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		<title>Equal Opportunity Religious Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2010/08/22/equal-opportunity-religious-skepticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sticker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ganesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heresy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hinduism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You disbelieve other people's religions. Can you hand it when they disbelieve yours?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a common thing for people to be skeptical of religions other than their own.  Christians are atheists when it comes to believing in Vishnu.  Muslims are happy to cast Buddhists as infidels.  Neo-Pagans hug their mother goddess but spare no love for the Christian god Jesus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.11357228"><img src="http://progressivebumpersticker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jesusschmeesus.jpg" alt="" title="jesus schmeesus" width="300" height="131" align="right"></a>It is much more rare for people to be skeptical of religion categorically.  Yet, the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods/102791">Irregular Heresies collection</a> comes close to this skeptical idea.  They&#8217;re not out merely to promote their own gods over someone else&#8217;s.  They&#8217;re skeptical and satirical of all divine beings and theologies &#8211; and skewer faith of all varieties, with verbal violence only, on a collection of heretical bumper stickers.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re mocking Jesus &#8211; <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.11357228">Jesus, Schmeesus</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464152047"><img src="http://progressivebumpersticker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brahmalama.jpg" alt="" title="brahmalama" width="287" height="120" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-418" /></a>They&#8217;re profane for the Hindus and Buddhists too, singing <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464152047">Brahma Lama Ding Dong</a> and declaring that <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464149303">Ganesha works for peanuts</a>.  <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.8602583">Be Here Now, Bucko</a> is the closest they get to Enlightenment.</p>
<p>They are infidels to Islam&#8217;s self-seriousness as well, challenging, <A href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464158868">Fatwa This!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://progressivebumpersticker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zoroasterdisaster.jpg"><img src="http://progressivebumpersticker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zoroasterdisaster.jpg" alt="" title="zoroaster was a disaster" width="270" height="113" class="alignright size-full wp-image-419" /></a>My favorite strikes at the root of monotheism: <A href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464743627">Zoroaster Was A Disaster</a>.</p>
<p>One bumper sticker sums up this perspective: <A href="http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.464745039">Your sacred cow is my hamburger</a>.  No one entitled to expect that everyone else will show reverence for their supernatural beliefs.  People will disagree with you.  Pray on that for a while.</p>
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		<title>Be Over There Now</title>
		<link>http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2010/03/08/be-over-there-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sticker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hinduism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where be here now when I could be over there?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here at Progressive Bumper Sticker, we don&#8217;t believe in sacred cows.  We&#8217;re happy to take a holy idea and it a holey idea.</p>
<p>A lot of the time, our target is the world&#8217;s dominant religion, Christianity.  Big power invites great satire, after all.  </p>
<p><a href="http://irregularnews.com/BeOverThereNowbumpersticker.html"><img src="http://progressivebumpersticker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/beovertherenow.jpg" alt="be over there now" title="be over there now" width="300" height="196" class="alignright size-full wp-image-322" /></a>All religions are ripe for satirical scrutiny, however.  That includes the Hindu-Buddhist tradition, with its emphasis on detachment from the everyday world, and all the things that truly matter to most of us.</p>
<p><i>Be here now</i>, the Buddhist instruction for mindfulness tells us.  Really, though, what are our imaginations for, if not to take us somewhere else now, when we would rather not be here?</p>
<p>This bumper sticker offers a gentle response to the mindful approach: <A href="http://irregularnews.com/BeOverThereNowbumpersticker.html">Be Over There Now</a>.  </p>
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