* I saw the text of #1 on a church lawn last weekend.
* A Tea Partier Bagger displayed sign #3 during a protest against Health Care Reform.
* Do you have a response to any of these signs?
* Have you seen any interesting signs lately?
– the chaplain
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Lorena
March 24, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Make mine Portuguese buns, please.
The church in my neighbourhood puts up a sign that goes,”Questions of Life? Come to Alpha”
I did try the Alpha course, and I am here to tell you that Alpha is more about questions of death.
the chaplain
March 24, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Lorena:
Am I correct in surmising that the church in your neighborhood is fundogelical? Based on what I read about the Alpha course several years ago, I seem to recall that it’s a pretty fundy approach to learning about the Bible.
desertscope
March 24, 2010 at 3:24 pm
It’s the creepy guy serving the Bread of Life that makes me uncomfortable.
Postman
March 24, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I’ve always been squeamish about cannibalism, myself.
Lorena
March 25, 2010 at 12:40 am
Ah, yeah, quite fundamentalist. It’s a North American Baptist church. Here in Western Canada, it used to be a church of German immigrants. Nowadays, its members are children of Germans, like my husband.
Sean the Blogonaut
March 25, 2010 at 5:04 am
I keep seeing the sign God Hates Fangs from HBO’s True Blood. Gives me a giggle every time.
the chaplain
March 25, 2010 at 12:23 pm
des:
If I were still a believer, the fact that most of the people who serve the Bread of Life are male would bother me a lot.
Postie:
The metaphorical cannabilism of Protestantism is creepy. The Catholic literalism is downright vile.
Lorena:
Did you make it all the way through the Alpha course?
Sean:
I didn’t know that Westboro Baptist had expanded its ministry of venom to the rest of the animal kingdom. YHWH must have a special animus against Fanged Fags.
Lorena
March 25, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Chappie,
No, I didn’t. I couldn’t stomach the shit. At the time I was already a very liberal Christian, a universalist, actually.
The neighbourhood church wasn’t my home church, and I was going only for something to do and for the awesome food they served. But I hated it. I was anything but a new Christian, and the stuff was all worn-out cliches that I knew well.
It was hard for me to stomach the sales-pitch-like teaching and the holier-than-thou, know-it-all leaders. They were so patronizing, too. In their assumption that I was a new Christian, they treated me like an ignorant.
I had to surrender the awesome food after five lessons.
Larry Wallberg
March 25, 2010 at 5:44 pm
You must have gone to a different Christian church than any I’ve ever heard about. Unless you happen to classify as “awesome” lime Jell-O (with cole slaw in it) and tuna fish casserole.
Lorena
March 26, 2010 at 12:55 am
LOL! They made heavenly sloppy joes and perfect fries, lasagna, spaghetti’s, chicken pie, and what not.
Yeah, the North American Baptists can cook!
Mark
March 25, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I really like the last sign.
We humans can do many more positive things for each other than any god.
OneSmallStep
March 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm
My favorite local church sign was “Are you ready to meet your maker?”
Christianity — bringing us closer to God, one mafia slogan at a time.
the chaplain
March 26, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Lorena & Larry:
Once upon a time, our family went to a small church with a fairly multicultural congregation. We had two Chinese families, one of which owned a Chinese restaurant, and a family that had been raised Amish & Mennonite (he was Amish and was shunned for marrying a Mennonite), and the pastors were a married couple from South Africa (him) and Australia (her). Potlucks at that church were a treat – not a jello salad or tuna casserole in sight. That’s where the deacon discovered that he likes Chinese food.
Mark:
The people who keep claiming that gods are great and governments are evil should live up to their words and let their gods provide for their medical care, schooling, sewage, water, transportation and so on.
OSS:
God’s pretty good at mafia slogans; his most famous one is “making an offer you can’t refuse.”
Lorena
March 26, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I think the Alpha course comes with a “user’s manual” that includes recipes.
Or, at the very least, it instructs churches to prepare a nice dinner and to serve it for free. So, it isn’t a potluck. That’s probably what the difference is, that at a regular church potluck, they do serve the cheap casseroles. At the NAB church, they did ask for a $5 voluntary donation, though.
In other words, the idea of the Alpha course is that with good food you will fall in love with Jesus. I didn’t fall in love with Jesus, but the food was hard to beat.