At ScienceBlogs, grrrlscientist has put up a great list of the Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms, and unlike most lists like this, it really lives up to its name. Some of my faves:
1. Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers.
4. Too Stupid to Understand Science? Try Religion.
5. There’s A REASON Why Atheists Don’t Fly Planes Into Buildings
16. Jesus is Coming? Don’t Swallow That.
22. When the Rapture Comes, We’ll Get Our Country Back!
27. “Intelligent Design” Helping Stupid People Feel Smart Since 1987
28. I Found God Between The Sheets
32. If God Wanted People to Believe in Him, Then Why Did He Invent Logic?
33. Praying Is Politically Correct Schizophrenia
38. If we were made in his image, when why aren’t humans invisible too?
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Now playing: The Dresden Dolls – Dirty Business
heh. the first one is great. yesterday, i saw a bumper snicker I want to get, especially since a search on google turned up some xtian blogs that were troubled by it:
Born OK the first time.
The really funny part? At one blog, the blogger said that bumper snickers were passive aggressive because no one would say those things in public. IT seemed to have escaped his/her attention that there are plenty of religious bumper snickers and I doubt he thinks they’re passive aggressive ways of saying what you wouldn’t say in public.
anyway, thanks!
My pleasure, shag. What they also seem to be missing is that, whether it’s a gold Jesus fish or a picture of His Noodliness on your bumper, there’s nothing passively aggressive about bumper stickers. You’re putting your message out there directly and clearly. Passive aggression is a very coy, underhanded way of expressing your anger, and the entire purpose is to give you an out, a way to lash out at people while still maintaining just enough plausible deniability that you can still say sweetly, “Oh, that’s not what I meant.” In certain parts of the country, driving around with one of these things on your bumper is like painting a target right on your ass. It’s more like the scene in Blazing Saddles where Gene Wilder hauls Cleavon Little out in front of the Klansmen and Little goes, “Where de white women at?”
Back in the early 90’s, I drove a Toyota with a Satan Fish on the bumper (the Jesus fish with cloven hooves, spiked tail, horns, and “666” in the middle). Once, when visiting my dad and his Batshit Crazy second wife, she saw that thing on my bumper and freaked. She demanded that I take it off because even though my car was on the street, she didn’t want the neighbors to think they were Satan-worshipers. I don’t argue with crazy people, but never underestimate the effect that bumper stickers can have.