{"id":1404,"date":"2010-03-09T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2010-03-09T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:42:44","slug":"culture-news-trade-your-bible-in-for-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Culture News: Trade your Bible in for porn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SMUT+FOR+SMUT+300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1405\" title=\"Smut for Smut Student Gathering at UTSA\" src=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SMUT+FOR+SMUT+300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, this past week at the University of Texas at San Antonio students were able to trade their Bibles or Qu&#8217;rans in for pornography. And who was leading the way? The Atheist Agenda, a student organization the university that had their first &#8220;smut for smut&#8221; event back in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/Bibles_for_porn_stunt_draws_crowd_at_UTSA.html\" target=\"_blank\">My SA News<\/a>, &#8220;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&#8217;s a public relations stunt meant to ignite debate and attract new members to the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say for this. It seems to me that the group is just looking for a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 53:1 says, &#8220;The fool says in his heart, &#8216;There is no God.&#8217; They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=Psalm+53\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of Psalm 53 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, this past week at the University of Texas at San Antonio students were able to trade their Bibles or Qu&#8217;rans in for pornography. And who was leading the way? The Atheist Agenda, a student organization the university that had their first &#8220;smut for smut&#8221; event back in 2005. According to My SA News, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Culture News: Trade your Bible in for porn!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,84,86,4,20,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-atheism","category-culture","category-culture-news","category-current-events","category-debate","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}