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
Hecubas said:
I'm getting the sense that some have not read the article. Allow me to quote some of the key points:









I am not affiliated with this group, just merely pointing out how quickly the meaning and context was blown out of proportion with an inflammatory headline. Based on those points, I would tend to view this particular event as a different sort than recent burning a Koran as a public demonstration.
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Yeah Bruce Gleason's statement "“We’re not there to burn the Bible or desecrate,” reminds me of an Alas Smith and Jones routine.:-

Guy 1: I'm not a racist, but I do believe that different cultures shouldn't mingle for fear of diluting their special uniqueness.

Guy 2: I'm not a sexist, but it's clear that men and women have different skills and are suited to different roles in life.

Guy 3: I'm not a chiropodist, but I am a doctor who specialises in feet.

I've lost count of the similar statements I've counted over the years but I think it's fair to add:

Guy eleventy hundrend and umpty several: We're not here to descrate the bible just to pubicly tear out pages we don't like.
 
I was planning to be in Huntington Beach tomorrow anyway, and now I'm kinda thinking about heading down to the pier in the afternoon to see how this plays out.

From a safe distance, of course.
 
It can't help coming across as a book burning.
It would make more sense to read the passages to the audience instead of ripping them out. It would give no publicity, but still be better than bad publicity.
 
I'm planning on using parts of it in an artistic collage. I will only show my piece in a setting appropriate for the message of the piece, which will be the history of the church in women's rights.

I think that is much more productive and impactful than just randomly shredding it and notifying the media.
 
Toke said:
It can't help coming across as a book burning.
It would make more sense to read the passages to the audience instead of ripping them out. It would give no publicity, but still be better than bad publicity.
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I dunno. I think a headline like "atheists hold rally to read publicly from the Bible" would generate some interest.
 
Random semi-related thought: Has anyone ever thought of holding an atheist Bible study?
 
Cleon said:
I dunno. I think a headline like "atheists hold rally to read publicly from the Bible" would generate some interest.
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Yeah. Most people have a Cecil B. DeMille concept of the Bible. It would shock a lot of people to learn that after Moses smashes the first set of tablets, he rallies the Levites to slaughter some three thousand of their brothers, sons, friends and neighbors, then tells them what a great blessing they've earned from God for their mass murder.
 
This plan is foolproof.

Any Christian who sees an atheist ripping up a Bible will immediately convert.
 
slingblade said:
I have a bag full of tiny silver cross charms.

I make jewelry, and sometimes I make it for my religious friends. They like the little silver crosses. I've made lots of jewelry for religious people. All of them know I'm an atheist, and yet all of them have accepted, and paid for, their jewelry. It doesn't bother them a bit that an atheist made it for them. They appreciate the respect I show to them and to their beliefs. They understand I don't believe the same things, but they simply don't care.

I made a bookmark using one of the little silver crosses for a dear friend of mine on this forum. She's a Christian. She really likes the bookmark, and keeps it in her bible. That pleases me. I'm glad she likewise gets some pleasure from it.

You, Mr. Total Stranger, don't get to dictate how I choose to live. You can keep trying, but you will have no effect.

For my part, I hope you live the way you see fit, and hold whatever beliefs make you happy, give you comfort, and bring you peace.

That you can't hold the same hope for me says nothing nice about your beliefs.
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Would you make them religion silver crosses for free? and purpose them as gift's before i decide whether or not i want to give or trade you something in return. You may free even better, more glad (i hope not proud) then you would if you didn't take the money for your efforts. They are showing their support and lack apocrazy in seeking the silver crosses you make. But you are showing apocrazy in making them, for money, with your lack of belief. In a way and i hate to say it, the Christians are using you, like you are using the Gregorian calendar. Where there is no apocrazy in believing and taking or buying something an unbeliever makes, religious or not.
 
Bad, childish idea. I don't see why I should hate a piece of ancient literature just because I don't believe in it. Besides, the Bible isn't the only book I don't believe in. I don't believe in the Bhagavad Gita, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Talmud, the Kalevala, etc, and I don't see why I should single the Bible out for destruction -- if I ever had the (very silly) urge to destroy books I don't believe in. I don't see myself having that urge, though, because I'm fascinated by mythology.

I'm not sure I'll be able to express this coherently, but it seems to me that atheists who burn Bibles actually share a belief with Christian fundamentalists: the belief that there is some sort of magical power in the Bible that can turn people into believers.
 
You know, re-reading the article, I get the point they're trying to make but there's got to be a better way to present it.
Ripping out pages in a bible is just cannon fodder for those who hate us atheists in the first place.

I would think a better protest is to just read Jefferson's Bible (which until this article I didn't know existed - D'OH!) in places where people would expect passages like the resurrection, and when have others around to remind the audience who's bible this is and why he tore out those pages.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Local skeptic/atheist group, Backyard Skeptics, are planning on ripping pages out of a Bible in my hometown.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/bible-317251-gleason-say.html

Personally, I'm opposed. Seems to fall into the "being a dick" category.
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If the bibles are their own personal property they can do whatever they want with them; if they belong to someone else, it's just plain wrong to vandalize/destroy someone elses property. I hope they recycle the paper and don't do the Hitler/nazi thing of burning them...
 
What we are doing is shaking or nodding our heads vigourously over something that most people will be free to do. It won't make much difference to anyone so who, really, cares?
 
FireGarden said:
Or more like: "Atheists to take Bible Challenge!"
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"Atheists Vow To Engage In Abominable Activities In Public!"

followed, of course, by eating of shrimp, wearing of mixed fabrics, etc. And a disclaimer that "we won't be committing genocide or enslaving people, because those aren't abominations according to the Bible"
 
angrysoba said:
What we are doing is shaking or nodding our heads vigourously over something that most people will be free to do. It won't make much difference to anyone so who, really, cares?
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What we are doing is having a conversation on a topic of some mild interest.

I hope that's all right?
 
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