A Saturday Night Live skit about a family replacing a traditional version of the Bible with a "Bird Bible" has atheist and agnostics defending Christians.

The SNL parody opened with a child reading the Bible out loud to a friend. The boys friend lost interest while he was reading and leaves, the young boy sharing the scriptures then told his parents that the Bible is "boring."

That is when the boy's mother and father introduced him to the "Bird Bible," a substitution book that depicts birds as the biblical characters.

"This is that Bible that's got all your favorite stories portrayed by birds," the boy's father declared, later adding, "The birds help make it seem more real."

A narrator is heard publishing the new version of the scriptural context, stating that it offers a cure for those who are tired of traditional scripture versions.

"With the 'Bird Bible,' your family will never be bored with scripture again," the ad states. "Each story accurately and lovely reenacted by yard birds."

(Photo : screen-grab SNL skit)

Immediately Christians named the skit offensive and overtly anti-Christian but it appears that agnostics and atheist were also not impressed with the skit and social media lit up with protest from non-Christian believers.

"I'm personally agnostic but I just don't see the humor in this. Then again I rarely find much humor at SNL. The 'birds make it seem more real' seemed like an obvious jab at Christianity to me but it's not particularly surprising," one post read.

Another adding, "I'm an atheist and I have to say, that skit was lame and not funny. I didn't get the whole bird thing. Funny how they always make fun of one religion though, why not make fun of Muslims."

"I am not a very religious individual, however, I have noticed you can beat up on Christians now and make light of their faith, but God forbid you make fun of Muslims and their faith," another continued.

(Photo : screen-grab SNL skit)