Lawsuit Filed Over Christian License Plate In South Carolina

[Socrates]

[quote name='BG45' post='1578056' date='Jun 20 2008, 09:22 PM']To go off the OP and towards the "why must everything advertise" end of the spectrum...I don't have any bumper stickers or such on my car. I do this personally, because I don't want people getting the wrong idea of Christianity from my driving if I'm acting like a butt-hole on the road (intentionally or un-intentionally).

At least 95 of the last 100 times I've been cut off, nearly hit, or otherwise witnessed butt-holeish behavior on the road has been vehicles with Christian fishes on them, and Christian bumper stickers. In Drive Thru at McDonalds, the people with crosses dangling from their mirrors, bumper stickers about Christ, or fishes...were always the rudest of the bunch; more than a few people in my store absolutely despised Christianity as a whole because their only real exposure to it was people who advertised it and didn't live it.

That's what gets me more about these plates than anything. That the people who might get them might end up promoting a hatred of Christianity (and more importantly of Christ) in their driving if they do a horrible job. Because let's face it, no one pays any attention to your license plates unless they're:
A) A cop
B) At a stop sign or red light
C) Not paying attention to the road
D) The person with the plate is driving like a butt-hole.[/quote]
Personally, I haven't noticed drivers of cars with Christian paraphanalia to be worse than any other drivers (other than perhaps tending more to be those annoyingly law-abiding citizens who always keep under the posted speed limit), but anyway.

Personally, I think perhaps as Christians we should focus more on living our Faith and not behaving like "buttholes," rather than on getting rid of anything that publicly displays our Christian affiliation - but maybe that's just me . . .

[Alycin]

Speaking on a somewhat similar note, there is a certain trucking company that has a small yet awesome statement on the back of their trucks.

"IT'S A LIFE, NOT A CHOICE."

I loved that I saw that so much when I drove the 20-hours-one-way trip to ohio.... I believe they are called Covenant Transport. Maybe.

[BG45]

lol Soc, I'd kill for those law abiding Christians that go under the speed limit. Most of ours that have paraphernalia don't tend to.

I agree with living our faith, and it's sad when people don't tend to. I listen to Air1 and KLOVE a lot, and it's got plenty of stories that are fun to listen to about pulling up next to fellow believers and singing with them.

[Alycin]

I LOVE KLOVE but I cannot stand that they let Kirk Cameron have ad time. Yuck.