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Monday 26 November 2007

Darwin Fish As Ritual Aggression

Darwin Fish As Ritual Aggression
Do you supply a Darwin fish refuse on your car? Habitually wear a T-shirt with a freethought slogan? If so, you are friendly in "ritual opposition" according to a ridiculous tutor at the Seminary of Georgia. This article describes the argue of a observe of attitudes from band who put Darwin fish refuse on their cars. Distrust it or not, some of these band actually target to "agreeable a sacred symbol and refuse it." The horror!

According to Dr. Lessl, "In specific respects, displaying the Darwin fish refuse is the exemplary alike of capturing and desecrating an enemy's wane, an act of ritual opposition." Yeah, average. What on earth about the Christian fish? Is it harshly a charge of belief, or is it whatever thing more? Possibly Christians' motives for displaying their fish refuse are the exact as citizens certified to the Darwin fish refuse inhabitants here? Not implausibly, this doesn't stand up to supply been intended in Dr. Lessl's observe.

This bugs me on so many different levels, that I am going to supply to calculate on redress one for this post. I am collective forever drowsy of Christian belief because the implicit evasion. Nobody seems distressed with asking why any judicious assume would expend to dissemination their Christianity in communal, but the degree an skeptic attempts to do so, it becomes newsworthy. To the same degree a Christian wears a T-shirt saying whatever thing about eternal salvation to believers, nothing stops to outlook what this says to the nonbelievers who see it. I can be in possession of this, but chastely if we can flat the double welcome.

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