Wednesday, July 18, 2001

Driving around the Beltway tonight, I saw this on the back of an otherwise non-descript four-door sedan:



This is a most welcome random discovery. While I've always liked the Darwin fish, I could never bring myself to get one. It seemed not quiet the right response to the Icthus symbols which started popping up a few years ago, not quite on the mark and maybe just a tad too mean-spirited.

Y'see, my main beef with the Icthus plaque is not what it represents, but how the message is being transmitted. To my way of thinking, strong religious beliefs aren't well represented or expressed on the back of one's car; in doing so, the belief is trivialized. Frankly, I hate to see that.

I also have a problem with the violent anti-intellectualism that some people who display the fish have exhibited in my presence, hence my instant fondness for the science rocket. There will be one on the back of my own non-descript four-door sedan by the beginning of next week.

Posted @ 12:16 AM

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