Stupid Bumper Stickers

This will no doubt enrage certain people, but it's my damn blog. So pfft.

I'm sure there are more dumb ones than clever ones out there -- bumper stickers. Yesterday on a bike ride through various parts of Brooklyn (which I would be unable to name, exactly), I followed behind a car that said in bumper sticker format: "The Bible says the Jews own Israel." Now, it seemed to me to be indicative of the level of insane discourse that some 2000+ years past it's possible first incarnation, people still live their lives (create their views) based on...words in a book. What I wouldn't give to go back in time and mistranslate the first edition of this particular froth inducing, crusade fomenting, inquisition inspiring tome and somehow work the eternal worshipping of tapioca pudding and spatulas whilst wearing colanders on one's head into the edition. It might liven up the discussion a bit. And add some levity to the process. Though, then, I suppose everyone would have serious conversations about what exactly the significance of the tapioca is and why not banana pudding with nilla wafers? Why not??

I guess my point was that it's just a bunch of words. And words ain't what they're all cracked up to be. Seems like it might be a useful exercise to use something besides someone else's words (whether you believe them to be god's, dog's, or a talking pog's) to justify your position in the world. There, I said it. Okay, now I can safely go to hell. Good thing in my rewrite, hell is filled with longish, happy, pretty bicycle trails, and plenty of yummy smoothies at the end of the trail. And dancing penguins. There's always a dancing penguin in hell.