The Fish Religion was that one where they put a fish symbol on the back their car. Duh.

Ew! EEEEEEW!!!

If Hare Krishnas made the afterlife, at least it would have a beat and you can dance to it. I don't agree with all of their religious tenets, but I will jam with them any day.

It's not quite what you're looking for, Dominic, but Pastafarians (members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) use an image of a pirate fish. This is related to their beliefs that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s (see the graph of the approximate number of pirates to the average global temperature in Bobby Henderson's 2005 open letter to the Kansas Board of Educa… for details) and that humans evolved from pirates (rationale: humans share around 95% DNA with monkeys, and more than 99.9% DNA with pirates).

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Fuck you.

Sincerely,

Good Design.

I used to love reading those pamphlets, they were always funny.

It's satire, right?

There's nothing gross about salmon. Salmon is delicious.

Did you say Pescaterian or Presbyterian? Never mind, either way it's still symbolized by a fish.

@4: The Noodly Appendage be with you.

I've always enjoyed Rupert Brooke's poem about a heaven for fish (rather than fish-eaters):
http://www.poetry.com/GreatestPoems/poem…

Are those trees made of dill? I LOVE it!

Ah, the Carl Warner vegiscapes are sublime--and I, too, have occasionally gotten lost in the trippy, sweet, naive magical realism of Watchtower illustrations.

It's an evocative analogy.

But, Dominic, if you're speaking of idealistic Hare Krishna imagery, you can't ignore the wonderful, transcendentally shrill color plates published in many modern editions of the Bhagavad Gita. (Check the personal library of your nearest grizzled paleohippie.)

But if Hare Krishnas published Watchtower, the scenes of afterlife bounty, considering their vegetarian ways, would be free of predators and prey.
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WRONG. The Hare Krishnas have no happy sweetness and light utopia in their vision of the future of Earth. The Hare Krishnas believe in an apocalyptic future that they say is well on its way (Kali Yuga), and that in the future they believe that humans will devolve into cannibalistic dwarves that live underground who are so demoniac and stupid that they can only be liberated by being killed by God Himself (in the form of Kalki wielding a sword) personally.

You know what Dan Savage calls it when a Hare Krisna eats someones asshole and the owner of that asshole farts? Hare Caesar salad. Get it? Fucking hilarious. Oh that Dan Savage-he is so fucking funny. So hip! So 2009! What a guy!!!! And he's an authority on foreign policy too! A hard-nosed realist-he doesn't mind a little blood (as long as it's not his) shed for the big picture. Check this out:

Say "YES" to War on Iraq

"War may be bad for children and other living things, but there are times when peace is worse for children and other living things, and this is one of those times."

"In the meantime, invading and rebuilding Iraq will not only free the Iraqi people, it will also make the Saudis aware of the consequences they face if they continue to oppress their own people while exporting terrorism and terrorists. The War on Iraq will make it clear to our friends and enemies in the Middle East (and elsewhere) that we mean business: Free your people, reform your societies, liberalize, and democratize... or we're going to come over there, remove you from power, free your people, and reform your societies for ourselves."

Dan Savage October 2002