Bibles for boobs and butts...

[ModelInProgress]

Mar 4, 2010 12:00 pm US/Mountain
Atheist Student Group Wants Bibles Traded For Porn

Students At Texas University Calling On Others To Turn In Their Religious Texts In Exchange For Pornography SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CBS) ―


A debate is brewing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A group of student atheists are offering students porn for bibles.

Atheist Agenda calls the exchange "Smut for Smut," prompting prayers and protests from Christian students on the university's campus.

A member of the group says they are comparing the Bible's text to pornography. The group says it accepts anything containing religious text, including Korans, and in return students eighteen and older receive pornography.

According to the group, porn is no worse than what's written in some religious texts. But many students say the word of God and porn are definitely opposite and are opposed to the group's message.

School officials say although the atheists group's message may not represent the whole student body, what they are doing is legal.

Student Monica Cornado says it's offensive to compare pornography to "the Word of God."

University officials say the atheist group has the right to conduct the swap.

UTSA spokesman David Gabler says, "As long as students are not violating laws or violating the Constitution, they have the freedom of speech and assembly."

The Atheist Agenda started at UTSA in 2005, and their first "Smut for Smut" campaign blew up into a national media sensation, reports CBS affiliate KENS-TV in San Antonio. Past president Thomas Jackson was deluged with interview requests, and debated Tucker Carlson, the bow-tie-wearing conservative pundit, on MSNBC, reports CBS News.

This year, organizers said a group of Christians amassed to protest the event, and one protester ripped a sign from someone's hands. But police kept a watchful gaze over students involved in heated debates, and did not report any violence.

[Kratos]

I'm an atheist myself
I think the world would be a better place without religion

however I'm not an anti-theist
anti-theism is a conscious and deliberate opposition to theism

Forcing my beliefs on religious people or being unwilling to respect their religon...that's exactly what I feel is worst about religion to begin with.

So, I disagree with what they are doing. Directly insluting something that is important to people is not right.

My gf is a catholic and goes to church every week. And, although I feel it's a total fairy tail and stupid, I've never said a negative word about it. I even went with her last week to keep her company...but I told her it means nothing to me and it never will...I was raised going to church but the last time I went, I was probably 15. If it makes her happy, who am I to say what's right or wrong? She is also accepting of whatever is working for me.

[ModelInProgress]

I'm Christian, but not religious (meaning I don't attend church or harp on my religious views to others...I don't think I even have a Bible in my house). Anyhow, even though the Atheist group's "Bible exchange" is offensive on some levels to religious people, it would be a moot point if there weren't people that were willing to actually bring their Bibles, Quran, etc. to trade in the first place. I would be interested to know what they did with all of the texts they collected (and where they amassed all of the porn that they handed out).