Bibles and porn, same difference?

A stand set up by students on the college campus of the University of San Antonio, Texas, caused quite a stir last week: a group of atheist students were giving out free porn magazines and books in exchange for...bibles.

Their message: the way women are portrayed in Holy Scriptures is as degrading as it is in porn literature, so why not trade ‘smut for smut’? Needless to say, Christian students on campus were unimpressed by the initiative.

"Some see me as a kind of antichrist"

Carlos, 22, is a member of the campus society, Atheist Agenda, at the University of San Antonio.

We founded our group five years ago, and every year we organise the ‘smut for smut’ campaign. This year the event got more attention than ever: after just three days, we had collected 42 bibles, two Korans and several other sacred texts, including a sort of satanist bible. We ended up running out of porn magazines to trade them against! The campaign also got a lot of media attention, including in the foreign press.

Our goal isn’t to shock or offend people but to get them thinking: why are women portrayed in such a misogynistic way in so many religious texts? The Bible is full of excuses used by society to belittle women, it’s just as bad as porn in that sense. So, for us, inviting students to trade bibles against porn is a way of pointing out the flaws in religious texts.

Things sometimes got tough on campus. Never violent, but Christian students took the initiative really badly. There were a couple of arguments, but also a lot of genuine, interesting debates. Some students now see me as a kind of new antichrist, which I think is kind of funny.

This video posted on YouTube shows the members of Atheist Agenda carrying Bible for Porn signs. At 2’16, one of them reads a passage from the Bible that he considers sexist. Christian students respond by chanting "Jesus will set you free!"

The Atheist Agenda stand at the University of San Antonio. Photo posted on Flickr by tbonetaylor.

Christian students improvise prayer groups to counter the "evil" influence of atheists...

... and brandish signs calling on students not to participate in the exchange.

"Times are hard for Christians, we’re not far from being persecuted"

Greg, 46, lives in Indianapolis.

I discovered Atheist Agenda’s ‘smut for smut’ campaign last Thursday (March 4) and decided I had to do something about it! As a Christian, I was shocked by the initiative. What most upsets me is that they’re targeting a vulnerable segment of the population: kids who have just left home, who can be easily influenced.

I dug out a couple of ‘adult’ sex-ed books from my garage and did a little bit of research on them on the Internet: a lot of them are influenced by the work of Aleister Crowley, a Satanist mason. So I decided to reverse what these San Antonio kids are doing and to offer free bibles in exchange for sex books or porn magazines.

The next day, I launched the "Bibles for porn" website, and three days later 1,000 people were already following my twitter feed! I also shot a couple of videos where you see me putting a couple of popular self-help sex books, including “Amazing Sex” and “The great sex book”, in a shredder. Then I burned them in my garden.

I have a six-year-old daughter and I wouldn’t want her to come across that kind of book. I also think times are hard for Christians, we’re not far from being persecuted. These atheist kids remind me of that awful atheist campaign launched in the UK last year, with ads on buses proclaiming “There probably is no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

Video of Greg shredding and burning self-help sex books in his garden, posted on YouTube.

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God is not mocked

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):

'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:for whatsoever a man sow,that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer):

Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:

'Christianity will end, it will disappear.I do not have to argue about

that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).
Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ):

During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency.
Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died..
Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):

During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),
while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for you.'
He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.
The man who built the Tita nic
After the construction of Tita nic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it'
The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:
'I don't need your Jesus'.
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment

Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he said
'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell'.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Campinas (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend.....
The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.'
She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full '
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,
the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken

Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer)
said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.
Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

'Jesus'

Seriously? You want to

Seriously? You want to condone what is offensive to women so you are handing out porn. That's the best you can come up with? Sounds like you care as much as eradicating what's misogynist as you do getting a little publicity. But I guess if you have a group that doesn't have any profound, convincing message then you do have to resort to just trying to shock people to get attention.
You are lucky you live in a country that won't imprison you for insulting what some consider sacred. Unlucky for us we live in a society where the press will actually cover something so pointless.

Forgive them, Father, for

Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.

Smut for Smut

I can't believe a Christian would claim it's wrong to let college kids think for themselves. Is there any age at which people are allowed to do that? I mean, if an entire childhood of your indoctrination didn't do the trick, then I guess it's because your religion sucks. You had 18 years to push it on them. Now they are adults. Leave them alone!

In South Korea there is a sickening amount of Christians indoctrinating children. I came here to teach, but I am totally disgusted by the amount of religious people who came here to force themselves on children. It's just wrong and someone should put a stop to it before a beautiful society is ruined and becomes as corrupt as America. Christians have no morals. I am sick of them going to buy blowjobs and then telling me they are better than me because they are waiting until they are married to have sex. If you visit hookers, you're not a virgin. I don't care what hole you stick it in. At least I only commit sex acts with people I love. You don't even know they're names!

"they’re targeting a

"they’re targeting a vulnerable segment of the population: kids who have just left home, who can be easily influenced" - Yeah, because organised religion would never stoop to those levels would they?

brilliantly executed

brilliantly executed comment!

"Persecution" of Christians?

Only one percent of Americans are atheists. No professed atheist has the remotest chance of gaining major elective or appointive office. Christianity rakes in and spends billions of dollars per year. How much does atheism take in?
The Christians who whine about being persecuted are upset because the very wise Founding Fathers created a Bill of Rights that keeps ANY religious or antireligious viewpoint from being supported by a government that is meant to (and sometimes does) represent all the people. They grew up with a state religion and a heritage of vicious religious wars in Britain which were still very much a living issue; they knew what they were doing.

"Persecution" VS. Statistics

A recent study put christians at 78% of the American population. The percentage in other western nations is similar. Yet despite these facts, christians constantly whine about being "persecuted", come on, does anyone believe that? I am a Pagan, and like Jews and Athiests, we are less than one percent of the American population, yet you dont see me going about whining over persecution. What a crock.

"...you don't see me..."

No, I don't see you whining about, or even protesting, persecution. Perhaps you should, as Pagan silence allows these religious fascists to continue to paint us as satanic, make bizarre accusations about us, attempt to take pagan children from their parents (happened to me), and generally make our lives miserable. While these people consider any attempt to reign in their attacks on anyone not in their camp as oppression, they desperately wish to oppress others, especially US! Sister, come out of the broom closet! The more we DO "whine," i.e. protest, the sooner all people of disparate faiths will be free.

Bibles for Porn

It obvious that the ones who feel that the Bible belittles women have not really read the Bible. Yes the Bible does give some accounts of women treated badly, but if you pay attention to what you are reading you will note that NOWHERE does God condone mistreating women. The Bible gives us both good and bad examples of God's "followers" at the time. Just because several of the Jewish nation picked up bad ways from the other nations in Bible times does not mean God approved. God and his son Jesus taught though that women were to be treated kindly and with great respect
(as though a valuable piece of fine china to be treasured).
The women in the Bible times were not just mindless slaves. They ran businesses, where prophetesses, bought and sold property just to name some of their activites (read Proverbs 31:10-31 to see some of their acomplishments). And family members were comanded to take care of them and provide for them when they aged. Yes, men were to take the lead in the family, BUT (NOTE) they were comanded to do so in a loving way. They were also told to listen to their wives input. All women not related to you were to be treated as your sister or mother. I just wish more men treated women by the TRUE Bible standards.

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