I just don't understand the point of it very much (of any kind of proselytising, for that matter). I mean, they believe in a god who is all powerful and all knowing and who wants to spread the word - and they think he doesn't have better means of doing this other than a crummy bumper sticker? I mean, don't they think god could really do better if he felt that way inclined?
I think they're classic cases of making sure all the neighbours know how wonderfully Christian you are in the easiest way. Like hoisting a flag in your garden to show how patriotic you are, rather than actually doing anything for your country. Or putting a yellow ribbon on your car rather than trying to help the troops.
Which in turn says they don't take their symbols very seriously. They're decoration. They're status symbols. They're something to be smug over or self-righteous about. They're not for reading or studying or learning or communicating or thinking - they're not for anything they're supposed to be for.
They stop being symbols with meaning - or pertinent meaning anyway. When I see a car with a fish on the back or a cross in every window, I don't think "Christian" I think "smug, self-righteous git." And so far the symbol has been a depressingly accurate early warning system
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Date: 2007-08-21 10:52 am (UTC)I think they're classic cases of making sure all the neighbours know how wonderfully Christian you are in the easiest way. Like hoisting a flag in your garden to show how patriotic you are, rather than actually doing anything for your country. Or putting a yellow ribbon on your car rather than trying to help the troops.
Which in turn says they don't take their symbols very seriously. They're decoration. They're status symbols. They're something to be smug over or self-righteous about. They're not for reading or studying or learning or communicating or thinking - they're not for anything they're supposed to be for.
They stop being symbols with meaning - or pertinent meaning anyway. When I see a car with a fish on the back or a cross in every window, I don't think "Christian" I think "smug, self-righteous git." And so far the symbol has been a depressingly accurate early warning system