[Chyld]

Group Collects Bibles, Passes Out Porn
LAST UPDATE: 12/1/2005 5:11:58 PM

A group of atheists at UTSA was asking students to exchange bibles for porn magazines Wednesday, and that has made some religious leaders angry. News 4 WOAI first broke the story at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

At a Wednesday night church service, The Bible is the bond between believers, but on the UTSA campus a group of students were calling scripture, smut.

“We consider The Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. He is part of a student group calling itself the "Atheist Agenda."

Club members were on campus asking students to exchange religious materials for pornographic magazines like Black Label and Playboy.

News 4 WOAI’s Demond Fernandez showed the Athiest Agenda's "Smut for Smut" fliers to Pastor Rick Hawkins of the Family Praise Center.

“In my opinion, there are no atheists. There are fools,” Hawkins said. “So, that would be foolish propaganda.”

Other Christians we talked to agreed with Pastor Hawkins.

Athiest Agenda members said they got the idea from students in Austin. They claimed they were only exercising freedom of speech.

“I don't know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for pornography,” Pastor Hawkins said.

So far, only five students have exchanged their bibles for porn.

http://www.woai.com/...3A-E9BE25160B5D

Did you know that tomorrow (as in Wednesday, not as in Tuesday-when-you-sane-people-will-actually-read-it) is, to a certain extent, the first anniversary of me being a New Team Guy? And that the Scottish Elephant Polo team have won the World Cup again (I think)? More importently, is it relevant to anything? No? Thought not.

[Zatoichi]

Hmm... i deem them making a very pathetic attempt at an insult. I've seen the same subject covered and done in a way that actually made me chuckle. This is just a bland and absolutely unfunny joke. If it was an attempt at humor, in my opinion, they failed miserably. Oh well.... now I shall get back to life at hand.

[barend]

for all that religion tolerates, this is the least they've been expected to.

the whole song of solomon book in the bible is a 'your knockers are awsome' chapter.

christian groups have had many a pr0n burnings in universities and other places, so they can just sit there and shut up about this one.
It's only fair...

[Otal Nimrodi]

I agree, good Barend.

However, I also agree with Zatoichi. It wasn't done humorously. It could have been. That would have a greater affect. Also, those are probably the coolest Atheists you could ever hope to meet.

This post has been edited by Otal Nimrodi: 06 December 2005 - 08:57 AM

[Jane Sherwood]

Hooray for the atheists!

[Mirithorn]

But I'm not even religious and I'd rather have a bible. It's a more interesting read, if you ignore the lists of lineage and similar repetitiveness. PLUS you can use a bible in an argument with a Christian fundamentalist, and watch their exp​ression now that you can tell when they're warping information.

[floppydisk]

You're a girl, though, aren't you?

[Mirithorn]

Let's see you prove it.

[StantheGarbageMan]

This is a load of bull. You can't just force people to throw away their religion and cram your own beliefs down their throat.

And yes, I'm fully aware that lots of religions have done that. I'm just saying they shouldn't. Who are they to force their views on others? In my opinion, the only point of veiw that matters in the end is your own. Whatever you want to believe, believe it. No one should be so uptight on what's real and what's not that they have to force others to see things their way.

[Zatoichi]

Stan, what exactly brought that post about?

[barend]

This is a load of bull. You can't just force people to throw away their religion and cram your own beliefs down their throat.

And yes, I'm fully aware that lots of religions have done that. I'm just saying they shouldn't. Who are they to force their views on others? In my opinion, the only point of veiw that matters in the end is your own. Whatever you want to believe, believe it. No one should be so uptight on what's real and what's not that they have to force others to see things their way.

are you refering to the pr0n people?

i don't think they're really forcing so much as bribing, and trying to proove a point.

it's a reaction to to the religious groups that hound campus' trying to bully everyone into their faith.

[Mirithorn]

There were people trying to hand out palm branches all through that Jewish holiday that I can never remember the name of. No, the other one. They'd ask you "Are you Jewish?" and if you said no they'd leave you alone. Nobody ever figured out what would happen if you said yes. I mean, that doesn't even make a whole lot of sense. Usually those people try to convert you to their religion, be it as simple as "Don't be a hoter" which I never quite got. I eventually decided that they did want people to become hybrid hotel-voters.

[Chyld]

Thankfully, we're quite safe from religious canvassing here, probably because they'd all get beaten up by the local chavs. Although some guy gave me a CD of what he called monk rock. I haven't listened to it.

[Jane Sherwood]

I'd guess it would be a lot of chanting and praying, but to a rockin' guitar track.

[Chyld]

I think the "rock" part was supposed to be an attempt to make it sound relevant to me, 'cos I got hair longer than a buzz-cut...