NOTE: The name of this website is Political Integrity Now, and as such, we like to focus on political issues.  However, now and again an article comes along that we just cannot ignore.  This is one such article.  Our “religious views” here at PIN are not hidden, but then again, this is not a pulpit.  Take from this awesome article from Right Pundits what you will.  It seems odd that an atheist group would equate The Scriptures with pornography, but there it is.  Not all atheists I personally know are foaming-at-the-mouth anti-God folks.  Apparently this student group down in Texas, at the The University of Texas, are the cliched atheist types.  Hey, Freedom of Speech at its finest.

Is it poor form?  Sure.  But fully allowed.

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From Right Pundits by Shannon Bell

An atheist student group in Texas has figured out a way to get that awful Bible out of your hands. The group “Atheist Agenda” is having their annual Bible for porn swap on the campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Yes you heard me right, you can take your religious book of choice down to the campus at UTSA and swap it for porn; if you’re 18 that is.

The group calls it “smut for smut”, they say that the Holy Bible, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, or whatever is nothing more than pornographic themselves. They’re allowing you to bring in your piece of trash religious text for some good old, down home porn.

Of course Atheist Agenda’s Bible for porn swap stoked the flames of intolerance and ignorance with an in your face approach to atheism. I’m all for letting people believe (or not believe) whatever they want, but is it really necessary to be controversial about it? Why porn? On a college campus they may as well be giving out cash.

Even Allahpundit at Hot Air had to question the intelligence behind this display. Makes you wonder if the kids in the group Atheist Agenda are more about shock value and less about the principles of atheism? If they were true proponents of atheism (or anything for that matter) would they need a gimmick like a Bible for porn swap to bring attention to their cause?

I’m not going to bestow the values of Christianity upon you in this setting; never have. I’m a believer and you can take that for what it’s worth. I’m also someone who feels God gave us the right and the choice to believe or not. Atheists are no more or no less absent of that right. But these students belonging to Atheist Agenda appear to have a different agenda with their Bible for porn swap. It appears to be more about the degradation of other people’s beliefs than it is about propagating their own.

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