Just a Fish?

What is a tuna doing on the back of your Jeep?

It's not a tuna.

Don't be driving by any synagogues.

I'm not worried.

A little christian boy with a fish on his car?

Yep. Unashamed.


That dialogue did actually take place at work today. Job drew a picture of a christian "fish" on my rear window yesterday at chuch. It has actually been very though provoking esp. when I am driving.

The Ichthys (or the Jesus fish)

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. At the time, a similar symbol was used by Greeks to mark the location of a funeral, so using the ichthys also gave an apparent legitimate reason for Christians to gather. Another story suggests that the ichthys was used as a sort of secret handshake: one person would draw with a staff a single curve, (half of the ichthys) in the sand, and another person could confirm their identity as a Christian by completing the symbol. Alternatively, one would draw the symbol, and another person would confirm their faith by drawing an eye on it.

Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) is an acrostic, which is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. It compiles to "Jesus Christ God's Son is Saviour" or "Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour", in ancient Greek "Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ"
I is the first letter of the word Jesus in Greek: Ἰησοῦς
CH are the first letters (in Greek one letter) of the word Christos (Χριστóς), Greek for Christ
TH are the first letters (in Greek one letter) of the word THeou (Θεοῦ), genetive case of Θεóς, Greek for God
Y is the first letter for Yios (Υἱός), Greek for son.
S is the first letter for Soter (Σωτήρ), Greek for savior.
(sources, encyclopedia.com)