Bumper Stickers - Just for fun

Today's blog is just fun. Listed below are a number of bumper stickers the blogger owns. No. Not all are Christian. Some were bought at various Science Fiction conventions.

1. The Big Bang Theory: God spoke and BANG it happened.
2. If you're living like there is no God, You'd Better Be Right!
3. My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter.
4. (Darwin fish being eaten by a Jesus fish) Survival of the Forgiven.
5.Are you making an appointment with St. Peter on that cell phone?
6. Have you hugged your Tiger today?
7. "Normal' is a setting on my washing machine.
8. Welcome to Collinwood.
9. There can be only one!
10. This property protected by Lord Avon.
11. No good deed EVER goes unpunished.
12. Zines! Drugs would be cheaper.
13. Picard/Riker : Leadership for the Next Generation.
14. Picard for President. Make it so! The #1 Choice.
15. Engine by Scotty: 0 to Warp 7 in fifteen seconds!
16.  At Warp Factor 9, they ALL look green to me!
17. There are few problems in the galaxy which cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.
18. Odo's Gym. Klingon tested! Get in shape - any shape!
19. You're following a Firefly fan!
20. Dragon Wagon.
21. Keep off my tail or you'll get burned.
22. Dragons love you - dipped in chocolate. (burp)
23. Cat: I must destroy something immediately!
24. Cats humor us because they know that their ancestors ate ours.

Credits : Instant attitudes. Pegasus Publishing. Cafe Press. Mere Dragons. Bridgeport Nature Center. Harbor House Gifts. 

'Why Not Question' : Religion and Firefly

Another show representing religious beliefs was Joss Whedon's 'Firefly'. In the first episode 'Serenity', the main character, Malcolm Reynolds, wore a religious medallion but lost his faith after his side lost the rebellion. Years later, Book, a type of missionary, joins the crew first as a passenger and then decides to stay, since he has no real destination.

One fun interaction is between Book, and River, who is, shall we say, slightly crazy because the government played with her brain. The episode is 'Jaynestown'.

Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
River: Fixing your Bible.
Book: I-uh-what?
River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, faulty logistics - it doesn't make sense.
Book: No,no you can't...
River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of
Eden - eleven inherent parallels already there. Eleven, important number, prime number, one goes into the house of eleven eleven times but always comes out one -
Book: River, just take it easy. You shouldn't -
River: Noah's ark is a problem -
Book: Really.
River: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon - only way to fit five-thousand species of mammal on the same boat.
Book:Gimme that! River! You don't fix the Bible!
River: It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
Book: It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about "faith". You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.

I'd say the writer nailed part of it correctly. Faith does fix us. What is left out is the element of Christ, but the inclusion of Book in a futuristic, transplanted group of descendants from Earth, shows that in spite of the wish to destroy God, belief in Him will follow humanity to the stars.


Dialogue taken from 'Firefly, The Official Companion, Volume 2'.