What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see a "Jesus fish" on someone's vehicle?

Answer 1

I always thought they were endorsing evolution by tracing their ancestry about 400,000,000 years back to when the first vertebrates crawled out of the sea? No?

Answer 2

It was a secret symbol for Christians to identify themselves to one another during times when they were being prosecuted


.Societies of Christians in the early Roman Empire, prior to the Edict of Milan, protected their congregations by keeping their meetings secret. In order to point the way to ever-changing meeting places, they developed a symbol which adherents would readily recognize, and which they could scratch on rocks, walls and the like, in advance of a meeting.

Some Christians who put the logo on their cars do not realize that they have displayed it backwards when the tail of the fish is on the left and the head is on the right. The correct placement is with the head on the left and the tail on the right as this calls to mind the Greek letter alpha (α) which has a similar shape. This is an allusion to the saying that Jesus is the "Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End."

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Answer 3

You mean the "icthys"? Which symbolizes Christianity? Um... okay... the first thing that comes to mind is a chuckle because I know the history of the symbol and so many people just grab it and tack it to their car ignorantly.

Answer 4

Christian nowadays use this symbol, but is of pagan origin. It came in the church with other pagan teachings and practices and it's not christian in nature. Symbol of fish originates from Astrology although later christo-paganists added a new meaning to Greek word for Fish Ichthus = Isous Christos Theous Ouos Soter which means Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Although this is true by the bible, the fact is that the sign of fish is unbiblical and pagan in origin.
Ichthys was the lover-son of the ancient Babylonian sea goddess Atargatis, and was known in various mythic systems as Tirgata, Aphrodite, Pelagia or Delphine. The word also meant "womb" and "dolphin" in some tongues, and representations of this appeared in the depiction of mermaids. The fish is also a central element in other stories, including the Goddess of Ephesus (who has a fish amulet covering her genital region), as well as the tale of the fish that swallowed Osiris, and was also considered a symbol of Isis.
Along with being a generative and reproductive spirit in some religious systems, the fish also has been identified in certain cultures with reincarnation and the life force. Sir James George Frazer noted in his work, "Adonis, Attis, Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion" (Part Four of his larger work, "The Golden Bough") that among one group in India, the fish was believed to house a deceased soul, and that as part of a fertility ritual a specific fish is eaten in the belief that it will be reincarnated in a newborn child.
The fish symbol may have also been known as "the Great Mother," a pointed oval sign, referred to as the Vesica Piscis. Also, in ancient Greek, "fish" and "womb" were denoted by the same word ("delphos"). Its link to fertility, birth, feminine sexuality and the natural force of women was acknowledged also by the Celts, as well as pagan cultures throughout northern Europe. Eleanor Gaddon traces a "Cult of the Fish Mother" as far back as the hunting and fishing people of the Danube River Basin in the sixth millennium B.C.E. Over fifty shrines have been found throughout the region which depict a fishlike deity, a female creature who "incorporates aspects of an egg, a fish and a woman which could have been a primeval creator or a mythical ancestress. . ." The "Great Goddess" was portrayed elsewhere with pendulous breasts, accentuated buttocks and a conspicuous vaginal orifice, resembling an upright Vesica Piscis.
Even in Bible you may find on some occasions that a flase God with fish head, Dagon, is mentioned. This is where, for example, the Catholic bishops head-wearing originated from, in the form of a fish pointing upwards, with open mouth.

Answer 5

that they do not believe in evolution. those who believe in evolution and wish to express their opinion have those same fish decals with little feet on them.
it is a religious symbol.. not anti-evolutionary, but for the most part it is symbolic to those who believe in the word of the bible. im sure each christian has their own personal meaning behind it, but it is typically a symbol of christianity.

Answer 6

a pretender that beleives Jesus was the true Lamb SLAIN not Larrib SL A I IV.
aka a loser to beleive in Jesus
when TODD is obviously God.

Answer 7

Bonehead. I never really thought about it til now. That's the first thing that came to mind though.

Answer 8

hmm usually i ignore it. but sometimes...

i think its for attention. they want everyone around them to know they are christian.

reminds me of that verse

Matthew 6:5
[ Prayer ] "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

then i think they are hypocrites for proclaimin their belief so that they can be seen by man, when it shouldnt really matter to them in the first place.

Answer 9

What's wrong with fish? I like fish.

Answer 10

in the past it was the sign that the christians use when they were being persucted by the romans and it told other christian that it was safe to talk to each other and have secret worship meetings