Oh, come on, guys. There is only *one* real and revealed truth of the Living God embodied in his only son, Jesus Christ. Accept Jesus as your personal savior and live forever in Heaven, or reject him and burn for eternity in Hell. That's all anyone needs to know. There's no need for discussion, really. Its the Truth. Yup. The Truth. Yessiree. Pure plain and simple Truth.

Now...send your money to:

Elspode
Grandview, MO 64030

Don't worry about the apparently incomplete address...God will make sure that the cash gets to me. That's one of the perks you get for advertising for Him, you know.

It irks me when I see a Tree & Lawn service or something driving around with a big "Jesus fish" in the advertising on their truck, as if to suggest they are a better shoice for trimming my branches. Why? Because I can "trust them"? Because I will be keeping my money "in the right hands"? I mean, are they suggesting that the owner of the company is a Christian, or every single one of the employees, too? And did he give them a lie detector test? And do I have a guarantee that he didn't just paint that fish on there just to scam me? My gut reaction is not a good one.

Man... you best not spend time here in the Deep South. It will drive you nuts.

Dude, I live in Texas.

And, yes, I am completely nuts.

Then you know... many of the local business here are names stuff like Lord Build Construction (his name is Lord but there is a giant cross and bible quotes on everything they use, my parents use him) God's Plumbing and our other local plumber, though named something else has giant religious murals on all of their panel trucks. My favorite local chicken place hands out tracts with your meal.

All these companies with "Jesus Fishes" and crosses and whatnot on their vans and crap, come across to me as a way for some Christians to have in their mind that they are supporting each other by doing business with these "Christian Companies".
Its basically a given that people will support others like themselves (or who appear to be that way).

Religion, organized, is just a social club, for networking. They prove it, by doing things like this. Show me 10 people who actually agree on matters of religion and I say you have 10 liars, or 10 fools. Either way, they need to feel "a part of something" because their faith is weak. If you really thought you had God on your side, you wouldn't need to use a plumber with a fish on his van.

I think a lot of it, also, it the unspoken (& incorrect) idea that they are more honest than those who don't cover all of their crap with crosses and John 3:16.

An honest man doesn't feel so insecure that he needs a fish on his van to prove it to the world.

Honest, or secure in his/her faith?

:::sigh::: rkzenrage, why do you "hate freedom" ? . . .

What in the hell are you talking about? I love freedom, especially the separation of church and state part. As I stated, our contractor is on of these people. I just don't understand having to advertise, or brow-beat the community, with it.

Whoa! Settle down there, partner! Don't go all "jihad" on me, now!

Mr. Colbert! Stephen! Stop poking the 'rage.

I'm a natural born lever-puller . . .