Atheists Students Want You To Swap Bibles for Porn

Amen. Overzealous Christians are a threat to any Americans who believe women are equal to men, homosexuality is genetic, and climate change is man-made.

Good post -- and I share the sentiments of this group. We do know religion rather well (those of us who are well read) and although I dunno about this porn idea, whatever works I s'pose. Whatever gets the point across.

You ask: "Why are Christians a threat to them?"

You should turn the question around: Why are atheists a threat to Christians?

Christianity has an international following, along with national and international governing bodies. In the U.S. Christianity has 1st Amendment protection. Christianity has local groups and organizations in virtually every community in the country. Christian groups own and operates numerous learning institutions from pre-schools to major universities. Christianity has well known national and international speakers. Christian groups produce local and national television programs. Christian organizations have powerful influence in national and local politics. And Christian organizations have money.

Yet, here you are whining about a small group of students at a university in Texas. Why are you afraid of atheists?

Oh heck, I think it's a great idea. I'd be a more careful about characterizing any campus of UT as a hotbed of leftism. This is the state where junior high school football players redshirt and Christianity is more popular than the Beatles by a long shot.

Any bets on how many Bibles will actually be traded in?

There is a good deal of porn in the Bible. Most readers are already familiar with Lot who offered his two daughters to a mob so they could have sex with them (Gen 19:8), and with the later passage in which the daughters got their father drunk so he would father children with them (Gen 19:30-38.)

Genesis 38 tells the story of Tamar and her father-in-law Judah. Judah had given his son Er to Tamar to be her husband. When Er died his brother Onan went in to do his brotherly duty, but Onan spilled his seed on the ground, so God killed him. Judah then promised Tamar his youngest son to be her husband, but did not follow through with it. So Tamar dressed up as a prostitute and had sexual relations with Judah.

2 Samuel 11 tells the story of how David spied on Bathsheba while she was bathing. David inquired about her and found out that she was the wife of Eliam. Knowing that Eliam was away with the army, David sent for Bathsheba and had sex with her. When they discovered that Bathsheba was pregnant, David had Eliam return in the hope that he would sleep with Bathsheba, but Eliam would not sleep with her while his men were engaged in war. Therefor David had Eliam killed.

Then there is Song of Songs. That is a beautiful book and you will enjoy it.

Perhaps we could publish a Bible with the juicier parts (Adam and Eve, Lot and his daughters, Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, the Song of Solomon, etc.) profusely illustrated by erotic artists (or even by artists whose work is erotic).

Pete...your comments are the only reason I come back to this dump. They remind me of the delicious banter that once filled these pages. Thanks for your delightfully acerbic wit. You remind me of the me who used to be.

Dame Ruth, I am honored beyond my merits. If you would care to repair to my tent, I can offer you lascivious delights UNDREAMED of in Deuteronomy.

My preference is to tryst behind the gazebo, but if you insist on a tattered tent (why else would it need repairing?) I'll be there, clutching my dog-eared copy of the Kama Sutra. (Personally, I prefer Treteronomy for its splendid depictions of troilism).

I like the low-cut, skinttight Levis in Leviticus.

I was delighted to find a publisher for the Book of Ruth.

this sounds like perverts who also happen to be atheists

But the Bible is perverted. Haven't you read it?

Try Deuteronomy 13:6-9
Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known, the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other). You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him. Instead, you must kill him without fail!16 Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

2 Kings 2:23-25
He (Elisha) went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!” When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces. From there he traveled to Mount Carmel and then back to Samaria.

Psalm 137:9
How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!