I got a laugh from this, not necessarily due to the stunt itself, but in the reaction from certain “good Christian” quarters. Don’t they understand that the Bible is full of porn itself? It’s certainly easy to understand. Back in the “good old days” of the Bible, people didn’t really do much else except try to scrounge out a living, procreate and kill each other. Kind of like today (without the Internet.)
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“The Atheist Agenda does this solely for this purpose: To get under the skin of Christians and to provoke an angry response so they can point at screaming Christians and say to their peers: ‘See they are angry, self-righteous, judgmental people.’”
In a stunt designed to infuriate Christians, a student atheist group at the University of Texas at San Antionio is offering to give free pornography to any student who wants to turn in their Bible.
The organization, called the “Atheist Agenda,” calls its campaign “Smut for Smut,” according to reporter Marcia Segelstein.
Members sit at a table in the lobby of the school’s humanities building with a sign that reads, “Trade in Holy Texts 4 Porn,” ready to hand over a pornographic magazine in return for a Bible.
This isn’t the first time they’ve done this.
“They first did this back in December 2005,” reports Segelstein. “At that time, a group member explained to the school newspaper, the Independent, the reasons behind the controversial, in-your-face initiative:
“The idea is that religious texts are so appalling. They are so full of genocide, misogyny and ludicrous ideas that far overshadow any banal common-sense platitudes like loving thy neighbor, that you are better off having porn, which isn’t nearly as smutty.”
At least porn wont suppress the student’s sexuality so they wont turn into sexual depraved nuns or reverends….
I’m more or less in agreement with you Dr. Jizz. I think to be fair though, most people in the religion ‘biz’ don’t become raging sexual lunatics. It’s the few and the way that religions circle the wagons and try to pretend it doesn’t happen that disturbs me.