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Atheist demonstrators to rip pages from bibles Saturday

They're taking a page, so to speak, from Thomas Jefferson's book...

Orange County, CA may be best known for TV shows about spoiled rich teens frolicing on the beach, but this Saturday (September 17) there'll be something different happening along the OC shores; a demonstration to publicize biblical immorality by a local atheist group. Backyard Skeptics, a local group of atheists, agnostics and skeptics will meet for lunch near the Huntington Beach pier and afterwards hold what their meetup page describes as an outreach program of dialogues with theists and anyone else who'd like to talk with them. But that's not all they're doing. According to the Orange County Register, they plan to publicly rip out passages from the Bible that they describe as promoting immoral laws.

More here.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy on September 17, 2011 at 9:23am

Somebody get someone in PR on the phone right now!

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Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on September 17, 2011 at 10:03am

imho
why not grind the books up make papermache's of cats; paint them florescent
and then start a black light club call it "feline blasphemy"
or OR!
take quarans and bibles switch the covers and watch people freak out!
lol

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Permalink Reply by Pat on September 17, 2011 at 5:49pm

My thoughts exactly, Richard. A moron who destroys a book as a publicity stunt, irrespective of the motive and irrespective of the book, is still a moron.

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on September 17, 2011 at 10:10pm

I agree Richard, it's not good for the atheist image.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on September 17, 2011 at 9:53pm

I agree that it will only add more fuel to the fire. Pun intended.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on September 18, 2011 at 11:06am

Haven't seen what happened. This kind of behavior is infantile. The only purpose is to provoke controversy and piss people off. It just says "look at me - I can make you angry". There are probably a billion bibles in the world, it won't miss a few. It does not lead to any kind of meaningful dialogue.

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Permalink Reply by Doc on September 18, 2011 at 12:53pm

The full article (linked at the bottom of the intro to this discussion) seems much less bible-ripping. I think the reporter exaggerated to stir up readers and garner advertising dollars.

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Permalink Reply by Vulpes on September 18, 2011 at 1:08pm

I think a more productive use of time is if you burned, or ripped or whatever print outs of the specific versus rather then use a bible. So if they stick to photocopies like they say they might then the issue might not be as problematic.