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Just in time for Christmas, a New Zealand church has erected a billboard that depicts the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together. Even if you're not a believer, this will probably make your skin crawl.The billboard -- paid for by St. Matthew-in-the-City, an Anglican church in the town of Wellington -- reads, "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow." Uh, gross. According to the Huffington Post, the "progressive Christian" Anglican church hopes that the billboard will "get people talking about the Christmas story."
Church leader Archdeacon Glynn Cardy told the A.P., "This billboard is trying to lampoon and ridicule the very literal idea that God is a male and somehow this male God impregnated Mary ... We would question the Virgin Birth in any literal sense. We would question the maleness of God in any literal sense."
We'd think there's a more subtle way to do this, but it seems subtlety is not St. Matthew-in-the-City's strong suit: A press release on the church's Web site asks, "Is the Christmas miracle a male God sending forth his divine sperm, or is the miracle that God is and always has been among the poor?" Did we mention: gross?
Look, we're not jumping into the religious debate on this one, but this is probably the worst example of using sex to drum up publicity since the Screech sex tape.
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Saturday 19 December
By Glenn
Disguisting. Another way to make fun of Christianity. I'm sure you won't see Moses, Muhammed, or Buddah in ANY bed! Warped people always make Christianity their #1 target.
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Saturday 19 December
By James
Disgusting? Is it any more disgusting than the hypocrisy and hate so many 'Christians' foist upon the world? I bet Jesus would find them far more disgusting than that ad. He probably would get a good chuckle over it.
Saturday 19 December
By boop
umm, i dont think you actually read the article, seeing as the people who erected the bilboard were christians themselves, thank you for putting your illiteracy on display
Saturday 19 December
By fabfreddy
did you read the story? its from an Anglican church. They are Christian. All they are saying is that Jesus is not literally from the sperm of God. They must not take every word of the Bible as true. Most people, including devout Chritians don't believe the Bible is supposed to be taken literally. Much of it is written to make you think about your relationship with other people and with God. I don't take the story of Jonah and the whale as literal truth but as a story to help reinforce my faith. Christianity doesn't get attacked any more than any other belief system.
Saturday 19 December
By Nic
Absolutely this goes too far, even if the people who put up the billboard are Christian and even if this is natural (even for Mary and Joseph.) As you said, no prominent figure of any other religion would or should depicted in such a state. I'm not even Christian, and I think this is completely disrespectful.
Saturday 19 December
By Koyotohey
I am a Native American, Mary getting pregnant by Immaculent Conseption took some wise man to come up with to cover his tracks. Why would Jesus being raised on the road to a couple of deadbeats be anything to write about, anyway.
Being born to flesh and blood doesn't make you immortal as God's son should have been. I am not evil or believe that it is from Satan, just as good is not a Christian act.....That kinda took a dump during the Crusades.
A good christian would study other situations in the timeline of the bible for mabye a better understanding of those times. My father is Mayan and I don't believe in 2012 as a true fact. I practice the ancient ways of Maya for spirituality but I incorporate all philosophies and religions into it. I'm just fine.
Saturday 19 December
By STERLING W GRAY
SO THEY WERE IN BED. SO WHAT. HE WAS NOT GOD FOOL.
Sunday 20 December
By Sally G
This was put up by a Christian church.
Saturday 19 December
By Irishamrep
You can't comment on these boards. Christianity is fair game, we have reached the end of sanity. Only Jesus coming will end this madness and I do believe that will be soon!
Sunday 20 December
By pinkthenred
God is a hard act to follow.
Sunday 20 December
By Leoclay
Did you READ the article??? It was a church that put up the sign, regardless of how far it went...
Saturday 19 December
By Peggy B
Do you suppose someone actually got paid to come up with this ad? I guess someday they'll probably get their just dues for being sooo immature and stupid.
But yet everyone bitches about putting nativity scenes up in front of business or , god forbid, a billboard. That would never be allowed. Thank goodness, I live in a great town where everyone says Merry Christmas and puts nativity scenes everywhere. I'm afraid I'd have to build a big campfire under that billboard.
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Saturday 19 December
By James
Build a big campfire? Maybe this Christmas, with all the cold weather, you will invite a homeless person into your home to share the warmth and joy of the celebration of the Christ child's birthday. Or will you turn them away like Mary and Joseph were turned away... no room at the end. You have a Merry Christmas.
Saturday 19 December
By dee moses
so, they made up this little fairy tale about god impregnating mary.
but, the very idea of him doing it is repulsive to them
Saturday 19 December
By Avice
By Peggy B:
...everyone bitches about putting nativity scenes up in front of business...I live in a great town where everyone...puts nativity scenes everywhere.
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You are contradicting yourself. If "everyone bitches," then what are you and what is putting up these nativity scenes? Must be aliens. Do you live anywhere near Roswell?
Saturday 19 December
By Jim
Just in time for Christmas, a New Zealand church has erected a billboard that depicts the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together. Even if you're not a believer, this will probably make your skin crawl.
The billboard -- paid for by St. Matthew-in-the-City, an Anglican church in the town of Wellington --
An Anglican CHURCH came up with this? What were they thinking. It sounds like a Hollywood promotion.
It is DISGUSTING. And that a "Christian" church should display it is sickening.
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Saturday 19 December
By glorya
I agree with you 200%.It's disgusting !!!!
Saturday 19 December
By fred
isnt this the same church that allows gay marrriage and even has a gay bishop.. more proof their head is up their butt
Sunday 20 December
By andy
I have just one question for everybody. Did Jesus get a hard on? He was after all a MAN! Divine perhaps, but a man non the less; with ALL the functions of a man. And to all those idiots who say they see Jesus or his mother on a toast or a rock, i have just one question? Who actually has a picture of Jesus or his mother. There was no photography at the time, no one knows what they looked like.
Saturday 19 December
By Philip Wesley
This is just ridiculous and insulting. "Blasphemy" is no way to get others to talk about the LORD and it's amazing that people can be so cavalier about the feelings of believers to make a point; by the way, blasphmey is STILL a sin. *As far as people who committed attrocities in the Name of the Christ, they weren't truly being Christian at all, so don't blame and mix in true followers of the LORD Jesus with those hypocrites (whom Jesus, himself, spoke of in Mathew 7:1 through 6) who claim to know Him. This ad is wrong on so many levels.
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