NEWS: Porn Again: Boobs for Bibles

CULTURE: Porn Again: Boobs for Bibles

Guns for toys. Can foods for tickets to see Foghat. Now an atheistic student group that attends University of Texas at San Antonio has decided to jump in on the "goods for exchange" bandwagon and will trade in bibles for porn. Hard core porn.

This also has caused a ruckus among students as they share a section of the quad with the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu’s “Porn and Bibles in Exchange for Eternal Agony” table.

Bibles for porn? Yeah sounds like a fair trade to me.

The mistake they're making here is revealing that this idea grew out of some kind of elaborate joke. This is tantamount to admission of a lack of conviction.

An embarrassment to serious athiests.

....WTF. To say that atheism is nonexistent is...uh...pretty foolish.

I'd definitely trade any Bibles I had for porn any old day, but I...uh..don't have any Bibles. And unless they're giving you a lot of porn, it's not worth going out and buying some to trade..

Also, I don't know about Black Label, but Playboy is pretty non-hardcore. Some might even say...softcore.

I'd like to see this happening at my uni. Sure, the stunt itself is a bit of a wank, but the sentiment is nice. And it'd give the 30% of my uni who are total fucking religious geeks something to get whingey about (which would distract them from giving me flyers all the time).

Porn for a bible soudns like a damn good idea to me as how many wars have really been faught over porn or sex none to my knowledge now look at how many wars have been fought over religion and the bible just about every damn fucking one, but black label and playboy are not hardcore unless your a soft cock

I honestly think it's pretty amusing.

However, in the scheme of things it just gives more ammo to Republicans in their war on porn. These athiests have made porn not only a temptress, but now a weapon, against religion. Also, it makes hardliners believe that all athiests are hedonistic anti-religion corruptors. Which obviously won't lead to many compromises...

hahaha.

UTSA is known for its constant demonstrations of some kind or another. many of them silly.

there have been a few absurdist demonstrations there.

nothing says funny like a fake demonstration with the front half chanting row row your boat and the back half chanting "hell no! we won't row!"

or homemade signs like "I came to this demonstration and all I got was this lousy sign"

I kinda miss UTSA.

No, not really. They really just show that the entire missionary-business is absurd.

The fact that their statement is pointless is the point.

This is fucking retarded.

haha!..funny as fuck

If they were just being smartasses, I would support this. But they think they're making a point. Therefore they're idiots of the same variety as what they're fighting against. The Bible is the inspiration for a great many of the significant pieces of art in history, be it books, music or especially painting and sculpture. It's also the inspiration for a great many acts of charity; most of the homeless shelters in the nation are run by churches. It's not to say that these beliefs don't become hideously ugly too, because they do, but I've never understood the logic that removing The Bible equals a better world, just because something would always replace The Bible. A great many people need to feel like there's some higher meaning to life. There's not one civilization I've ever heard of that didn't have its religious or spiritual beliefs. It could be worse than The Bible.

Apart from all that, though, they aren't changing anybody's minds here. Quite on the contrary, in fact. People who agree with them already like this, and people who don't are that much more resolute in their beliefs. It's this sort of divide that makes it utterly impossible for an atheist to, say, run for president.

I burnt my Bible, that was far better than Porn.

Salvation lies in education,not false idolism.

Man what assholes. Damn kids.

"Cthulhu for Pesident..Why choose the Lesser Evil"?

bwahaha

funny, but I would never trade porn for a bible.

I would argue that sex has been the inspiration for a great many more of the significant pieces of art in history, be it books, painting and sculpture, and especially music.

And far fewer wars.

it's trading one fantasy world for another.

The basic ideals of the Bible are fine. Don't kill, etc. However, the Christian Church has skewed it, and if you actually read it, you'll find several contradictions, and very confusing rhetoric. Either way, the Bible isn't the problem, it's the people propagandizing it.



On a side note, funny story. I was sitting in Panera with my boyfriend Vaughn, my best friend Chrissy, and her current toy Bryan. We were sitting there bashing on the Catholic Church and the hypocrisy of it and most of the Christian religions.... when this slightly past middle age woman asks us if we were Christians. We felt so bad! She looked so mild mannered and earnest. So while normally we'd have said "Hell no", we politely said no, and that we were simply having a scholarly discussion. We busted out laughing once she left.

i wonder what i could get for an "adventure bible"

Certainly that's a factor, but I wasn't necessarily saying it was a majority. Just that if you look at art history, the subject of most great paintings up until a certain era was religious.

That's really because the Church was the only place that had the money to pay an artist to make something.