Offensive anti Christian bumper sticker

Ha!  Just kidding.  Who can't love that the Norse god of inspiration was killed by dwarfs.   They made up not only gods, but beings for a series of English fantasy novels.  None of the desert religions can match that.

oneofthegirls said:

Hey wait a minute!

dave said:

Everyone is an atheist in some religion.   Pretend the bumper sticker was talking about Norse gods. 

 

Hah! Life is beautiful!

dave said:

Ha!  Just kidding.  Who can't love that the Norse god of inspiration was killed by dwarfs.   They made up not only gods, but beings for a series of English fantasy novels.  None of the desert religions can match that.

oneofthegirls said:

Hey wait a minute!

dave said:

Everyone is an atheist in some religion.   Pretend the bumper sticker was talking about Norse gods. 

 

 

Hey! If it weren't for Jesus there'd be no Aslan, and Aslan is really cool.

lanky said:

I am a Christian and it does not offend me.  In fact, I generally agree with the sentiment - asserting one's beliefs on others often results in bad things happening...

Me, too. Clever and funny. A message to the over-zealous that give Christians a bad name. My faith is not threatened and I wouldn't have taken offense.

For you ridski

I agree.

NizhoniGrrrl said:

lanky said:

I am a Christian and it does not offend me.  In fact, I generally agree with the sentiment - asserting one's beliefs on others often results in bad things happening...

Me, too. Clever and funny. A message to the over-zealous that give Christians a bad name. My faith is not threatened and I wouldn't have taken offense.

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ridski said:

Sadly this doesn't fit on a bumper sticker for me.

"The dictionary definition of God is “a supernatural creator and overseer of the universe.” Included in this definition are all deities, goddesses and supernatural beings. Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities.

So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say “Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…” If they say “Just God. I only believe in the one God,” I’ll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don’t believe in 2,870 gods, and they don’t believe in 2,869."

 This quote from Mark Twain should fit nicely on a bumper sticker:

"Religion began when the first con man met the first fool."

Here's another one that comes to mind because this Saturday, May 2 is Free Comic Book Day.

There is no God. The bible is a stone-age super-hero comic book - nothing more.

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992

This topic is just too delicious.  Anyone in a death cult like Christianity has no right to be offended especially when all around us, there are offensive crosses and crucifixes celebrating the suffering and death of this Nazarene trailer trash with a sadistic hateful father.  So although all those offensive crosses and crucifixes are constantly in our faces, people are offended because a little bitty bumper sticker puts the shoe on the other foot.  Too f---ing bad!!!  Where can I get that bumper sticker?

How quaint.

MelechRic said:

This topic is just too delicious.  Anyone in a death cult like Christianity has no right to be offended especially when all around us, there are offensive crosses and crucifixes celebrating the suffering and death of this Nazarene trailer trash with a sadistic hateful father.  So although all those offensive crosses and crucifixes are constantly in our faces, people are offended because a little bitty bumper sticker puts the shoe on the other foot.  Too f---ing bad!!!  Where can I get that bumper sticker?

One of the ugliest things ever posted on MOL.    Very deeply offensive.        

sbenois said:

MelechRic said:

This topic is just too delicious.  Anyone in a death cult like Christianity has no right to be offended especially when all around us, there are offensive crosses and crucifixes celebrating the suffering and death of this Nazarene trailer trash with a sadistic hateful father.  So although all those offensive crosses and crucifixes are constantly in our faces, people are offended because a little bitty bumper sticker puts the shoe on the other foot.  Too f---ing bad!!!  Where can I get that bumper sticker?

One of the ugliest things ever posted on MOL.    Very deeply offensive.        

 heh

oneofthegirls said:

For you ridski

Awesome, thank you. Can't help thinking there should be an apostrophe in "persons will" though, but internet.

This is the best invented religion award goes to....  

Bokononism is a religion invented by Kurt Vonnegut and practiced by many of the characters in his novel Cat's Cradle. Many of the sacred texts of Bokononism were written in the form of calypsos.

Bokononism is based on the concept of foma, which are defined as harmless untruths. A foundation of Bokononism is that the religion, including its texts, is formed entirely of lies; however, one who believes and adheres to these lies will have peace of mind, and perhaps live a good life. The primary tenet of Bokononism is to "Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."

Two thoughts.

1.  Did the person put the bumper sticker on the car, in order to offend?  Probably.

2.  Does the fact that some people have a belief that others do not, make other people feel offended?  Apparently.

MelechRic said:

This topic is just too delicious.  Anyone in a death cult like Christianity has no right to be offended especially when all around us, there are offensive crosses and crucifixes celebrating the suffering and death of this Nazarene trailer trash with a sadistic hateful father.  So although all those offensive crosses and crucifixes are constantly in our faces, people are offended because a little bitty bumper sticker puts the shoe on the other foot.  Too f---ing bad!!!  Where can I get that bumper sticker?

Saying that something is offensive (as I did about the bumper sticker) is not the same as being offended by it, at least for me.

But this post truly offended me.

Well, Christianity and  a lot of other religions have a funny way of thriving when they are down. As for MelechRic, nice job paraphrasing Christianity's own book, pal! "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" There's a metropolitan scoffing at the provinces if I ever saw one.

The other day at Home Depot I saw a bumper sticker on an old pick-up that said "Only God can Save America".

From WHAT exactly I wondered? It had a little cross on one side and an American flag on the other. 

Live and let live, guy. Live and let live.

Oneofthegirls - thanks for clarifying.

I can see that this thread has kind of gone off the rails.  I'm glad I left the conversation last night.  

I think that any bumper sticker that pushes a political or religious belief ON other people is not something I would have.  But, a celebratory one would be okay like - "I love dogs" or a politician's sticker whom you support.  

Why let a piece of paper on a bumper affect you so?   Just ignore it.  There are plenty of things on the news that offend me every day with much larger audiences and I successfully ignore them.  Read a good book.  Go for a walk. 

steel - the thing about that guy whose sticker said "only God can save America" while you might not have agreed with it, it didn't take something you held in the highest esteem (like God) and compare it to dog crapping and peeing.  Imagine if the sticker I saw had said curb your (insert an Arab symbol).  In some parts of the world, maybe even here, you might get yourself killed. Remember Charlie Hebdo.  

I am a strong supporter of the first amendment and intellectually agree that that woman can say whatever she wants via her car bumper as long as it doesn't incite a riot.  But I still think it was offensive and in poor taste.

Sometimes I think some folks should curb their enthusiasm for bumper stickers.

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The day you allow a bumper sticker to upset you so much that you must post about it is the day you need to start booking a relaxing vacation and tune out the world for a bit. 

mcgoey said:

I was just driving behind a car that had a bumper sticker that said "please curb your God" with a cross in the corner.  I found it so offensive that I considered getting out and telling the person who was driving while we were at a stop light.   It's one thing to be a proud atheist, but to compare anyone's God to a dog peeing on the curb is awful.  

You know what I find offensive? That this bumper sticker, which in no way mentions any particular religion or god, is immediately assumed to be anti-Christian. As if there were no other religion out there that mattered.

ParticleMan said:

mcgoey said:

I was just driving behind a car that had a bumper sticker that said "please curb your God" with a cross in the corner.  I found it so offensive that I considered getting out and telling the person who was driving while we were at a stop light.   It's one thing to be a proud atheist, but to compare anyone's God to a dog peeing on the curb is awful.  

You know what I find offensive? That this bumper sticker, which in no way mentions any particular religion or god, is immediately assumed to be anti-Christian. As if there were no other religion out there that mattered.

 ^ Ha! -- THIS ^

ParticleMan said:

mcgoey said:

I was just driving behind a car that had a bumper sticker that said "please curb your God" with a cross in the corner.  I found it so offensive that I considered getting out and telling the person who was driving while we were at a stop light.   It's one thing to be a proud atheist, but to compare anyone's God to a dog peeing on the curb is awful.  

You know what I find offensive? That this bumper sticker, which in no way mentions any particular religion or god, is immediately assumed to be anti-Christian. As if there were no other religion out there that mattered.

 You did not read the whole OP did you? The one that says there was a "a cross in the corner".

Regarding the OP, scatalogical humor (poop jokes) was a big part of selling the Reformation. So bringing it into religion, while crude, is certainly time-honored.

The devil appears as a dog in Faust.   I think we can connect the dots and know why mcgoey was bitten by a dog now.  

http://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/id/85534-I-was-just-bitten-by-a-dog-while-jogging

And why a dog ripped up mcgoey's daughter's homework

http://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/id/87237-dog-ripped-up-my-daughter-s-dog-walking-pay