sullster

This issue pisses me off and I'd like to know if anyone else feels the same. Recently I have seen the fool Jesus Fish with advertisements for various companies from car parts to contractors in the Yellow Pages of the phone book. What pushed me over the edge is when I visited the home of a fundy and saw a directory of "christian businesses", with a robed jesus in the sky over a bunch of stores.

So what does this jesus fish mean anyway? Is it just a ploy to get fundies to only spend their money at fellow fundy owned stores? Does having a jesus fish in your advertisement mean that you won't take excessive profits or rip off the customers like non-jesus fish companies?
What irks me is the idea that because some contractor shows his jesus fish, we are supposed to think he is morally superior to anyone who doesn't. This is typical fundy obnoxiousness. Just because some plumber is "bornagin'", doesn't mean he won't do a crappy job and rip me off, after all he is already "saved", so ripping me off, especially an atheist, won't stop his heavenly ascent.

I can't stand that darn jesus fish!

cricket

I recently had this very discussion with my best girlfriend. She saw an attorney's office with a big xtian sign in the window. Thought it was a good idea for the attorney to advertise this message! I told her she was out of her mind; doesn't it seem pathetic and desperate or at the least, irrelevant?

cricket

One of the owners is a veteran, and we've recently started placing the words "veteran-owned" on our letters. For each customer who is impressed by this, I'm sure another is turned off.

I think if I weren't there they'd do the Christian-owned' message. They probably will, if I ever quit.

Born Free

We're so lucky I've only ever seen them on the wee loaves and fishes vans that drive around from the christian churches. It must be a pain in the butt.

ex-preacher

Here in Arkansas, we have a guy running for the US Senate who uses the fish symbol prominently in his billboards and other ads. He also uses a picture of himself, his wife and his 13 children -each holding a different musical instrument. Strange, but true. His name is Jim Bob Duggar.

Using one's religion to gain votes is an old tactic, but it is usually done more subtly. It offends me, but I'm not sure how Christians react to such a blatant ploy. I'm also irritated by local newscasters who wear cross necklaces or pins. To me, it would be like a newscaster wearing a political button on the air. Highly inappropriate.

cydonia

I'm a designer for two magazines. Our website has a huge jesus fish on it. The publishing information is accented by a nice violent bible quote each issue. Though we want to get everyone to read our magazines, (which are business, not religious magazines) the message is Christians are more desired. It's something i'm trying to ignore.

braces_for_impact

Here in Indianapolis, the northern state I'm convinced is the most southern in flavor, the Jesus fish are everywhere. There's also a whole slew of bumper stickers with all of those stupid little religious quips like "If your living like there is no afterlife, you better be right!" Etc...

Sigh, just another motivation for me to get a darwin fish on my car. I'll think I'll get the one that has the big fish and says " N' Chips" inside of it.

To me the fish is just a silly status symbol. It says little to nothing about religion, it only seems to identify the owner as a xtian, which could mean a wide variety of things depending on which particular denomination someone belongs. I think it's really just a way of saying "Look at me, I'm a good person, I believe in god." Last I checked, pride was a sin

The only other reason I can think to have the silly thing is because most xtians love to think they're persecuted in Jesus' name, it's supposedly an express ticket to heaven, and people *love* to be victims. The fish was supposedly in historical times a way for persecuted xtians to recognize one another.

The one that really gets me is the new fish that is out, it shows a fish with the word "TRUTH" inside of it, eating a fish which says "Darwin". Ah, the irony of it all. One of the focuses of xtianity is supposed to be honesty. I would assume this also means intellectual honesty, yet most xtians have never even taken the time to research evolution whatsoever. In many cases, it's easy for people with a lukewarm intellect to say "God did it." Yet another piece of hypocrisy chalked up to xtianity. <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" />

IvanK

Every time one of those fish cars cuts me off in traffic or I get stuck behind one going like 40 in the leftmost lane I holler, "how would Jesus drive?"

I employed a contractor who called his business "Alpha Omega" to paint my place once, mostly because he showed up when he said he would for the estimate. I took this as a good indication. In the event, they did excellent work (other than taking twice as long as they said they would to do it, which for your average contractor is not too bad). In general it makes no difference to me what someone thinks as long as they're reasonably competent at what they do. So if the surgeon wants to pray before taking out my gall bladder, fine with me, as long as it makes him no worse of a surgeon.

DMB

Is "dugging" a synonym for something? (Note the 13 kids.)

Echo

The Chiropractors office down the road from me always uses a fish and bible quotes in their advertisements, plus they come up with the same kind of cutesy slogans for their marquis (sp?) that churches use. Once, his sign read:

"Let God be your chiropractor and 'straighten' you out"

Of course, if God was your chiropractor, you wouldn't be going to a chiropractor's office, you bunch of $^%#^@!.