Posted on 12/05/2005 9:33:23 AM PST by george76
Recently, an atheist student organization at The University of Texas at San Antonio set up a “Smut for Smut” booth allowing students to exchange their religious scriptures (mostly the Holy Bible) for pornography.
Unsurprisingly, they got the idea from another group at The University of Texas at Austin.
It almost gets depressing when you look at schools like Auburn University – a school that is preparing for the lighting of a Holiday Tree, instead of the lighting of a Christmas Tree – a term deemed too offensive and “under-inclusive” in the postmodern era of higher education.
And this kind of thing is happening at Auburn, not merely at schools like Brown and Harvard.
But note that in the last paragraph I said it “almost” gets depressing.
Enter Laura Steele (steellc@auburn.edu), a member of the Auburn Student Government Association (SGA).
She and a few other members of the SGA have sent forth the following resolution – one that should serve as a model for students seeking to Roll back the Tide of diversity that has consumed other southern schools like the University of Alabama:
Campus speech codes were not designed to preserve our Judeo-Christian heritage through an equal application of rules.
They were designed to destroy it through a selective application of rules.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Just do away with Christmas altogether and watch the retailers scream. Why risk offending so many people with Merry Christmas? Just abolish it and let it go back to being a small, religious celebration at churches. Think how much money we could all save. Give the liberals what they want.
'Holiday tree' is under-inclusive. Nurses have to work. I'm offended!
I have an idea to counter this porn distribution. Why do not a group of Christian students set up a booth right next to the other one, and give out Bibles in exchange for porn?
That seems like a very appropriate response to me. Turn in your porn magazine, video, or book, and get a free Bible.
Holiday tree? Which holiday, other than Christmas, features a tree?
War Eagle
> Turn in your porn magazine, video, or book, and get a free Bible.
Genius! You can probably then turn the Bible around on Ebay and make a killing.
> Which holiday, other than Christmas, features a tree?
Yule. That's the pre-Christian Scandinavian winter solstice holiday that introduced the idea in the first place.
So, every "Christmas tree" is an advertisement for paganism.
Happy Yule!
Anyone heard the VISA commercials on the radio?
"Everyone use your VISA card to buy holiday gifts this season" They say holiday gifts about five times.
After I returned home from shopping the other day, I kept a mental note of every store that sold only holiday gifts. I called all the stores that would not mention Christmas and this is what I told the manager;;;;
"I came to your store looking to buy a load of Christmas presents but I couldn't find any. All I found were holiday gifts, so I went somewhere else."
On another note, I'm afraid I can't see the connection between the porn for Bibles thing and a petition to rename the school's Christmas tree.
The two seem completely unrelated. I already posted a counter idea to the porn for Bibles nonsense. The Christmas tree protest is another thing altogether.
"Holiday tree? Which holiday, other than Christmas, features a tree?"
Ah....the Christmas tree derives from the earlier pagan Jul (Yule) tree in Scandinavia. Those Vikings were bringing trees in the house and decorating them around the Winter Solstice long before they ever heard of Jesus.
The old pagan religion still lives on in Norway, even today, although the numbers of followers is small.
Then a student could take his/her old porn and trade it in for fresh porn with just one middleman step to deal with. ;)
Seriously, though, a good idea, and I would be pretty certain the Christian group would get a better response.
These are college students. They are not going to gigle and laugh and give each other high-fives over a bible.
"With the help of the College Republicans, Laura Steele has so far gathered 650 signatures from students urging the SGA Senate to support the resolution."
"The reason for that is simple: In the name of true tolerance, she supports including other religions in the ceremony."
"And she thinks that Jewish students would appreciate having a University Menorah on display without having the campus thought police rename it a Mynorah to avoid sexist overtones."
"Join me today in writing sga@auburn.edu to let these kids know that there is no better place to wage a war against narrow-minded political correctness than Auburn University."
"And there are no better leaders in our nation’s current cultural war than a young pack of War Eagles soaring high above the Tides of bigotry that masquerade as progressive thought."
"Turn in your porn magazine, video, or book, and get a free Bible."
The school would not allow Bibles to be given out. Not everyone would "feel included" in a Bible give away. Porn on the other hand....
"Seriously, though, a good idea, and I would be pretty certain the Christian group would get a better response."
Well, that's possible. However, most of the kids already have Bibles AND porn, I suspect, so it might not do that much business. I'm not sure, so I think it would be a good idea. Certainly it would have more of an effect than a completely unrelated petition about Christmas trees.
Exactly
I am not Christian, but Christmas does not offend me in the least. Holiday, however, does offend me. PC crap and the dumning down of America, however, does offend me.
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