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Shake the living, wake the dead
March 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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This appears on a car decal outside of my office window. Has anyone seen similar ones? A fellow co-worker asked me what it meant. I said that it's a Jesus thing, an exhortation to reach the lost in Christ, since unbelievers are dead in Christ and dead to rights and life and everything else, apparently. That's the second Christian that has asked me ... me ... what it means. That's just funny. Of course, I'm not 100 percent certain that's what it means, but around these parts where there's a church on every block, there isn't much guesswork involved.
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 2, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Not much of an advertising campaign if no one knows what it means.
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 2, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Perhaps its an ad for rap music?
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 2, 2011 at 4:17 pm
(March 2, 2011 at 3:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Perhaps its an ad for rap music?
That would be much cooler. If had some kind of symbolic secular meaning, it might make a good line in poetry.
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 3, 2011 at 4:45 am
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 3, 2011 at 7:01 am
It probably has more to do with Zombies like KN posted, than Christianity. Most Christians have used the phrase shake the living, but only in polemics, not in an apologetics or evangalistic sense. I've not known or ever used the wake the dead. The majority of Christianity I've experienced believes that dead is dead. You wouldn't find biblical basis with the regard to the dead except for talking to the dead and ressurection. I don't think it's Christian based, IMO. Perhaps you as an atheist see it in that sense, because of your selective observation?
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 3, 2011 at 11:22 am
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 3, 2011 at 12:03 pm
(March 2, 2011 at 3:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Perhaps its an ad for rap music? Acutally, it sounds like an ad for viagra.
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 3, 2011 at 5:34 pm
(March 3, 2011 at 7:01 am)tackattack Wrote: It probably has more to do with Zombies like KN posted, than Christianity. Most Christians have used the phrase shake the living, but only in polemics, not in an apologetics or evangalistic sense. I've not known or ever used the wake the dead. The majority of Christianity I've experienced believes that dead is dead. You wouldn't find biblical basis with the regard to the dead except for talking to the dead and ressurection. I don't think it's Christian based, IMO. Perhaps you as an atheist see it in that sense, because of your selective observation?
Two things: One, this is Northeast Georgia. Two, I think the wake the dead part is about waking the dead in Christ since unbelievers are supposedly spiritually dead. I also thought I saw some kind of religious picture beside it. I'll try to get another gander at it soon. The likelihood that it's about zombies in Georgia ... slim to nill, imo. lol
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RE: Shake the living, wake the dead
March 4, 2011 at 7:56 am
lol yeah .. possibly, I don't know .. see if you can find it on a bumper sticker site and see how they categorized it, or maybe a religous bumper sticker site.
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