The great bumper sticker war
Written by Tom Beasley in Humor at December 6, 2010
I’m sure you are all aware by now of the war over religion (and many other topics) that takes place on bumper stickers. Let me illustrate some of the skirmishes:
I really like the above examples, but I find the simplistic and oversimplifying stickers below much funnier:
Let us not all forget the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, though:
The biggest question I have about these bumper sticker battles, is what is their efficacy? Perhaps efficacy is not the proper question- what, instead, is their purpose? I personally don’t have any bumper stickers. The same concern might also apply to the recent atheist billboards (here, and here). I think that there is a slightly more than negligible positive effect in increasing awareness that there are other people out there who are atheist. Have any of you found entertaining or witty bumper stickers about religion?
I had a Darwin fish on my old car, which I got during high school; I wasn’t even an atheist then, but I had a kind of light-hearted pride about believing in evolution, even though my knowledge about it wasn’t extraordinarily deep.
Since I just got a new car, I’ve been thinking I will replace it with an FSM emblem — this is because people who know what this is, as it is much more obscure than the Darwin fish, which I presume almost everyone knows about, will get a shot of, “hey, one of us!” when they are out driving. And to my mind that is the point of them; not just to let others (believers) know we are out there, but to remind each other in little ways that we are not alone. It’s a small comfort but it is worth something.