For Reed.

Since this is, after all, International Blasphemy Day (at least for a few more hours), I thought I’d devote my first post to a topic that is near and dear to my heart: holy book desecration.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I set up shop in our University’s Student Union Building and began tabling for the annual societies fair, where every student group gets a chance to explain what they’re about to the student body with the hope of recruiting new members.

The societies fair is always an interesting spectacle to behold. A near-complete cross-section of student groups on campus, one can sample the wears of groups as disparate as the Tea-drinking society (which I’ve always assumed is a front for something much more nefarious) and the young Tories (a truly nefarious group whose wares are far less delicious, in case you were wondering).

Anyway, there we were — the Dalhousie Atheist Community — placed, as it seems we always are (presumably by someone with a wry sense of humour) right next to one of the dozen or more religious groups on campus. Har har.

We usually speak to a number of religious groups who want to know what we’re about, and this year was no different. Most interesting, however, was a brief and seemingly insignificant interaction we had with the Muslim Student Association.

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