theatlanticwire.com — The group Atheist Agenda at the University of Texas in San Antonio is hosting a "Smut for Smut" event in which they encourage people to swap holy texts--the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc.--for "Playboy, Penthouse and other adult magazines,"
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lydeckerMar 6, 2010
I know many versus in the Old Testament (which is part of the Bible, even if we don't have to follow it anymore) that do call out for harm.As a Christian, I would be happy that the Bible is clean of my inflammatory claims since other Christians don't actually take it's peaceful message to heart, and didn't tend to use the Old Testament as they do. It's all to convenient for some to take the OT and use it when they want, and ignore it when they don't.It is not "inventing fiction" to take text directly from the Bible, Jbastardi, that is one thing you should get straight.And I don't know why you think I don't know that similar beliefs don't always mean the same religion.You are damn well right that LGBT rights have nothing to do with religion, and it's sad that so many religious groups try to take up arms against LGBT individuals as being a godly cause."However with pornography things are even worst because odds of getting addicted to pornography and much higher than odds of becoming an alcoholic or a smoker."Are they? Please cite your sources. What are the odds of a porn viewer getting addicted to pornography, and the odds of someone drinking becoming an alcoholic, or (more accurately) the odds of someone who has smoked to get addicted to nicotine?What I'm more saying is that obsession can be harmful in any circumstances, regardless of what people are obsessed with. Obsession with body image can be harmful, even though being conscious of body image is very healthy. I never would say anything is immune to this, so you don't need to convince me that porn isn't immune.I would love most of the religious right so much more if they actually followed that commandment of Jesus.
Closed AccountMar 6, 2010
"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine
Closed AccountMar 6, 2010
Bats**t - thanks for that.They are calling religious texts "smut". That's pretty offensive.Any time there is a story about Christians behaving badly on Digg...the Digg Christians are called out to condemn it.I'm glad to see a Digg atheist recognizing that this is pretty bad behavior.
Closed AccountMar 6, 2010
Amen drue.
Closed AccountMar 6, 2010
What made you think you'd be Dugg down? You just spewed the kind of hateful crap that atheist Diggers love to Digg.Just to be clear:"...you need to understand that you are CRAZY"Is offensive. That makes over 70% of the USA....crazy.And it's this kind of statement that leads to other Digg rhetoric that says if we (believers) raise our kids in the faith, it's child abuse...and ...further that said children ought to be taken from us...and perhaps, we should even be rounded up and put into prison camps.All of the above HAS BEEN SAID by Diggers.
sydbloomMar 7, 2010
I see the fun at someone's expense has its limits with these stalinists eh? hahahahaha! Never mind the swap...just use the quilt for wiping my arse! ahahahahaha
daryljamesMar 18, 2010
I didn't say religion should get a free pass. I just thought that people who want their views to be respected (as in the f**k ALL case - by the way, I didn't say MY esteem, I'm more of an agnostic) should also respect the views of others. Just because the fundamentalists push bibles into everyone's faces doesn't mean that everyone does. I know alot of people who do keep their religion to themselves, so why disrespect the symbol? Maybe the fact that nobody and nothing "gets a free" respect pass anymore is bad. Everyone's asking for it, but nobody's willing to give.