The truth hurts: Conservative Christians are outraged that atheists will be distributing literature in some Florida public schools that takes a critical look at the Bible and Christianity.

Of particular concern to many is the so-called “shocking” pamphlet entitled “An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible.”

Multiple conservative websites are fanning the flames of outrage, drawing attention to the pamphlet’s cover, which features a cartoon illustration of a humanized Bible with a face, arms, and legs, reaching under the dress of a screaming woman who is trying to escape.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) intends to hand out the pamphlets to protest the decision by Florida’s Orange County Public Schools to allow outside religious groups to take part in National Religious Freedom Day, reported The Christian Science Monitor.

FFRF Legal Counsel Andrew Seidel told CNSNews.com that the pamphlet is “pretty tame” compared to the Bible itself:

I think if you look at the content of that brochure and what is actually in the Bible, and some of the things that are in the Bible in terms of sex and compare that to the cover [of the pamphlet], the cover is pretty tame compared to anything that is in the Bible. I think the bottom line is, you can’t consider any of our materials obscene when compared to the Bible. I think we recognize that it might upset some people, but the Bible upsets many, many non-believers, especially when it’s being pushed in the public schools. So really, all it’s doing is placing believers and people who are in the majority in the position that we in the minority have been in for a very long time, and are in every time the government espouses one religion over another. That’s what we feel like all the time.

Earlier this year, after Christian extremists in Florida were caught trying to indoctrinate public school children by promoting Christian literature, a Florida judge ruled that if the Orange County Public Schools allowed Christian groups to disseminate Bibles and Christian-oriented religious materials in its schools, it would also have to allow atheist groups to do the same.

Previously the Freedom From Religion Foundation released a statement on the distribution of religious literature in Orange County Public Schools. The following is an excerpt from that statement:

FFRF does not believe that satanists or Christians or even atheists should be distributing literature to public school students. We have given Orange County every opportunity to close the distribution forum and repeatedly asked them to do so. Each time, they have refused…. One thing should be absolutely clear: Orange County Schools has chosen to allow these groups in. Orange County is allowing Christians, atheists and satanists to distribute literature to students, but it does not have to. FFRF has remained consistent throughout this ordeal: Public schools should not be allowing the distribution of bibles, atheist materials or any other religious or nonreligious material… We again urge Orange County to close the distribution forum and religious battleground it has willingly opened. Orange County Schools should keep its public schools secular.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is correct. It should be obvious to all that it is inappropriate for public schools to allow outside organizations to distribute literature in support of, or opposed to, religious belief.

Conservative Christians and other Christian extremists must realize that if they insist on trying to force their religious superstitions into the public schools, they open a Pandora’s box, where Satanists, atheists, and anyone else with an ax to grind and a religious point of view will have access to public school children.