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Ah, yes.
Just the kind of guy I want to fix my roofing, siding, window problems.
This reminds me of a guy who had his own business and had Bible verses on his car, and a bumper sticker that read:
Home Improvment Begins
With A King James Bible
and, just like this guy, beating your customers over the head with it. I wonder how he stays in business.
Tsk, tsk. Sad. While I’ve never actually seen monstrosities such as this on top of vehicles, I have seen those magnetic white letters proclaiming inflammatory messages such as “God does not love everybody,” “King James Bible,” “Apostate Preaching,” etc etc. The first time I saw one, it took a lot for me not to throw something at them, either a middle finger or something from the window.
For a second I thought this was another way of describing “Drive-by Tracting,” wherein a bunch of suburbanite teens are driving to the middle of an urban area and kicked out of the church’s 15-passenger van (future SFL article?). They have until the van comes back around the block to get rid of as many tracts as possible before diving back into the safety of the van and being whisked back to hearth and home where they won’t ever have to think about the awful city experience until next Tuesday. And yes, as a city native it was a great spectator sport watching kids from white-collar suburbia gingerly tiptoe through the neighborhood.
I’ve never quite understood the idea of Xian businesses. I get that if you’re Jewish, you’d probably want to go to a Jewish butcher but I don’t see how being Xian has anything to do with one’s skills as a roofer.
As a carpenter, maybe but even that’s pretty weak.
I want the guy who’s going to do the best job, not the one who’s going to go to heaven when he’s done.
Oh, Thomas, don’t you see? It’s an opportunity for fundies and evangelicals to do something any Tom, Dick and Harry would do, except they give the ungodly customer (who just wants something fixed, mind you) some tracts and tell them, “Now if you were to die tonight, would you know that you know that you *know* (my old pastor, verbatim), that you would go to heaven?” And after all, it’s not the quality of the job that counts, but that they WIN SOULS!!
I believe it was Martin Luther who is credited with saying that when a shoemaker becomes a Christian he should make a good shoe and sell it at a fair price. Of course, the whole concept of vocation is completely unknown in the fundamentalist world, and the idea that man’s primary purpose is to win souls (NOT to glorify God and enjoy him forever) certain doesn’t help.
Just what I want to be sitting in my driveway, what a testimony that it will be to the sinners next door. Just kidding of course I remember the movie “God”. Slammed by fundies. The idea of the movie was to get people to think about God. I think that in this case the name of the business would be adequate. Note the line “Totally change or you can’t be saved enter heaven”. The implied subject of this “sentence” is “You must”
Jn 3:3(kjv) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
I don’t see “totally change” here. “Born Again” is an act of God. It seems this business is promoting “works salvation”.
I normally will not do business with the fish, I’ve found that those who advertise that they’re christian expect you to be satisfied with shoddy workmanship. After all he is going to tithe some of the profit…right?
Although you have to give them some credit. I’m pretty sure that would catch ANYONE’S attention on the highway.
On note of the “Christian business.” As I’ve seen it, I think Christian businesses think that people will choose them over a “non-Xian business” because they will be “more honest”…which isn’t always the case.
“I’ve found that those who advertise that they’re christian expect you to be satisfied with shoddy workmanship.”
I’ve found that to be the case with virtually anything that sets itself up as a specifically Christian version of anything else, especially fiction and cinema. They expect you to trade artistic and intellectual excellence for a point of view that gives you the warm and fuzzies.
“I’ve found that to be the case with virtually anything that sets itself up as a specifically Christian version of anything else, especially fiction and cinema.”
And music! (Frank Garlock’s hymns, anyone?)
“They expect you to trade artistic and intellectual excellence for a point of view that gives you the warm and fuzzies.”
Amen! Wait, I meant to say that I agree, but anti-amen to the idea.
There’s a very good reason why I have a blanket refusal to watch *any* Christian films, listen to Christian music (minus hymns and other songs sung in church, and about two other artists) or read 99-100% of Christian fiction out there (I give it 1% for those who consider Narnia and LOTR examples of Christian fiction). The quality of most Christian merchandise out there is, overall, not much better. Add that to a worldview that sees sin as something out there that can be avoided if you only stay away from the right (wrong?) things, and those marketing “Christian” _____ have a captive audience who will buy and consume anything pitched at them.
A similar truck was in my driveway last week. It came along with its owner to fix the washer. I’m distantly related to him, and, I’ve got to say, he was quick and efficient.
But the paint on the verses on his truck is wearing off (the economy hurts everyone), so I think only he and I actually knew what it said. So maybe I was safe.
That guy is advertising a totally work based religion. He even adds his own thoughts into the Bible Verse instead of just letting the verse speak for itself.
And yes, his bilboard is way over the top. I doubt he is truly born again, if he has to prepare himself in a certain and perfect way to be able to present himself to God before he can enter into heaven.
The example she gave aren’t inflammatory at all. Instead of desiring to throw something or give them the middle finger, perhaps she could have prayed for them.
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Ah, yes.
Just the kind of guy I want to fix my roofing, siding, window problems.
This reminds me of a guy who had his own business and had Bible verses on his car, and a bumper sticker that read:
Home Improvment Begins
With A King James Bible
and, just like this guy, beating your customers over the head with it. I wonder how he stays in business.
Tsk, tsk. Sad. While I’ve never actually seen monstrosities such as this on top of vehicles, I have seen those magnetic white letters proclaiming inflammatory messages such as “God does not love everybody,” “King James Bible,” “Apostate Preaching,” etc etc. The first time I saw one, it took a lot for me not to throw something at them, either a middle finger or something from the window.
For a second I thought this was another way of describing “Drive-by Tracting,” wherein a bunch of suburbanite teens are driving to the middle of an urban area and kicked out of the church’s 15-passenger van (future SFL article?). They have until the van comes back around the block to get rid of as many tracts as possible before diving back into the safety of the van and being whisked back to hearth and home where they won’t ever have to think about the awful city experience until next Tuesday. And yes, as a city native it was a great spectator sport watching kids from white-collar suburbia gingerly tiptoe through the neighborhood.
I’ve never quite understood the idea of Xian businesses. I get that if you’re Jewish, you’d probably want to go to a Jewish butcher but I don’t see how being Xian has anything to do with one’s skills as a roofer.
As a carpenter, maybe but even that’s pretty weak.
I want the guy who’s going to do the best job, not the one who’s going to go to heaven when he’s done.
Oh, Thomas, don’t you see? It’s an opportunity for fundies and evangelicals to do something any Tom, Dick and Harry would do, except they give the ungodly customer (who just wants something fixed, mind you) some tracts and tell them, “Now if you were to die tonight, would you know that you know that you *know* (my old pastor, verbatim), that you would go to heaven?” And after all, it’s not the quality of the job that counts, but that they WIN SOULS!!
I just want to know what kind of roofer drives a mini-van. That’s what’s bothering me.
I believe it was Martin Luther who is credited with saying that when a shoemaker becomes a Christian he should make a good shoe and sell it at a fair price. Of course, the whole concept of vocation is completely unknown in the fundamentalist world, and the idea that man’s primary purpose is to win souls (NOT to glorify God and enjoy him forever) certain doesn’t help.
So…. do they expect people to be able to read all that in 3 seconds?
Just what I want to be sitting in my driveway, what a testimony that it will be to the sinners next door. Just kidding of course
I remember the movie “God”. Slammed by fundies. The idea of the movie was to get people to think about God. I think that in this case the name of the business would be adequate. Note the line “Totally change or you can’t be saved enter heaven”. The implied subject of this “sentence” is “You must”
Jn 3:3(kjv) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
I don’t see “totally change” here. “Born Again” is an act of God. It seems this business is promoting “works salvation”.
I normally will not do business with the fish, I’ve found that those who advertise that they’re christian expect you to be satisfied with shoddy workmanship. After all he is going to tithe some of the profit…right?
*sigh* another fundamentalist falls victim to repentance. I will now have to report this van to http://www.repentanceblacklist.com/
He must have missed the “cash-for-clunkers” program. I’d hate to be anywhere near that deathtrap on a windy day.
Although you have to give them some credit. I’m pretty sure that would catch ANYONE’S attention on the highway.
On note of the “Christian business.” As I’ve seen it, I think Christian businesses think that people will choose them over a “non-Xian business” because they will be “more honest”…which isn’t always the case.
“I’ve found that those who advertise that they’re christian expect you to be satisfied with shoddy workmanship.”
I’ve found that to be the case with virtually anything that sets itself up as a specifically Christian version of anything else, especially fiction and cinema. They expect you to trade artistic and intellectual excellence for a point of view that gives you the warm and fuzzies.
“I’ve found that to be the case with virtually anything that sets itself up as a specifically Christian version of anything else, especially fiction and cinema.”
And music! (Frank Garlock’s hymns, anyone?)
“They expect you to trade artistic and intellectual excellence for a point of view that gives you the warm and fuzzies.”
Amen! Wait, I meant to say that I agree, but anti-amen to the idea.
“Especially fiction and cinema”
“Left Behind” is a perfect example of shoddy cinema and fiction.
just don’t follow this guy into the drive-thru…
There’s a very good reason why I have a blanket refusal to watch *any* Christian films, listen to Christian music (minus hymns and other songs sung in church, and about two other artists) or read 99-100% of Christian fiction out there (I give it 1% for those who consider Narnia and LOTR examples of Christian fiction). The quality of most Christian merchandise out there is, overall, not much better. Add that to a worldview that sees sin as something out there that can be avoided if you only stay away from the right (wrong?) things, and those marketing “Christian” _____ have a captive audience who will buy and consume anything pitched at them.
“those marketing “Christian” _____ have a captive audience who will buy and consume anything pitched at them.”
The CCM episode of “South Park” makes precisely this point. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Rock_Hard
kudos on the link, Jordan
for anyone who wants to watch it….
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/709
Viewer discretion STRONGLY advised, I should say. But the point is excellent.
A similar truck was in my driveway last week. It came along with its owner to fix the washer. I’m distantly related to him, and, I’ve got to say, he was quick and efficient.
But the paint on the verses on his truck is wearing off (the economy hurts everyone), so I think only he and I actually knew what it said. So maybe I was safe.
That guy is advertising a totally work based religion. He even adds his own thoughts into the Bible Verse instead of just letting the verse speak for itself.
And yes, his bilboard is way over the top. I doubt he is truly born again, if he has to prepare himself in a certain and perfect way to be able to present himself to God before he can enter into heaven.
If I had a car I would love to put Bible signs on it, however it would have different theology then that one.
Melody: “The first time I saw one, it took a lot for me not to throw something at them, either a middle finger or something from the window.”
Wow, you are referring to before you professed Christ you mean?
Sean Payne: “Wow, you are referring to before you professed Christ you mean?”
Nope, I’m willing to bet she fought those urges while still professing Christ. Crazy, I know.
The example she gave aren’t inflammatory at all. Instead of desiring to throw something or give them the middle finger, perhaps she could have prayed for them.