Bumper Sticker Theology

My vehicle is proof of what goes on when my family's convictions meet my community's denials.

Since moving to Colorado Springs, we've had our share of bumper sticker vandalism. Years back, for instance, the vehicle had one bumper sticker that read, "Earth, Air, Fire, Water Bind Us to Her" (in recognition of my Wiccan partner) and the other that read, "Who Would Jesus Explosive device?" (in recognition from the God-intoxicated prophet and knowledge teacher). The Wiccan bumper sticker was destroyed rapidly from what we should will easily notice, torn off in angry raw strips. The Jesus bumper sticker remained alone, with the exception that the term "Jesus" was removed with surgical precision.

But onto the present condition from the vehicle. I was driving along and ended up behind an enormous Vehicle (being driven strongly) having a bumper sticker nevertheless, "Don't Permit This To Vehicle Fool You. My Real Treasure Is Within Paradise." After wondering if the sight might have made Jesus gag, I emerged with the thought of adding some religious bumper peel off stickers to the vehicle.

I selected passages which i could affirm having a obvious conscience coupled with a buddy design the peel off stickers:

Matthew 5:9 in the Beatitudes: "Blessed would be the peacemakers." (Having a rainbow peace sign.) Inside a city centered through the military, that certain appeared prophetic.

2 Samuel 1:26, David's paean to his fallen friend Jonathan: "I am distressed for you personally, my buddy Jonathan greatly beloved had you been in my experience your ex in my experience was wonderful, passing the passion for women." (Having a rainbow set against a blue sky.) Passing the passion for women? What? King David, from whom Christianity is descended, was "that way".

Luke 18:25, Jesus'assertion that "it is simpler for any camel to undergo the attention of the needle compared to somebody that is wealthy to go in the dominion of God." (Having a needle, with the eye which a camel might be seen.) Question exactly what the Vehicle owner's chapel makes of this passage?

Not to mention Matthew 7:1-5, also in the Sermon about the Mount: "Do not judge, to ensure that you might not be judged. For using the judgment you are making you'll be judged, and also the measure you allow would be the measure you receive. So why do the thing is the speck inside your neighbor's eye, but don't spot the log in your eye? Or how will you tell your neighbor, 'Let me go ahead and take speck from your eye" as the log is in your eye? You hypocrite, first go ahead and take log from your own eye, and you might find clearly to accept speck from your neighbor's eye." (With a set of unbalanced scales.) Now I'm as large a hypocrite as anybody, but residing in a town where conservative Evangelical Christian believers have switched"judgment" right into a religious commandment has given me another perspective about this passage.

Lovely vehicle peel off stickers, why did they get trashed? Likely for 2 reasons. The very first reason will be the ?¡ãWitches Are Crafty People?¡À bumper sticker right of these (again, in recognition of my partner), which got trashed first. Another factor to consider will be the plethora of LGBT paraphernalia underneath the religious peel off stickers (the same sign, an ?¡ãI support gay marriage?¡À sign, a rainbow peace sign, along with a rainbow ?¡ãUS flag?¡À by having an Helps ribbon changing the heavens). The "Coexist" and ?¡ãDiverselytize!?¡À peel off stickers can't have assisted.

But here's what's interesting. Nobody has bothered the LGBT products and whomever attacked "Diverselytize!" and "Coexist" makes only lackluster attempts so far. No, to date the only real products which are driving the vandals crazy would be the four scriptural passages. Individuals would be the real targets, in some instances already unreadable.

I believe the vandalism would be a theological act, although for individuals with an extremely different theology from mine. I believe their theology informs them that anybody with queer bumper peel off stickers is particularly not approved also to have religious bumper peel off stickers, especially scriptural ones. Possibly the scriptural ones are tainted through the queer ones. Possibly when they don't destroy the bumper peel off stickers, another person might find my vehicle and think it's okay to become a queer person of belief, to consider security in (and become correctly challenged by) the scriptural passages. Which would push from the dichotomy between real people of belief and queer people and can even dissolve the dichotomy. After which, we'd possess a world by which understanding that someone was spiritual or religious or searched for profound meaning within their existence said nothing regarding their sexuality or gender identity. Or politics, for your matter. Seems like the dominion of paradise in my experience.

My theology states the holy is a which the spark from the divine is in most people. Me. You. My pal who made the bumper peel off stickers. The one who tore them off. The one who was driving that Vehicle to begin with. My theology states our work on the planet would be to in some way discover the sacred in most people and not simply in in't be simple. It will likely be the toughest factor we all do. But our survival like a moral species is dependent onto it. Approximately my theology states, anyway.

Exactly what does your theology (or thealogy) say? And why do you consider the vandals tore from the religious bumper peel off stickers but left others alone?