Ok, so my anti-World Youth Day t-shirt idea hasn’t taken off, but I found a list of Top 10 Anti-World Youth Day t-shirt slogans on the SBS television website:
- You can fine me $5,500… But I still won’t believe in God
- WYD08: We close 300 roads so 300,000 can close their minds
- Good luck Pope – I’ve been waiting for a miracle at Randwick for years
- “and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who wear t-shirts that cause annoyance or inconvenience…”
- I survived a Christian Brothers education
- Oh no, I stepped in Dogma
- Too many Christians, not enough lions – Randwick 2008
- annoying & inconvenient
- I’ve been touched by the Catholic Church, so where’s my $2 billion?
- World Youth Day: You can cross yourself, but not the city
I don’t know who compiled these slogans – they made me giggle a little but I don’t think they’re spectacular.
Can you do better? Send me your slogans in the comments!
UPDATE: If you want to try and get your slogan/design on a t-shirt, head over to the REMO General Store website, where they are running a competition that gives you a chance to show off your creativity and snarkiness to the rest of the world (well, Australia, anyway – umm, actually, probably only Sydney. But do it anyway)!
UPDATE 2: The Australian Federal Court has removed a part of the wording of the New South Wales’ new World Youth Day laws – it is now legal to ‘annoy’, but still remains illegal to ‘inconvenience’, WYD pilgrims. Does that mean that anti-WYD t-shirts are ok? Unless someone can find ways to make a t-shirt inconvenient… like maybe, it only has one armhole or something…
July 6, 2008 at 9:14 pm |
“I was buttfucked by a catholic priest and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.”
I’m very, very sorry (but not sorry enough to delete it).
July 6, 2008 at 9:15 pm |
World Youth Day – paedophilia isn’t just for middle aged clerics any more!
July 7, 2008 at 9:52 am |
No need to be sorry – nothing like angry Lee to make me giggle
Hope you’re feeling better, too. We missed you at dinner.
July 7, 2008 at 3:47 pm |
GOD LOVES ME SO MUCH IS GOING TO SEND ME TO HELL, YAAAY!
July 7, 2008 at 8:26 pm |
suffer the children unto me, so I can have my own way
July 11, 2008 at 8:42 am |
WYD08- The Pope touched me Down Under!
July 11, 2008 at 5:36 pm |
Christianity the true religion:
1000000+ black slaves cant be wrong
100000+ victims of sodomy cant be wrong
also:
Priests are the best astrophysicists
also
WYD the super massive blackhole of ignorance
even light cannot escape
July 11, 2008 at 5:38 pm |
jesus is muslim
July 11, 2008 at 11:45 pm |
[...] hosting, at great tax-payer expense, the Pope’s personal junket ‘World Youth Day‘ tour… that’s just too damn [...]
July 13, 2008 at 1:55 am |
I prefer to go with the short and simple:
Molest-fest 08
He got Nailed. Now we get Screwed.
Who Would Jesus Arrest?
Jesus loves you but I’m his favourite.
Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
I’m not annoying you, am I?
My invisible friend is better than your invisible friend.
WYD – Must be over 40 or under 10 to enter
Sponsor a Lion for WYD. 300,000 Catholics. 1 Stadium.
Jesus’ Dead So Get Over it.
July 13, 2008 at 3:03 am |
Homophobia is Annoying
July 13, 2008 at 3:51 am |
I’ve collected the best Christian T-shirts I found in here:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Christian_Shirts.html
Personally, I would prefer those apologetic figures such as Dinoglyfs documented by the ancient man few thousands years ago, as displayed in the site above. Unfortunately, they are not sold anywhere…
Or do you happen to know a site for such “apolo-wear”?
A recent book “Understanding Intelligent Design” by William Dembski and Sean McDowell, son of Josh McDowell just became available last week.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/understanding-intelligent-design-now-available-at-amazoncom/
The book is geared at Christian young people (junior high and high schoolers) as well as for Church groups (e.g., Sunday Schools) to help get out the word about ID, Intelligent Design. A MOST REVEALING INSIGHT FROM ITS FIRST CHAPTER:
“A few years back, skeptic Michael Shermer wrote a book called
How We Believe. For it he commissioned a poll of thousands of
people. He asked participants why other people believe in God. The
most popular answers focused on religious benefits: God comforts
us, provides the basis for living a moral life, gives purpose to our
lives, and is the source of meaningful religious experiences.
Then Shermer asked participants why they personally believe
in God. The number one answer changed drastically. The most
common response was the design and complexity of the world.
Our natural tendency, it would seem, is to believe the world was
designed.”
Hunting the best T-shirt slogans,
Pauli.Ojala@gmail.com
evolutionary critic
Biochemist, drop-out so called
(MSci-Master of Sciing)
Helsinki, Finland
July 14, 2008 at 9:40 am |
Oh dear.
Pauli: which part of my blog gave you the impression I would be interested in Christian apologetic clothing, or pro-Intelligent Design propaganda? Please tell me so I can remove it, as I wouldn’t want anyone else to get the wrong idea that I support that stuff.
I’m going to leave your comment on here, just so other people can have a look, but I mean, really… you’ve left me speechless.
And how exactly is that paragraph about Michael Shermer’s study “A MOST REVEALING INSIGHT” to help promote ID? Shermer is saying (if the study has been portrayed correctly) that people believe in gods because they can’t think of another way that the world could possibly be as complex as it is. Just because a bunch of people believe something, DOESN’T MAKE IT SO. There are scientific explanations for the diversity of life on earth, and the simple-minded clinging to needlessly supernatural religious explanations is just plain stubbornness and resistance to critical thinking.
Shane: “Jesus loves you but I’m his favourite” LOL
July 14, 2008 at 10:33 am |
Pauli, Shermer’s study (as you would know if you were to read the original rather than Dumbski’s quote mining) was investigating the different types of reasons that people gave for their own belief. It showed that while people will generally assume that others believe for irrational/emotional reasons, we do not recognise the same irrationality in ourselves and prefer instead to seek some vaguely rational/intellectual justification. Our natural tendency is to seek anything that sounds reasonable for ourselves.
It is absolutely NOT any kind of rational support for the bunko-show that is ID-creationism.
As for your endorsement of ‘dino-glyphs’ – wow. Really, just wow. Start here, then try looking around.
‘Biochemist, drop-out so called’ – so did you drop out or just fail? Either way, it’s a little cheeky calling yourself a biochemist.
July 17, 2008 at 5:16 am |
Don’t you people have anything better to do with your lives…. Let people live theres, and take your own views and respect others’ views.. I respect you.
If you think Catholics are ignorant, look into the mirror. Take some time to think about your life, and how you know all you know.
PEACE
July 17, 2008 at 9:46 am |
Anything better to do with my life…? Define ‘better’. I have a feeling we might disagree on that definition.
I respect the right of others to hold views different to my own, which is why I have approved your comment to appear on this post. I respect the rights of others to hold views different to my own, and I respect their rights to defend their views. I expect them to respect my right to hold my own views too. You say you respect me but your first sentence, suggesting that I am doing something unworthy with my life by expressing my views, contradicts that.
I don’t think Catholics are ignorant, neccesarily (although like any other group of people, there are bound to be some ignorant individuals). I don’t think Catholics are unintelligent. The reasons intelligent people hold religious beliefs are too numerous and complex for me to consider here (and I won’t claim to know all the answers, in any case).
I often think about my life, and how I know all I know, and religion has made little positive contribution to either.
PEACE will only be achieved once religious people stop killing those who disagree with their version of the fairy tale.
July 17, 2008 at 11:55 am |
i dont htink these are exactly ‘not letting other peopel live their lvies’. its just sorat showing our point of view because athiets/agnostics kinda dont get this best treatment from religious folk. im not anti religious, i believe everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, the only reason im really here looking at these slogans is because i disagree soooo much witht the laws our government has putin place to ‘protect’ this wyd. its outrageous. plus i dont like like the way christianity/catholisism is sorta shoved in our faces whereas if it were to be a muslim or wiccan convention, there would be an uproar about how we cant have that rah rah rah. anywho, maybe this makes sense!! have a great day people.
July 17, 2008 at 1:17 pm |
Fernie, how does hundreds of thousands of catholics blocking traffic for days on end and getting stupid repressive laws passed just in case they might hear something ‘offensive’ count as them ‘letting people get on with their lives’?? How do $5,500 fines levied on people’s right to free speech count as ‘respecting others views’?
Look in any dictionary of psychology under ‘projection’ and you’ll find something very similar to this…
As Kate pointed out, I don’t see the NSW government shelling out $68 million to host ‘World Wiccan Day’ or ‘World Muslim Day’ anytime soon – and certainly not ‘World Humanist Day’ – but if they did, you can bet your arse there’d be catholics marching in the streets in protest.
July 17, 2008 at 1:27 pm |
My Fav that a friend came up with was:
Against Gay Right?
Then tell the straight people to stop having gay babies.
July 21, 2008 at 5:57 pm |
Hey, just thought I should let you know that the Catholic church neither requested nor endorsed the stupid laws that the NSW state government made regarding WYD. Also, I myself am a Catholic, and attended WYD, but I’m fine with gays and contraception- as most catholics I know are. We did see protesters there, and everybody was very kind and respectful to them- unlike you, we appreciate the right to difference of opinion. To anyone harping on about the amount of money that was spent on the event-what about the olympics and APEC? Do you think that Australia should just close its doors to any international event? To those making the point about how an event such as World Muslim Day or World Wiccan Day would not be supported to be held in Australia- I agree that is true which is unfortunate, but I would also like to point out a) that there are more Catholics than members of any other religion in Australia and b) that we are probobly working harder than anyone towards an Australia in which such an event could be held. Finally here’s my tshirt slogan- “Faith is Hope”. At the end of the day, there is no proof that a God exists, but beleving so puts so much more meaning and hpe into our lives in an often depressing world.
October 14, 2008 at 1:12 pm |
Claudio said: “Faith is Hope”
Ahem…
“Faith is False Hope”
There ya go, fixed it for you.