Send your neighbors a message that your theology is way off course.
The Christian fish symbol has lately become a really good example of what Jesus meant when he said, “Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t toss your pearls to pigs. Otherwise they’ll crush them with their feet, then turn and knock you over.” [Mt 7.8]
I remember when people first started sticking the fish on their cars. It wasn’t necessarily a bad idea; publicly identifying yourself as a Christian might force you to behave yourself—especially while driving—when you remember who you’re representing. Ah, if only it had worked that way…
Eventually someone had got the bright idea to put feet on the fish and stick the word “Darwin” in it. Now, mocking a religion is never a good idea, even if you don’t believe in it. A lot of Darwinists feel they can justify this behavior because a lot of them grew up in the church and were put off by the hypocrites. Some went to the pastors with questions and were advised to “pray about it and read your bible” instead of being taken seriously. Others were driven away by intolerant church leaders, and decided to reject it altogether. Supposedly if you’ve personally rejected something, it’s okay to make fun of it. Hence ex-husband jokes.
In the case of the Darwin fish, some of us found it amusing and some of us found it offensive. This would have been the perfect opportunity for Christians to demonstrate Jesus’s teachings by turning the other cheek. But since when do Christians actually do anything the Lord tells us to?
And thus were invented the… variations on the Christian fish. Some took the form of dead Darwin fish. Others consisted of predatory Christian fish (is that consistent with Jesus’s teachings?) that ate the Darwin fish. And I still don’t understand the Christian fish with shark fins.
It’s one thing when the atheists desecrate a Christian symbol; they don’t know any better. It’s another when we do it to ourselves.
The Bush fish, which I discovered yesterday, is another example of Christian self-desecration, as Christians who don’t believe in separation of church and state (and I am not one of them) want to show their support for the president saying Christian things. (Doing Christian things, like helping the poor and needy, and not killing our neighbors, is another issue.) And you too can show him your support by going to BushFish.org, where you can get a fish where the name of Jesus (or at least the Greek word for fish) has been replaced with “Bush” and some stripes that we weren’t healed by. Because sometimes we need to be obvious in our idolatry.
The site comments, “If this country’s legislature and judiciary are supposed to reflect the values and beliefs of The People, then send them a message that they are WAY off course!” First of all, I doubt that any of ’em are gonna be looking at my stickers. Second, this only shows a message that my faith is way off course. People who don’t separate church and state will too frequently blend the two, and this site is an excellent example of a form this can take. But then again, this is the internet, and one can find all kinds of lunacy here.