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Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-17-2009, 10:51 PM
THIS story from the Godless island of Austria has Jesus in a rage, as it should every right-thinking Christian!
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Biblical bedroom billboard rouses ire
WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) – A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny.
The controversial billboard, erected by St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, shows a dejected-looking Joseph under bedcovers beside a sad Mary. Underneath the image, a caption reads: "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow."
(Church website at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=999)
Church archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story and highlight the real significance of the festival.
"What we're trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about," Cardy told local media.
"Is it about a spiritual male God sending down sperm so a child would be born, or is it about the power of love in our midst as seen in Jesus?"
The billboard has so far drawn the ire of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, which called it "inappropriate" and "disrespectful." It was also condemned as offensive by family values group Family First.
"The church can have its debate on the Virgin birth and its spiritual significance inside the church building, but to confront children and families with the concept as a street billboard is completely irresponsible and unnecessary," Family First director Bob McCoskrie told news website stuff.co.nz.
The website also showed a picture of the billboard daubed in brown paint, saying it had been defaced a few hours after it was put up outside the Anglican St Matthew-in-the-City Church.
Archdeacon Cardy said the church had also received several emails and phonecalls about the advert, which he said was exactly what it had been intended to do -- provoke debate about one of the most important festivals on the Christian calendar.
"The true importance of Christmas is in the radical hospitality Jesus offered to the poor, the despised, women, children, and the sick, and says: 'this is the essence of God'," Cardy said.
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Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-17-2009, 10:56 PM
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Church archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story and highlight the real significance of the festival.
"What we're trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about," Cardy told local media.
"Is it about a spiritual male God sending down sperm so a child would be born, or is it about the power of love in our midst as seen in Jesus?"
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This is so offensive. Why is ANYONE questioning this at this point? God inseminated Mary, her consent was neither requested nor required, and he gave us Baby Jesus! END OF STORY.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-17-2009, 11:22 PM
Why does Mary deserve a second thought; she was a baby oven threw which Jesus impregnated her with himself. After she did her nine months God was threw with her and had no further use for a cheep whore who would cheat on her husband. Most likely she is burning in Hell right now for that sin.
The one think I don't get is why didn't Joesph kick her to the curb once he figured out the Almighty was playing roaster in Joesph's hen house? I guess mangina's weren't invented in the 1960s but were running around in 1st Century AD Judea. What a wuss. No wonder God had to come and save them.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-18-2009, 08:45 AM
I hate how these false Christians like to play around with the Bible and make whimsical judgments on what is supposed to be taken literal and what isn't. Okay, so they say that God impregnating Mary isn't supposed to be literal. Then why do they think that Jesus helping the poor and sick is supposed to be taken literally then?
Maybe the stories of Jesus feeding hungry people or healing sick people are meant to be metaphors for helping spiritually hungry and sick people? Maybe Jesus didn't give a damn about people who had no money or had leprosy. Maybe Jesus would spit on homeless people and yell at them for begging for a handout?
See, it's these double standards which irk me. False Christians like these Fosters-drinking Abo Anglicans are happy to decide which parts of the Bible are literal and which are not, based on their own personal interpretations, even though the Bible warns us about this...
2nd Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Beware of FALSE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES like this one! Let this be a wake-up call for everyone.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-26-2009, 02:04 PM
I think you mean Austrian. Australia and Austria are two very different places. But back to the subject I cannot believe that was allowed. It's positively sickening.
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Controversial biblical billboard resurrected -
12-26-2009, 03:23 PM
Actually Pastor Zeke, it was from the Godless New Zealand city of Auckland. But anyway this is the latest we have about it:
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Last updated 16:56 18/12/2009
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...rd-resurrected
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JOHN SELKIRK/Stuff.co.nz
WRATH: The painted over Mary and Joseph billboard outside St Matthew-in-the-City church in Auckland.
An Auckland church is sticking to its decision to continue displaying a controversial Christmas billboard despite criticism from the head of the Anglican diocese that the move was insensitive.
St Matthew-in-the City, an Anglican church, replaced a billboard that was vandalised yesterday and then stolen overnight with a copy depicting the same image of Joseph and Mary lying in bed.
The picture, which has attracted attention around the world, carries the caption ''Poor Joseph, God was a hard act to follow''.
St Matthew's church says the aim is to provoke conversation about spiritual matters by lampooning the literal Christian conception story and inviting people to think again about what a miracle is.
However, the Bishop of Auckland, the Rt Rev John Paterson, said he was ''disappointed'' that St Matthew's had chosen to go ahead with displaying the replica.
He said there were a multitude of other issues for a city and the wider church to focus on than a billboard.
''Discussion of theological perspectives and diversity is encouraged in a respectful way, but this approach is insensitive to communities across the Anglican Church as well as other denominations,'' he said.
''The season and story of Christmas is one that celebrates the life that is brought by Christ and that is the spirit of Christmas that I seek for the diocese and the city of Auckland.''
But the Vicar of St Matthew's, Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, said having debate was always positive.
He said the idea behind the billboard was to move a debate that was inside the church to outside it ''and certainly people in all sorts of places are talking about it''.
He didn't doubt that some people had been offended by the billboard, but ''the literalness of a male God impregnating Mary needs to be laughed at''.
At the same time, ''people can laugh at my perspective too''.
As for the criticism of insensitivity, Mr Cardy said: ''The Bishop has an opinion that is obviously different from ours.''
He said the billboard would remain in place ''at this stage''.
''We just need to take it one day at a time,'' he said.
''If it's repeatedly vandalised, then there is a point where we say, well, actually, we've got better things to do.''
The original picture was put up yesterday, but just over five hours later someone defaced it by smearing brown paint over it. Overnight, it disappeared.
St Matthew's marketing and communications manager the Rev Clay Nelson said the amount of reaction to the billboard had been ''phenomenal''.
The church had expected some comment in New Zealand, but messages were coming in from as far afield as Sweden, the Netherlands, Britain, Costa Rica and India.
''The emails are continuing to pour in and 90 percent of them at this point are positive,'' Mr Nelson said.
He was trying to reply to all of them, whether positive or negative, but at the moment the emails were arriving faster than he could answer them.
Austria and Australia are both countries full of homers and other criminal deviants... The main differences between the two is that Australia is an island, is warmer than Austria, has no mountains and has more sheep.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-27-2009, 09:51 AM
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THIS story from the Godless island of Austria has Jesus in a rage, as it should every right-thinking Christian!
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
12-27-2009, 02:13 PM
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I think you mean Austrian. Australia and Austria are two very different places. But back to the subject I cannot believe that was allowed. It's positively sickening.
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I cannot believe that Christ-hating Austraians like you are allowed to live. It's positively sickening.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-06-2010, 05:21 PM
Australia and New Zealand and two seperate countries.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-07-2010, 12:09 AM
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Australia and New Zealand and two seperate countries.
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That's frankly implausible. Put together they barely have enough civilisation for a single nation, let alone two.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-07-2010, 12:25 AM
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That's frankly implausible. Put together they barely have enough civilisation for a single nation, let alone two.
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I think New Zealand is a State of Austria:-
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-07-2010, 01:18 AM
This is nothing more than a desparate cry for attention. Let us face facts; The Anglican church is nothing more than a social club, not a religious movement. New Zealand is the pimple on the gluteus maximus of the world. Nobody hears about New Zealand and less people care. Not only are they all inbred, but they consider mating with the cannibal natives a virtue???? They forget!
28.Leviticus 20:15
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
If I were to look at it from the perspective of that old pedophile Glynn Cardy, I would think that having nothing to lose, I may as well try to shock. God already hates me and my countrymen, so why not?
New Zealand is also known as The Land of the Long White Cloud. Job may well have been speaking about that miserable sheep infested place when he said:
118.Job
4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Glynn Cardy is devoted only to personal image and fame.
34.Leviticus 27:29
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-10-2010, 11:48 PM
Its just a joke people, calm down!
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Re: Australian Anglicans Insult God For Christmas -
01-11-2010, 01:06 AM
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Its just a joke people, calm down!
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Jesus, the Bible and God are no joke, son!
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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