Bibles for Porn

A student group of Atheists at University of Texas, San Antonio, have started a campaign which allows people to trade their bibles for pornographic magazines, such as Playboy and Penthouse. Their logic being that the bible is a very negative force in world history and porn would be more beneficial. They came up with this campaign as a creative way to exercise their freedom of speech. Obviously religious groups on campus were less than pleased with the idea. There are similarities here to my previous article in which a local church tried to use less conventional methods to attract new people. However, what the atheist group is doing is a little different. By handing out porn the group is obviously seeking attention and trying to make people mad. They are not seeking to inform people about Atheism but instead going for shock value. I think that tactics like this give all atheists a bad name. It make them seem like intolerant people who can't stand the idea of "idiots" who believe in God or any other any other type of religion. I don't know why they expect others to respect their beliefs when they hold others beliefs in such low regard. The point of Atheism was to look for scientific answers to the unexplained rather than rely on blind faith, not to harass religious people by implying that porn is better than the bible.  Obviously none of the group have read the bible or they would know that it is not only a religious document, but also a historical one. It can also be argued that without religion and the bible we would not have modern civilization, ie. the Renaissance. People should respect each others beliefs otherwise you just end up being as ignorant as the person you are trying to protest against.

  1. Hmm.. I don’t think that all Atheists are scientifically minded or vice versa. I mean, you can be a logical thinker and still believe in a higher power. I do agree that they way they are going about getting attention is wrong, it does make atheists look bad, but they already look bad to the people who are upset by this action. Nothing you do is going to change that b/c according to Christian culture, no matter how good they are to their fellow man, atheists are going to hell anyway.

    Alouette
    July 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
  2. Well according to Atheists there is no heaven or hell so everybody just dies and thats it, so I can assume that Christians likewise don’t like that Atheists think that they will just die and decompose. And it shouldn’t matter what others think anyways just because someone says your going to tell doesn’t mean you will.

    D WallZ
    July 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
  3. I think you’re asking too much of it. It wasn’t an attempt to inform anyone of anything other than the group’s existence—and it seems to have done that pretty well. It *could* be interpreted as hostile, but if they play it off right (and they seem to be doing a pretty good job), it will be interpreted instead as no more than the statement: We think religion has a bad influence, come check out our club.

    -The Robot

    The Robot
    July 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

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