This practice is one of the weirder rationalizations of getting around a religious prohibition:
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Source: xkcd
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Are they totally oblivious as to what they actually write on those boards, or do they do that on purpose?
They CAN be totally oblivious – they have their own lingo and context and are ignorant of much of modern double-entendre.
On the other hand, there are image generators for church signs online where you can pick from a few different church names and put text of your choosing on them – so you always can never be certain if these are real or computer-generated by some wag. Although usually people creating CGI signs are just parodying the kinds of things these fundies will, in fact, say on real signs.
It all is part and parcel of Poe’s Law – that a parody of fundamentalist Christianity is indistinguishable from the real thing.
IME, most of the human race is achingly thick.
I would be unsurprised if this weren’t the result of an image generator.
Should it be the result of an image generator, would it be unsurprising if the creator drew inspiration from real life examples?
Religious people are irony impaired.
That reminds of that one time where I was in front of a computer together with some random IT guy that helped me set up some stuff that required some obscure administrator intervention. We ended up turning the list of tasks on the head, starting with the bottom, and so I jokingly commented that “The first shall be the last”(*), whereby the IT guy replied, without blinking, with conviction, and totally oblivious to me semi-mocking the bible out of context: “Yup, that’s what the bible says.” Only at that point did I notice the little cross he had hanging around his neck…
(*) Matt. 20-16.
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