Auctioning off your soul

"OK now I have little love for the close-minded atheists which tend to be as close-minded as the christians."

Actually, I have little love for the closed-minded atheists either. Thank goodness I've never met any in SOMA.

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• Posted by Prezandrew on April 6, 2007 at 9:02 a.m.
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Take a deep breath todd and count to 7. We're both breathing in-in-in-now outttttt. Wow that feels great. OK now I have little love for the close-minded atheists which tend to be as close-minded as the christians. The fact that the kansan published this on the front page shows that we have a GREAT journalism program, at least when it comes to training the young pups on how to sell slabs of paper covered with meaningless gobbledygoook. (sp, lol) Just remember the hungry student-journalists of today are the muckraking fox news anchor peoples of tomorrow! (And nothing is going to change that)

Heart, Zorro

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• Posted by voiceofseason on April 6, 2007 at 3:42 a.m.
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This article revels in alarminly bad taste. The flagrant headline, accompanied by the descriptive byline, goes out of its way to make a mockery of people who practice a religious faith. It is not suprising that a group such as this would delight in making fun of others with a different belief system, but to publish this story on the front page of the paper reveals a level of malevolence that is directed at those of religious beliefs. To be metaphoric, what if a religious group raised money for charity by having members guess what was the entire volume of the cavernous nose that sits afront Andrew Stangl's face? (I assume Stangl is the person pictured in the forefront of the picture) And in reporting on this story, the Kansan touted the headline, "Stangl's whopper of a schnozz inspires students to raise money" As disrespectful and childish as participating in this event would be, to feature this activity so blantantly on the front page of the Kansan would approach outright maliciousness. It seems as if Harbert has little else to do but to placate his need to antagonize others.
To make the argument that this story is important because of the charity work being done is not valid. The Greeks and other student organizations on campus raise far far more money for charity than this particular group. How often do they get showcased on the front page of the Kansas for the paltry sum of $400?

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• Posted by todd1007 on April 6, 2007 at 3:15 a.m.
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Considering their were people who practice some type of faith both bidding and selling their "souls" last night doesn't make it a mockery. I can't even begin to figure out what part of the headline or byline is in any way offensive, but that's what's so great about living in a free society: You can be offended, and it's a wonderful thing. Celebrate it.

It's pretty easy to say something anonymously on the internet and make a snap judgment about a huge group of people whom you've never met. Nothing about the Soul Auction was making fun of the PEOPLE with a different belief system, it's making fun of the belief system itself. You have to be able to separate the belief system from the people who believe it.

You can't play the persecution card here. Not in a country where more than 80% of the population claims Christianity as their religion.

"To be metaphoric, what if a religious group raised money for charity by having members guess what was the entire volume of the cavernous nose that sits afront Andrew Stangl's face? (I assume Stangl is the person pictured in the forefront of the picture) And in reporting on this story, the Kansan touted the headline, "Stangl's whopper of a schnozz inspires students to raise money""

Actually, the person you are referring to is SOMA's treasurer, Henry Bernberg. Congratulations, you made an ethnic slur against a Jew.

I would actually find an event like the one you described above both hilarious and in good taste. You see, I can laugh at myself and what I believe or don't believe as the case may be. If you could raise money for a charity by guessing the volume of any part of my body, then please do it. Charities need money.

"As disrespectful and childish as participating in this event would be, to feature this activity so blantantly on the front page of the Kansan would approach outright maliciousness."

Nope. It would be hilarious and a sign that we live in a free society. I would support it with all my being. You really need to loosen up.

Comparing well-established and professional organizations with a student organization at a state university? Ignoring that unfair comparison for a moment, consider how interested you would be in reading about a Greek fundraiser as compared to a group like SOMA holding an auction that's designed to play with religious beliefs. Which would grab your attention more? Clearly, you read and had a strong opinion on the subject. That's precisely the reason more articles like this will be coming in the future, because people like you who are offended, keep reading them and responding to them! That's precisely what the journalists want!

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• Posted by Prezandrew on April 6, 2007 at 8:57 a.m.
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In my personal opinion, I would have to agree with the SOMA group on their well cleaver, thought out play on religious belief. It was definitely salient event because it provided a paradox between religious belief and a group that does not subscribe to that religious belief.

In a world where something like this would offend people enough to warrant ad hominem attacks, I would say that this would give the article more valid. Also to do so is cowardly, and it proves that you have nothing else to attack then a person's self.

I'm not a member of SOMA, and I do subscribe to a particular religious faith. I like to leave you with this though. These people did a great thing in raising money for DCAP. That money will be used towards education and getting contraceptions that you will probably using to protect yourself as well as protect your partner. So why not give back to an organization that gives so much to its community members?

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• Posted by davidnta on April 6, 2007 at 10:19 a.m.
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What really sickens me beyond measure are the hordes of un-evolved monkeys who believe they have some kind of right not to be subjected to any other kinds of thinking but their own. You are not the only person who has a belief system and you are not entitled to be sheltered from other ideas.

Not only do christians like "Anonymous" feel they have some sort of exclusive right to be protected from beliefs that oppose and/or disprove their own but they too are indoctrinated into a system that teaches them, they must go out and witness to every non-believer in order that they too will be "saved" (indoctrinated). Can't you see the hypocrisy in your thinking, Mr or Ms. Anon?

How about this for an idea? Why don't you stop trying to tell everyone that they are sinners and going to hell if they don't become carbon copies of you and we who are not blinded by the promise of gold streets trumpeting angels and 72 virgins will stop auctioning off something that doesn't exist? That seems like a nice compromise.

I was a christian once. I accepted jesus christ as my personal savior when I was a pre-teen and I spent insane amounts of time reading the bible instead of thumping it and I learned something. It's a book filled with lies, killing and hatred. It's a philosophy of blind allegiance and ignorance that contains not a single shred of evidence to support it's omnipotent. man in the sky claims. So I woke up, stopped lying to others about how "happy" I was and started living my life as a person who demanded proof in order to believe something. You may thank Leviticus for my awakening.

I know it's been a long 7 years of retard rule by a drug addled mind that was "saved through christ" but they can whittle away at are rights one by one in the form of the patriot act and killing habeas corpus but you and your leader are not the only FREE AMERICANS in kansas you retarded monkey. You don't have the right to be protected from reading about other people's lives. If that's the life you seek then go live in a cave with a man who is willing to kill anyone who doesn't think like him. I'm sure Pakistan is quite killy this time of year.

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• Posted by emeryemery on April 6, 2007 at 1:01 p.m.
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Whoa! What a bushel a fun! I said to my honey, "Wow, honey, thars money to be made, good to be done, in this here soul business!"

Here's ma plan: Sell soul, have God kill junior to buy it back, sell again. Pete and repeat at will. Use all that dat money to help spoil the kicks of them who get off hatin' my beloved fellow Americans by sayin', "My Faith instructs me that you is evil. So I'm gonna pass all sorts of amendments and such to make you know we all hate ya! By the way, hope ya die of some dread disease!"

Dang! Soul Auction?...how ya say, babe? Neato! Gimme a big kiss, darling. We goin' to the next soul auction! Howlayluyah!

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• Posted by labash on April 6, 2007 at 1:17 p.m.
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"Actually, I have little love for the closed-minded atheists either. Thank goodness I've never met any in SOMA."

Good to hear that everyone in SOMA is open to the possibility of a higher power existing.

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• Posted by voiceofseason on April 7, 2007 at 8:10 p.m.
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Every Atheist I know was, at some point, opened to the possibility of a higher power but critical thought and deep examination of the facts brought us to the conclusion that there is no evidence to support the idea of a god.

Are you open to the possibility that there is an Allah or a Zeus? No, you are atheist where those gods are concerned. How open-minded of you.

Not sure who coined this phrase but it certainly applies here. Try to keep your mind opened but not so much that your brain falls out.

If your a Christian, you are supposed to have a lot of love for everyone yet you say you have little love for the "closed-minded atheists". Read your lies and live by them. perhaps this is a time when you should have asked yourself, WWJD?

Of course I don't care what he would have done. He wasn't the brightest monkey in sandals and clearly you haven't come much further in 2000 years.

It sure is an extreme approach to try to disprove evolution by not evolving. Bravo, bible thumper, Bravo!

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• Posted by emeryemery on April 9, 2007 at 2:49 p.m.
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