In a recent library conversation...

...I said to a patron that from what I'd read (of the actual Bible as well as about the Bible) that I think it would be easy to find a quotation to back up pretty much any argument that you'd like to make.

Because there's a lot of stuff in there. Some of which makes sense, and some of which is aliens.

Anyway, I'd seen the 'God Hates Figs' sign from the RtRSa/oF Rally, and just assumed that it was poking fun at the message favored by the Westboro Baptist Church.

But, thanks to Lee, I've learned that there's a bit more to it than that. Mark II: 12-14 reads:

¹²And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

 ¹³And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

 ¹⁴And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

Hee! Anyway, Lee also pointed me to this thread at Reddit, in which people are pretty hilarious about the passage, but also talk about different interpretations of/reactions to it. (Which range in seriousness from a call to ban Fig Newtons to an explanation of the fig tree as a metaphor.)