Pull yourself up by your sandal straps
It was the best of Jesuses, it was the worst of Jesuses,
it was the Jesus of Do Onto Others, it was the Jesus of Martyring Thyself,
it was the Jesus of The Last Will Be First, it was the Jesus Seated At The Right Hand,
it was the Jesus of Turn the Other Cheek, it was the Jesus of I come not to bring Peace but The Sword,
it was the Jesus of Universal Salvation, it was the Jesus of The Apocalyptic End of All Things,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way –
in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest evangelicals insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
I doubt Southern Christians could understand the sarcasm, but I still want a campaign of billboard signs with quotes like these across bible country
Southern Christians had their own version of the Bible to justify slavery. They told these stories to their slaves.
TIME: How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
That’s a gofundme I would throw a few bucks at. How much does it cost to take a few billboards for a month or two on I-40? A few thousand?
I don’t really know where I-40 is or have an answer to your question, so this comment is tangential at best. Sorry.
Last time I drove through Ohio there were two kinds of billboards, often alternating:
- Jesus hates sinners! Repent!
- Hardcore strip club with naked ladies and full penetration, next right!
It was quite an entertaining dichotomy.
Your experience is very similar to what my trip through SC on I-95 was. But with some occasional regional things. We went a little out away from 95 just to cross buc-ees off the bucket list.
i can’t stand that spaz
spreading garbage morals that I have to listen to from Gimp God Apologists such as:
- pay your taxes to oppressive empires, lol
- can’t solve poverty, fam
- defending yourself is actually killing yourself
- slavery? no broad complaints, why?
- of course i can forgive the sins you committed against completely different people
Then Jesus said to the children “Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps”.
