

This week, atheist students at the University of Texas at San Antonio are holding their annual “Smut for Smut” campaign, in which they offer to exchange holy texts for hardcore porn, the Friendly Atheist reported.

The group, Atheist Agenda, argues that the “perversion, misogyny, slavery, rape, murder” that’s chronicled in the Old Testament is worse than what’s depicted in contemporary pornography.

It’s a rather attention-grabbing concept, and the atheists drew religious opponents even on their first day set up on the steps in front of a campus building with signs reading “FREE PORN” and the name of their organization.

In a video posted Sunday, a member of the organization confronts a protester holding a sign in front of their table, and a small group sings Gospel music in the nearby courtyard.

The group challenges Christians on their own Scriptures, following reports that atheists and agnostics demonstrate the highest levels of religious knowledge.

The Friendly Atheist himself, Hemant Mehta, has previously criticized the “Smut for Smut” campaign as stunt-like and potentially divisive, but Atheist Agenda defends their approach by citing the publicity they’ve gotten on campus and off.

“I still don’t think it’s the type of campaign I would’ve run if I were still leading a college atheist group. I think it invites a lot of negative publicity — and not in the any-coverage-is-good-coverage sort of way,” Mehta wrote.