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This is a really yukky report that can only provoke outrage at the degree to which the 'sophisticated' modern mind can devise ways to corrupt and disparage the Christian faith... and the utter lack of taste of the offenders.



'Progressive' Church in New Zealand
puts up offensive billboard


Dec. 15, 2009


As atheist adverts claiming “There’s Probably No God” are set to adorn buses in New Zealand, a church has launched a controversial billboard advert for Christmas, depicting Mary and Joseph in bed together.

The advertisement, which promises to cause upset down under, pictures the pair with disgruntled expressions and carries the slogan: “Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow.”



St Matthew’s in the City, an Anglican church based in Auckland, commissioned the billboard.

The advert was designed by M&C Saatchi with the brief that it had to be sufficiently provocative to keep most other churches from allowing it.

It is designed to challenge stereotypes about the way that Jesus was conceived, and get people talking about the Christmas story.

Glynn Cardy, priest at the progressive church, told Ekklesia that the advert has already sparked considerable conversation around the meaning of the incarnation.

“Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ. Its vision is one of robust engagement,” he said.

“At Bethlehem, low-life shepherds and heathen travellers are welcome while the powerful and the priests aren’t. The stories introduce the topsy-turvy way of God, where the outsiders are invited in and the insiders ushered out.

“No doubt on Christmas Eve when papers print the messages of Church leaders most of them will serve up ‘middle mush’. Jesus will be born in a palatial sanitised barn and every king and crook, religious and irreligious, will be surrounding him saying ‘Merry Christmas my friends!’ No reader will be asked to do or think anything risky, no reader will be offended, and no reader will write a critical response. They’ll just yawn and turn the page.”


But why would any Christian reader have to think anything risky when contemplating the Birth of Christ? It has only had one meaning in the faith, regardless of what circumstances may be imagined to replace the Christ mastory as first narrated by St. Luke.

Besides, the ad has nothing to do with Christmas - it has everything to do with challenging the virginity of Mary and the Bible accounts thereof, which in turn would call into question other Christian teachings set in Tradition such as the Immaculate Conception or Joseph's submission to the will of God....


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