Tucker Carlson: ‘You don’t look like an atheist’ … WTF??? (video: MSNBC)
[ updated: see below ]
I posted Ed Brayton‘s take on this silliness yesterday on Facebook, but I ran out of time and didn’t manage to get it up here. So here ya go and there you are … An atheist group at the University of Texas San Antonio offered free copies of Playboy in exchange for Bibles. The student group, Atheist Agenda, has dubbed the tongue-in-cheek exchange Smut-for-Smut.
Needless to say, the censorious god-botherers are incensed.
Melissa Ludwig, writing at MySanAntonio News, reports:
Members of the Atheist Agenda, a student organization at the University of Texas at San Antonio, are encouraging students to trade in religious texts for pornography this week with their “Smut for Smut” campaign.
In the view of club members, religious texts are as smutty as pornography because they contain violence and torture and spark religious wars. But mostly, it’s a public relations stunt meant to ignite debate and attract new members to the club.
As in the past, this year’s campaign did not disappoint, drawing hundreds to UTSA’s Sombrilla Plaza on Monday to either cheer, protest or inquire about the event and to debate the role of religion in society.
“It’s a First Amendment right,” said Bradley Lewis, 18, a freshman from Pear-land who said he plans to join the Atheist Agenda. “If religious groups can put out missionaries and go knock on my door and wake me up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning, I can put a table outside of the college.”
The poor oppressed Christians are wounded … deeply:
Robin Lorkovic, 18, a freshman from Houston, disagreed. Lorkovic stood near the “Smut for Smut” table holding a cardboard sign that said “God Loves You! Keep your Bible and learn from it!”
“I don’t really feel like that is appropriate at all,” Lorkovic said. “I am a Christian. I believe in God’s love, and I am here to stand my ground and stand up for what I believe in.”
That’s nice. And of course the only act of aggression was perpetrated by those peaceful, loving christianists.
The extreme-right online rag, WingNutDaily, needless to say, feels for the poor, oppressed christianist majority:
Other students, however, have expressed outrage.
“As a Christian myself, I just take offense to it,” one student told the TV station.
“Did they really do that?” asked another. “It kinda made me want to cry, it really did.”
Puh-leeze. George Carlin was right.
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UPDATE (03 March 2010, 8:04 am):
Who could possibly pass up the opportunity to allow the ‘breasty’ pros at Fox News to have their say — uncut, uncensored and, as usual, completely unbalanced?
Athiest Agenda Trades Bibles for Porn at Texas Colleges
(video: Fox News, via YouTube)
