"Porn for Bibles: USTA's Atheist Agenda offers "smut for smut" swap

The University of Texas-San Antonio campus has an atheist group: Atheist Agenda.  This week, Monday through Wednesday, the group is hold its annual "smut for smut" trade-- Penthouse or Playboy for any religious text.  The members argue that religious books contain violence, spark religious wars, advocate for the mistreatment of women and are therefore no better than pornography.

Here's the story by Robert Torres of the UTSA's student paper "The Paisano" (emphasis added) --

Porn for Bibles

Atheist Agenda exchanges pornography for religious texts through March 3 in Sombrilla

Playboy, Penthouse and other adult magazines were exchanged for Bibles, Torahs, Korans, and other religious texts at the annual Smut for Smut event hosted by the UTSA Atheist Agenda on March 1.

A screaming, singing throng of UTSA students circled around the steps running from the JPL to the MS, anchored to a small booth offering the strange trade as opponents of the Atheist Agenda’s methods gathered in protest.

Atheist Agenda President Carlos Morales said that although pornography is a symbol of misogyny, the bible, too, advocates the mistreatment of women.

Defending the Agenda against accusations of amorality, Morales said, “If they’re defining morality by what it says in the bible, then it’s okay to stone your children; it’s okay to tell women they can’t talk outside the church.  I wouldn’t want to live by what they call ‘morality’ in the bible.”

By mid-afternoon, the Atheist Agenda had collected approximately 10 texts.

“People that come over here are worried that they’re going to get harassed.  We got all of those in the first 30 minutes, then after [the protest] started people were hesitant,” Morales said.
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Others among the counter-protestors were less adamant, including Cecilia Tapia, a sophomore psychology major at UTSA.  Standing among the crowd, she held up a red copy of the New American Standard version of the bible, which she had no intention of trading in for porn.

“I’m here to make sure they know the word of God,” Tapia said.  She added that she believes she was there for both herself and the atheists in the crowd. 

“It’s part of my belief; Jesus teaches us that if we do not preach the word of God when someone has entered into our lives, then it’s our fault if he doesn’t enter into heaven because it’s our job as Christians to preach out to everybody else.”

Luckily the First Amendment also protects the rights of the students of faith to appear and offer an alternative to the atheists' mockery and hatred.  But, I guess the Atheists would never consider the notion that what they are doing is intolerant and hate-filled.


[H/T: The Christian Post]