The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142208 Message #3276311
Posted By: Crowhugger
18-Dec-11 - 10:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
Subject: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
Tonight when my husband read to me a news item from the paper about this image on a billboard in NZ (see top left of page), first I laughed right out loud. Immediately I also thought it was a brilliant stroke of PR to make a church relevant to early 21st century people. A great angle on an old story.
We both laughed some more at a list of possible captions for the billboard (scroll down)--some are downright audacious! Though I don't know if the billboard actually has a caption.
Anyhow, given that I'm not Christian and my husband's Catholicism is long lapsed, it occurs to me there may be more to this than meets our eye. Do tell: Does the image offend you? How, why? Does it amuse you? How, why? Not sure? Talk about that, too.