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The “Coexist” Movement and Delusion
The Igonorant Fishermen Blog ^ | 8/23/09 | DJP I.F.

Posted on 09/27/2009 2:31:42 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman

It seems like everywhere you look these days while driving on the road – especially on college campuses – an odd-phrased bumper sticker with religious symbols spelling “COEXIST” can be seen. This phrase contains the spiritual ideologies of the major world religions.

Every letter in the “COEXIST” phrase has a symbol representing a religious system or spiritual ideology: “C” for the crescent and star (representing Islam); “O” being dotted with the Karma Wheel (Buddhism) “E” as energy in the relativity equation (Science); “X” illustrating the star of David (Judaism); the “I” representing the pentagram (Wicca/Pagan); “S” for the Tao symbol; and “T” for the cross for Christianity.

The goal of this movement is the promotion of a pluralistic and universal utopian worldview. At the heart of this movement is the abandonment of core absolutes and values (moral and spiritual.) This movement seeks to undermine personal beliefs and practices for the supposed “betterment” of world unification. Its most damnable feature, however, is the staunch rejection of the sovereignty and reality of Almighty God, His authoritative Word (the Bible), and His Savior to all fallen men, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 John 2:22-23). The chief Promoter of this godless ecumenical movement is the godless music industry and the pop icon Bono from the band U2. Hollywood and the fashion industry also promote this movement with an array of clothing products, gear and bumper stickers.

A phrase from the Coexist website states, “Coexist is a concept brand for everyone, connecting people and planet, together we symbolize life, love and global harmony.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; Ecumenism; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: coexistmovement; irreligiousleft; leftists; pluralism; religiousleft
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What's behind that bumper sticker...
1 posted on 09/27/2009 2:31:42 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman

I hate that bumpersticker. It’s thoroughly dishonest and misleading.


2 posted on 09/27/2009 2:35:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman

There’s a whole lotta stupid behind that bumper sticker.


3 posted on 09/27/2009 2:36:44 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman

Doesn’t it anger people that they associate their movement with “evil Christians?”


4 posted on 09/27/2009 2:37:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Haiku Guy

When the opportunity arises, I simply ask the person with one of those stickers that I need some instructions on how to coexist with someone who beleives it is their religious duty to saw my head off with a dull knife.

It is usually followed by the expected FU accompanied by the single finger salute. I just smile back to them and extend all of my fingers while showing them the back of my hand and saying “ five times back to ya.”

Maybe I should start asking them if Nocholas Berg had one of those stickers on his car.


5 posted on 09/27/2009 2:47:36 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman
Color me ignorant, I never really knew it meant anything.

How are they distributed?

Best regards,

6 posted on 09/27/2009 2:47:55 PM PDT by Copernicus (California Grandmother view on Gun Control http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7CCB40F421ED4819)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman
What's behind that bumper sticker...

It's often surrounded by "Obama '08", the "=" (gay) sticker, "Keep Your Laws Off My Body" and "Close The School Of The Americas" stickers.

7 posted on 09/27/2009 2:48:34 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Haiku Guy
There’s a whole lotta stupid behind that bumper sticker.

Generally, the bumper sticker is put on the REAR bumper, so the person BEHIND the bumper is reading it.

If you're the one reading it, you're the one BEHIND the sticker. Which means...?

I'm just sayin' :)

8 posted on 09/27/2009 2:48:58 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Copernicus

The ones that I see are mostly going to or coming from a university campus. Just another reason it is so much fun asking them logical questions.


9 posted on 09/27/2009 2:49:43 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: mountn man

behind the sticker is the idiot that put it on. like behind the mirror?


10 posted on 09/27/2009 2:51:45 PM PDT by omega4179 (We must be the change.)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman

Religious Plurality is a contradiction.


11 posted on 09/27/2009 2:53:19 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (When do the impeachment proceedings begin?)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman

One of those religions is nothing more than a violent, repressive cult bent on taking over the world.


12 posted on 09/27/2009 2:54:41 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman
 
 
Have seen these around -
 
 
 
Coexist - Saturn
 
 
 
Usually accompanied by an Obummer sticker.
 
Have also seen "KUT" inside a white oval.
Don't know what that one is all about.
 
 
 
 

13 posted on 09/27/2009 3:00:03 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: omega4179
I understand completely the point HG was making.

But you see, I was born with an over active smart alec gland. It allows me to see and hear what others say, and twist it to mean what they say, but not what they mean.

Call it...a gift.

And have fun with it. I do. ;)

14 posted on 09/27/2009 3:01:59 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman
The other day I had an agressive driver turn left in front of me, cutting me off, while I was already IN and moving through an intersection, turning right...

You guessed it. A "co-exist" bumper sticker.

Had I not stopped suddenly, to make way for this traffic-law-breaker, we both most likely would have continued "to exist", but car bumpers, doors, perhaps a tire & wheel along with suspension componenets, would have needed to have been replaced. There might have been a bent frame or two...which could lead an insurance company to declare a vehicle a total loss.

One good rule of thumb for those wishing to "co-exist";


15 posted on 09/27/2009 3:12:33 PM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: mountn man

So you figure the sticker is facing the same direction as the car? It’s kinda hard to get them to stick that way, and very hard to read them. Just saying.


16 posted on 09/27/2009 3:15:22 PM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: lapsus calami
Kut

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Al-Kūt (Arabic: الكوت‎; BGN: Al Kūt; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad. As of 2003[update] the estimated population is about 374,000 people.[1] It is the capital of the province long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.

17 posted on 09/27/2009 3:24:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Haiku Guy
And usually, an unshaven skank in front of it.
18 posted on 09/27/2009 3:28:25 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: buccaneer81

And don’t forget, the “Union Yes” and “My kid knocked up your honor student” stickers.


19 posted on 09/27/2009 3:30:30 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: dangus
Which way is the car going? If the car is going forward, then the person behind the car, is behind the sticker.

On the other hand, if you're behind the car, and the car is backing up, the sticker is then moving forward towards you, which means...

The driver is probably muslim,and is trying to run over your infidel self.

Allah Akbar!

(Or a "tolerant" Obama supporter, intolerant of your intolerance)

20 posted on 09/27/2009 3:34:48 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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