I just returned from a 2 week field problem at a training center in Germany. One of the things I love about deployments (there are plenty of things I dislike) is viewing the latrine "art". It's pretty universal across the Army that in every porta-pottie, out-house, latrine in any training area/Forward Operating Base there will be writing/drawings across every available surface. I don't know what the driving force is behind this defacement, but it's there for all to enjoy. Some of it is vulgar, but some of it is pretty cleverly written limericks and what not. I admit, I have been guiltily enjoying the Chuck Norris jokes that have been cropping up lately.
Invariably though, someone will write "Jesus loves you" or John 3:16 or something along those lines. Now I'm all for evangelism in all it's myriad forms but I have to ask, is defacing government property how we want to spread God's message? I remember one of the beatitudes from the sermon on the mount "blessed are the graffitists for they shall get the last of the toilette paper". Christ calls us to be non-conformists, but we have to smarter than this. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe people have been reached through the Sharpie scripture movement, but I think I'll stick to a more personally interactive way of sharing a God who yearns for personal relationships.
Chuck Norris Haiku 'o the day (as seen on stall door at JMRC):
Man of hairy steel
Chuck don't work out on Bow-Flex
It works out on him
Now that is a treat, the awesomeness that is Walker Texas Ranger boiled down into three lines of 5, 7, and 5 sylables.
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