Yeah, I should write a blog about that. Can't even imagine how interesting the comments to that would be!
ALL authority is put in place by God and is there on purpose.
Including Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Stalin? By all means, respect them. God wanted Stalin to kill 20 million people? He had His reasons, I'm sure. Too bad He doesn't let any of us in on his master plan. Maybe not so many of us would think religion is the biggest scam since the beginning of time.
I swear people forgot what happened on 9/11.
Are you saying that 9/11 had something to do with the invasion of Iraq? Because even W. has stated that there was no connection between the two. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Iraqi government had any part in the 9/11 attacks.
They say how can someone be both pro-life and death penalty, well I ask how can you be pro-choice and anti-war?
For most people, it's a question of when the believe a human becomes a person. Is a fetus a person just after birth but not before? Is it a person at the beginning of the third trimester but not the day before? Is it truly a person when it is a collection of undifferentiated cells? It's a complex issue, one which is always over-simplified by both sides.
If you're against the killing of other people, however, being anti-war is a no-brainer. The people we have killed in Iraq with our bombs are people. There is no debate on this, unless you believe that people of Arab decent are people. The only justification for war if you're against killing other people is if you believe there are exceptions. In this case of most wars, the justification is self-defense. Unfortunately, we weren't attacked. We attacked first. Oops.
God was always leading his army to battle in the old testament. Telling them to kill everyone, man woman and child. Have people really changed that much from them?
Yes, God has always been an easy excuse to go to war. God wants me to! It is a mystery to me why anyone would follow such a bloodthirsty diety, but people usually find a way to justify it.
Back to the bumper stickers, I like this one:
WWJT = Who Would Jesus Torture?