Coexist (image)

[1][3][2] During the international 2005–2006 Vertigo Tour of the Irish rock band U2, the original version of the image played a key role.

During the opening portion of "Love and Peace or Else", Bono wore a white headband bearing a handwritten version of the word.

The prevalence of the COEXIST bumper stickers has been noted in the Bay Area region centered on San Francisco.

[8] This has led to one academic, Mark Coppenger, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to criticize the use of the symbol by atheists and to also question the ability of the bumper sticker to affect a wider audience.

COEXIST LLP (now dissolved) [11] filed suit against companies like CafePress in May 2005 to stop sales of merchandise they had not authorized.

[7] Other parodies include a Communist hammer and sickle for the "E" and a swastika for the "X", indicating the dangers inherent in totalitarian ideologies,[15] and weapon-related versions.