Take the Bile and Shove It

Back in December, the Center for Free Inquiry launched the Freethought Books Project:

The Freethought Books Project provides donations of secular and freethinking literature to prisoners, inmates in mental hospitals, books to prisoners projects, and others in need. The project also connects inmates to volunteer pen pals, who correspond with secular humanist, atheist, and other inmates who are connected to the project. The initiative, which was started by freethought activist Leslie Zukor in 2005, has been administered by the Center for Inquiry since 2013.

Then on the 13th of this month, CFI sent out an update concerning the project:

Since we announced in December that CFI is relaunching the Freethought Books Project, the support we've received has been huge! I wanted to take a minute, between reading letters and sending packages, to share some of the work we've done so far.

Needless to say the criticism by the Reich has been rolling in. Secular Group to Send 'Freethought' Books to Prisoners as Alternative to Religion. Although not a criticism per se, they did make a comparison to good ole Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship ministry which operates in 1,300 correctional facilities in all 50 U.S. states.

The Blaze was up next with their misleading headline Here’s How Atheists Are Targeting Inmates in Quest to Battle the Bible in American Prisons, citing the Christian Post.  The implication one gets by reading the sheeple comments a) atheist are just trying to counter Christianity, and b) that prior to 2007, atheists haven't helped prisoners (or the poor).

For our third (and for the moment final) entry, we have the Washington Times' crazy entry into the fray, Atheist group’s prison book project aims to turn inmates against God. Instead of reporting on the actual mission of the project (stated above) they seem to think that the 45 inmate contacts are the sum total since it's inception in 2005.  Something to which Leslie Zukor responded, "I started the Freethought Books Project in 2005. The 45 prisoners is the number of inmates who have contacted CFI since this past December. Tens and tens of prisoners requested books, when I was running the project."

The message that I am getting, inmates in the system are telling the religionists to take their Bile and shove it.

UPDATED 1/23/2014 and 1/26/2014 to add:
Books project helps atheists make the case for unbelief behind bars

“Christianity has a mandate to convert people, but freethought does not have any such mandate,” said Sarah Kaiser, one of the project’s two new coordinators. “We just want everyone to have the freedom to express doubts and ask questions, and that is what these books represent.”

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Justiss, who became a nonbeliever after 40 years as a Christian, said the need for nonreligious reading matter is high. The prisoners who write to him often describe being treated differently because they are not Christian, he said.

“Lots of times they complain, (that) we are excluded from the special benefits that religious prisoners have and we take a lot of flack from other prisoners as well as guards for being unconventional,” he said. “They say things like prisoners are some of the most religious people on earth.”

Another slanted headline that came in after posting Atheists Head Into Christian Mission Fields With False Gospel