Pet Peeves– Part Three Bumper Stickers

Having just spent some weeks in Europe as well as all over the Lands of the Bible, one thing that was noticeably and mercifully absent was bumper stickers. I saw almost none on the thousands of cars I saw. Americans on the other hand wear their hearts on their bumpers, not their sleeves. And sometimes its way over the top. For example,

Never mind the fact that if a driver actually tries to read all or some of these stickers they themselves may run into the car that is bestickered, but frankly some bumper stickers just shouldn’t see the light of day.

Take for instance last minute bumper stickers for minor candidates in minor elections that are likely to lose. Those things have such a short shelf life, and after the election is over, if you leave it on your car you look like an idiot. Why in the world did you support Norbert Smoot for dog catcher, when you know he’s a cat lover???
Of great longevity are ’cause’ bumper stickers, even if they are lost causes. For instance,The chances of a large part of the American population giving up meat are slim and none, and Slim left town.
Some crazy persons who go sticker crazy even endanger their own driving! For example,
Then there are bumper stickers that either reflect bad grammar, or are too non-specific and innocuous to spur any action from the reader. For example, O.K., but which one, or did you mean forests in general?
Occasionally there is a bumper sticker that tells the truth, but is also self-contradictory. For example,So if bumper stickers change no minds, what’s the point of plastering them on your bumper? Those suckers are hard to scrape off usually. Then with great regularity we see things like God Bless America stickers. Now it should be abundantly clear that God has enormously blessed America already in so many ways. I’m waiting for the day that I see a sticker that says God Bless some place that really needs it far more than we do— how about God Bless Ukraine (and stop the war)? You get my point. I am tired of trite theological jargon that really reflects a certain kind of blending of rabid nationalism with dubious theology.