RE: Should I Remove My Bumpersticker?
August 5, 2013 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2013 at 11:00 am by Clueless Morgan.)
(August 4, 2013 at 11:08 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: I have a bumper sticker on my car that says "There's a sucker born again every minute". I bought it from the Freedom From Religion Foundation a while ago because I think the foundation is great and I wanted to help spread their word. I also plan on buying another bumper sticker from the foundation that has a picture of an angry dog bearing its teeth, and a sign next to it says "Beware of Dogma".
But now that I think more about it, it is not so much religious people per se that I oppose; it's the dogmatic fundamentalist ones that live their daily lives according to their bigoted religion's doctrinaire scriptures.
Question:
Do you view the Born Again sticker as being related to dogma? Isn't the dogma the Born Again are being taught as much as the root of them becoming born again as is the fact that they are, arguably, being suckered?
I suppose a fundamental question to ask yourself is why are these people being suckered? For what it's worth, I think dogma is at the root of both of the bumper stickers; one is just way more explicit than the other. If anyone asks you about the Born Again sticker, you could explain to them why you believe (if you believe) that dogma is at the root of the blackmail being perpetrated.
Plus, I personally just find the Born Again sticker to be funny; I'd keep it just for that. That is, if I were the type to put bumper stickers on my car, which I'm not. (It ruins the paint and you can't take them off!) I'm a window clingy person. If you've got links to atheist window clings pass 'em along!
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.