New Bumper Sticker: Religion Is A Very, Very, Personal Thing

[applegrove]

We need something emotional to put on every car. To remind everyone who is religious (or even and agnostic like me) how personal it is - and how it should not be used like a football by 'political operatives'.

[SharonAnn]

1. Like your underwear, "personal and very private".

That's what my aunt says about religion.

"It's like your underwear, personal and very private."

[ET Awful]

5. And nobody wants yours shoved in their face and we all hate having

our noses rubbed in it.

[arwalden]

12. Here! Sniff My Dirty Shorts!!

[Bouncy Ball]

18. OHMYGOSH ARWALDEN THAT IS THE CUTEST DOGGIE EVER.

Sorry about the yelling, I just had an incredibly cute puppy moment. Is that YOURS?

[arwalden]

26. Yes...

That's Mitzi, our four-year-old Shih Tzu. Thanks for the compliment.

-- Allen

[applegrove]

31. Walking box of Kleenex is what I call them!1

[arwalden]

32. LOL... Someone Said That She Was A Dustmop With Legs

The fur underneath her belly does tend to pick up bits of debris both inside and out.

-- Allen

[donheld]

13. "Share your religion like you share your underpants."

[applegrove]

23. Seeing as how we know that religion can be a gene induced ability to have

faith - I do not think you can exclude religious types (I especially like the devout) from our pluralistic Liberal umbrella!

To be religious is the same type of thing as to love, or to be angry at injustice. To be religious is to be very human. I often wonder why Liberals feel so comfortable dissing the devout (not a universal occurrence). But why be against the idea of faith that makes you a little stronger and tries to teach good values.

Monotheism evolved to stop culturally suicidal and evil things like human sacrifices to the gods, etc.

[ultraist]

28. Gene induced ability?

I think you have confused the actual results and meaning of that study. Do you have a link to that study handy? I think I know what you are referring to.

It's not a gene induced ability to be religious, that's how the fundies have twisted the study, just as they twisted the recent research on the gay gene study.

[applegrove]

30. Excuse me but the people right now out living their lives for orphaned

children and making the heinous spots in the world bearable for the weakest of the weak are often blessed with that gene: the devout of many religions. The gene to do certain types of heavy lifting. The gene to know that there is more to life than materialism.

The fact that you look at one gene (gay) as good and another (ability to believe in higher power) as bad says something. No I do not know the details, and nor do I need to.

If it is human - it is under my umbrella.

I doubt very much that the worst religious offenders and politicos have the gene at all. The worst manipulators will just use the faith of others to get power. Just as the worst antisocial personalities will use human emotion (which they also don't have) to blind us.

But you have to admit that there are people who believe (who perhaps need to question authority more - I don't know) who do amazing things their whole lives. This is not saying they are any better than your or my agnostic liberal ass. They are just different. And capable of some heavy lifting that neither you nor I choose to do.

[Rush1184]

2. Fundies would not get it...

and would most likely use it as a football like everything else.

[ultraist]

3. I agree, Fundies believe it is their duty to "Evangelize the Sinner"

ie, SPREAD RELIGION much like Bush believes he should SPREAD FREEDOM.

Check out some Fundie churches websites and you will find that in their mission statement.

Only certain religions believe it's private and personal and those are the ones that we don't really need to worry about.

[HawkerHurricane]

4. Fundies love 'The Great Commission'

And hate 'The Great Commandment'.

[hfojvt]

7. if Ezekiel, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, Mohammed, etc

had agreed, we would not have religion, would we?
Isn't that a plea for Christians to keep their religion "in the closet" where it belongs? It seems to me that a "personal and private" religion allows a person to claim to be a Christian, but then allows none of their convictions to actually be put into practice in their life. That is perhaps the kind of religion practiced by the Sam Walton family.

[applegrove]

21. I didn't say keep it private - I said religion is a very personal thing

Which implies an individual thing. Of course the way you act demonstrates the gods you are following. The idea is to reinforce the idea of religion as a non-hierarchical thing. Because many religions are that way and even most catholics do not skip 'birth control' like the pope asks and they know it.

Personal to me implies that religion is very important to some: up their with family and our deepest commitments. And that we should respect the sanctity of it in other people. Just like we would respect their family unit.

[ultraist]

27. They have bible quotes that back up their belief they should evangelize

Something about 'spreading the word of the Lord to every tongue, tribe, land, every corner of the earth...'

They feel it's their duty to convert people, "evangelize the sinner" because anyone who doesn't believe as they do, are sinners. It's a very ethnocentric worldview and has fueled all of the wars between different Christian sects (reformations & the three crusades).

[GoCubsGo05]

6. Chicago Rush arena football fan, are ya?! n/t

[applegrove]

8. Go go go go go! Down and Out fiftheen

[GoCubsGo05]

16. ??

[applegrove]

19. Football play! What does n/t mean by the way, I am new

[GoCubsGo05]

22. I am new too, but I think it means No Text...n/t

[applegrove]

24. Tks n/t

[Rush1184]

10. No, my surname is Rush

Hence...

[applegrove]

9. Are you sure it would not ring bells inside all the people who are not F?

Cause the Fundies are lost.

I love the idea that religion is a very, very, personal thing. That turns my crank!!

[BOSSHOG]

11. "Leviticus Rocks"

It works on many levels.

[ret5hd]

14. bwahahahaha!

yes it does indeed.

[Schema Thing]

15. Seen on a daycare schoolbus? lol

[applegrove]

20. Okay - I just read Leviticus a few years ago - but for the life of me

I cannot remember exactly what it was about?

[Bouncy Ball]

17. I want one that says

"Have you participated in the marketing of Jesus today?"

But I'm afraid freepers sure as hell wouldn't get it.

[DinahMoeHum]

25. I don't know about personal, but try these provocative ones. . .

Link:
www.turn-left.com


"Is Being Pro-War Pro-Life?"
http://www.cafepress.com/turn_left.15039843

"Pro-Life Means More Than Opposing Abortion"
http://www.cafepress.com/turn_left.15040057

"Do You Really Think Jesus Would Be A Republican?"
http://www.cafepress.com/turn_left.14312207


What do you think?

:bounce:

[ultraist]

29. Good ones!

I like two, but not so sure about this one: "Pro-Life Means More Than Opposing Abortion" They would likely think, 'but of course! We oppose stem cell research and birth control'. JMO