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Atheists to rip up Bible

Ripping up the Bible?

  • Good idea

    Votes: 17 10.2%

  • Bad idea

    Votes: 112 67.1%

  • On Planet X Bibles are made of tasty, tasty cheese

    Votes: 38 22.8%
  • Total voters
    167
I agree it's a bad idea. The points the group are trying to make, while true ("There are plenty verses in the Bible that if you did any of those things today, you’d be thrown in jail immediately”), can be made without ripping books.

Plus, any intimation of censorship or book destroying turns me off right away.
 
The title of this thread is somewhat sensationalistic, much like the event described in the story. To me it sounds like they are doing a public re-creation of the Jefferson bible to prove a point.

I don't think they're being dicks, but rather they are using news media to predictably create buzz around their event, "ZOMG, teh athiests are rippin up bibles!!11!!".
 
Hecubas said:
I don't think they're being dicks, but rather they are using news media to predictably create buzz around their event, "ZOMG, teh athiests are rippin up bibles!!11!!".
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And if so, they are making a tactical error. All this will do is offend, and further make the case that you state above (teh atheists...etc.).

And this comes from a semi-obnoxious atheist.
 
Now if the poll question was phrased as "Local skeptic group to reenact creation of Jefferson bible: good idea or bad idea?", would it create nearly as much of an emotional reaction? No wonder the J-man kept his custom bible on the down low for so long.
 
PZ Myers tore the first page of Genesis out of a Bible to demonstrate that was all the Bible had to say about the entire beginning of the Universe. He then compared that to what we have learned about the beginning of the Universe through science.

Someone in our group took the page and the Bible, got PZ to autograph it for a collectible to keep. :)
 
It's begging for attention by being a dick. If atheists want to be taken seriously, respected, and not reviled as a bunch of angry jerks...Well, this is the exact opposite of achieving that.

Besides that, I have an instinctive revulsion towards any sort of book "burning."
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
PZ Myers tore the first page of Genesis out of a Bible to demonstrate that was all the Bible had to say about the entire beginning of the Universe. He then compared that to what we have learned about the beginning of the Universe through science.

Someone in our group took the page and the Bible, got PZ to autograph it for a collectible to keep. :)
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Is it just me, or is there something really bizarre about having a PZ-autographed bible page? For a companion peice, maybe a trilobite fossil signed by Ray Comfort?

ETA (just to get back on topic) I think the bible-page-ripping in the OP is unlikely to have anything that I'd consider a positive result.
 
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dasmiller said:
Is it just me, or is there something really bizarre about having a PZ-autographed bible page? For a companion peice, maybe a trilobite fossil signed by Ray Comfort?

ETA (just to get back on topic) I think the bible-page-ripping in the OP is unlikely to have anything that I'd consider a positive result.
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Or a "The Land Before Time" movie sleeve signed by Ken Ham?
 
They'd do so much better if they'd draw the crowd by claiming they were going to shred it, then just shred it figuratively by quoting a long string of internal contradictions in The Bible. They could even give away the highlighted bible to a church or something (and let THEM be dicks by refusing it.) Let us not mimic the stupidity of that Christian preacher who burned the Koran.
 
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Tricky said:
They'd do so much better if they'd draw the crowd by claiming they were going to shred it, then just shred it figuratively by quoting a long string of internal contradictions in The Bible. They could even give away the highlighted bible to a church or something (and let THEM be dicks by refusing it.) Let us not mimic the stupidity of that Christian preacher who burned the Koran.
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tooo late
 
They are dicks. But some people, usually dicks themselves, only respect other dicks. If there's no dicks on your side, those dicks are gonna keep dicking you. So we need some dicks. And on the whole, there are far more dickish things these dicks could be doing. So dick on, dicks.
 
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