Posted on 12/06/2005 8:52:43 AM PST by laney
German Protestant youth group creates calendar with photos depicting erotic scenes from Bible. It's wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with hair and skin to Bible, pastor says
A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson's hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.
"There's a whole range of biblical scriptures simply bursting with eroticism," said Stefan Wiest, the 32-year-old photographer who took the titillating pictures.
Anne Rohmer, 21, poses on a doorstep in garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab, who is mentioned in both New and Old Testaments. "We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people," she told Reuters.
"Anyway, it doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that you are forbidden to show yourself nude."
Bernd Grasser, pastor of the church in Nuremberg where the calendar is being sold, was enthusiastic about the project which is explained online at www.bibelkalender.de .
"It's just wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with their hair and their skin to the bible," he said.
It will be officially launched at the weekend.
There's just something *so* very wrong with old ladies doing the "Full Monty"!!! :-O I'm almost speechless.
not sure i want our 4 yr old daughter
enrolled in that sunday school
... or our 10 and 16 yr old sons...
Somehow, I can't see David hangin' around the well, shouting, "show us your-" to Bathsheba.
Nothing like a nekked Bible chick ~ Bump ~ Bump!
Don't know if you noticed that this is a Unitarian/Universalist "church" in Massachusetts...in other words,atheists who don't even *pretend* to believe in God.
Thw shame of Adam and Eve got them to cover up their nakedness.
But that's not realy in the Bible, is it?
Just because there are prostitutes in the Bible, does not make it a holy calling.
And youth ministry appearing naked? Creepy.
Same principal used by the Children of God cult and their "flirty fishing".
CHURCH LADIES GO TOPLESS IN PEWS
12/4/04
WorldNetDaily
In Battle Creek, Mich., 14 women of St. Thomas Episcopal Church – between ages 55 and 82 – actually bared their breasts to raise money for breast cancer research.
Calling themselves The Belles of St. Mary's, the women bared nearly all in an in-pew photo op at St. Thomas church for a calendar they hope will raise money for research.
But a mother of four, Helen Cook, who attends the parish, was outraged. Cook said she wrote to her rector, the Rev. Joy Rogers, and the parish's assistant, the Rev. Chris Yaw, saying they would not be returning to St. Thomas, and explaining why:
"I told them both that I found the calendar objectionable, inappropriate and that it ran counter to the morals I am attempting to instill into my children. 'Mother Joy', whose name takes on a whole new meaning to me now, never even bothered to answer me. No e-mail, no phone call, nothing. Father Chris answered very briefly, with the argument that there are two sides to everything and that if I reconsidered, to get in touch with him."
The national Episcopal Church magazine, Episcopal Life, reports religion writer David Virtue features this Playboy-style parish under the headline BARING (ALMOST ALL) FOR THE FAITH.
To Rack and to Ruin <-- retroactive tagline change
Yup, that seems to be correct.
Of course, there were a few nuns and a deaconess or two once upon a time...
*maced!*
WAS IT SATAN?
Wouldn't you just die if you saw your MOM in a photo like this???
racy stuff like this!
[golf clap]
You know what "Hills of Bether," "mountain of myrrh," and "hill of frankincense" symbolize, right?
Yes, but I couldn't find pictures of them. ;-)
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