Hehehe ironically -- I'm usually very very black and white about things. It's been one of the biggest struggles in my life to see things in shades of gray.
I still maintain tho that a church is just a building. These women are trying to bring attention to a cause. It's not like they are standing up showing it ALL. Is the earth itself not God's house?
*shrugs* I guess I just don't see the big deal. People are beautiful in all their shapes and forms. Cancer is ugly. And the picture honestly made me giggle. Maybe that was their point?
"Man keeps changing the standards: what was wrong yesterday is ok today." Sorry to quote you -- but I have to comment on this. In the time of Jesus -- the average age a child was breastfed until was somewhere in the neighborhood of age 5. So what was right yesterday is wrong today? *ponders* Times change, yes. The standards you are referring to tho, ie breasts being bared -- in much of the rest of the world womens breasts just aren't a big deal. Religious countries or not.
Tell me though, would you have a problem with a new mom breastfeeding her baby during a service?
We are talking about a photo of women who claim to be representatives of God, a photo that is either shocking or titillating to many. If you don't think it will be, just take a look at some of the comments on this thread alone.
The Church is supposed to be above all this, the "pleasures" of the world. How can one who may be seeking take God and His Word seriously if he or she sees this? If I had seen this when I was seeking, I would have turn around in disgust and never bothered to look again, to my eternal damnation.
How so many in the Church cannot see how they contribute to the slippery slope of moral relavitism just blows my mind.
Didn't some church ladies over in England do this same thing to raise money to buy a sofa for a waiting room after one of the women's husband died? They made a movie about it called Calendar Girls. They were very successful in their efforts. They not only raised enough to buy a sofa but they raised a lot of money for cancer research.