Swapping Bibles for Porn on Campus

‘Porn for Porn’ says University atheist group as they misinterpret the Bible’s sexual stories

A group of atheists at the University of Texas San Antonio Campus renewed their yearly “smut for smut” exchange campaign this month. Porn for porn? No….

The Atheist Agenda group, formed on campus in 2005, encouraged students to turn in their Bibles in exchange for pornographic material.

This year, it caused quite the stir at numerous media outlets as diverse as Huffington Post and Fox News.

The atheists claim the Bible is full of sexual stories with mistreatment of women—no different than your average book of porn—and that it is a parallel trade-off.

As a Jewish believer in Jesus, I believe they are pitifully off target. Yet I understand in some ways.

A young person may look at any story with sexual details and, after reading the most sensational part, rush to show the article to their friends. In fact, some adults might do the same thing.

But if they do this with the Bible, they will miss the part further along that tells the moral of the story.

In the Bible, there are always consequences for sexual acts outside of marriage, and plenty of rules against the sexual mistreatment of women. Even the heroes of the Bible got into trouble for such things.

Take Samson in the Old Testament, for example (Judges 14-16). He could have married any well-bred woman within his Hebrew community, but he lusted after prostitutes and got away with it for quite a while. Until Delilah, who took away his strength and turned him over to Philistine captors. Samson’s eyes were poked out, he was thrown in a hard labor prison, and only redeemed himself by dying to save his countrymen.

Abraham accepted his wife Sarah’s suggestion to sleep with her handmaiden because she herself was barren. This was an act of doubting God’s promise. As a result, when Sarah finally had a child, it began a nation-dividing strife between the two boys that continues in the Middle East today (Genesis 16-21).

David lost his first-born son by Bathsheba due to his taking her from another husband and having the man killed (2 Samuel 11-12).

In the New Testament, Jesus preached against men being able to throw women out of a marriage simply because society allowed it (Matthew 5). He would not allow the religious leaders of the day to cast a stone on an adulterous woman without looking at their own sin first (John 8).

And the apostle Paul never said for husbands to keep women “under foot” as many feminists believe. Just the opposite. He encouraged men to love women as much as they love themselves and God (Ephesians 5).

I could go on with a long list of verses telling people not to have sex outside of marriage for their own good.

Perhaps the best thing that could happen from this Texas University Bible-for-porn swap is that the atheists who take the Bibles begin to read them thoroughly, for full understanding of sex outside of marriage, adulterous sex and murderous sex.

Perhaps an atheist or two will discover Jesus in the process.

See my previous Underground article, Does the Bible Put Women Down? For more answers on this topic.