What would Jesus do?

W.W.J.D. stands for " What would Jesus do? " ( English for " What would Jesus do ?"), short for a slogan that is mainly found on bracelets. Behind the slogan is the idea to be reminded by such wristbands to wonder in everything you do, as Jesus Christ react, act or think in this situation would.

The term is borrowed from the novel " In His Steps " by Charles Sheldon from 1896 and is the foundation, the basis of which a business man makes his own decisions. Jamie Tinklenberg discovered the question "What would Jesus do? " Again. In January 1989, the youth pastor of the Wesleyan Church of Holland (Michigan ) joined with the request closer to the businessmen Ken and Mike Freestone, make buttons with the expression. The produced the badges and also brought out a bracelet with the expression. The bracelets spread rapidly among American young evangelical Christians and became a fad.

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Further use

Due to the rather large spread, there were also various variations and parodies. It usually four letters of the abbreviation were reinterpreted or was it just a similar such abbreviation based on WWJD invented.

Example of a possibly rather serious imitation would be the interpretation among some basketball fans: " What would Jordan do".

Another example would be " What would Jesus download" - for the free Linux distribution Ubuntu has a developer launched a customized specifically for Christians version in the current Bible Software ( The Sword Project) and the youth protection tool Dansguard for parents to surf the Internet are preinstalled.

The pop singer and songwriter Ben Lee brought out his 2007 album " Ripe " on the "? What would Jay -Z do" contained the song.

Or even " WWAPD? " For " What Would A Pirate Do? " Among followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The title of " What Would Google Do? " By Jeff Jarvis ' 2009 published book also plays ironically on the slogan.

Furthermore, playing in a episode of The Simpsons Homer important that he thought WWJD stood for " What Would Geppetto Do", which also ironically alludes to this shortcut. Furthermore, South Park accesses the WWJD bracelets and discussed this in terms of fashion and commerce.

It was also an episode titled What would Michael Jackson do in the American series GLEE? provided.