Posted on 12/01/2005 12:01:10 PM PST by dukeman
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio was asking students to exchange bibles for porn magazines Wednesday and that has made some religious leaders angry, according to a report by San Antonio TV station WOAI-TV.
At a Wednesday night church service, The Bible is the bond between believers, but on the University of Texas at San Antonio 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 told WOAI-TV. 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, according to the report.
A reporter from WOAI-TV showed the Atheist 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 agreed with Pastor Hawkins.
Atheist Agenda members said they got the idea from students in Austin, Texas. They claimed they were only exercising freedom of speech, the report said.
“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.
No surpise here. Just the natural progression and it will get worse. Anyone else get the feeling that the end is near?
Well, this is a silly business. They're not going to do very will with this. Most of the boys at the college have Bibles and Playboy in their dorm rooms already. Why give up one of them?
"Anyone else get the feeling that the end is near?
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The end of what? I'm not feeling it, I guess.
Do you think this is why Ryan Walker's parents sent him to college?
I'm glad that self-described atheists admit that pornography is their religion.
They like to pretend that they are highbrows, smarter and better and more cultured than we poor, benighted Christians are.
But we know who their intellectual peers are now: Al Goldstein and Larry Flynt.
“We consider The Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,”
You really have to attend a University to get this stupid.
Anyone else get the feeling that the end is near?
Worry not, FRiend. We're in the midst of a major religious revival in this country and the loons on the left are becoming increasingly desperate. If they think it's bad now, wait until their Day Of Reckoning comes.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
"So far, only five students have exchanged their bibles for porn."
I suggest those five avoid thunderstorms.
Hardcopy porn.
Teh interwebs will pwn the market eventually.
You took the words pretty much right out of my mouth.
A typical liberal trope along the lines of "everyone in the respectable suburbs is secretly a drug addict or a sexual pervert" - but without a shred of empirical evidence.
"The end of what? I'm not feeling it, I guess.
Hardcopy porn. "
I wouldn't expect you to.
You just can't beat 19 year old wisdom.
I thought evolution was their religion.
Typing with one hand, are we?
"A typical liberal trope along the lines of "everyone in the respectable suburbs is secretly a drug addict or a sexual pervert" - but without a shred of empirical evidence."
Well, that's true. However, as I remember my college days, most of the kids in the dorm had a Bible. Most also had copies of Playboy. In fact, multiple copies in most of the dorm rooms.
But, then, Playboy is not pornographic in the first place, so I guess it's not a good example.
A publicity stunt, nothing more - the cost is a few bucks' worth of porn and the result is that the local media broadcast a cheap insult to other people's beliefs. Somebody has way too much free time on his hands.
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