The Good book for a Dirty one?

[kromen]

I guess freedom of expression goes both ways.

Students Trade Bibles for Porn



By Matt O'Conner

SAN ANTONIO — A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out porn in exchange for bibles.
“We consider the bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. Walker is part of a student group that calls itself the Atheist Agenda.

Club members this week posted fliers promoting what they call the “Smut for Smut” campaign, then set up a table in the student union to collect religious materials and pass out adult magazines such as Black Label and Playboy.

The group is not officially sanctioned by the university and has raised the ire of several religious organizations on campus.

“In my opinion, there are no atheists. There are fools,” Pastor Rick Hawkins of UTSA’s Family Praise Center said. “So, that would be foolish propaganda. I don't know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for pornography.”

Hawkins obviously didn’t stop by the Atheist Agenda table, where several students had dropped off copies of the good book and walked away with skin mags.

Atheist Agenda isn’t the first student group to explore the idea of introducing porn to former bible-toters. Members say they got the idea from students in Austin who ran a similar pro-porn drive.

Walker added that members thought it sounded like a creative way to exercise their freedom of speech.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Obviously the students who turned in their Bibles hadn't read them very carefully. There isn't anything in Playboy or Black Label that tops The Song of Songs (which is Solomon's) for spine-tingling erotica.

 

[kromen]

I bet the spines on some of them still creaked from lack of use.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Obviously the students who turned in their Bibles hadn't read them very carefully. There isn't anything in Playboy or Black Label that tops The Song of Songs (which is Solomon's) for spine-tingling erotica.

Ummm... my mileage differs.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ummm... my mileage differs.

Try a more modern translation. The King James is a bit stiff. When I was young there was an illustrated version. Let me check the library . . .


Ah, yes. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo...Noel+Mayne&sts=t&tn=Song+of+Solomon&x=42&y=14

 

[Stella_Omega]

Try a more modern translation. The King James is a bit stiff.

And how.

 

[3113]

Obviously the students who turned in their Bibles hadn't read them very carefully. There isn't anything in Playboy or Black Label that tops The Song of Songs (which is Solomon's) for spine-tingling erotica.

Where are the pictures? Shouldn't there be a centerfold?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Where are the pictures? Shouldn't there be a centerfold?

Noel Mayne's version has one on each page.

But just for you here's . . .



http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/brook.jpg

Then I went down to the walnut grove
to see the new green by the brook,
to see if the vine had budded,
if the pomegranate trees were in flower.

And oh! before I was aware,
she sat me in the most lavish of chariots.

 

[3113]

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/brook.jpg

Miss February:

http://www.hugovandermolen.nl/scripophily/pics/USA,WilleyRey2.jpg

I dunno, VM. I think Miss Feb. has more to offer. She's looking right at us and her breasts are perkier. Then again, the wise, entrepreneuring religious soul could have it both ways. All we need to do is add a little scripture beneath Miss Feb there...

"Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them...."

Um. Wait. Are you sure this passage is sexy?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Miss February:

http://www.hugovandermolen.nl/scripophily/pics/USA,WilleyRey2.jpg

I dunno, VM. I think Miss Feb. has more to offer. She's looking right at us and her breasts are perkier. Then again, the wise, entrepreneuring religious soul could have it both ways. All we need to do is add a little scripture beneath Miss Feb there...

"Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them...."

Um. Wait. Are you sure this passage is sexy?

Remember, I'm the bear with the preggy fetish? " . . . and none is barren among them . . . " sure gets a rise out of me! And I disagree. Miss Feb may be looking at you but the face is placidly blank. Shulamite's raised eyebrow, on the other hand, looks like a definite invitation to a chariot ride from my point of view. Phew!

 

[Stella_Omega]

You're going to have a real hard time convincing the average college student.

In any case, a few thousand words of Romance Novel out of the however-many words of political propaganda and behaivor control that make up the body of the book, just aren't enough to tip the balance.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You're going to have a real hard time convincing the average college student.

In any case, a few thousand words of Romance Novel out of the however-many words of political propaganda and behaivor control that make up the body of the book, just aren't enough to tip the balance.

I was only talking about the Song in this case, not the rest. And don't forget all the blood and mayhem in between the politics.

 

[Darkniciad]

The bible-thumpers have been up to similar tricks for years. It was nothing uncommon to walk into the local Waldenbooks when I was down home and find holy-roller fliers stuck in every single Sci-Fi/Fantasy book and bit of D&D material on the shelves. ( Probably in every other "objectionable" section as well )

We actually caught the two blue-haired culprits at it one time, and proceeded to start at the other end of the shelf dumping them out of everything, wadding them up, and stuffing them in our pockets. The two old biddies started spewing bible verses at us, which only resulted in them getting asked to leave. Someone working in the store even brought us a trash can to finish the work of dumping out all their "you're going to hell" fliers from the section.

Then one of my friends came in the next day with photocopied subscription cards for Dragon Magazine and slipped one into every book in the religion section.

 

[kromen]

I use to stock up on different flyers about Islam, Buddhism, Wicca and play "Eye for an Eye". Whenever I got approached on the drag and asked to take a flyer, I would only agree if they took one of mine. It made for great street theater.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I use to stock up on different flyers about Islam, Buddhism, Wicca and play "Eye for an Eye". Whenever I got approached on the drag and asked to take a flyer, I would only agree if they took one of mine. It made for great street theater.

We've done that with the JW's. I once offered my RSV Bible to them for free on the condition that they'd really read it instead of just the parts their leaders approved of. No dice!

 

[LaRocha]

yeah this is pretty tacky, these atheists are off base. they should've traded a copy of some violent video game for each Bible. but I don't know that there's any video game in existence as comparatively genocidal and as viciously brutal as the Old Testament.

 

[Stella_Omega]

We've done that with the JW's. I once offered my RSV Bible to them for free on the condition that they'd really read it instead of just the parts their leaders approved of. No dice!

The last time they showed at my door I was halfway to spitting in their faces before I realised it. I said; "I. Do not. Believe. In your. Bullshit god." and they were backing up as fast as they could to get down the steps.

 

[Darkniciad]

The last time they showed at my door I was halfway to spitting in their faces before I realised it. I said; "I. Do not. Believe. In your. Bullshit god." and they were backing up as fast as they could to get down the steps.

I had to resort to something similar when I was dealing with a tragedy at work a couple of years ago. I went in because there was no point in staying home that first day, but warned the boss that I'd need a few days off in the very near future.

Frikkin' chaplains got wind of it, and wouldn't take "I'm fine. I'm dealing with this in my own way," as an answer.

"I don't need any empty platitudes from you or your imaginary god," seemed to do the trick, though.