A church in New Zealand has put up a billboard showing the Virgin Mary looking worriedly at a pregnancy test.
This is brought to you by the same jerks that brought you this billboard last year.
This church has fallen into the same trap that so many fall into. There’s no point to these billboards other than “look at me!” This isn’t theology. It’s not even evangelizing. It’s advertising. It’s we’re the funny hep church. We’re cool. They’re just moron publicity seekers.
December 15, 2011 at 4:28 am
The second picture is satanic- the first one could simply be that Mary was still surprised at the reality of her pregnancy after Gabriel talked to her- so I give it a little pass. Didn't C S Lewis say "To the impure, nothing is pure." ? This church is rotten to the core
December 15, 2011 at 11:55 am
Why in the world are you publishing this garbage, especially during Advent?
Use some self-control and stop giving these creatures free advertising.
Good grief.
December 15, 2011 at 1:32 pm
This makes me so incredibly sad — You were right – They are jerks!
December 15, 2011 at 1:35 pm
The first one isn't so bad, but the second one is absolutely disgusting. What kind of church would run something like that??
December 15, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Just shows the difference between Christians and Muslims. If they this to some Muslim doodad, then those vermin would have burned the place down and murdered everyone associated with it. Our patience and forgiveness shows that indeed Christian are from God. (Muslims are from the devil.)
December 15, 2011 at 3:19 pm
@Rick: "Our patience and forgiveness show that indeed Christians are from God. Amen
December 15, 2011 at 3:20 pm
The Virgin shall bring forth a child. The Blessed Virgin Mary, raised in the temple, had read all the prophecies concerning the Suffering Servant to be brought forth of a Virgin. Mary had INFORMED CONSENT and gave INFORMED CONSENT. Without INFORMED CONSENT Mary’s “fiat”, Mary’s “YES” would not amount to a hill of beans, legally. The God of Justice would not have accepted an uninformed consent of the Virgin Mary’s “YES”. Without the Virgin Mary’s informed consent and adherence to the will of God from the very first moment of Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the Son of God, Jesus Christ could not have become INCARNATE in the womb of the Virgin as foretold by the prophets.
December 15, 2011 at 3:22 pm
What the billboard actually represents is the uninformed consent of minor, unemancipated persons whose civil rights are held in trust for them by God, by their parents and by the state, in that order. The court says that when a girl becomes pregnant, she becomes emancipated. The child does not have legal informed sexual consent to give, but now she is on her own to be preyed upon by the abortionists. The pregnant minor person is without the care of those to whom she has been entrusted, starting with the state that has prohibited the Person of God from the public square; dismissed the practice and freedom of religion, man’s response to the gift of Faith from God, (“or prohibit the free exercise thereof” First Amendment) from the public domain; legalized the killing of her baby, ANOTHER PERSON WHEN TWO BECOME ONE; pornography, the artificial reality and picture of how the state is not protecting the innocence and virginity of our posterity; prostitution, the practice of aiding and abetting the destruction of personal integrity, sexual integrity and the rape of informed sexual consent of the innocent person ( a person who does not know what he is doing is innocent as Christ said: “The one who gave me over to you has the greater sin”. The state ignores the absence of informed sexual consent of minor persons who are entrusted to it.
December 15, 2011 at 3:25 pm
The billboard is an epiphany into how the state can take our money and not provide for the unalienable endowed rights of every person born and brought into existence through the will of God. The will of God is a constant Our Lady observed all her life. “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”
The billboard is perjury in a court of law since a public statement incriminating the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ requires two witnesses to establish a judicial fact. And unless our Lady testifies against herself, which will not happen, not only because of the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution, but especially because there is only perfect virtue in the woman, who as a virgin, brought forth the Son of Justice. Read the Bible. From ISAIAH AND I.
December 15, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Before the Titanic sailed, the builders mocked God saying that even God could not sink the Titanic. These billboards mock God, Saint Joseph, Saint Mary, and the newly incarnated Son of God, Jesus Christ. These billboards show that the individuals building these billboards were CONCEIVED IN LUST, will destroy virginity, everybody's, chastity, Justice, and everybody's unalienable, endowed civil rights. When one person, the persons of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Mary's womb are denied civil rights, all persons are denied civil rights. Do not be enslaved to evil hearsay, perjury in a court of law. There is an Eighth Commandment: "Thos shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" because it show that one is a LIAR.
December 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
What church denomination is this? Truly Satan has overtaken them & swallowed them whole. Makes my heart ache. They are not cool or hip, they are cursed to the Pit. Pitiful.
December 15, 2011 at 3:44 pm
sue the bastards
December 15, 2011 at 4:00 pm
making fun of religion is the most immature and provoking act…
why would anyone mock God or saints and how in anyway think that this is even funny…
The act of freedom ends up when hurting someone else … and this kind of billboards hurts many ppl
@rick this is your opinion and may God show you the right way
December 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm
First one was LOL funny. The second was just plain awful.
December 15, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I know the way and the Way. Bowing to the Muslim vermin isn't God's way of dealing with evil. Theirs is the religion of the sword that is why I asked for a new gun for Christmas. I will also train my children – specially my daughters the way to handle a firearm. Muslims rape nonmuslims then marry them if they become Muslims. Good thing it is legal to defend oneself from those animals with deadly force in this country. I won't have my children become their victims.
December 15, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Yuck. The fewer places this is posted on the internet the better. If publicity is what they want, I don't think we should abet them, even with critique.
December 15, 2011 at 5:33 pm
"This isn't theology. It's not even evangelizing. It's advertising."
No, it's blasphemy — at least in the case of the second picture. I wish I had not seen this.
December 15, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Are we sure she even wanted a child. I would be worried too…
December 15, 2011 at 5:44 pm
A quick perusal of the offending community's website reveals that they call themselves Anglican (apparently reluctantly so), and they are quick to point out that they are "progressive". If you want to lodge a complaint, and can stomach the usual brainless heresy in search of approval, the site is: http://stmatthews.org.nz/
That said, I think Blackrep's counsel is wise and we should just ignore them.
Their kind, as dad used to say, are not worth the powder to blow 'em to hell.
December 16, 2011 at 1:44 pm
To the latest Anonymous: Yes, we are sure she wanted "a" child (better said "THE child"). She wasn't pregnant until AFTER she said yes.