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I've seen some very clever,  unusual and sometimes stupid bumper stickers... for BOTH sides of the arguement.  So I thought we could have a thread for those (if it's okay).  I'll start with one I just saw on a big truck at Target:


(visual is of hand laying palm up with a nail/spike driven through the wrist, approx. 8" x 10", white vinyl decal)

"Body piercing saved my life"


I went looking for the one I saw online but didn't find it... I DID find others with the same phrasing, both with and without a graphic.  It's also some kind of Christian rock band?  Anyway, I found it gruesome and disturbing to have this type of thing on a car.

Anyone else have or seen any bumper stickers/car art re: religion lately?

I saw one that said a "Blood Donor Saved My Life" (talking about Jesus).

Quote from: "Sophus"I saw one that said a "Blood Donor Saved My Life" (talking about Jesus).

I heard jesus is blood type AB, so he can only donate blood to other ABs...

well, it's not related to religion, per se, but it deals with education and ethics:

"knowledge is power.  power corrupts.  study hard.  be evil."

 

I've got one on my car that says: if your not an atheist, your not reading the bible properly. I assume someone will get really mad about this someday.

Quote from: "Sheeplauncher"I've got one on my car that says: if your not an atheist, your not reading the bible properly. I assume someone will get really mad about this someday.

I hope you have good car insurance.

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Quote from: "Sheeplauncher"I've got one on my car that says: if your not an atheist, your not reading the bible properly. I assume someone will get really mad about this someday.

I hope you have good car insurance.

yeah. Ive got a ron paul one over it now :O

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Quote from: "Sheeplauncher"I've got one on my car that says: if your not an atheist, your not reading the bible properly. I assume someone will get really mad about this someday.

If I was anywhere near you and I could drive and I saw that, I'd get out of my car and shake your hand |D

Aaaah, I want that Fiction sticker!  

It's not a bumber sticker, but I saw a t-shirt this Saturday right before UFC100 that said "Jesus Didn't Tap". My first thought was, yeah, he may not have tapped, but he still lost. God must've thrown in the towel.

Hismikeness

Quote from: "hismikeness"It's not a bumber sticker, but I saw a t-shirt this Saturday right before UFC100 that said "Jesus Didn't Tap". My first thought was, yeah, he may not have tapped, but he still lost. God must've thrown in the towel.

Hismikeness

So many responses popping into my head...

"It's hard to tap when your wrists are nailed to pieces of wood!" or "Of course he tapped... Mary Magdaline!" or "He didn't need to tap... they drank wine." or "You're a douche and the person who designed that shirt is an even bigger douche, if it is even physically possible, you douche."  

QuoteSo many responses popping into my head...

"It's hard to tap when your wrists are nailed to pieces of wood!" or "Of course he tapped... Mary Magdaline!" or "He didn't need to tap... they drank wine." or "You're a douche and the person who designed that shirt is an even bigger douche, if it is even physically possible, you douche."  lol

Hismikeness

Okay, I'm dim... what is the "tap" reference?

Quote from: "rlrose328"Okay, I'm dim... what is the "tap" reference?

In order of appearance: admit defeat in a fight by "tapping" your opponent so s/he knows to quit, to have sex with, to prepare a keg of beer for drinking.

And that guy is still a douche.  

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I'd like to get this one as a bumper sticker.
A jewish friend of mine wants to get it as well.

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I'd like to get this one as a bumper sticker.
A jewish friend of mine wants to get it as well.

Ha! I like that. There's a site called CafePress.com that will turn it into a bumper sticker for you.

Quote from: "Sheeplauncher"I've got one on my car that says: if your not an atheist, your not reading the bible properly. I assume someone will get really mad about this someday.

Please, please, please tell me that it says "you're" rather than "your."  Grammar skills = credibility in some circles.  

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Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"Aaaah, I want that Fiction sticker!  

No problem. Here ya go:

LINK (http://www.zazzle.com/religion_is_fiction_bumper_sticker-128858843123200546)

I see TONS of religious (99% of the time, Christian.) bumber stickers around here. Living in the Bible belt in Bumfuck Alabama, it's not surprising. Things like "I'm Hellproof. Are you?" "Jesus saves." and, of course, the Jesus fish everywhere.

So I've decided to advertise Atheism. I'm going to take some paint or a good bar of soap and draw on the rear window of my truck the evolving Jesus fish, like the Happy Atheist logo. Under it, I'm going to write

               EVOLVE

LOGIC OVERCOMES SUPERSTITION

Now, some redneck may want to trash my truck because of this, but that's ohkay. Says more about them than it does about me.

Also, I'm probably going to order a few of these.

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Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"I see TONS of religious (99% of the time, Christian.) bumber stickers around here. Living in the Bible belt in Bumfuck Alabama, it's not surprising. Things like "I'm Hellproof. Are you?" "Jesus saves." and, of course, the Jesus fish everywhere.

So I've decided to advertise Atheism. I'm going to take some paint or a good bar of soap and draw on the rear window of my truck the evolving Jesus fish, like the Happy Atheist logo. Under it, I'm going to write

               EVOLVE

LOGIC OVERCOMES SUPERSTITION

Now, some redneck may want to trash my truck because of this, but that's ohkay. Says more about them than it does about me.

Also, I'm probably going to order a few of these.

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Hope you have good insurance. My mom has a bunch of stickers on her car. One time some redneck tried to run her off the road, and then just last week her car got keyed.

I have full coverage on my 11 year-old Jeep, and I could really use the insurance money to help me buy a new truck...so of course nothing bad will ever happen to it.  

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Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"I see TONS of religious (99% of the time, Christian.) bumber stickers around here. Living in the Bible belt in Bumfuck Alabama, it's not surprising. Things like "I'm Hellproof. Are you?" "Jesus saves." and, of course, the Jesus fish everywhere.

So I've decided to advertise Atheism. I'm going to take some paint or a good bar of soap and draw on the rear window of my truck the evolving Jesus fish, like the Happy Atheist logo. Under it, I'm going to write

               EVOLVE

LOGIC OVERCOMES SUPERSTITION

Now, some redneck may want to trash my truck because of this, but that's ohkay. Says more about them than it does about me.

Also, I'm probably going to order a few of these.

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Hope you have good insurance. My mom has a bunch of stickers on her car. One time some redneck tried to run her off the road, and then just last week her car got keyed.

I have full coverage on my 11 year-old Jeep, and I could really use the insurance money to help me buy a new truck...so of course nothing bad will ever happen to it.  lol

And it's a bit truck. So if they try to run me off the road, they'd better be driving a hummer or a semi.

Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"And it's a bit truck. So if they try to run me off the road, they'd better be driving a hummer or a semi.

Ha! Typical Alabamian.  
Yeah I drive a Jeep so I like off-roading anyway. Being run off a paved road wouldn't really be that big of an obstacle for me. Especially since we don't really have any hills or cliffs down here in the Panhandle.

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Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"And it's a bit truck. So if they try to run me off the road, they'd better be driving a hummer or a semi.

Ha! Typical Alabamian.  :P

I don't think I  could stand a place without hills every few feet.

Hills are overrated. Sand dunes are fun tho! And swamp.

Well...my Grandpa wote one and had it printed...sorry if this offends you: Jesus Saves, Obama $pends.
I kinda liked it...it was original.
--FT

The late genius George Carlin quoted a bumper sticker in a skit. It read: I found him, I have Jesus in the trunk.
I think that would be an appropriate attention grabber

There isn't much originality down here in southern Brazil, most bumper stickers say something like "god is faithful" (most common) or "god is my papa" (just not in those words) and Jesus fish. I've never seen a bumper sticker promoting atheism though.  

There are a lot of pictures though. Mary enveloped by the beads catholics like to fiddle with, just the beads with no Mary inside and (my favourite) a saint/knight smiting a dragon.

Good thing voodoo themes don't make it onto car bumpers, even though voodoo is really practiced down here (even by the middle and higher classes of society) which is strange given that one would expect a lower correlation of primitive religions and practices such as animal sacrifices left on street corners with higher levels of education - but then again the educated segments are not that impressive, at least in a part of the local universities faculty. They probably like to feel safe and guaranteed from all corners, and if that means going into voodoo to get that extra feeling of having prayers answered then that is what they'll do. I don't know...the natives here are weird. But I'll stop now - going way off topic.

Those "Against gay marriage? Don't have one!" stickers make me chuckle, even though the logic is weak.
I also busted out laughing at a Fish 'N Chips decal; I hadn't seen that before! So awesome, as I love me some.  

I would definitely be a bit hesitant to have any anti-religious or anti-bigoted moron stickers, despite my car being a seriously old, keyed up (not sure how), rusted, dinged piece of crap from years of expressway driving. Sad to say, but the confrontation by the people with the "IT'S A BABY, NOT A CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" stickers would make it not worth it.

I don't even bring my atheist literature to work for breaks.

Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"I see TONS of religious (99% of the time, Christian.) bumber stickers around here. Living in the Bible belt in Bumfuck Alabama, it's not surprising. Things like "I'm Hellproof. Are you?" "Jesus saves." and, of course, the Jesus fish everywhere.

I'm right next door in Mississippi, so I feel you.

My favorite: I live in a little college town, and it pretty much has one main road that runs through the whole city. When traffic gets congested, as it tends to do a lot, you just have to force your way in front of other cars while they are stopped at a red light in order to get onto said main road. I mean, you're stopped at a red light. It's not like you're going anywhere. Just let me squeeze in front of you so we can all get to where we need to go.

A few weeks ago, I started to pull in front of a big pickup truck that was stopped behind a bunch of other cars at a red light. The guy starts laying down on his horn and pulling forward to try to prevent me from getting onto the street. When I got in front of him anyway, he starts laying on the horn even more, throwing profane hand gestures, and yelling who knows what.

After traffic started moving again, he swerves all dramatically to pass me up, and I see the gigantic decal on his rear window that says "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR" with several other smaller bumper stickers and decals that are religious phrases and imagery, and a few anti-Obama stickers.

Makes me want to get a bumper sticker that says "Jesus Hates Road Ragers."

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Quote from: "ForTheLoveOfAll"I see TONS of religious (99% of the time, Christian.) bumber stickers around here. Living in the Bible belt in Bumfuck Alabama, it's not surprising. Things like "I'm Hellproof. Are you?" "Jesus saves." and, of course, the Jesus fish everywhere.

I'm right next door in Mississippi, so I feel you.

My favorite: I live in a little college town, and it pretty much has one main road that runs through the whole city. When traffic gets congested, as it tends to do a lot, you just have to force your way in front of other cars while they are stopped at a red light in order to get onto said main road. I mean, you're stopped at a red light. It's not like you're going anywhere. Just let me squeeze in front of you so we can all get to where we need to go.

A few weeks ago, I started to pull in front of a big pickup truck that was stopped behind a bunch of other cars at a red light. The guy starts laying down on his horn and pulling forward to try to prevent me from getting onto the street. When I got in front of him anyway, he starts laying on the horn even more, throwing profane hand gestures, and yelling who knows what.

After traffic started moving again, he swerves all dramatically to pass me up, and I see the gigantic decal on his rear window that says "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR" with several other smaller bumper stickers and decals that are religious phrases and imagery, and a few anti-Obama stickers.

Makes me want to get a bumper sticker that says "Jesus Hates Road Ragers."

Hahaha! That's great!  Just goes to show there isn't one race, gender, ethnic group, religion, or any group of human beings that is immuneto or has the monopoly on assholes.

There's a car I see around here sometimes (small town southeastern Michigan) when I pick up my little brother and the neighbor boy from school. It has so many bumper stickers on it that from the back, it's almost hard to see the paint. Most of them are about the end times, but there's a few thrown in just to take racially offensive potshots at President Obama. Some do both at the same time. It's... disgusting, truly disturbing, and I hate being stuck behind it at the light, because I don't want the boys to have to witness something so upsetting hateful. They're in elementary school for goodness sake, I shouldn't have to explain to eleven year-olds what "village in Kenya is missing it's idiot" or how they figure our president is "pro islam and anti christian" on their way home from school...

There's also a car that lives around the corner that has the "truth" fish eating the "darwin" fish, if you've ever seen those.

Do any sneaky atheists draw legs on the blessed fishes?
If they are sufficiently sneaky the owners might think it's a miracle.

You know you can buy magnetic replacements for the Darwin fish legs, should some particularly violent vigilante break them off. I have def thought of buying several of them and going around attaching them to Jesus fish... but I feel like I could spend my money more wisely.

I don’t get it either way. Why not just wear a sign saying I’m desperate for the attention of those who think like me. And for those who don’t, fuck you! I’d probably appreciate that a lot more than any of these banal attempts at wittiness.

Not a bumper sticker, but along the lines of the "bumper sticker philosophy." This passive aggressive tantrum was on my Facebook feed this morning.

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Obviously, if she really felt this way, she would just do it without a fuss. Knowing fully well that this would not be possible (because Community Coffee just tastes so much better than the God brand), she's just trying to get a rise out of people, or more likely to get all the other sheep to "like" her status and comment with bible verses and "You tell 'em girl!"s.

I'll also point out that this same girl goes to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and was one of the petitioners against changing the school mascot from the civil war Confederate "Colonel Reb" to something a little more proactive in getting our state's image out of the backwards bigoted mentality, so I guess she's used to telling people "Your opinions don't matter because they're not my opinions."

When I owned my book store I made my own stickers and wrote customer receipts on one in particular.

I Fuck to Cum
Not to Conceive
Woman's Right

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Quote from: "rlrose328"Okay, I'm dim... what is the "tap" reference?

In order of appearance: admit defeat in a fight by "tapping" your opponent so s/he knows to quit, to have sex with, to prepare a keg of beer for drinking.

And that guy is still a douche.  

Whenever I hear 'tap' anymore I think of it in reference to US Senator Larry Craig:

Apparently 'toe tapping' in stalls of public toilets is a signal to like-minded individuals that they're looking for same-sex frolic in the restroom.

Sen Craig was caught in 2007 doing this at an airport and arrested. He pled guilty.

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Saw one today driving through Mobile, Alabama â€" "Dusty Bibles Lead to Dirty Lives"

QuoteYou know you can buy magnetic replacements for the Darwin fish legs, should some particularly violent vigilante break them off. I have def thought of buying several of them and going around attaching them to Jesus fish... but I feel like I could spend my money more wisely.

Link please?

QuoteI'll also point out that this same girl goes to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and was one of the petitioners against changing the school mascot from the civil war Confederate "Colonel Reb" to something a little more proactive in getting our state's image out of the backwards bigoted mentality, so I guess she's used to telling people "Your opinions don't matter because they're not my opinions."

I was actually against getting rid of Colonel Reb myself. Perhaps as a college football fanatic I'm biased, but I thought the whole switching mascots thing was an insult to the tradition of Ole Miss and the freedom of speech in general. I mean, come on, we all know Mississippi is racist. You really think changing a mascot is going to fix that? Doubt it. And the mascot they replaced Col. Reb with? The black bear? Really? Just a cryin' shame. I would feel sorry for them, if the school wasn't one of LSU's archrivals.

Quote from: "terranus"I was actually against getting rid of Colonel Reb myself. Perhaps as a college football fanatic I'm biased, but I thought the whole switching mascots thing was an insult to the tradition of Ole Miss and the freedom of speech in general. I mean, come on, we all know Mississippi is racist. You really think changing a mascot is going to fix that? Doubt it. And the mascot they replaced Col. Reb with? The black bear? Really? Just a cryin' shame. I would feel sorry for them, if the school wasn't one of LSU's archrivals.

I think he had a good run, and it was just time to retire him. He isn't really appropriate for the current day. At this point, we're also the only state that still has the Confederate flag incorporated into our state flag. Sure, they're only images, but the symbolism is controversial and dredges up things in the past that unfortunately a lot of people still cling to. I guess I just hate the stigma associated with Mississippi, and a lot of people overlook the really great cultural history in favor of the stereotypes. /end rant

And I suppose I'm just not as fanatical as you Tigers.
(Though I really hoped my relatively unknown little university would have beat you guys in the College World Series two years ago, but we got oh so fucked.)

"Relatively unknown" anywhere outside the South, maybe. Most people throughout the Southern U.S. know who USM is methinks. Or, at least they know who Larry Fedora is.

Quote from: "terranus""Relatively unknown" anywhere outside the South, maybe. Most people throughout the Southern U.S. know who USM is methinks. Or, at least they know who Larry Fedora is.

I know what a fedora is.

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I have seen one Christian fish and one Darwin fish. That is all.

Quote from: terranus on April 02, 2011, 03:17:42 AM

QuoteYou know you can buy magnetic replacements for the Darwin fish legs, should some particularly violent vigilante break them off. I have def thought of buying several of them and going around attaching them to Jesus fish... but I feel like I could spend my money more wisely.

Link please?

I found them here: http://evolvefish.com/fish/misc.html

I guess I was mistaken, though. Turns out these aren't magnetic, but vinyl. Still, they are replacement legs.

Whenever I drive through town and pass the many churches, it's fun to see what they have posted on their marquees. Most of them are posted to guilt people into going to church, I think. One of the most memorable ones I've seen has been;

"Know God, no fear. No God, Know fear."

I know it's not a bumper sticker, but I feel it follow the philosophical trend. Also, a bumper sticker that makes me chuckle every time I see it is;

"Keep honking, I'm reloading."     :D

Quote from: Angler27 on June 08, 2011, 01:51:52 AM
"Keep honking, I'm reloading."     :D

Every 6 months or so we actually do have someone driving down 75 here in dallas (always 75 for some reason it seems) shooting at random cars.  I don't think that bumper sticker would go over well here.

Quote from: Whitney on June 08, 2011, 02:39:59 AM

Quote from: Angler27 on June 08, 2011, 01:51:52 AM
"Keep honking, I'm reloading."     :D

Every 6 months or so we actually do have someone driving down 75 here in dallas (always 75 for some reason it seems) shooting at random cars.  I don't think that bumper sticker would go over well here.

Unfortunately, that is a problem all over, and my city is no exception. If I offended, I didn't mean to, but I have a tendency to speak my mind and be brutally honest. I find the sticker funny, but that doesn't mean that I like it when people get shot. That's the thing with freedom of speech, you take the good with the bad.  :)

For some real Bumper Sticker Philosophy how about: "I brake for universals." :D

Quote from: Angler27 on June 08, 2011, 04:25:53 AM
Unfortunately, that is a problem all over, and my city is no exception. If I offended, I didn't mean to, but I have a tendency to speak my mind and be brutally honest. I find the sticker funny, but that doesn't mean that I like it when people get shot. That's the thing with freedom of speech, you take the good with the bad.  :)

I was not offended nor did I make any comment that indicated I wanted to prevent you from speaking openly.

However I do think your sense of humor is damaged.

Wow, that's the first time I've been told that about my sense of humor.  :D

I feel like I've made the wrong impression here, and I will watch what I say a little closer next time. Maybe I can help get this back on track with another bumper quote, I saw this one this morning and thought it was funny;

"Jesus Is Coming, Look Busy!"