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[kens5.com]
Emotions ran high last week when an atheist group asked UTSA students to trade in their Bibles for pornographic magazines.
On Monday afternoon, the group set up a table on campus for their "Smut for Smut" trade offer. The group featured a sign at their table that read, "Trade in Holy Text 4 Porn."
Nearby, some students gathered in protest by reading their Bibles and praying.
After the event, the atheist group posted on their Twitter page, "Too often are we ignored this seems to get people to actually talk to us instead of ignore us."
The atheist group tells KENS 5 that it will donate all of its Bibles to local libraries.
[Atheist Agenda]
Q: What the hell do you think you’re doing?
A: We’ve set up a table where people can stop by and donate their religious reading material and – if they desire, and if they are old enough – receive a number of porn magazines. This can include fundamental texts like the Koran, the Bible, or Dianetics; religious apologia and self-help like Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life and Lewis’s Mere Christianity; or those unnerving little tracts that Jack Chick makes.
We aren’t the first to come up with this. A group at UT Austin called The Knighthood of Buh did a similar thing called “Porn for Bibles” several years ago. They weren’t atheists, so they didn’t get nearly the publicity (or the backlash) we did when we broadened it to include all religions. It’s a clever reversal of the projects some religious groups have in which they collect porn and distribute bibles, and we owe the idea to the Knights.
Q: Why would you do such a thing?
A: It’s symbolic. Pornography is vilified by the religious community, but in reality the values espoused by religious doctrine are far more reprehensible. So, in effect, it’s trading something appalling for something less appalling. We also like to get people to think, to talk to us, and to debate with us. That only works when they understand just what we’re doing, hence this FAQ.
Q: Are you going to burn my book if I give it to you?
A: Destroying knowledge is one of the most disgusting acts imaginable. We keep what you give us as debate tools. Sometimes, in the case of tracts or pamphlets, they’re good for a laugh.
Firstly, christians started protesting pretty quickly, and don't think that we atheists haven't heard "The fool sayeth in his heart "there is no god"" a thousand times before. We atheists can't even defend the stance without being told we're oppressing other peoples beliefs if that weren't entirely hypocritical and false.
Why won't these people just let us believe in God in peace? Is that so hard? Just let us believe whatever the [snip] we want to and we will do the same for you...
The accepted the Qur'an and any other holy text.
But, what if they tried this with the Koran..? I bet they would get beat down quickly.
Bibles 4 porn is an invitation to trade, no one was forced to give up their beliefs or books.
I don't care what you do or don't believe, I would like the same courtesy. Is that too much to ask?
Well as cited in the article featured in the news thread, this was a group of atheists making a statement.
Although the article doesn't mention it, this is more than likely a student group out for a little attention. These college kids probably will be marking this down as their idea of a joke in the long run.
They were donated to libraries.
I imagine their childish desecreation of the books they do collect, speaks volumes to how much they actually know,. about what they are doing
Already covered here... Sorry...
There ya go...
peace
It’s symbolic. Pornography is vilified by the religious community, but in reality the values espoused by religious doctrine are far more reprehensible. So, in effect, it’s trading something appalling for something less appalling.
I don't care how smart you guys (think you) are, or just HOW MUCH you hate jesus and all that is holy. What offends me the most is how stuck up you [snip] are. You people are sick, stuck up, pretentious [snip] who turned Atheisim (simple lack of religion) into a super exclusive clique, that is only for the smart cool kids whom "no one understands"*BAWWWWWW! "Im an intelectual so i don't believe in jesus. That makes me better than you and ALL YOUR FRIENDS".
I despise all you twisted [snip], who mock peaopl who just want to live a peacefull life at home and worship some skygod that does not even exist. You FEED off eachothers hate, turning yourselves into sneering stuck up [snip] whom view the world through their nostrils.
Originally posted by silo13
Already covered here... Sorry...
There ya go...
peace
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