{"id":20072,"date":"2013-08-08T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2013-08-08T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:24:04","slug":"the-last-word-in-bumper-sticker-theology-wtfwjd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-last-word-in-bumper-sticker-theology-wtfwjd\/","title":{"rendered":"The last word in bumper sticker theology:  WTFWJD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20073\" alt=\"wtfwjd\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/article-2386791-1B3327E0000005DC-106_634x286.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"84\" \/>It comes from an Anglican vicar rather than Richard Dawkins. The \u2018What The F*** Would Jesus Do?&#8217; bumper sticker is a creation of the Reverend Alice Goodman.<\/p>\n<p>Goodman pointed out that she gave Rowan Williams a ride in her car and <i>he didn\u2019t raise an eyebrow. <\/i>How could she tell &#8211; surely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Rowan-Williamss-eyebrows\/254108527953875\" target=\"_blank\">they<\/a> don&#8217;t move?<\/p>\n<p>The Venerable John Beer, Archdeacon of Cambridge, reckons <i>\u2018Christianity has a long tradition of open debate where people can bring their differing views and share their perspectives.\u2019 <\/i>I reckon that a vicar who thinks she will stimulate <i>open debate<\/i> by resorting to a vulgarity, whose overuse has rendered it meaningless, is unhinged.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Goodman: if you <i>really <\/i>wants to stimulate &#8211; not necessarily open &#8211; debate, try WTFWMD. M=Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2386791\/What-The-F--Would-Jesus-Do--Vicar-causes-stir-car-sticker.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20074\" alt=\"Goodman \" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/article-2386791-1B33289F000005DC-11_306x528.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"244\" \/>A female vicar yesterday insisted she has not sinned against God by putting an obscene bumper sticker reading &#8216;WTFWJD&#8217; on the back of her car.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Alice Goodman stuck the sticker, standing for \u2018What The F*** Would Jesus Do?&#8217;, on the back of her red Subaru Legacy &#8211; sparking outrage from members of her parish.<\/p>\n<p>But the Reverend insists the sticker is harmless and even the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams was happy to accept a lift in her car in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The sign &#8211; a play on the Christian motto \u2018What Would Jesus Do?\u2019 &#8211; has offended some of the worshippers in the Fulbourn and Wilbrahams parish in Cambridgeshire where Dr. Goodman is the rector.<\/p>\n<p>But the American-born vicar, 54, claimed she was simply using an Old English word.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;F*** is not a blasphemy, it\u2019s a vulgarity, an Old English word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes from an Anglican vicar rather than Richard Dawkins. The \u2018What The F*** Would Jesus Do?&#8217; bumper sticker is a creation of the Reverend Alice Goodman. 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