Christian flags. Are they flying them where you are?

[maveric]

Its primarily blue with a white square in the upper left corner, that has a red crucifix in it. I've been seeing more and more of them flying with the stars & stripes on people's homes.

[ulysses]

1. never heard of or seen one.

Why do Christians who need flags need flags?

(...he asked innocently...)

[Ladyhawk]

53. I had to pledge to the Christian flag every morning from 2nd grade...

...through HS. I'm trying to unmemorize the pledge, as well as all the bible verses I had to memorize. Ungh.

[Piperay]

55. ACK...so did I

I went to Lutheran Day School up till HS and we had to pledge to the Lutheran flag, luckily now I can't remember the pledge.}(

[NMDemDist2]

2. no

but they are sure to come soon. The church on the corner has one tho..

[maveric]

7. A bu$h election and that may replace the stars & stripes.

Why do people need a flag. Its bad enough when someone wears their religion on their sleeve but this is scary.

[LittleApple81]

3. So religion not only on your sleeve but on your house, your panties,

your socks, your hair, your wife, your husband, your bed, toilet... what else?

[0007]

58. Blood? It's red !

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. I've never seen them before...

Someone have a picture? What the hell do they stand for? I mean it's not a counrty...right?

[MissB]

5. here is a link

http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/chrflag.html

[maveric]

9. I must have mixed up the blue and white.

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. They have their own Christian flag anthem?

It says these flags have been around since 1897...how is it that I have never seen one? (not saying that I've been around that long, but this is obviously not a new trend)

[LizW]

21. Pledge to the Christian Flag

I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag and to the Savior for whose Kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe.

And that, friends, is why I don't allow my children to go to "harmless" Vacation Bible School with other kids. I was required to say this every summer of my youth for about ten years. Along with this one:

I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's Holy Word, I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path and will hide its words in my heart that I might not sin against God.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. "life and liberty to all who believe"

Hmmm. Sounds kind of ominous for those of us who don't.

[jakefrep]

27. I've always believed...

...that Vacation Bible School is an oxymoron.

[tom_paine]

31. Back to the Middle Ages. Big darkness, come soon

Flag of the Teutonic Knights, circa 1300, vile liars, propagandists and murderers in the name of Christ. The Nazis of their day. Quite glad the Poles whipped the shit out of them at Grunwald in 1409.


Flag of the Bushevik Imperials

See a whole lot of difference?

The Dark Ages are coming. We can only hold them off for a short time.

[HawkerHurricane]

6. Popular with churches.

I've been asked (since my Navy specialty was into flags) whether it was proper to fly a U.S. flag over 'God's Flag'.

I quoted the code at them: Nothing flies over the U.S. Flag.

[MrSlayer]

8. Nope, never heard of it.

:shrug:

[Carni]

10. Thank God (excuse the pun) No I haven't...

That is about the most asinine thing I have ever heard...who designed them, Walmart?

[prodigal_green]

11. You mean this?

http://store.yahoo.com/united-states-flag/christianflags.html

[mike1963]

30. "made outside the USA"...IOW by slave-wagers in China probably

:grr:

[sandnsea]

13. every day, I'm stunned into silence

Truly, even me. Christian flags. You can't make this shit up. :eyes:

[Tardisian]

14. Nope...

and not a lot of people in our (coach-home) complex fly the US flag, either, though some put the re-white-and-blue bunting on their balconies for flag day & the 4th of July.

[goforit]

15. These people are freaky!!!!

Holy sh*t!!!

[goforit]

17. ..And I knew this cult would use a new flag to represent this new country.

Unbelievable!!!

[lanparty]

16. The flag is missing their motto...

"In Hoc Singo Vinces"

[Catch22Dem]

18. Dumbest shit I've ever seen in my life

They might as well call it the freeper flag because that's all it is. The only xtains who would need some asenine display like this are insecure freepers anyway.

[MuseRider]

19. Good grief!

I am still trying to get over the people that chopped down a perfectly good tree to carve the stump into a crucifix for their lawn. I am sure this will be next.

[ulysses]

20. behold! the Agnostic Nation banner waves!

[Gold Metal Flake]

37. LOL! I Like it!

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. No, but a friend of mine has a very cool American flag with a

peace sign where the stars would be. It infuriates his neighbor. :)

[silverweb]

42. I have a peace flag like that.

I love it! It hangs in the window facing a fairly busy street. Below it, there are a Kerry poster and a caricature of B* that says, "You can't spell War without W." So far, I've seen one man taking pictures of the window (whether friend or foe, I have no idea) and a woman who lives down the street brought me homemade cookies "because I enjoy looking at your window so much."

:D

[thecrow]

56. Did you eat the cookies?

[silverweb]

61. Yup.

They were yummy.

Yes, I thought about the possibility of sabotage.

However, watching the woman leave with her baby and having spoken with her for a few minutes, I decided that she was sincere. I was right. :)

[LizW]

23. Around here it's lawn crosses

They're about three or four feet tall. They started appearing about two years ago when a local church gave them out to their members at Easter. Most people took them down after the Easter holiday was over, but a few left them in the yard. The second year, there were even more year-round crosses, and now you can hardly go down any street in my neighborhood without seeing one or two permanent lawn crosses.

[bobbieinok]

35. in parts of Tulsa, people have signs on their lawn with Bible verses,

often pretty harsh.

[maveric]

24. This leads me to beleive that lines are being drawn.

This flag will fly during Civil War II.

[ursacorwin]

26. i agree.

it feels more and more like we're headed towards that. the fundies are all foaming over their 'savior' in the white house, and as frank herbert once wrote:

"when religion and politics ride in the same cart, almost nothing can stop it. even as it heads off a cliff."

that's where i see the fundie/likudnik/neoclown wagon trying to take us all. orgasm for them is the apocalypse, and they'll do anything to make it happen. identity flags are just another step in the process that is dividing this country, and leading us down the dark path.

[Roon]

28. Um....

What is that Avatar you are using?

[maveric]

29. I work at a small hospital and the activities director holds sessions

with the "alert" patients, and these sessions are about the "Upcoming rapture"!
Mind you this is NOT a religous based convalescent hospital. We have patients of all faiths. This fundie nutjob has been ramming this rapture shit down patients throats. An older jewish patient complained that this shouldnt be going on at a resident social session and the fundie said something to the affect of "I'm just trying to save your soul". :puke:

[Chelsea Patriot]

33. What a Nice Avatar!

But, please, do tell us more about those divisive, tacky identity flags...

[Cheswick2.0]

41. that flag is over 100 years old.... I don't think it is a big threat

or a sign of the coming civil war.

[BiggJawn]

49. What's age got to do with it?

This flag's MORE than 100 years old:



And it seems to put a lot of folks on edge.
Or how about THIS one? it'a only about 70 years old, and REALLY pisses the crowds off....



It ain't the rag, it's what it means to the person waving it.

[DrBB]

32. You mean this flag here? (pic)

It's a sorta cross, init?

[genius]

34. Saw a geat bumper sticker: My God can beat up Your God."

[mitchum]

36. Bring on the lions!

[B Calm]

38. I haven't seen any

but, who's looking!

[JNelson6563]

39. No, thank bob.

:-)

[silverweb]

40. In San Diego??

I live in San Diego, as you do, and I have never seen a "Christian flag," had never heard of it until reading this thread.

:shrug:

[maveric]

43. El Cajon/LaMesa area.

A heavy fundie area.

[silverweb]

45. Of course.

Now I remember why I stick pretty much to the city and coast, and don't go out that way often!

:D

[demosincebirth]

44. Is it a cross ?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

46. I've seen them in churches for years

When I was in Sunday School in Wisconsin, we used to open Sunday School with a little worship service in which we all sang "Onward Christian Soldiers" while some kids in the upper grades got to carry the church flag down an aisle between the folding chairs where the kids sat. Then we'd all break up into age groups for our Sunday School lessons at separate tables.

This was in the 1950s.

[allalone]

47. OMG

never heard of it before, but are these the flags the crusaders are going to carry against Islam if bush wins?

[progressivebydesign]

52. Or are we sinking into a holy war here at home?

No shit!

(hi Mom! When I saw your "OMG" subject line, I knew it was you!). :hi:

[DemBones DemBones]

48. Haven't seen them here in my part of the Bible Belt.

I never knew such a thing existed until a few years ago, despite living in, and attending church in, the Bible Belt for many, many years. Apparently a lot of churches have them hanging next to the US flag in the sanctuary but either I never saw them or just thought they were state flags or something.

:shrug:

No yard crosses here, either, just roadside floral crosses where people have died in auto accidents.

[LibLabUK]

57. Umm..flags

"Apparently a lot of churches have them hanging next to the US flag in the sanctuary"

Churches over there display the US flag in the sanctuary??

Is this just certain protestant ones, or do all churches do so?

That's just weird.

Do you have flags everywhere else too (classrooms, offices etc)?

[DemWitch]

50. any bets...

If a nice xtian lady with a cross flag came walking by and saw an American Flag with a pentacle in the star field, how long it would be before I had a picket outside my door...

I really wish sometimes, all these fundies and militias and crap would just pick two states and move to them... the rest of the folks there could be assigned refugee status in the normal part of America...

[Dob Bole]

51. Seen them used for symbolism in churches, never on somebody's house.

That's tacky...but there are plenty of tacky people.

[Swamp Rat]

54. Hey everybody! Time for the New Crusades!!!... starring GW and Jaysus!

[Eurobabe]

59. not yet, give it time

in Central VA.

[Citizen Daryl]

60. Haven't seen them popping up in Nashville.

I live in a semi-rural community just north of Nashville and commute into town every morning for work. I haven't seen them popping up other than the usual ones on pastor's cars.

EDIT: On the other hand, I've been seeing a resurgence of vehicles (primarily Saudi-friendly SUVs) plastered with 4-6 flags and a lot more Bush/W stickers. I'm starting to see more Kerry stickers as well, though.