Signs, signs, everywhere signs
Sometimes I feel like people don't get it when I talk about living in the Bible Belt -- in a rural ass-pocket of the Bible Belt, no less. It's just overwhelming for a poor atheist girl.
One interesting local phenomenon is the random hand-painted sign. There you go down the high-way, minding your own bidness, when up looms this hand-painted, rustic sign that makes you worry you've strayed into some Children of the Corn (or in our neck of the woods, Children of the Baccy) scenario.
These signs are usually one or two words: "Repent." "Believe" "Jesus Saves."
My personal temptation is the one that says "Try Jesus," because I always want to append my own sign below: "He's refreshing!"
Then we get into the church signs. On my way to school, we have the "Bikers Welcome!" church, which is pretty darned amusing.
Closer to home we have the church I have dubbed, "Our Shepherd of Aphasia." Whomever they have doing the church signs needs a little MRI, in my non-professional opinion.
For a while last summer, this church tormented me because one side said, "Exercise daily get on your knees 3 times 15 minutes."
The flip side said, "Exercise daily on your knees 4 x 15 minutes"
To which my poor heathen heart could only cry out: WHAT THE FUCK WHICH IS IT??
Then there was "OUR GOD IS AWESOME PRAY FOR US." Which seemed kind of like maybe our god was really Godzilla on a rampage? I don't know.
Lately, we've had some semi-Valentines themed songs from First Aphasia. "One black heart washed in red blood = white as snow." Which also seemed like a weird ad for Once Upon a Time, which I am loving. Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstilskin is so deliciously creepy.
Um, I digress.
Then we had "They knows not love that they finds not Jesus." I almost drove off the rode trying to decipher this one.
I'll stick with my personal scripture: Bikers welcome!
One interesting local phenomenon is the random hand-painted sign. There you go down the high-way, minding your own bidness, when up looms this hand-painted, rustic sign that makes you worry you've strayed into some Children of the Corn (or in our neck of the woods, Children of the Baccy) scenario.
These signs are usually one or two words: "Repent." "Believe" "Jesus Saves."
My personal temptation is the one that says "Try Jesus," because I always want to append my own sign below: "He's refreshing!"
Then we get into the church signs. On my way to school, we have the "Bikers Welcome!" church, which is pretty darned amusing.
Closer to home we have the church I have dubbed, "Our Shepherd of Aphasia." Whomever they have doing the church signs needs a little MRI, in my non-professional opinion.
For a while last summer, this church tormented me because one side said, "Exercise daily get on your knees 3 times 15 minutes."
The flip side said, "Exercise daily on your knees 4 x 15 minutes"
To which my poor heathen heart could only cry out: WHAT THE FUCK WHICH IS IT??
Then there was "OUR GOD IS AWESOME PRAY FOR US." Which seemed kind of like maybe our god was really Godzilla on a rampage? I don't know.
Lately, we've had some semi-Valentines themed songs from First Aphasia. "One black heart washed in red blood = white as snow." Which also seemed like a weird ad for Once Upon a Time, which I am loving. Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstilskin is so deliciously creepy.
Um, I digress.
Then we had "They knows not love that they finds not Jesus." I almost drove off the rode trying to decipher this one.
I'll stick with my personal scripture: Bikers welcome!