Explanation: In Christian mythology, the ichthys symbol, depicted, was used as a secret sign of one's faith. To outsiders, it would appear only as an innocent fish - to those in the know, it would be a sign of belonging to the DANGEROUS CULT OF CHRISTIANITY.
It still sees use today, though not as a secret so much as virtue signaling.
The reason for them choosing the symbol was because ichthys was an anagram acronym:
Ιησους - Jesus
Χριστός - Christ
Θεού - of God
Υιός - son
Σωτήρ - saviour
I.e. Jesus Christ, son of God, (our) saviour
Or maybe they just thought God was a fish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't forget the self-dealing necromancy! If Jesus is considered the son of god and also god (whole trinity myth), then him being raised from the dead means he is both a zombie and a necromancer.
The fish came first, the crucifix is more aligned with Paul's interpretation of Christianity, where doing what Jesus said to do is unimportant next to believing in his blood sacrifice. Christianity was pretty based actually up until Paul got his grubby little proto-mega-pastor fingers into it.
Both the crucifix and the ichtus appeared a long time after Paul. And he never says that following what Jesus said to do is unimportant; he just preached a liberation from the need to try to be perfect, to follow moral rules literally, exactly the contrary to what mega-pastors do today.
Paul has a bad name because he was recuperated and deformed by evangelicalism.
He overcorrected, and yeah we have evangelicalism now. But even in his day, he had the seed of it in him. Sure, this guy who was just persecuting Christians miraculously had a vision that just so happened to conflict with the actual disciples. Dude was always a mega-pastor at heart.
Let's say that Paul's letters contain the seeds of things that can lead to very problematic theologies. But Paul himself, with his emphasis on freedom and his rejection of moral sanctity and literalism, isn't so bad. His main problem, in my opinion, is his almost pathological fear of scandal, which leads him to accept too many things from his society in order not to offend anyone.
Eh, the moral sanctity of faith > works? Paul was selling. He wanted to be the guy, so he massaged the message a bit to make it more marketable. You can make an argument for moving away from the stricter OT observances, but again the result was an overcorrection.
that's how they catch ya. by the time you've been initiated to the 333 sacred mysteries of the fishie you wake up and realize fuck, this is just christianity AGAIN
If they walk the walk, then that's cool... But 99% of them are bigots and hypocrites.
The saying, which is regrettable, that is almost always true is that "there is no hate quite like Christian love."
I feel bad for the ones that really do follow their Bible's in a heart-centered path. Those are typically great people. They're just outnumbered by the many, many awful Christians that live amongst us all.
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Explanation: In Christian mythology, the ichthys symbol, depicted, was used as a secret sign of one's faith. To outsiders, it would appear only as an innocent fish - to those in the know, it would be a sign of belonging to the DANGEROUS CULT OF CHRISTIANITY.
It still sees use today, though not as a secret so much as virtue signaling.
dangerous cult indeed. at least in the USA.
Idk catholic church kind of fuck medieval europe.
The reason for them choosing the symbol was because ichthys was an
anagramacronym:Ιησους - Jesus Χριστός - Christ Θεού - of God Υιός - son Σωτήρ - saviour
I.e. Jesus Christ, son of God, (our) saviour
Or maybe they just thought God was a fish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Abbreviation maybe? An anagram would be scrambling the letters to remake a phrase with the same letters in a different order
🤦Yeah, not anagram. Acronym is the word I was looking for.
It means they belong to a cult that practices ritual cannibalism.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Cannibalism of a zombie wizard? I feel like the zombie wizard aspect narrows it down to a few hundred
Don't forget the self-dealing necromancy! If Jesus is considered the son of god and also god (whole trinity myth), then him being raised from the dead means he is both a zombie and a necromancer.
A Lich! Buuurn heeeeer! No, wait.
I got better!
If you want to go one further, those that die and go to heaven are "one with God", so you're also eating Grandma
Does it matter?
One day, I'm gonna have a chance to take a sharpie and draw little tiny legs on one of these.
My father had this on his truck, good memories there!
Certainly an improvement over realistic sculptures of a man being tortured to death.
The fish came first, the crucifix is more aligned with Paul's interpretation of Christianity, where doing what Jesus said to do is unimportant next to believing in his blood sacrifice. Christianity was pretty based actually up until Paul got his grubby little proto-mega-pastor fingers into it.
That's true of a lot of things sadly. Religion just happens to be one of the oldest humanity still regularly engages in.
Both the crucifix and the ichtus appeared a long time after Paul. And he never says that following what Jesus said to do is unimportant; he just preached a liberation from the need to try to be perfect, to follow moral rules literally, exactly the contrary to what mega-pastors do today.
Paul has a bad name because he was recuperated and deformed by evangelicalism.
He overcorrected, and yeah we have evangelicalism now. But even in his day, he had the seed of it in him. Sure, this guy who was just persecuting Christians miraculously had a vision that just so happened to conflict with the actual disciples. Dude was always a mega-pastor at heart.
Let's say that Paul's letters contain the seeds of things that can lead to very problematic theologies. But Paul himself, with his emphasis on freedom and his rejection of moral sanctity and literalism, isn't so bad. His main problem, in my opinion, is his almost pathological fear of scandal, which leads him to accept too many things from his society in order not to offend anyone.
Eh, the moral sanctity of faith > works? Paul was selling. He wanted to be the guy, so he massaged the message a bit to make it more marketable. You can make an argument for moving away from the stricter OT observances, but again the result was an overcorrection.
If you put intentions on people, it's easy to dismiss any idea.
And if you ignore all the evidence, it's easy to dismiss obvious intentions.
I got this tattooed on my leg due to a bet i lost at a party once. Found out later what it meant lol
Change it into a nuke.
Ooooo i like that idea!
Or give it legs and write Darwin inside.
NUKE THE WHALES!
My new religion: DESTRUCTION MWAHAHA
One more line could turn it into a butt plug, if you ever fancied improving things
Lol!
Tattoo a bigger fish behind it.
Nah no room lol
Make your legs bigger.
that's how they catch ya. by the time you've been initiated to the 333 sacred mysteries of the fishie you wake up and realize fuck, this is just christianity AGAIN
-_- gotta support the team
The response from the reverend gives me big "no one knows what Let's Go Brandon means" energy.
If they walk the walk, then that's cool... But 99% of them are bigots and hypocrites.
The saying, which is regrettable, that is almost always true is that "there is no hate quite like Christian love."
I feel bad for the ones that really do follow their Bible's in a heart-centered path. Those are typically great people. They're just outnumbered by the many, many awful Christians that live amongst us all.