Smut for Smut is a Bad Idea (by Hemant Mehta)

[Ian David]

Smut for Smut is a Bad Idea
Posted by Hemant Mehta in College Atheists, General on March 2nd, 2010 | 53 Comments

Members of the Atheist Agenda group at the University of Texas at San Antonio ran a “Smut for Smut” campaign yesterday — similar to one run in previous years by the same group.

Essentially, it works like this: You give them your Bible. They give you pornography. It’s all smut, right?

http://media.kens5.com/images/470*262/bibleforporn1.jpg

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But if the group’s goal is to get people to consider atheism as a reasonable way of looking at the world, it’s the wrong way to go about it.

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The Society of Non-Theists at Purdue University ran a much better event a couple years ago when they ran a Fiction for Fiction campaign:



More:
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/03/02/smut-for-smut-is-a-bad-idea/

[Soylent Brice]

1. the person that wrote this is DUMB. it was a great idea simply due to the amoun

of national exposure it got.

period.

good press/bad press - still press.

[onager]

2. Perfect porn to hand out in Texas...

"Tailpipe: Your Smutty NASCAR Romance Story Hour..."

http://deadspin.com/5465294/tailpipe-your-smutty-nascar-romance-story-hour-a-new-feature

"Let's go for the pole today!"

:evilgrin:

Thanks for the post. The article had some great comments.

[Mojambo]

3. I tend to agree that fiction for fiction is a better way to "sell" non-theism, but

bibles for porn is so, so, so much funnier and more attention grabbing.

And then there's the fact that Christianity is just so dysfunctional and harmful when it comes to sex that the idea of exchanging porn for the bible kind of makes some perverse kind of sense.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Both are smashing good ideas...nt