A couple of weeks ago while driving I saw a bumper sticker on the car ahead of me. Now this of course is not unusual as one might see any number of stickers on a drive home from work. Sometimes I see cars with just too many stickers. I suppose like anything else there are people who like to collect stickers, but I had never seen this particular one before. The sticker read as “SO MANY CHRISTIANS, SO FEW LIONS.”
Who would choose to display such a sticker? I can’t imagine a Jewish person or a Muslim would take the time to put one on their car. It is doubtful that a Hindu, Buddhist or Baha’i would choose to insult any Christian driver who happens to see such a bumper sticker, even Atheists tend to choose the Darwin fish to declare their “religion.” Perhaps the owner of this car was a disillusioned Christian, someone who had fallen away from their faith.
On the car also was a rainbow sticker which indicates another aspect of the car owner. Perhaps the owner is a homosexual with an incorrect understanding of the Christian teaching in regard to homosexuality. It is not an unusual circumstance: a person raised as a Christian later in life acknowledges the temptation of same sex attraction. Unfortunately they have been taught that homosexuals are evil, to be shunned and condemned, not knowing that the true Christian teaching on homosexuality is that the behavior, the homosexual activity, is what the Church teaches is contrary to the will of God.
The Church teaches that those who struggle with same sex attraction are no different than anyone else who struggles with a temptation. The person is to be loved, and embraced. As I pray for my heterosexual friend who has moved in with his girlfriend, placing themselves in the near occasion of sin, so I pray for my homosexual friend, that he may turn away for his temptation.
There is no way of knowing if the car owner is indeed a fallen away Christian, but if they are the sticker would seem to indicate that they have decided it is best not only to turn away from their Christian faith, but to insult other Christians. How tormented their soul must be, what anguish they must be suffering while attempting to hide it with a bumper sticker.
