Extremely Lame

Seriously, what is it with license plates and this sick need to use it to boast about your faith in God? First you have Indiana taking money out of their highway fund to pay for “In God We Trust” license plates, now you have the state of Florida wanting to put a huge cross on some of their license plates.

This isn’t just an “In God We Trust” license plate, which is potentially offensive towards polytheists and atheists, this plate wants to go farther and eliminates the other Abrahamic monotheistic religions of Islam and Judaism. How can people not see this as affront to both government and religion simply because it happens to be their religion? How would they like it to be confronted with “Praise Xenu” license plates everywhere they went? And why is it that it’s the Catholics who are more often than not the religious voice of reason in things like this?

This one is bad enough, but if you read further down the article, you get to see a load of Florida license plates that did and didn’t make it. Given this plate, I’m actually kind of surprised that Florida rejected the license plate that gives money to Christian radio stations and Christian charities.

I wonder if the people who clamor over these plates see the hypocrisy of them. If they’d actually read their Gospels, they’d know that Jesus told them that they aren’t supposed to display their religion like some sort of badge to show how holy they are. See: Matthew, chapter 6, verses 5-6.

“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men….when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret….”

Maybe I’m just being old fashioned, but how about we stop making all these idiotic specialty plates? You want to support breast cancer? Fine, how about cutting out the governmental middle-man and just give that money to charity? And if you want to be an attention whore and display just how proud you are of yourself for it, why don’t you get a pink ribbon bumper sticker to put on your car? Better yet, how about a magnet so you can remove it easily?

At the rate at which new license plates come out, how long will it be before you see some overwhelmingly red or blue state start making license plates with elephants and donkeys on them? There’s a time and place for this kind of debate, and license plates aren’t it. Let’s just kill the dozens of different specialty plates most states have available and make everyone get generic state license plates. And if you’re that desperate to draw attention to yourself and how wonderful you are, get some stickers to put on the back.