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Oh, Jesus!
By adamg on Tue, 06/11/2024 - 7:35pm
Wonder what the guy on the left is thinking?
A roving UHub photographer reports he rode the Red Line from downtown all the way down to Braintree this afternoon across from a woman holding two signs - the one in the photo above and the one behind it, that read "Following Jesus to the End." He adds:
She was surprisingly normal. Sat there quietly until pulling into Braintree and the signs slipped out of her hands and hit my foot. "Oh my goodness. Forgive me." We both laughed.
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Nostalgia
Makes me nostalgic for the fake nun who used to stand at DTX (and later inside Government Center station) in the 80s chanting something unintelligible about "the sacred heart of our Blessed Mother". She had a "shrine" that looked like it was made of old junk she found on the street, that kept getting bigger and bigger.
And she swore last like a sailor …
… if you doubted her piety. The first time I saw her she went off on an old woman who was coming down the steps behind me and who warned me not to give her money because she wasn’t a real nun.
Not that I was going to anyway. I was just fascinated by the get up and the chanting.
Do you remember the Jesus
Do you remember the Jesus karaoke guy on the Red Line platform at Park Street? I guess in an online world, they all have better ways to seek converts/run scams.
I don’t remember him. Was he any good?
Even with the internet at their fingertips some are still out there in the real world.
The ones in business attire with their racks of brochures in almost every subway station lately seem to be having some success hooking in victims.
Probably…
Probably that Hell must be like a subtle blend of Orange Line Trains that are on fires that you can’t put out and Red Line cars that are full of dark spirits who keep kicking out the windows all while you are overcome by the stench of stale urine.
With an extra cross to the left of the i...
The sign would read, "Jesus Tits Lord," which would initiate many conversations ...
She followed Jesus to the End of the Red Line.
And continued following him from the station.
She’s a stalker.
Red Line Savior
But can he stop the breakdowns and passenger drags....
Kinda sweet actually
Kinda sweet actually
Lets make fun of
People based on their religion.
OK
.
Better to laugh …
… than do what people have done in the name of religion.
I'll stop...
...right after they stop anathematizing the rest of us to the point of murder.
Satire of religious beliefs is healthy
Granted making fun of a person borders on abusing the person. It's a line that can be hard to separate.
Nevertheless religious belief is a powerful force for good or evil. These days it is weighs heavily toward putting evil into the world. Satire and mockery help reveal the lies and deceits that the religious leaders - and political and judicial leaders - use to push their agenda. What agenda? Samuel Alito made it almost crystal clear when he called for this lie of returning to a godly nation.
What is hidden in his agenda is that the push to label the US as a Christian nation comes out of the same ideology that has motivated other agendas for making a society better, improved or in the extreme cases, pure. In other words, murdering heretics, eugenics, genocide based on supposed inferior races and the continued genocide of governments that want to eliminate gays and lesbians from their society (e.g., Uganda).
The goal of a pure nation, culture, society is as old as the oldest stories in the Bible.
Jesus Saves
and Esposito scores on the rebound.
Esposito Book Signing
I was waiting in a line at a warehouse club where the Great Esposito was going to be autographing his memoir.
It was Sunday, and some dude wearing a Jesus Saves shirt wandered down the aisle where people were lined up.
Half the line held their breath, the other half quietly finished the sentence.
Jesus is Coming
Look Busy
That's what she said!
.
"Surprisingly" normal
Lib prejudice and condescension in a word.
Proselytizers
are inherently kind of ridiculous, so what do you expect?
Her sign isn't really proselytizing, is it?
If anyone tells me that Jesus loves me and they will follow whatever they think he is without trying to influence my beliefs, I would just say, "Good for you!" Any proselytizing directed at me would be met with my blank stare and my exit. I do wear patches on a vest that advertise my atheism and my own desire to live a life without believing my life is controlled by fiction from thousands of years ago, but I don't ever try to convince anyone else that they should join me.
Is that why we spend taxpayer
Is that why we spend taxpayer money to send city dignitaries to kiss their hand?
Important descriptive
Although it usually applies more fully to pedophiles than it does to religious fanatics.
It is probably bigoted, insensitive, inappropriate,
and all sorts of other mean and nasty things, . . .
but I can't look at that image without lmfao.
And unlike that other guy on the MBTA...
...Jesus may actually return.
Hold your breath
Please.
I'm workin' on it...
...after I refill this damn card.
And if they do ...
The right wing nutjobs will murder them for all that "woke BS" they will reiterate.
Or for being miraculously born to two married male parents.
Poor editorial discretion
Used here, the “Follow….to the End Sign” would have been clever had there been an actual picture. Instead you have a pic of a woman with a religious proselytizing sign and then catty comments about “looking normal” and trying to make it like the guy sitting next to her is in on a shared echo chamber-like joke.
Agree - this woman is a private citizen doing nothing wrong
and it should never have been re-posted on Universal Hub, that's a pile-on bully thing.
She was surprisingly normal
Talk about implicit bias
Religious fanaticism...
....is not normal.
Okay, you spelled "fanaticism
Okay, you spelled "fanaticism" correctly.
Now - this time use it correctly in a sentence.
I just did
What's your issue with the sentence?
The unsupported labeling of
The unsupported labeling of the person in the photo as a fanatic is not correct usage.
The implied equivalence between religious belief and fanaticism is not correct usage.
The unsolicited promotion of
The unsolicited promotion of religion in a very public space, with dominionist wording ("Jesus is lord"), without consideration for the beliefs of others, is fanaticism by any reasonable definition.
So What
She's not harming anyone. BTW: Not unusual to see very religious Christian Asian-American people in the Red Line and on the streets. A very wide variety of people on the Braintree, Quincy, Dorchester, South Boston sections of the Red Line. Definitely more genuinely diverse vs the other side of the Charles.
No offense, but the guy on the left looks like he's afraid of his own shadow.
Organized proselytizers are more subtle. They're more "normal."
What is normal? Not standing out from the crowd.
At UMass there is a fellow who looks like he is the same age as most students. He shows up at the cafeteria and proceeds with "teaching" students that he has attracted to his schtick of salvation. The organization that sponsors him realize that using a fellow who looks like the students has a better chance of selling their product (religious belief) than an older person.
They are subtle and smart. He blends in. Looks like a student. I know of him from listening to conversations around me in the cafeteria.
In either case proselytizing is still pushing an agenda, selling a product of social organization and social engineering. The same thing that Evangelical leaders like to complain about other people doing.
Normal
Given what I've seen from other proselytizers on the T, I'll happily call someone who isn't shouting at their fellow passengers or otherwise making a huge nuisance of themselves "normal".
Conan?
Young Conan O'Brien does not look amused next to her...