Thursday, March 04, 2010

Atheists Handing Out Porn In Exchange for Bibles

An atheist student group at the University of Texas - San Antonio is offering pornography in exchange for the Bible or other religious texts. "It's smut for smut. It's what they call smut for what is actually smut, which is their religious text," said atheist Carlos Morales.

More and more, atheist groups are coming out, thanks largely to today's New Atheists (Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, & Harris).

Combine this with the fact that American Christianity is phenomenally biblically illiterate and we have a spiritually interesting situation. By "biblical illiteracy" I include my observations that: 1) claiming to love the Bible and actually ingesting it regularly are two quite different things; 2) the preponderance of "folk Christianity" attests to the demise of biblical literacy; and 3) the great gap between "media Christianity" and the Real Jesus.