The funny part was at the end when Mr. lawyer was explaining the legality of porn.
Was that actually in Japanese? I don’t recognize the book. I don’t recognize the publisher, either.
Humor is not humor if it is at the expense of someone else. Humor is when you laugh together rather than laugh at someone. You will get it in time.
lekatt, you’ve been warned in the past about this condescending attitude. Drop it.
What? I encouraged him. When you get older you understand that belittling others is condescending, not encouraging them to improve their manners. Are posters on this board that far out of touch with good manners, politeness, tolerance of others that it can’t be understood anymore.
As a college teacher, I have to say… well spoken, sir! 
Tethered Kite, with alarm: Help! The students are revolting!
Monstre: They certainly are. 
Many of the people defending these atheist goons would be jumping all over Westboro Baptist Church for their protests. The thing is, the tactics are the same. Outrageous conduct intended to shock and provoke. Defending these atheists while condemning the WBC is hypocrisy. Both groups are equally repulsive.
You missed my point. It provides evidence for those pushing the stereotypes to convince other people that they are true. I know if I would have heard about it just a few years ago, it likely would have confirmed my suspicions that atheists are assholes.
It’s only because I got to finally know some who weren’t that I no longer think so. That was what opened my mind not to believe the stereotype. And guess at what time that happened? When I was in college. You know, that time when people tend to try to find out who they are and what they really believe.
While I agree that we should hold atheists and theists to the same level of repulsiveness, I disagree that the acts of WBC equal these guys. A single provocative event is not as bad as the very many this organization is guilty of. And WBC’s protests are often much more pointed at a specific individual (Like when you protest at a specific person’s funeral.) Had these kids set this up at the funeral of a priest, or even just an event honoring a well-known Christian, you might have a point.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with an equivalent, and, like you, I tend to overshoot. It’s difficult, even if I don’t require it to have been done by Christians. The best I’ve found so far is trading in pictures of your children for porn (too offensive) and trading in your American flag for a Bible (not quite offensive enough, except to rabid antitheists.)
‘You’ll understand when you are older’ is not encouraging, it’s obnoxious. Like I said, you’ve been warned about it before and if there’s any more of it the warnings will escalate. If you have any other questions, take them to ATMB.
No, Kama Sutra.
Uhh no. Protesting at dead soldier’s funerals is quite a bit different from handing out pornography in exchange for Bibles. Those are two totally different extremes of shocking behavior.
The only meaningful difference is you like one group and dislike the other. The intent behind both stunts is the same, and both stunts are equally repugnant.
I have to disagree with you there. The Bible Swap insults a person’s beliefs. The WBC insults a dead person.
But the WBC usually is not targeting the specific dead person, they’re just using the shock value of protesting at a funeral to further their own agenda, just as the atheists in this incident are not targeting any specific flavor of religion, they’re using the shock value of “Bible for Porn” to further their agenda.
Oakminster, I’m curious - do you view people handing out religious fliers on college campuses preaching how you have to do whatever they say (go to church more, don’t have sex, etc) or you’ll go to hell equally bad? I mean, as far as I know, these atheists aren’t threatening anyone. Whereas weekly I get handed stuff (or at least they attempt to hand me stuff) by Christians who say that I have to follow their book, which says my best friend should be killed, and if I don’t, I will be horribly and nastily tortured for all of eternity. That’s far, FAR worse, in my eyes.
Frankly, I don’t see any problems with this as a college student and an atheist. It’s a stunt to draw attention, as a sort of “you are not alone” for atheists, when very often it feels like it.
The best comparison to me would be Sister Patty and Brother Jed - two obnoxious, loud preachers who hit the campuses. They are also a great source of amusement.
I find them tiresome, but less offensive. Their intent is usually to spread their religion, as many of them believe they have some moral obligation to do. Their tactics are relatively inoffensive…handing out pamphlets in support of their beliefs. I see that as no more offensive than any of thousands of other groups advocating causes I don’t support.
“Bible for Porn” is clearly intended to be offensive…just as the WBC protests are. I guess it is the intent to offend that bothers me.
In case anyone has forgotten, I’m an atheist. A polite atheist that lives in the buckle of the Bible Belt.
While I agree with you that the idea behind both stunts is “outrageous conduct intended to shock and provoke”, I think that the venue makes a huge difference.
Atheist Agenda is running their “smut swap” on a college campus, where ideologically provocative behavior is routine and even to some extent encouraged. The WBC protests at funerals, on the other hand, are extremely disrespectful politicizing intrusions on private ceremonies for people coping with personal grief and loss.
There’s simply no comparison between those two types of stunts in terms of disgusting contemptibility.