I guess this story is almost two weeks old, but I just found it now. Apparently at UT San Antonio, an "Atheist" student group hosted an event on campus where they set up tables and offered pornographic magazines in exchange for Bibles or other 'holy books'. Their claim is that the Bible and other religious texts are "smut" and pornography is actually more beneficial to peoples lives.
This is all crazy of course, but it illustrates a couple of things that we talk about here all the time. First, contrary to common banter, Atheism is basically a religion. And secondly, it isn't only Christians who "evangelize". (Essentially everybody is an 'evangelist' of some sort. Everybody proclaims, or heralds or excitedly declares the things they regard as 'good' or cool, or right, or awesome......what are you an 'evangelist' for?) Here we have a group who hates Christianity formally proselytizing -proclaiming their beliefs and encouraging others to join them, to change their opinion, in essence to 'convert'. This unique "outreach" is a bold and blatant example of just what an ideological battleground the college campus is!
I find this story extremely sad, but honestly not shocking. This is a rather audacious and open exhibit, but the tragic truth that every campus minister in the world knows, is that college students have been silently exchanging their Bibles for porno for years now.
Please pray for those students at UT San Antonio, and pray for our students here!
http://www.kens5.com/news/Smut-for-smut-Bibles-for-porn-offer-draws-protesters-at-UTSA-85857462.html
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