Religious weirdness.
The other day while driving to work I saw a car with two bumperstickers. They both said the same thing–I guess the owner thought it was more emphatic to have it on their car twice. They said:
JESUS IS GOD
READ THE BIBLE
I guess I don’t like being told what to do, cuz it seemed kinda bossy to me.
And I found myself wondering why there’s no LDS bumberstickers. I guess there probably are in Utah–I think my friend was telling me once about stickers there that say “Families that pray together, stay together,” but the only reason I remember that is that he wanted to change it to say, “Families that prey together, stay together.”
And then that very same day I was behind a car in a drive thru that had an LDS license plate frame on it. On the top of the frame it said, “RU LDS 2?” and then on the bottom it said, “Families are forever.” I thought it was kinda cute. And not at all bossy.
But here’s the weird thing. My husband and I went to the mall yesterday. I know, the mall! I haven’t been shopping in a mall for years and years. But it’s my daughter’s birthday and she wanted some new clothes, so I decided to check out some shops at the mall. (And dude, can you believe Hot Topic? They never had punk rock stores like that when I was a teen. We had to resort to safety pins and tearing our own denim!) We had to park at Sears because man, the malls here are insane on Saturdays, and when we were walking through the store there was this really tall woman looking through a rack of leopardskin tops. She glanced over at us as we walked by and said, “Jesus loves you.”
We didn’t really respond, just kind of acknowledged her and kept walking, but she wasn’t expecting a response. We were both just completely um, what’s the word. Dumbfounded? It was so bizarre.
And then later we passed this guy who was kind of squaring himself up near a garbage can, scooting closer and then farther away from it, sort of like he was going to try to toss some garbage in it like a basketball. Except he had nothing in his hands whatsoever. And he never made any kind of tossing motion.
Maybe I should go to the mall more often.
My favorite “religious” bumper sticker reads:
Comment by Rich — July 25, 2005 @ 5:19 pm
Sorry, My Karma just ran over your Dogma
Comment by Rich — July 25, 2005 @ 5:20 pm
Haha, that is pretty funny. I didn’t catch the play on words at first–car/karma, dog/dogman.
Comment by Susan M — July 25, 2005 @ 6:42 pm
You are a very unique and interesting (and intelligent person {inteligence lasts - beauty fades}. may Heavenly Father bless you; more.
may i ask a personal Q ? i ‘assume’ u were not always lds; why & when (or when & why) did u convert? if too personal, just say so, no problem..:)
Comment by Toney — August 2, 2005 @ 2:45 am
I don’t mind personal questions. I joined the church because everything it teaches made sense to me. And other religions didn’t. Since joining I’ve only had more and more experiences that convince me it’s teachings are true.
Not sure if you’ll see this reply. Maybe I’ll write a post about it sometime.
Comment by Susan M — August 2, 2005 @ 3:47 pm