Feel like reading some sweeping generalisations and blatant self-contradiction? Check out Jonah Goldberg in the LA Times.

Wow. Considering the date, I'd like to have thought this was a joke article. The guy's so off base I don't know were to begin.

First off, if you want to talk about "smugness", let's look at the contention that anyone who displays a "Darwin fish" exhibits moral cowardice. I'm hearing this a lot from certain Christian quarters these days, pissing and moaning about how "the media wouldn't dare" portray Jews or Muslims in the same way it does Christians. The general public don't greet criticism or plain mockery of Christianity in the same way they do the other big two because they know that a) the church's founder espoused non-violent, even meek acceptance of such treatment; b) that there's no active paramilitary Christian group currently engaged in campaigns of murder or intimidation (although if you work in the field of human fertility, your perspective might be different); and c) no nation in living memory made an industry of shovelled Christians into ovens. In time, we will blithely make films, books and cartoons that treat all three with the same amount of respect and contempt. In the past, Christians were executed on a mass scale, and later committed atrocities when given the upper hand. Those days are gone. That's cause for celebration, not disingenuous claims that the church is some kind of underdog, tired of being kicked around by all these secular superpowers. Right now, there's a good few raw Islamic and Judaic wounds and we're not quite ready to talk as freely and openly about those two as we do about the good old, established church that arguably hasn't given us any major grief since the Inquisition.

His comparison between the use of the fish symbol and the Star of David is utterly pathetic. Even those who don't fully understand the origins of the fish symbol know it's not THE emblem of Christian faith. The use of The Cross in a likewise manner would be offensive, and if it were happening Goldberg would be right to decry it. However his carping about the "cancer" at the heart of Islam- including, in his view, censorship and lack of freedom- does not sit well in the same article with the contention that those who make a joke about creationism are committing a hate crime. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the teaching of evolutionary theory in American schools still a very active debate? Aren't those who display this symbol adding their voice, in satirical mode, to that debate? If Christians have a problem with the Darwin fish, my advice remains the same as it ever was; instead of getting all idignant, make with some jokes, make them more often, louder and, above all, better than the non-believer. In that manner you'll retain the moral high ground so precious to you and you might just win the long lost middle ground too.