Glance at the rear quarter of many Prius and Subaru cars and you might see the popular “Coexist” message, spelled with the iconography of many of the world’s religions. A Jerusalem contemporary art museum started the movement, which has been co-opted by any number of self important cultural warriors and their bumpers. The original message of middle east peace has become a haughty “peace” movement lecture on the folly of religion and US imperialism.

Unlike the original artwork, most “Coexist” stickers equate the world’s major religions – Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism / Hinduism – with Wicca and Secular Humanism. The real message of the stickers is relativism. The sticker presents the audacious conceit that 99% of the world is simply delusional about the worth of their various religions. The only answer is to join Bill Mahr and laugh at others’ sincere beliefs. Faith is a fantasy, a evolutionary artifact like the appendix. If all religions are equal, they must be equally false.

The “Coexist” stickers, much like their Marxist bumper neighbors, suggest that religion is the cause of human suffering. If people simply suppress their faiths, the world will know peace for the first time. The “Coexist” followers forget that most people would rather wage war than give up their religious customs. Faith can only be suppressed by force, and the leftist experiments of forced atheism in the 20th Century left hundreds of millions dead.

So called peace activists always occupy cushy corners of the world. They see the globe and wonder why everything can’t be stable – keep the lines where they are. They ignore the fact that borders constantly change unless they are defended with deadly force. Every habitable square inch of this world has been fought for endlessly.

Don’t fall for the left’s con that religion causes suffering. While the world is often a horror, the atheist world has proven to be worse still. The lefties have always sought to supplant religion’s authority with that of the state. For those on the outside of religion, that might sound promising, but it is a recipe for tyranny.

All that from a bumper sticker.