leahbobet ([personal profile] leahbobet) wrote2007-07-16 09:53 pm

Spartans for Sparta

Okay, I don't know if this is my upbringing kneejerking or a valid issue, but there is this guy on one of my LJ communities whose handle is "jewforjesus". This has been bothering me for some time, possibly because one of the very few times I recall my mother snapping someone's head off was when the Jews for Jesus were out canvassing, and I am suspicious of marketing ploys. We have a word for people for Jesus. We call them Christians. The whole thing has always smelled of a corporate marketing con.

So I inquired with my fellow persons as to whether this was in fact in poor taste or just my problem and therefore something I'd best suck up. And, well, we weren't sure, because the whole advertising of religion in the LJ handle is not something we the reasonably secular writers are familiar/comfortable with.

After all, said I, it's not like I call myself "agnosticforpie".

But maybe I should. Because that's kinda cool. *g*


So long story short, after much absence, there shall be a CONTEST!

Your task, ladies and gentlemen, is to hypothetically rename your Livejournal to reflect both your religious affiliation (since that's everyone's business) and what you are for.

Example solutions include "buddhistforcookies" (courtesy [livejournal.com profile] mekkavandexter) and the aforementioned "agnosticforpie", and possibly "badjewforbacon".

As always, you compete for whuffie, the respect and admiration of your peers, and fabulous, fabulous internet prizes!

[identity profile] hominysnark.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Did you ever pick a winner for the last contest?

And I guess my LJ would have to be "jediforsubtext".

[identity profile] kats-kradle.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Should we just limit ourselves to food products? Can we branch out into the whole wide world of whatever?

[identity profile] leahbobet.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, proxy entry for my mother:

OxyMoronforContradiction!

[identity profile] ringwoodcomics.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
veganforveal
catholicforsatan
protestantforrosary
selfrespectinghumanbeingforrepublicans

[identity profile] jbacardi.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Uh..."Skepticforliquor"?

[identity profile] wintersweet.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
militantagnosticforseculargovernmentsame-sexmarriagesoftkittensandgooddarkchocolate

Darn, I don't think that's going to fit.
ext_87310: (Rev. Selena)

[identity profile] mmerriam.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"skepticalneopaganforcomfortableshoes"

[identity profile] sarah-prineas.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"doesntgiveashit"

It's probably already taken, though.

[identity profile] chang3002.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
agnochristibuddhaunitariananimistforanythingtheG.O.P.findsoffensive.

Whew. I need a nap after that one.

[identity profile] lisamantchev.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
heathenforcaffeine :D
ckd: small blue foam shark (Default)

[personal profile] ckd 2007-07-17 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
lapsed_agnostic_for_being_excellent_to_each_other

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
haugeanforprivacy
pragmatistforsparklies
foolforlooooove

[identity profile] stillsostrange.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"odinistforinjera"

[identity profile] veejane.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
This is like that old Gary Larson cartoon: "Dyslexics! UNTIE!!"

I cannot think of an entry that would fit within LJ username character limits. Unless: brains4blueberries? Ask me next week, and if the heirloom tomatoes have come in at the farmer's market, I will have to change my username.

[identity profile] timprov.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
secularhumoristforreligiousjokes
introvertfornotbotheringgod
pastfarianforreggaeinagorgonzolacreamsauce

[identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
reallydoesn'tcareforcake

jumpinforjoy

herdingcatsforcannoli

practicingpagenforthewitnesseswhocometocall

inthelibrarywiththecandlestickforthemurder

sanitizedforyourprotection





[identity profile] nayad.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
atheistfororgasms

*g*

[identity profile] boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:39 am (UTC)(link)

  • secularhumanistfornothing

  • onanistforcondoms

  • confucianistforclarity

  • yaohnanenforrepublicanism (okay, "Yaohnanen" is the name of the tribe, not the religion, but "princephilipisgodforrepublicanism" is just silly)

  • raelistforet (I thought "raelistfortyfourhundred" might be cute too)

[identity profile] sarcasm-hime.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Heathenforsparklies. Or eggplant. Or tea. I'm for so many things!

But remember, according to the Emperor Pope, nobody's Christian unless they're Imperial Catholic. :P

[identity profile] maradydd.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
objectivistforpublictransit, yo.

[identity profile] cabri729.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
unitarianformultiplicity
lutheranforpenance
:)

[identity profile] shewhomust.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
atheistformoreandbetterprose

[identity profile] gryphart.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
atheistforpancakes - since that's what I just made. mmm.

[identity profile] karenthology.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Christians were all "Jews for Jesus," technically, until Paul came along and decided to invite a bunch of pesky Greeks...

catholicforthevernaculartranslation!

[identity profile] delta-november.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
solipsistforme

Or, for the Iain M Banks fans:

solipsistforhovercraft

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