10 Most Un-Christian Church Signs

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http://www.alternet.org/belief/10-most-un-christian-church-signs

1. Offensive and illiterate. To make this sign, just take the Obama/Osama classic and add three pinches of stupidity. First assume that parents give their sons the same name, minus one letter. Then misspell "hmmm" or "hmm." And finally, omit all punctuation. The genius behind the sign, Pastor Roger Byrd of the Jonesville Church of God in Jonesville, South Carolina, explained his process as well as the deep meaning not immediately evident: “See, it asks a question: Are they brothers? In other words, is he Muslim? I don’t know. He says he’s not. I hope he’s not. But I don’t know." Byrd was going for totally non-offensive fear-mongering, Muslim-baiting: “And it’s just something to try to stir people’s minds. It was never intended to hurt feelings or to offend anybody… It’s simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in there that does not believe in Jesus Christ.”



2. The meek shall NOT inherit the earth. Contrary to Jesus Christ's consistent and unequivocal "I'm with team poor" teachings, this church thought a good way to honor the son of God would be to adorn his house with a sign saying, "laziness and poverty are cousins.” The saying is so catchy, it has graced church signs from Sylva, North Carolina to Portland, Oregon.



3. A three-word poem. This "Turn Or Burn" sign gives haiku a run for its money. In a mere three syllables, it gets right to the point, which is that you should embrace God or suffer eternal damnation. The fact that the poem rhymes is another reason it should be studied by all those interested in concise fear-based conversion poetry. The sign pictured is from the First Baptist Church Main St. of Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to its poetic virtues, the message is extremely customizable! For example, it was adapted for homophobic purposes in Wilmington, North Carolina, to read, "God loves gays but hates a perverted life style. Turn or burn." Tammy Heuring, the wife of the Seagate Community Chapel pastor explains the medicinal powers of the hurtful sign: “It's kind of like salt in a wound… However, salt does heal a wound. It just hurts really bad at first.” Hurt so good!


4. Short and not so sweet. This is another sign that doesn't waste any time, though it lacks poetry or rhyme and is more specific in its bigotry than the sign discussed above. The Islamophobia expressed in this sign is based, apparently, on a time-travel sect of Christianity which allows Jesus, who died nearly six centuries before Mohammed was born, to travel to the future, observe Islam and declare it diabolical. This sign was from the Florida church of Pastor Terry Jones, who was arrested on his way to burn 2,998 Qur'ans, one for every victim of the 2001 attacks.

[imthevicar]

1. "laziness and poverty are cousins.”

They're both related to the Wealthy!

[bvf]

2. Yes.

But Cousin Poverty needn't ask Uncle Wealthy for a leg-up.

So that sign means that Jesus was sort of saying, "Blessed are the lazy."

I want to see heads explode when this is pointed out to the resident office teabagger or faux fundie xtian troll.

[Ken Burch]

10. "Laziness and poverty are cousins...as are every married couple in this congregation"

[smirkymonkey]

13. LOL!

Good one!

[Exposethefrauds]

3. Obama Osama Brothers? Well According to the Jesus and the bible they are unless they did another

rewrite of the bible and removed that part too because some folks just did not like all the hippy and socialist stuff the Jesus did.

From what I understand the new Jesus openly carried a sword, charged for his miracle services and was against feeding and clothing the poor because it only will create a people dependent upon the Gov. The Jesus was also for tax cuts and that was why he was actually crucified by the Government, they want to increase taxes and the Jesus was just causing problems riling up the riff raft with talk of tax cuts and less Government.

[TNNurse]

4. Well, I know that I am not supposed to judge

But I suspect the creators of those signs think they are Christians, but are not at all behaving like Christians. They need to search their hearts and pray about it. Who am I kidding, they believe what they want and have no sincere understanding of the teachings from the New Testament?

[MerryBlooms]

5. Are they real, or?

http://www.says-it.com/churchsigns/

Tough to know on some of this stuff.

[Nye Bevan]

9. .

[MerryBlooms]

14. !

[Heywood J]

16. Here's one that's quite real - took the photo myself.

[MerryBlooms]

21. Pretty mild compared to the ones in the OP, but I'm not crazy about an

"Invasion". I'm good with Gentle co-habitation.

[The Wizard]

6. Slave state mentality (NT)

[meti57b]

7. Jesus was a Jew and a revolutionary. He was executed by the Romans..........

in the worst way they had, ......for going against Rome.

[Rhinodawg]

17. Some people disagree

[meti57b]

19. True, some people do disagree. Do you disagree?

[meti57b]

22. Looks like his name was ........

ישוע (Yeshua, which is "Joshua&quot

or.... יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshuah)

(according to Wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua_%28name%29

[William769]

8. kick & recommended.

[Ken Burch]

11. in that last photo, you kind of want the NEXT sign to read:

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[marmar]

12. K/R

[Warpy]

15. That depth of ignorance just makes me sad

but I know most of those guys know better, they just realize that bribing people out of hell makes more money than trying to get them into heaven.

Hate always sells well to morons.

[LiberalElite]

18. Jonesville Church of God

needs to have its tax exemption revoked.

[BrotherIvan]

20. ^^This!^^

Seems like they ALL do!