Would You Like Some Smut With That?
Those darned atheists in San Antonio are at it again this year! Today members of Atheist Agenda handed out pornography in exchange for sacred texts. But this time they were greeted by members of the World Center Campus Ministries, led by Steve Perumalla, who came to warn passers-by about the evils of pornography. The San Antonio Express-News reports:To prepare for the encounter, Perumalla's group, which drew about 12 members, began by holding hands in a circle and praying out loud.
"We declare the spirit of immorality is removed from this campus," one member shouted. Afterward, they fanned out around their table and held signs that read, "What do you stand for?"
Across the plaza, a girl with the atheist group quickly wrote a response on a sign she held up minutes later: "I stand for the 1st Amendment."
Of course, some people were put off by Atheist Agenda's "in your face" approach.
"The people they intended to liberate were the same ones they're pissing off," she said. "I would trade in a Bible if they'd give me a book of substance in return."
That would hardly be fair. If a book is to be valued according to it's substance, or lack there of, then the point here is to trade one book of little or no substance for another of equal or lesser value. In this case, I'd say the Bible is clearly of lesser value, so Atheist's Agenda is already getting the raw end of this deal (no pun intended).
Other students seem to have been in an acute state of denial.
Shanada Muhammad, a 23-year-old biology major and a Muslim, said she was "a little disgusted" by the atheists' claim that the Koran and Islam degrade women. The verses they quote about women and slavery were taken out of context, she said.
"People do things out of ignorance," she said, "and you hope they can eventually see what God really intended."
Feel free to send me the bill for those irony meters, folks.
"We declare the spirit of immorality is removed from this campus," one member shouted. Afterward, they fanned out around their table and held signs that read, "What do you stand for?"
Across the plaza, a girl with the atheist group quickly wrote a response on a sign she held up minutes later: "I stand for the 1st Amendment."
Of course, some people were put off by Atheist Agenda's "in your face" approach.
"The people they intended to liberate were the same ones they're pissing off," she said. "I would trade in a Bible if they'd give me a book of substance in return."
That would hardly be fair. If a book is to be valued according to it's substance, or lack there of, then the point here is to trade one book of little or no substance for another of equal or lesser value. In this case, I'd say the Bible is clearly of lesser value, so Atheist's Agenda is already getting the raw end of this deal (no pun intended).
Other students seem to have been in an acute state of denial.
Shanada Muhammad, a 23-year-old biology major and a Muslim, said she was "a little disgusted" by the atheists' claim that the Koran and Islam degrade women. The verses they quote about women and slavery were taken out of context, she said.
"People do things out of ignorance," she said, "and you hope they can eventually see what God really intended."
Feel free to send me the bill for those irony meters, folks.
4 comments:
If you're going to re-re-reinterpret something to whatever makes you feel that wonderful feeling deep, deep down, it might as well be pr0n.
Hawt damn! From now on I'm stealing the Bible from every hotel I stay in and making a yearly trip down to San Antonio.
The verses they quote about women and slavery were taken out of context, she said.
Her full-body-covering and her husband beating her "lightly"? Oh, that's just taken out of context. Having fewer rights than men under sharia law? Nah, that's just out of context.
I feel so conflicted. As an Atheist I am glad there is an organisation that unites us, but at the same time I can’t help feel that what they are doing is hurting the cause by making atheists out to be mental. But it is incredibly funny, so I’ll just wish them good luck in not getting their heads kicked in by the Christian right wingers. They have a point in that religious texts have similarities with porn, in that they are empty and meaningless attempts at releasing endorphins.
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