On America’s highways one will often see a bumper sticker
like this on the rear bumper of an eighteen-wheeler truck, a bus, or a utility
vehicle.
If the driver exhibits sloppy or aggressive driving
behavior, they can be reported to their employer by a call to the provided
phone number, usually a toll-free call. This helps to ensure that the majority
drive with care.
Recently, while on a long-distance highway trip, I saw a speeding sports car with a bumper sticker which read:
“How is my driving?
Call 1-800- EAT-SHIT.”
This person is displaying contempt for everyone else. He (or
she) is basically saying, “I do not care what you think of my driving. What you think of my driving does not
matter. You do not matter. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. I am superior to you.”
Contempt and hostility are fueled by disgust at other
people’s perceived incompetence and worthlessness. There is an intent to insult and to harm. The type of person who does
this is a narcissist: arrogant, dismissive of others, and selfish, with a sense
of entitlement.
What is telling is that these same people are also
impulsive, immature, restrained only by a fear of being punished, disconnected
from other people, manipulative, and hypersensitive to criticism. These are
lost people who will be extremely difficult to reach because they will actively
reject any attempt to reach them.
“When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, And with
dishonor comes scorn.” Proverbs 18:3 (NASB)
“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times
will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable,
malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous,
reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a
form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as
these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak
women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2
Timothy 3:1-7 (NASB)
"Scripture quotations
taken from the New American Standard Bible®,
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1968, 1971, 1972, 1973,
1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
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