Yesterday someone displayed a banner on the campus of UTSA declaring "Free Porn". The banner went on to read "Trade in your Holy texts for porn." The banner is signed "Atheist Agenda". The creators and enthusiast of this banner may fail to realize the hypocrisy they displayed when choosing to wave a banner for all to see.
The Vice President of Public Affairs for the university stated "...we are a market place for free ideas.", he went on to say, "As long as students don't violate any laws or rules, they are allowed to exercise their constitutional rights." Sadly I suppose he is correct. Our nation wavers all to frequently, as of late, when recognizing constitutional rights. It is with pride and reverence that I also claim those same constitutional rights to voice my opinion to reveal the true hypocrisy of this ardent group of young atheist.
The web site for American Atheists spends a considerable amount of space defining their beliefs. Actually the majority of the space declares why all other definitions, other than their own, fall short of the truth. So I will honor their definition; "a lack of belief in gods"...that's it.
So where is the hypocrisy in their displaying of this banner?
The Atheist has made an offer to trade pornographic material for "Holy Texts". This person who practices a belief in the lack of gods suddenly recognizes that other texts are worthy of complete devotion. Texts that are exalted because of their goodness and righteousness are now sought after by the Atheist (otherwise why trade for them?). They will readily surrender their own belief that porn is good, porn is free,and finally admit that porn is actually one of their gods, in order to get their soiled hands on "Holy Texts". Evidently their lack of belief in gods only extends as far as the atheist chooses. In elevating pornographic material to a level that is equal with the Bible or the Koran, the Atheist inadvertently has revealed a god, their god, their idol.
Perhaps these Atheist will take the time to read the "Holy Texts" that are bartered for their cheap porn. Perhaps they will learn that long before they had this bright idea in March of 2010, man had already sought deity in obscenity. Genesis 13:13 reads "Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord." In Sodom the little god of lasciviousness was so vogue that only one man and his family were spared from the wrath of God. Perhaps they will realize that the desire within them to seek comfort originates from the God of the Universe who loves them so much that he allows them to worship the little gods. Perhaps they will realize, if they take the time to read the words, that God knew from the beginning that these were the choices they would make. In making these choices, God knew that he would be separated from his creation, his children, separated for an eternity. Perhaps as they read they will see that to avoid eternal separation, God came to us as a man. And this man, Jesus the Christ, walked amongst his creation. As a man he described to all who would listen, the love of the Father. As a man he suffered. As a man he wept. As a man he died...for you and for me.
Or perhaps they wont realize the hypocrisy their life is draped in and never read a single word.
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