{"id":187,"date":"2010-07-20T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/07\/172-calvin-praying-at-the-cross.html"},"modified":"2010-07-20T18:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:49:31","slug":"172-calvin-praying-at-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/07\/172-calvin-praying-at-the-cross.html","title":{"rendered":"#172 Calvin praying at the cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bumpers and rear windows across America are rife with stickers of Calvin either peeing or praying. The original Calvin never paused to pray at a cross in any of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoons, but Christian culture has taken it upon itself to concoct such an image and mass-produce it as a bumper sticker.
\n\"originalcalvin.JPG\"<\/span>The other stickers show Calvin peeing on such assorted effects as American vehicle manufacturers, Osama bin Laden and NASCAR numbers. Bill Watterson never gave his permission for Calvin & Hobbes stickers to be sold but this hasn’t deterred their production. Calvin didn’t do any territorial\/desecratory peeing in the original cartoon either but these bumper stickers are still seen en masse across the red states and in a few blue ones as well. <\/p>\n

\"calvinbl.JPG\"<\/span>Maybe Christian culture feels that if Calvin is shown praying instead of peeing then it’s okay to nick his image, since it’s for a good cause. Maybe Calvin is praying forgiveness for pissing on everything. But why Calvin, of all cartoons? Is it a veiled reference to John Calvin<\/a>? Or a far-fetched reference to C.S. Lewis? Calvin’s mean teacher is named Mrs. Wormwood and Wormwood was a character in The Screwtape Letters<\/em> and Christian culture reveres C.S. Lewis, but that’s about four degrees of separation and this is getting complicated. Would the person who had the idea to make Calvin-cross-stickers please speak up? We’ll grant you immunity if you’ll just explain yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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