Honk if you love Jesus.

[bladespark]

I've alwayd thought though Christian themed bumper stickers and billboards tend to do as much harm to the cause of spreading the Good News as good. And it always seemed rather... demeaning, really. He's the Son of God, and suppsedly the sacred center of your spiritual life, and the best way you can think of to share that spirituality is to stick it on your car?

Here's a rather fascinating article that really discusses this idea in depth, and interestingly enough it uses Calvin and Hobbes as an example of why putting "Honk if you love Jesus" on a bumper sticker may be a bad idea.

Comments

[silveradept]

The way that the message is communicated often determines whether it sticks or not. I can laugh at "Jesus, save me from your followers" or the Darwin fish because there are enough examples of what it's making fun of. And those are the things I tend to remember more - the parody, because the original is saturated.

I'd say that a lot of people who put on the Jesus bumper sticker have as much solid faith as the people who put magnetic ribbons on their car actually support the idea of using the military only where justified, with a clear mandate, and only for as long as needed.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

There is a guy who makes ribbons that read "I support the guy in China who makes ribbons." I am always tempted to get a bunch of those and go around sticking them over "I support the troops" ribbons.

[silveradept]

I know the ribbons that you're talking about, and that temptation has struck me, too. The joke, I suspect, would somehow be lost.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

I always read "bring the troops home" when I see "support the troops". Personal politics and all that.