Posted on 12/16/2009 7:00:43 PM PST by naturalman1975
A RISQUE billboard that depicts Jesus's mother looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph has given Kiwi Catholics a nasty pre-Christmas surprise.
The huge ad erected in downtown Auckland today shows the unhappy couple in bed accompanied by the slogan: "Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow".
In the fresco-style work, Joseph looks down red-faced while an anguished Mary looks to the heavens.
It was the brainchild of a progressive Christian church, St Matthew's, whose vicar Archdeacon Glynn Cardy says it was a cutting-edge strategy to engage non-believers.
"Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ," Cardy said, with the advertisement still appearing on their website.
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Still waiting for the Muhammed/Aisha post-coital cartoons.
Waiting...
WAITING...
Thanks.
The description was puke-ifying enough...
'Progressive Christian church' ... a.k.a ... blasphemers on the Highway to Hell...
Oh NO. and to think it was a church man that did this. Hang your head in shame Sir!!!!!!
Complete cowards who would never depict Mohammed unsatisfied after raping his 9 year old “bride.”
But the city's Catholic diocese is not impressed, saying the implication that Mary and Joseph had just had sex was "disrespectful" and "offensive" to Christians.
Spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer told the New Zealand Herald it was particularly inappropriate given the inference was wrong.
"Our Christian tradition of 2000 years is that Mary remains a virgin and that Jesus is the son of God, not Joseph," she said.
The notion that Mary and Joseph never had sex is a Catholic one, and is not shared by all Christians. Many protestants - like me - find the idea rather silly.
End times.
True enough.
Illegal-child porn.
Here we go. [rolls eyes]
That’s because Catholics and other Christians won’t run around chopping heads off even if they do find it offensive.
Even when we get to the extremes:
Nutcase Fundamentalist Islamic Extremists blow things up.
Nutcase Fundamentalist Christian Extremists protest at military funerals.
Someone should put that up and attribute it to them.
Well when you read that Joseph was 90 and Mary was 14 when they married , it doesnt sound so silly.
How about a billboard with Mohammed as Joseph and an eight year old boy in the place of Mary?
Source?
I can be pretty irreverent at times but this is downright blasphemous.
I think this ad is disgusting and wrong.
But on the cross, didn’t Jesus tell John (I think it was him) to take care of his mother Mary, implying that John and Jesus were half-brothers?
I had a priest tell me that Mary was born without sin, so of course she never had sex with Joseph when I asked him that, and that didn’t make sense to me, seeing as how sex between married couples is not sinful.
Really, I also want a source.
I get the impression that Mary loved her Joseph and they made wild monkey love like the Lord intended for husband and wife.
After Jesus was born of course.
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