WWJD
Most people assume WWJD is for "What would Jesus do?" But according
to Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, the initials really
mean, "What would Jesus drive?"
One of Ostler's readers theorized that Jesus would tool around in an
old Plymouth because "the Bible says God drove Adam and Eve out of
the Garden of Eden in a Fury."
But then Roy Rivenburg jumped into the fray, saying in his online
humor column "Off-Kilter" (<http://www.offkilter.org>) that in Psalm
83, "the Almighty clearly owns a Pontiac and a Geo. The passage urges
the Lord to pursue your enemies with your Tempest and terrify them
with your Storm.'"
Rivenburg goes on to postulate that God favors Dodge pickup trucks,
because "Moses' followers are warned not to go up a mountain until
'the Ram's horn sounds a long blast.'"
Some scholars insist that Jesus drove a Honda but didn't like to talk
about it. As proof, they cite a verse in St. John's gospel where
Christ tells a crowd, "For I did not speak of my own Accord..."
Meanwhile, Ostler has discovered that Moses rode an old British
motorcycle, as evidenced by a Bible passage declaring that "the roar
of Moses' Triumph is heard in the hills."
Well, I thought Joshua drove a Triumph sports car with a hole in its
muffler: "Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land."
And, following the Master's lead, the Apostles carpooled in a Honda -- "The
Apostles were in one Accord."
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