Wed 27 Jun 2007
I snapped a picture of this license plate on Sunday when The Boyf and I went out for brunch. I was mainly amused by the scare-/irony-quotes around GOD suggesting that God may have been impersonated or at the very least using a pseudonym. The Boyf and I were both absolutely mystified as to its meaning but a tiny amount of Googling turned up this explanatory video. Summary: a dude Shatners about the Devil trying to kill him but the Christian God, as might be guessed from the tag, blocking it.
You know what drives me crazy about religions that incorporate a concept of a chosen or protected people? They’re effectively giving the rest of us the finger. That’s not terribly tolerant of me but there you have it. Drives. Me. Up. The. Freakin’. Wall. Implying that those who died ahead of their desired time were allowed to be taken because they didn’t have a special purpose: not the best way to convert me to your religion.
That said, his singers do have great voices.
I’m wondering if they think that by putting God in quotes they aren’t taking his name in vain?
Or is it just another horrible misuse of punctuation? I remember this on the window of a local gas station as well.
This expression just sounds like God outflanked you in going in for the kill at a bar.
“Man, fuck that guy*. Sure, He gave His son, but I was the one buying the goddamn spritzers.”
*Should that be capitalized too?
Yeah, I never understood Calvinism when we went over it in school. “Okay, so a small number of people are preordained for heaven, and the rest of us are going to hell – why shouldn’t I be immoral, again? I mean, if I’m going to hell anyway.”
My first thought about that license plate was similar to A’s (re: cock-blocking). But other than that, I just don’t get it. That is a fucking dumb license plate.
I initially interpreted it as “you saw someone you wanted to hook up with, but then found out they didn’t have sex before marriage because of their religious (Christian) beliefs.”
Doesn’t it seem a little sacriligious though to take a sexual phrase and convert it to a Christian one? See a phrase that utilizes the word “cock”, and your first thought is to replace it with “God?”
Sounds to me like someone might have some subconscious issues that might need to be explored before they’re allowed around altar boys.
A. Diggity – I’d say yeah, it’s properly “fuck that Guy.”
My original desire was to name the post
CockGod-Blocked but I chickened out at the end.I initially also wondered if it meant that God had prevented a hook-up that might have been disastrous or something.
3: There’s a hilarious set of facing pages in A New Porcine History of Philosophy and Religion which deals specifically with that but I can in no way explain it. If you know we’re both going to be at a social function at some point and want to see it, drop me a note to remind me.
I didn’t see the cock-blocking aspect; but I believe the whole God Blocked Satan idea is very bad theology to begin with… Satan has to ask permission first before doing something to human kind (just look at Job, it’s in there somewhere).
It makes no sense for Satan to ask permission, God grant it, then for God to “block” it.
What a pile of rubbish.
But then again, you probably think the whole Christian concept is junk, anyway.
Oh, by the way, I looked up the Porcine History of P & R…
THANK YOU. I love you now.
I wouldn’t say I think the whole Christian concept is junk. I think there’s a lot of good lessons in the Bible and I have sincere respect for anyone who is sincere in their own beliefs. That said, Christianity isn’t for me and I am simply incapable of getting over the holes I found in it as taught to me when I tried to apply it to my own life.
All that nice talk aside, I take as much dark pleasure in sticking it to fundies as any other heathen (and quite a few sincere Christians I know who’ve no time for fundies, themselves).
On the topic of Job, I once (many, many years ago, when I was still trying to make Christianity work) read an article in a UMC publication which was basically a “what if?” on the machinations behind the trials of Job in the first place. The core idea, if I remember correctly, was the question of what it meant about what goes on behind the scenes in the celestial/infernal realms; if the book of Job is revealed truth, does that mean that Satan is less our tormentor and more the District Attorney in a heavenly courtroom? I was surprised at its frank discussion of the way the book of Job contradicts very directly the modern operating concept of Satan as an opposed force with real agency. Didn’t convince me, but I found it interesting.
I was raised Christian and have no problem discussing it or taking it seriously as a potential path for others to take; mostly I have a problem with its followers and the way they’ve tuned out the themes of forgiveness and turned it into a death cult obsessed with punishing thought-crime.