Xtians against porn

[Monad]

I thought this post was interesting by the BlagHag:

http://www.blaghag.com/2009/09/anti-porn-event-emotional-appeals-and.html

To illustrate my point, here are some of the scare tactics they used at the beginning (bold is their arguments):

* Senior citizens are the highest porn users. Doesn't that make you want to throw up? Wow, way to marginalize an entire group of people for being sexual. Oh wait, that's the whole point of this presentation.
* A mother called us saying her 8 year old son stumbled upon a porn site. Yeah, he "accidentally" found it. Rigggghttt.
* Porn destroys the economy because you're wasting your money on it. This said right after they tell us how porn is a multi-billion dollar institution. Doesn't that mean it would be stimulating the economy? (EDIT: Apparently even Gingrich agrees with me)
* When this anti-porn Christian group went to a porn convention, everyone their loved and accepted them. Therefor they're doing the right thing. Could you imagine a Christian convention accepting a porn group? Or maybe people at porn conventions are more liberal and open minded, and accepting of people who are different than them?
* Men feel terrified and guilty that they have to hide porn from their wife. Maybe you shouldn't marry someone who's so uptight and anti-sex that she's not cool with you watching porn. Some great communication you have in your marriage there.
* Porn is a gateway drug to child porn. What. No.

[Worldtraveller]

* Porn destroys the economy because you're wasting your money on it. This said right after they tell us how porn is a multi-billion dollar institution. Doesn't that mean it would be stimulating the economy?
That's not the only thing it's stimulating! ;)

*zing* I'll be here all week. :p

[DMB]

Thanks for posting this, Monad. I'm not a fan of porn, but whatever floats your boat... (Porn mainly makes me laugh or nearly die from boredom.)

From her account it seems not to have been all that focused on the subject and more another excuse for calling people in to Jeebus.

# To connect with an unbeliever is to connect with the devil. and "If he can't be a faithful to God, he can't be faithful to you." Yep, can't go a whole Christian event without bashing the atheists. This quote made me fume. I just listened to a bunch of Christians go on about how they cheated, had promiscuous sex, kept giant secrets from their spouses, got STDs, did drugs, had abortions, etc etc - but that's all okay because they found Jesus. But those atheists? They have no morals, so they're all going to cheat on you. What a bunch of fucking shit. Our whole group was sitting their in awe of how morally bankrupt these people were, because we're actually good, honest people, and then they go and say we're the cheaters. Or as my agnostic friend said, "My current girlfriend (atheist) is the first one to not cheat on me, compared to all the Christians I dated." PSUB is going to get quite a few unhappy emails about how they're sponsoring events that slander non-believers with unfounded lies. I yet again had the wonderful feeling of being an outcast; that if I introduced myself to random people at Purdue and they found out I was an atheist, the vast majority would instantly not like me.

How could someone be faithful to something they don't think exists? Are these people faithful to fairies, or even Thor or Ganesh? Truly weird!