
"No really, it was good. I usually cry after sex, so it's nothing personal."
Well it looks like an Australian church is in hot water for creating and advertising an image that, some say, is offensive to the idea of God and Christianity. The image (above obviously) depicts Joseph in bed with Mary with the words “God was a hard act to follow” placed above it. Joseph looks dejected, which may or may not have anything to do with the fact that the person he is sleeping with is a woman, while Mary looks like she is wondering if she had left the gas on. I would assume she did.
I take offense to this ad for simple reasons of factual dishonesty. I was always told that God had a little dick, so obviously his sexual prowess is in question.
The image was supposedly created to spark a discussion about the creation of Jesus and to force people to consider the real meaning and history behind Christmas. Now, I am not a religion man in the slightest, but I would think there would be several choices above this that may serve their purposes more appropriately. Perhaps maybe an image of Baby Jesus getting his DNA tested, with the words “Real men stick around”, plastered above his head. Or even just a big question mark with the words, “Why the hell would you want to be a Christian” in bright bold letters?
I digress.
The ad is apparently causing a discussion, but it’s not the nature that the church had intended. The local radios have been inundated with callers, furious about the images while other Christians are calling it sexist. One man, who claims to hail from a “liberal” church, says that the image makes it seem that God is a male and his church strongly objects to that idea.
“How dare you make assumptions about my made up religion! My God’s vagina is going to be furious!”
In other words, they have no problem accepting the idea of a virgin birth or a Jewish carpenter, but the sexual bits of God are still up for debate. Awkward…
