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A group of atheists at UTSA was asking students to exchange bibles for porn magazines Wednesday, and that has made some religious leaders angry. News 4 WOAI first broke the story at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

At a Wednesday night church service, The Bible is the bond between believers, but on the UTSA campus a group of students were calling scripture, smut.

“We consider The Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. He is part of a student group calling itself the "Atheist Agenda."

Club members were on campus asking students to exchange religious materials for pornographic magazines like Black Label and Playboy.

News 4 WOAI’s Demond Fernandez showed the Athiest Agenda's "Smut for Smut" fliers to Pastor Rick Hawkins of the Family Praise Center.

“In my opinion, there are no atheists. There are fools,” Hawkins said. “So, that would be foolish propaganda.”

Other Christians we talked to agreed with Pastor Hawkins.

Athiest Agenda members said they got the idea from students in Austin. They claimed they were only exercising freedom of speech.

“I don't know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for pornography,” Pastor Hawkins said.

So far, only five students have exchanged their bibles for porn.

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Now, if they offered blowjobs for bibles, they'd be buried in the damned things.

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Probably.

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Athiest Agenda members said they got the idea from students in Austin.
They claimed they were only exercising freedom of speech.

“I don't know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for pornography,”
Pastor Hawkins said.

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Imagine how much porn you could get for turning in the Ark of the Covenant.

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Heh. [p]

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Sure, it's only an innocent exercise of free speech, and these students have no other agenda, such as taking potshots at other students' religious beliefs.

The hilarity of it is that these same kids probably talk about how much they value tolerance and other liberal values. Sure, so long as you are on the same page as them.

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Right. Because Christians are always a shining example of tolerance. They never take potshots at others' beliefs.

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Their site appears to be /.'d. Can someone tell me what the URL is again? I know it's athiest______.org. I just can't remember what that other word is.

Some have argued that one of the reasons for the steadily increasing power of the Christian right is that they are not ashamed to admit that they have an actual agenda and will work to further it, while their opponents operate under the burden of attempting to be -- or at least appear to be -- willing to accept and respect everyone. When you give basic respect to your opponent and they give you none, you end up losing ground before the struggle even begins. If a few atheist fundamentalists want to get a little militant and attempt to advance an atheist agenda, it's pretty fucking ridiculous for everyone who's been steadily working to advance an opposing agenda to start screaming foul all of a sudden.

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Gee, everyone knows religious people never take potshots against anyone else's religious views.
I can tell you for a fact I've taken a lot more shit from religious people over my personal beliefs than they ever have from me, unless they specifically asked for it.

Not familiar with the word evangelism squee? For agreat many religious people they not only consider it as the right thing to do, but their duty.

I'm really tired of religious people whining about how they're persecuted when Christianity and other religions have been the prime purveyors of persecution for centuries.
Go sing to the choir.

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Damn. I don't even have a bible. No holy porn for the 'cricka.

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Steal one, no steal as many as possible.

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Stealing a bible and turning it in for porn... double sintastic.

Let the sin begin!

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Do those Gideon bibles count? Hit up any college campus, and you'll find a few hundred tucked away in various spots. A few are nesting in the computer lab where I teach.

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You know, I was thinking the exact same thing when I read it, bunkum.

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but if you brought a priest, would you get a porn star in return?

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but if you brought a priest, would you get a porn star in return?

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i thought you were supposed to get the reverse of what you give.

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or maybe if i bring pope i could get jenna jameson?

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You'd probably get Ron Jeremy instead.

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That's fantastic.

Squee is probably right though. I saw a group of sociology majors protesting the submissive nature of sexist advertising because it portrays women as sex objects. These are the same people who fight for women to go topless in public and to liberate from Christian values that shame natural nudity and sex.

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That's fantastic.

Squee is probably right though. I saw a group of sociology majors protesting the submissive nature of sexist advertising because it portrays women as sex objects. These are the same people who fight for women to go topless in public and to liberate from Christian values that shame natural nudity and sex.

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that'd be a cool ad. for macintosh.

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I think religion is kinda goofy from the get-go, but really think these folks are beng assholes about it. I probably wouldn't notice if one of them got popped in the nose by a seminary student.

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