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Subject:	Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:40:37 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a8aa9f.144815446@lugnet.com>... > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:09:03 GMT, "Jesse Long" <LongJR97@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Spotted recently on a car: a "Darwin" fish getting eaten by a larger "God" > > fish. > > What _is_ a Darwin fish? or a God fish, for that matter? I'll start this from the beginning, in case you don't know the whole story. Christians use a fish symbol to represent Christianity. It looks kind of like this: <>< if your imagination is good. It's just the outline, made by two curves. It was originally a secret sign back when Christians were being persecuted by Rome. Some of these fish have the Greek letters for Jesus (IXOYE) in them. You see these fish almost exclusively on the back of cars. Well, some while ago someone got clever and stuck two feet on the fish shape (to symbolize evolution) and put Darwin in the middle instead of Jesus. It's kind of a "well, if you're going to advertise that you're a Christian, I'm going to advertise that I'm not" kind of thing. Mostly just being clever, but some people take it very seriously on both sides. Anyway, what I say was a new thing: one of those Darwin things being eaten by a larger fish that had the word "God" in the middle. Kind of a "you're clever but we're more clever" kind of thing. It's along the same lines as the T-shirt with the two quotes: "God is dead" --Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead" --God Jesse __________________________________________________________________ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! http://www.multicon.de/fun/legofaq.html Power-search in Deja News! http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml

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		Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
Jesse Long wrote: <good fish explanation> (...) Well, there are two kinds. That one, which makes me chuckle, and another one which substitutes TRUTH as the word in the middle on the larger fish. THAT one makes me steam. The first is clever. The (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
(...) Thanks. (...) Oh yeah, right, I think I remember seeing that once or twice now. (...) We here in the Netherlands almost never have bumper-stickers, so I guess we missed out :) (...) Any bets on when we will see a darwin fish being eaten by a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
(...) What _is_ a Darwin fish? or a God fish, for that matter? Jasper (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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