Irony. "I vote Pro-Life" and "Support Our Troops."

[Ishoutandscream2]

In my fundy, wealthy suburb, there are still quite a few vehicles that have "W" stickers on them. My community is also the home of one of the biggest megachurches in the nation - Lakeside Baptist. It is like walking into a mall - coffee shop, book store; it's an amazing structure. In this upper middle class, educated community, it's amazing to note how many people think they'll be called to heaven during the upcoming rapture.

It is rare, however, that you see radical right-wing stickers on a car. Until today, I hadn't seen anything like this. A mini-van, with a prudish looking middle-aged white woman, had several bumper stickers on the back of her Toyota Siena. One promoted the Dallas fundy Christian station, KCBI. Another promoted KSKY, a radical right wing talk radio station that have had billboards in the metroplex stating in big, bold headlines "Liberals Hate It." And there was also the red sticker with the two stick figures signifying man and woman, announcing in its special way that marriage belongs to one man and one woman.

What got me to thinking was the last two stickers on the back that were on top of one another. One was the yellow ribbon stating "Support our Troops." Then the one below it - "We Vote Pro-Life." I kinda chuckled at the irony. It was easy for me to make the assumption that she was ardently for the war, yet those precious fetuses had to be protected. This is not a knock of our troops, but most are trained to kill the enemy. And I'm almost certain that this fine, upstanding Christian woman is hoping for a knock-out punch to be delivered to those brown, heathen ragheads in the Mid-east.

I had the urge to speed up and flip her the bird, but I couldn't get down to her level. She is lucky that in our community, her van would never be molested because of her political statements; unlike me, when I found a nail in each of my back tires when I had a Kerry bumper sticker on my car in 2004. If it wasn't for family obligations and our jobs, I would get the hell out of this place.

I hope that I can give them the what-for when we take over the House and Senate. It will be sweet indeed.

[patrice]

1. Muslims are guilty. Fetuses aren't.

End of discussion.

:sarcasm:

[me b zola]

13. Yeah, what's up with their rational for the DP

If some is guilty, then it's okay to murder them? No matter where I look, I can't find where Jesus said that.

Guess I should clarify that I'm not referring to Muslims as 'guilty', it was just that the term that you used is the one that rw fundies use to justify the DP.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. There is actually very little difference between fundamental

Islam, and fundamental Christianity.

[texasleo]

3. besides the whole targeting civilians and suicide bombings.

:eyes:

[lectrobyte]

6. Civilans? Well, there was that business in Ireland a few years ago. And

suicide bombing is more of an asymmetric response than a deliberate strategy. See Japan in WW2 for further examples.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Thanks for explaining that.

:toast:

[lectrobyte]

14. Just trying to help. So tired of the implicit "we're so much morally

superior" in the "blah blah blah suicide bombers blah blah targetting civilians." I'm sure the ghosts of Dresden and Hiroshima would think we have targeted plenty of civilians with God on our side. I'm convinced that rabid fundamentalists of all sort are dangerous.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

16. Yeah, it does get a little tiring after awhile and I would expect

people who identify themselves with a liberal philosophy to understand that. But, as the poster, and several others on this site have demonstrated to me, they don't. I'm just trying to figure out if it is due to a matter of age, or just out and out ignorance.:toast:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

10. Which of course would have nothing to do with the fact

that they just don't have the military hardware to compete with us on a level field so they do the next best thing.

No, it's because, as everyone knows, Muslims are just evil. :mad: :evilfrown:

[me b zola]

15. targetting civilians...

...like the medical personel in an abortion clinic? Like the women who seek medical attention? Like those civilians? How about the children in the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the people that worked there? Those civilians?

:eyes:

[walldude]

4. I keep waiting for some fundie to explain to me how

"Thou shalt not kill" translates into thou shall only kill when it serves your purpose.

[MountainLaurel]

5. When it's serving their purpose

It's the Lord's work.

:scared:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

19. Because in those instances, it's "God's will." n/t

[tinfoil tiaras]

7. That sucks

I see SO many W's and shit on the backs of cars where I live. And those nasty "Choose Life" lisence plates. Bleh...don't really see any real RW stickers besides W and the CL plates (which is good).

Oh, i forgot. I see "Support our Troops" everywhere too. And the "Christian" one with the cross in the center of the ribbon or whatev....

[City Lights]

12. Those "Choose Life" plates really kill me.

The irony of having the word "choose" rather than "force" on the plate is obviously lost on them. Taken literally, those plates are pro-choice plates.

[TahitiNut]

18. Hypocrisy often presents itself ironically.

They emblazon "Choose Life" on their gas-guzzlers like Stalinist Russia had "elections" with one 'choice' - them commie, pinko Russkies ... and they emulate 'em!!

:rofl:

[StellaBlue]

9. They HAVE no sense of irony.

That's the main symptom of what's wrong with them and the easiest identifier out in the wild.

[TahitiNut]

11. Gotta birth all that cannon fodder.

It seems to me that many of these "Christians" keep expecting others, like Jesus, to die for their sins. Not them "Christians," though - they're gonna get raptured.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[DanCa]

17. In Wauconda there's this person who has a white wagon

It has all sorts of right wing bumper stickers on it. Including a picture of a baby saying and a word bubble saying I am not a choice, and god is a repulbican on it. Plus there's a whole lot of pro war stickers on it. One day I saw the owner of the car in line at the grocery store and I asked her about the war.

I said what do you think about the babies that get injured and killed in Iraq. She just said " it doesn't happen that much and those who get killed had it coming," and I didn't know how to respond so I went into another check out line. And these nuts are the same ones who are keeping me in a wheel chair because the research I need isn't up to thier moral code. I didn't know wether to laugh or cry.