Don’t Worry. Be Happy. Because ….
Ole Bubba and I went to the big city of Sugar Land yesterday, where we encountered Jesus. Or, maybe I should say Traveling Jesus.
At Highway 6 and 59 yesterday in front of us.
Okay, this leads to a philosophical question: I know Jesus arose from the dead, but he went to heaven. Is he the only alive person in heaven? Does that make for some space/time continuum snags? And, I bet it baffles the hell out of all the dead people.
And then five minutes later we see this one.
If you can’t see it, under Golden Rule, it says, “Christ’s Commandment is Our Commitment.”
Do I get a contract in writing?
Okay, I know this is supposed to make me not afraid and bring me comfort.
It doesn’t. Not worth a damn.
JJ, like a gazillion other people I have real misgivings about anything religious reduced to a bumper sticker. It also means “bumper sticker thinking”, if you can call it thinking.
1At long last, a definitive answer to the question we’ve been asking each other for twenty years. What Would Jesus Do? Service work, apparently.
2One riddle solved – why the evangelicals fell for Donnie. When he said “believe me,” they heard the siren call of their favorite snake oil.
3That heating and air conditioning business clearly only wants dyed in the wool genuine Christians for customers. No others need apply.
Shortly after arriving in Jerusalem in Israel, I saw a sign on a business: Holy Land Rent A Car. Cracked me up.
4What happened? It’s not letting me submit comments. And it’s requiring me to put my name in again, which I don’t remember.
5It’s making me fill in my name and email each time I submit a comment.
6Both signs are completely wrong! jesus is dead! and what has the golden rule have to do with jesus? It was invented long ago by many others, and it aint that good a rule anyway, just like any other so called commands of jesus!
7Some “christians ” display their christianity better than they practice it. Really rude driver with a Jesus is love bumper sticker shooting the bird is the most recent example. I considered reporting the car as stolen because surely no good christian would behave that way.
8Was the ewe ess Hiway 59 in Texas? I wuz raised on ewe ess Hiway 59 in Cherokee iowa back when.
9Marion, some of have that same problem. I have to sign in every time I want to post. Been going on for a couple weeks seems like. Grin and bear it, I guess. Worth the effort to read and react to the world’s most dangerous posters here, imho.
10I hate to admit that my knee-jerk first reaction to the top picture was, So is Elvis!
As to the Golden Rule, a friend of mine produced a beautiful, suitable for framing, bit of calligraphy and artwork showing the evolution of the instruction chronologically from Hinduism (This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.) to the Baha’i Faith (And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbor that which though choosest for thyself.) It not only is common to every major religion, it became more spiritually demanding as each was introduced. It’s certainly not just a Christian thing.
11SliderCrank: Great point. Unfortunately, a lot of Christians really believe that every good, or noble idea was invented by Christ. So, the next logical step is that anyone who’s not Christian doesn’t have those good traits. It’s truly nefarious.
12epo,
Yep, US 59 runs from Laredo to Houston, up to Texarkana, and all the way to the Minnysota Canadian border (from Laredo the road continues through Mexico and Central America to Panama, CZ). Used to know every bump and speed trap on it from Laredo to Houston, the portion in/near Houston has been ‘under construction’ from the ’60’s.
Hwy 59 in TX will be upgraded to I-69, the better to NAFTA your jobs away (the talk of I-69 began with NAFTA, hasn’t been built officially yet but all 59 roadwork is done with “I” status in mind).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_59
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_59_in_Texas
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13I learned long ago that the business type ‘Xstians’ would use certain code words, if they didn’t get the proper response they would try to screw you (‘Xstians’ being those juiced up fanatics, the Talibangelicals, as opposed to mainstream religious denoms).
I’ve noticed all this jeebus stuff creeping into everything lately. The theocrats, plutocrats, and kleptocrat’s are going full bore now.
Generally speaking, and based on my personal experience of 44 years as a Baptist pastor’s wife, when someone loudly proclaims their Christianity they are not very well acquainted with the Christ.
14I remember the mocking Golden Rule bumper stickers from my youth: Do Unto Others BEFORE They Do unto You and, my personal favorite (for pith, not vigor), Do Unto Others – Then Split.
As to the other, I’m reminded of the 60s graffiti, “Frodo Lives”
Catholics believe Mary is alive in Heaven – “assumed body and soul into Heavenly glory” is the technical jargon. The Assumption of Mary is one of the few (3?) bits of Catholic Dogma which were actually defined by a Pope exercising the infallibility clause.
So she and her zombie-fied Son appear to be the only corporeal beings on the celestial plane, including Pontius, the Pilot.
15“sorry, youre just outside of your warranty and there’s nothing we will do about it”
According to their Yelp! page, that’s what Golden Rule Heating & AC thinks the golden rule is. Jesus with a warranty period:
Golden Rule’s tech failed to tighten a couple valves tightly letting all the freon leak out.
I was told “sorry, youre just outside…
https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-rule-air-conditioning-and-heating-houston
(Yelp makes you click open some of the poor reviews)
16Ah, yes Rick. But… what would Jesus view?
17That holly man that went up the mountain and received the commandments should have said “this is a wast of effort. No one/very few folks, bother to practice them.
18I graduated from seminary in 2015 and have found two things:
1. When I traveled outside the US from 2000 through 2008, I had to explain that I didn’t vote for W and that not all Americans are stupid.
2. Since I graduated from seminary, I had to explain to people in the US that that people who have chosen religion as an avocation (as I have) or who choose it as a profession are not all Evangelical Christians. I’ve gotten incredulity and derision from atheists and Evangelicals in equal measure. Seems those who believe hardly and those who hardly believe are the most confused by those of us who are god(ess)-curious.
Their loss, I say.
19The “golden rule” is not only common to every major religion on earth and probably most of the minor ones, but Kant came up with it rationally using no religion at all and called it the categorical imperative: always act so that your behavior could be a general rule.
And the folks who think our laws are based on the Ten Commandments don’t pay attention. Only three of them are laws: don’t kill, don’t steal, and don’t bear false witness (perjure or lie to authority). And those are laws in every society, because they’re among the few rules that are necessary for a community to endure.
I like the banners that an atheist society had on London buses for a while: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” (“Probably” because we don’t want to be dogmatic about it….)
20Ah, yes Rick. But… what would Jesus view?
Prolly the new Playboy sans nudity. God has to have a sense of humor (or not) since he/she/it made so many anally retentive right wing nut jobs. (Think Lilith Crane from Cheers without the fabulous gams).
21I’m guessing the originator of that marketing concept will get a full time job repairing Beelzebub’s A/C after he leaves this mortal coil.
22I use the fish symbol extensively to filter vendors. I have discovered after owning houses and motor cars for 45+ years that the unknown to me vendor that puts a fish symbol on his yellow pages ad or business card is the one most likely to screw me to tears. Next vendor please!
23Trust in Jesus is essential to living in Houston. You’d have to believe in an afterlife to put up with living this life in stanky-ass Houston.
24As I recall, the second commandment is “Love your neighbor as yourself” which is another way of saying “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Not much of that going around these days, especially from the KKKristians who are rethugs.
25That Yelp entry is epic!
The first vehicle’s message left out the part after “Don’t be afraid”: “despite the fact that the snacilbuper are coming for everything that makes this country America”
26Speaking of pseudo-Christians, Religious News Service had a great article about the “Prosperity Gospel” cult. It’s no version of Christianity, but an entirely different sect, a cult. Guess who’s going to be the official pray-er at the cocksplat’s inauguration? Paula White, thrice married PG cultist. No surprise.
Here’s the article, including a very well done description of just what this cult is:
https://goo.gl/8PKxCv
27Debbo: If the quote in that essay is accurate, then it’s all anyone claiming to be Christian should have to read to identify with Paula White or not and by extension, Donnie Douchebag. “Make God get off his ivory throne”. Wow.
28I should probably thank you for that. But after reading it, I feel like I need a shower.
29In the interest of accurate biology shouldn’t Donnie be referred to as a short or inadequate splat? That phenomenon when not enough DNA material is delivered to the egg resulting in a general mess and no fertilization.
30Notice it is a Nissan. Must be an illegal immigrant
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