TestForEric

Well, it's Jesus Week here at glorious SDSU.

There are posters everywhere, flyers in the mail, booths @ the Union, etc. If any of you have been to a college campus, I'm sure you get the idea of how this thing works. The Campus Cult for Christ has their booth, with prepackaged bible, video, pencil, etc all in a handy baggy that they give to everyone. I have to go a WEEK walking by that booth, and need some ideas on how to make it.

If anyone has any good suggestions for mocking them, or anything of that nature, it'd be greatly appreciated.

MadMordigan

Eats lots of beans.

Echo

I wouldn't mock them. You'll just end up branding yourself as the "big, bad , evil, intolerant atheist" on campus...and then you'll never get them off your back. I'd just ignore them and walk on by.

Although, I could probably be persuaded to take the package, what with the free pencil and all.

Megatron

I gotta remember that one!

scarmig

Take them all, or as many as you can. Every time you walk by. Ask for more. If they start to recognize you, get your friends to do it.

Keep the pencils. File the rest in the circular drawer.

sidewinder

Why not challenge them to a formal debate on campus? You could debate the existence of God? Or the coherence of the Christian faith? Or the inerrancy of the Bible? You could ask the campus crusaders for a copy of their membership list and invite all their members, as well as opening it up to everyone else on campus. Nothing will be accomplished by mocking them or giving them trouble.

beachbum

Pick up one of the bags and take out the things you want like the pencil and leave the resto f the stuff on the table.

Or, better still, walk a different way to class and stuff.

Mageth

Why not challenge them to a formal debate on campus? You could debate the existence of God? Or the coherence of the Christian faith? Or the inerrancy of the Bible? You could ask the campus crusaders for a copy of their membership list and invite all their members, as well as opening it up to everyone else on campus. Nothing will be accomplished by mocking them or giving them trouble.

In a preachin' vs. teachin' debate, the preacher almost always comes out ahead. Most people prefer sound bites (no matter how illogical) over logic and reason.

Toto

Watch out for the debates. CCC has a staff person. William Lane Craig, who spends most of his time debating, and is generally considered a formidable debater. You will need to be a professional at a similar level of expertise if you want to debate him and not lose (I understand Edward Tabash is always willing to debate Craig.)

Read about California Polytechnic State University's Jesus Week debate <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=51&t=000070" target="_blank">here.</a>

The Campus Crusade is run like a modern corporation selling a product, with a lot of capital behind it. There is no comparable organization marketing freethought on college campuses with that degree of professionalism, unfortunately.

Wizardry

Smoking Jesus Poster!

Praise the hilarity!