In an attempt to get people talking, The Atheist Agenda, an atheist student group at the University of Texas in San Antonio, is trading porn for the Bible. Or the Quaran. Or any other religious book, for that matter.
It's called "Smut for Smut," and they're not messing around.
"It is to send a message that the stuff in the Bible, and the Quran, and the Torah, and all that sort of thing is, in our opinion, worse than pornography," explained Kyle Bush, a student at the event. Bush is, of course, referring to images and tales of genocide, infanticide, incest, torture, and the sexual abuse of children that appear throughout many books that are considered holy texts.
Last year, the "Smut for Smut" campaign required police protection from Christian protesters who not only stopped to pray in the vicinity of the event, but also began ripping down signs and trying to intimidate members of the group. But on their blog, the group writes that, overall, last year's event was a good experience. (If you exclude the death threats.)
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It's called "Smut for Smut," and they're not messing around.
"It is to send a message that the stuff in the Bible, and the Quran, and the Torah, and all that sort of thing is, in our opinion, worse than pornography," explained Kyle Bush, a student at the event. Bush is, of course, referring to images and tales of genocide, infanticide, incest, torture, and the sexual abuse of children that appear throughout many books that are considered holy texts.
Last year, the "Smut for Smut" campaign required police protection from Christian protesters who not only stopped to pray in the vicinity of the event, but also began ripping down signs and trying to intimidate members of the group. But on their blog, the group writes that, overall, last year's event was a good experience. (If you exclude the death threats.)
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For me he whole smut for smut campaign is questionable, but Freedom of Speech reigns. I get the point even if I don't whole-heartedly agree with it. But what I do want to point out that the crowd got violent and there actually had to be police there to control the violence, and there were death threats... don't you love when "religious" people throw out death threats. Beautiful way to represent your "peaceful" religion.