Can my Christian friends help me with this car fish question

[Goblinmonger]

OK, I get this one



And I even get this one



Heck, I'll even go so far as to say I respect both of those. The first is a nice reminder of the oppression that Christians went through (the real stuff with the lions et. al.) and the second is linguistic in nature which tickles the English teacher in me a little bit.

But what is up with these two?



I mean, seriously, why do you need to have the cross and/or the jesus in there? Just in case you forget what the fish stands for?

Anyway, my random thoughts on a 20 minute commute.

Oh, and this one just bugs the crap out of me



I mean seriously, Truth? Ok, if the little fish was "Seahawks win the SuperBowl in 06" and the big one was Truth, I would get it. But Darwin? Wow.

[quispquake]

1. Yeah, I had to protest those a bit...

I have this one on my car:

[Sequoia]

5. ...with lemon and tartar sauce.

I like your fish the best of all!

[varkam]

17. Heyyy!

I had that very one on my old car. Nice.

[jedicord]

2. On your commute did you also notice that the "fish cars"

were the rudest drivers?

Back in the day when I commuted 30 miles back and forth, I can't tell you how many times I said out loud "God saw that!".

[pocket]

4. kkkristians are entitled to right of way!

don't you know

[MrBenchley]

8. I know somebody who honked at a "Honk if you love Jesus"

bumper sticker; and the driver screamed "Asshole!" and gave her the finger.

[silverweb]

25. LOL

Now that's funny!!

:rofl:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. I don't know about rude but they seem clueless about the

whole driving concept. If the rapture came and their cars really were emptied out, I'm not sure I'd notice the change.

[varkam]

18. That's hilarious.

I'm definatley going to have to remember to say that.

[cdb]

3. .Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Frank Zappa, speech to a pro-choice rally in Los Angeles around 1989-90

[YOY]

6. Put this on your car...and watch heads explode

[Strong Atheist]

20. ROFLMAO! nt.

[YOY]

29. Thank you...it takes a certain kind of person to recognise and laugh at

that one!

:silly:

Kind of like supporting Senator Dhole...

[GrpCaptMandrake]

7. You've only scratched the surface

Working backwards, the Darwin/Truth fish is a fundie backlash against another fish symbol with the word "Darwin" inside. That fish, of course, has legs. Then there's the one with the T-Rex eating the fundie fish.

I sense a little ligh-hearted fun in the Ichthyos fish. A fish with the word "fish" inside it, instead of XPISTOS (sorry, no sigma on my keyboard) or KYRIE.

As an enlightened, educated student of language, you reference the fact that early converts used the fish symbol as a means of sureptitiously referencing their worship of Yeshua the Palestinian Carpenter, with the x in the tail representing Chi and the bubble of the fish's body representing Rho, and the fish in general referring to the fisherman metaphor in the Gospels.

Overall, my personal favorite is the Flying Spaghetti Monster Car magnet.

:hi:

[NoAmericanTaliban]

12. Saw a T-Rex eating fish on a car this morning & it made my day

What does Flying Spaghetti Monster Car look like?

[GrpCaptMandrake]

22. Flying Spaghetti Monster Magnet

looks like this:



The full Gospel of the FSM is avaliable at www.venganza.org

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Here's the link, if you want to see more parodies. . .

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html

:evilgrin:

[WoodrowFan]

11. they're just making sure

they're just making sure that you get the message, so they repeat it.

I have both a Darwin "legged" fish and a Jesus fish on my car. They seem to get along fine, though the combination seems to blow a few fundy's minds...

[metlhed]

13. interesting...

I know us liberals hate people who put fish on there cars, but why dont we hate people who put the star and crescent on there cars? Why dont we hate Buddist, Hindu's and Muslims as much as we hate the Christians? Why do we fear them if what they believe in is "make-believe"? Do we just hate religious Americans and are tolerant of religions who kill people because a cartoon of there profit was made? Who do the muslim extremist hate more, the conservatives or the liberals? Dont muslims hate homosexuals? I used to live in Iran, seems to me that hated everything liberal about me...

[supernova]

15. Probably a prevalence issue

I see wwwaaaayyyyy more fish and its varients than I do stars and crescents or other religious symbols on the backs of cars.

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[supernova]

14. It's a bit of overkill

All of the fish fetish stuff is getting on my nerves. It used to be a nice way for early xtians to identify each other and safe meeting houses, etc. Fine.

But now, people use it as an excuse to wear their relgiosity on their sleeves, a kind of shorthand for

a) I'm more religious than you!

b) I'm religious and you're not!

Either reason is stupid, IMO. So I'm quite tired of the whole business.

[RebelOne]

16. I am also tired of this whole business of the little fishes.

I live in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area, and at least one car out of every five has that dumb little fish.

[CatholicEdHead]

28. Often there is still a BC '04 sticker somewhere on the car next to it

[Dogmudgeon]

24. My Fish can lick your Fish!

:evilgrin:

--p!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I wish it were possible to design a car ornament with the

Jesus fish and the Darwin fish playing happily together

[nemo137]

30. That's possibly the cutest mental image ever

With a a little ball or frisbee or something?

[nemo137]

31. The second to last pair is Phariseeish dick-measuring,

The last pair is ignorance, closed-mindedness, and idioticy.