According to the Telegraph, a church in Aukland, N.Z., has caused a stir by posting the billboard, above, showing Joseph and Mary after sex. The article says that the church is aiming to spark conversation:
Archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story “and that somehow this male God impregnated Mary”.
“What we’re trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about,” he said.
“We actually think God is about the power of love as shown in Jesus, which is something quite different than a literal man up in the sky.”
He said the church had asked an advertising agency to come up with ideas for the poster and the one they had chosen was not the most radical.
“One of the options we turned down had a sperm coming down with the words ‘Joy to the World’,” he said.
Apparently, it has already been attacked by a protester who smeared brown paint over it.
I’d like to see the alternative proposals from the ad agency!
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