‘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.  Read more... (544 words, 2 images, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Recent surveys find many Americans mingling their Christian faith with New Age precepts, including Astrology

According to a December 2009 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, an increasing number of Americans claim to mingle their Christian faith with New Age teachings and Eastern religion precepts, including “reincarnation, astrology and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects.”

This survey is of particular interests to U.S. religious demographic studies, considering that in 2008 76 percent of American adults claimed to adhere to traditional Christianity. This is down from 86 percent in 1990.  Read more... (472 words, 2 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

On Friday more than 280 atheists and agnostics converged on the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY.

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The Creation Museum is a museum dedicated to the Biblical creationism, and is an arm of Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis.

The purpose of the trip according to the Secular Student Alliance, a network of more than 145 student groups atheist and agnostic student groups, was to explore “a worldview with which they largely disagree,” not to cause a disturbance or disrupt the museum’s usual operation.  Read more... (246 words, 2 images, estimated 59 secs reading time)