ABSTRACT
The war between the Jesus and Darwin fishes started when contemporary Christians began advertising their belief by means of the simple fish outline. The fish in ancient times was used as a symbol of Christian belief especially during persecution as a means of Christians recognizing one another without giving themselves away. The cause of a social phenomenon such as the Jesus fishes is not always readily discernible, much like fashions come and go and are often not related to anything but themselves. The Jesus fishes do have a discernible cause, however, namely the sense that many traditional minded Christians and believers of virtually all other religions in the United States have that the ambient culture has become so materialistic and degraded as to bear comparison with no other time in American history than the debauched times of the end of the Roman Empire.
