Chapel Bar & Bistro Religious Ad Blasphemous? 'Jesus' And 'Mary' In Bed May Raise Eyebrows (PHOTO)

With a name like Chapel Bar & Bistro, one can assume its advertisements would take on a religious motif. What some may interpret as clever allusion, others may interpret as blasphemy.

Chapel Bar & Bistro, located in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. In honor of "seven years of almighty nights," Chapel released an ad depicting "Jesus" and "Mary" in a compromising position.

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In the ad, a rocker-type man with long, shaggy hair and layers of bracelets portrays "Jesus." He lays sprawled out on messy bed strewn with tangled sheets. His arms are stretched and his feet are crossed, echoing the crucifixion. Beside him lays "Mary," curled up at his torso with her hands folded in a sort-of prayer and a blue sheet covering her head and body. Clothes are tossed around the room and a half-eaten pizza is left in a box on the floor.

"If you're a devout Christian, prepare to get your knickers knotted," quipped BuzzFeed's Copy Ranter, dubbing it the "Most Blasphemous Ad of the Week."

Some found the ad, designed by the Ogilvy branch in New Zealand, more clever than controversial. "Although the Chapel Bar & Bistro ad campaign might be considered controversial, with some rocker man posing as Jesus on the cross as his one night stand bows reverently like Mother Mary, the blanket strategically covering each one, it is also very creative," wrote Trend Hunter's Meghan Young.

Chapel has used religious imagery in its advertisements before. Previous ads showed Jesus and Mary in stained glass with pizza pies as halos and dinner and drinks deals written in scripture scrolls.

The shocking ads may be working. Owner Luke Dallow says Chapel has been "creating miracles since 2005," with a string of devoted celebrity and local fans, and various awards to its name, according to Voxy.

Click here to see a collection of other shocking religious advertisements, courtesy of BuzzFeed.

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Click through the slideshow to see most and least Christian cities in the United States:

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• Salt Lake City, UT

  72,432 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Temple_Square_October_05_%288%29_c.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Birmingham, AL

  Metro area Birmingham-Hoover, AL<br> 70,203 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/16th_Street_Baptist_Church.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Oklahoma City, OK

  58,781 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OKC_Cathedral.jpg">here</a>.

• Memphis, TN-MS-AR

  Metro area: Memphis, TN-MS-AR<br> 57,323 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RomanCatholicCathedralMemphisTN.JPG">here</a>.

• Pittsburgh, PA

  56,074 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellefield_Presbyterian_Church_Pittsburgh.JPG">here</a>.

• Providence, RI-MA

  Metro area: Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA<br> 55,653 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Providence_Cathedral%2C_RI_edited.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Boston, MA-NH

  Metro area: Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH<br> 54,347 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons.<br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Centenary_Methodist_Church.JPG">here</a>.

• Chicago, IL-IN-WI

  Metro area: Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI<br> 52,516 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Theresa%27s_Church,_Chicago.jpg">here</a>.

• San Antonio, TX

  Metro area: San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX<br> 52,359 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_Texas_Temple.JPG">here</a>.

• New Orleans, LA

  Metro area: New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA<br> 51,975 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Orleans_Church_Steeple_Clock.jpg">here</a>.

• Buffalo, NY

  Meto area: Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY<br> 51,844 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asbury_Delaware_Church,_Buffalo_1.jpg">here</a>.

• Dallas, TX

  Metro area: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX<br> 51,781 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/The_Catholic_Cathedral_of_Santuario_de_Guadalupe_in_the_Downtown_Dallas_Arts_District%2C_10-26-10.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Houston, TX

  Metro area: Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX<br> 51,398 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annunciation_Church_Houston_Texas.JPG">here</a>.

• Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD

  Metro area: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD<br> 51,361 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Church_Philadelphia.jpg">here</a>.

• Charlotte, NC-SC

  Metro area: Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC<br> 50,932 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_United_Methodist_Church_Charlotte_1.jpg">here</a>.

• Minneapolis, MN-WI

  Metro area: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI<br> 50,550 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Straitgate_Church_%28Minneapolis%29.JPG">here</a>.

• Milwaukee, WI

  Metro area: Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Alis, WI<br> 50,448 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/St_Stanislaus_Catholic_Church.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Nashville, TN

  Metro area: Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN<br> 49,773 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Church_Cathedral,_Nashville.jpg">here</a>.

• Louisville, KY-IN

  Metro area: Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN<br> 49,301 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Cleveland, OH

  Metro area: Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH<br> 48,985 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/StTheodosius.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Kansas City, MO-KS

  48,536 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Community_Christian_Church_KCMO.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Los Angeles, CA

  Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA<br> 48,489 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo here.

• Jacksonville, Florida

  48,355 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/ChurchJax1.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Atlanta, GA

  Metro area: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA<br> 47,612 religious adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Shrine_of_the_Immaculate_Conception.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• New York, NY-NJ-PA

  Metro area: New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA<br> 47,608 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Patrick_front1.jpg">here</a>.

• St. Louis, MO-IL

  47,312 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Francis_De_Sales_facade_23.jpg">here</a>.

• Richmond, VA

  46,596 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Cathedral_of_the_sacred_heart_.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Hartford, CT

  Metro area: Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT<br> 45,067 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Cathedral_of_Saint_Joseph_in_Hartford_3%2C_2009-09-02.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

  Metro area: Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN<br> 43,762 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ImmaculateConceptionChurch.jpg">here</a>.

• Raleigh, NC

  Metro area: Raleigh-Cary, NC<br> 42,153 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christepiscopalravenscroftchurch.jpg">here</a>.

• Rochester, NY

  41,880 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester_St_Marys_Roman_Catholic_Church.jpg">here</a>.

• Detroit, MI

  Metro area: Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI<br> 41,491 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Ste_Anne_de_Detroit.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Indianapolis, IN

  Metro area: Indianapolis-Carmel, IN<br> 41,310 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bethel_A.M.E._Church,_Indianapolis,_front.jpg">here</a>.

• Austin, TX

  Metro area: Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX<br> 41,238 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gethsemane_lutheran_church_austin_2009.jpg">here</a>.

• San Diego, CA

  Metro area: San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA<br> 41,096 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/San-diego-mission-chuch.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Riverside, CA

  Metro area: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA<br> 41,055 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/FirstCongregationalChurch20090821f.jpg">here</a>.

• Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV

  Metro area: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV<br> 39,952 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Holy_City_in_Washington_DC.JPG">here</a>.

• Baltimore, MD

  Metro area: Baltimore-Towson, MD<br> 39,508 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_-_church_towers.jpg">here</a>.

• San Jose, CA

  Metro area: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA<br> 38,782 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/San_Jose_Basilica.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Orlando, FL

  Metro area: Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL<br> 38,350 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_United_Methodist_church_of_Orlando_Steeple.jpg">here</a>.

• Virginia Beach, VA-NC

  Metro area: Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC<br> 37,414 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_of_the_Sea_Catholic_Church_%28Virginia_Beach,_Virginia%29,_exterior,crucifix_and_church.jpg">here</a>.

• Phoenix, AZ

  Metro area: Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ<br> 35,875 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Baptist_Church_%282%29.JPG">here</a>.

• Columbus, OH

  35,390 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_Ohio_Holy_Cross_Church.jpg">here</a>.

• Miami, FL

  Metro area: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL<br> 35,057 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_FL_Downtown_HD_Gesu_Church_sq_pano01.jpg">here</a>.

• Denver, CO

  Metro area: Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO<br> 34,902 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denver,_Church_of_the_Immaculate_Conception.jpg">here</a>.

• Las Vegas, NV

  Metro area: Las Vegas-Paradise, NV<br> 34,503 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Guardian_Angel_Catholic_Cathedral%2C_Las_Vegas%2C_Nevada.jpg">here</a>.

• San Francisco, CA

  Metro area: San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA<br> 34,224 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_church.jpg">here</a>.

• Sacramento, CA

  Metro area: Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Rosenville, CA<br> 34,115 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Westminster_Presbyterian_Church_sacramento_Ca.jpg">here</a>.

• Seattle, WA

  Metro area: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA<br> 33,175 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Mennonite_Church_01.jpg">here</a>.

• Tampa, FL

  Metro area: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL<br> 32,299 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tampa_Sacred_Heart_Church04.jpg">here</a>.

• Portland, OR-WA

  Metro area: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA<br> 30,274 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Laurelhurst_Church,_Portland.jpg">here</a>.

Comments

[k-pearl]

08:48 PM on 12/05/2012

What you gotta realise is the context. It's a little local ad for a little local pub located in a largely secular country. Eighty-five per cent of New Zealanders don't go to church regularly. About the same percentage would find this ad funny. I do.

[ssojwal]

12:44 PM on 11/07/2012

when exhausted of creativity or curiosity a work can regress to this level masquerading as....

[primm49]

10:39 AM on 11/04/2012

Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.

[Cur123]

12:55 PM on 11/02/2012

"thankyou":stephanie curry.john:3;16:jesus will love you_ for that because i am inportant and creation too.love,stephanie diane curry.john:3:16&john 3:2:16: goodbye&thankyou!*selah*.

[Cur123]

12:41 PM on 11/02/2012

you need to put my comment back or get blasphemy charges filed on you from stealing the cronicals.stephanie curry.john:3:16;thankyou and goodbye.thankyou and have a great day.selah.

[Cur123]

12:35 PM on 11/02/2012

i did see jesus and ogod of israel come down from heavenly skies and on earth. i did see mary one day too.they look about the same age but it looks like that it might not be mary.stephanie curry.ps. i seen jesus with the same length hair the first time and the second time with short hair and o god of israel had the same length hair but orange and tall but jesus was about my height and had a good figure but god of israel was tire and hungry and very hot and almost totally crippled,thin, but jesus was fine_*amen*.love,stephanie diane curry.john:3:16:thankyou_selah:godbless and goodbye.love you.stephanie d. curry.j.3.16selah

[TDRussett]

03:03 AM on 11/02/2012

You know what? It's poor taste. But it's an ad for a pub, right? Since when did they have good taste?! Anyway, someone was thinking about Jesus and his crucifixion. Once they think about it, hopefully they'll reflect on the purpose and meaning of Him going through that experience. Then maybe they'll act on that meaning in a positive way. Christianity being spread in the most unlikely of ways? Hurray for Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene! Jesus was tolerant, compassionate, and loving. Besides, in this day and age, if He were behaving like the many self-focused humans He was surrounded by, He'd be saying "Hurray, I just got more exposure! Because of this ad, I got my depiction spread around the Internet to people who might not have looked at it on their regularly-visited sites. Someone planted the seed in their brains. I just want people to think about me. So, way to go Chapel Bar and Huff Post!" To those who think religion and God should go away - it will never happen. Not when it's repetitively put in our stream of consciousness by articles like this. God prevails! Thank God!

[Radscal]

02:48 PM on 11/01/2012

Yes, it's blasphemous, which is why I love it!

[Tanasis]

02:19 PM on 11/01/2012

Freedom of speech can also mean we're free to feel offended by this.

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[DavidTom]

07:29 PM on 10/31/2012

I'm not going to scroll through 1,477 comments to see if my post is redundant, so here goes:

I'm sure that the Christian myth of Jesus and Mary will survive this ad, as Jesus and Mary have survived Jean Luc-Godard's film "Hail Mary"; Nikos Kazantzakis' novel "The Last Temptation of Christ", and Martin Scorsese's film version; Thomas Tally's stageplay about a gay Jesus, and the story of Jesus rock musicals, "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Godspell".

In addition, it's possible that the Mary depicted in the ad not be perceived as the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus (that is, the image is not specifically a Pieta), but rather as Mary Magdalene, Jesus' female companion and, as has been proposed, his lover, his wife, and the mother of his child.

In which case, I suspect that the Christian myth of Jesus will survive the hooey of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "The Da Vinci Code".

Personally, I do not have a problem with the above mentioned creative works attempting to "revision" the story of Jesus, and my personal spiritual beliefs tend toward Hellenic Polytheism…from a psychological perspective.

[rmurrayatlanta]

01:53 AM on 10/31/2012

If you look at how the Israeli's are treating the Palestinian people you would not see them as civilized or the Palestinian people as savage, you would see them as oppressor and oppressed.

[Rogek]

06:06 PM on 11/02/2012

If you look at the way the Palestinians nonchalantly send rockets into Israel for fun you would see them as savage oppressors and would wonder why Israel doesn't retaliate and wipe the stupid fools off the face of the earth. Why can't they learn that Israel does not like for missles to fall on them and destroy life and property? Do Palestinians think if they send one more rocket into Israel or send one more suicide bomber into a Jewish crowd that Israel is suddenly going to pick up and leave Israel? Only stupid fools would believe that. Hmmm. Are those people the Palestinians, Hamas, Alquaeda? If the shoe fits, they should wear it and the next time rockets are fired into Israel, Israel should retaliate and wipe the Palestinians and their supporters and sympathizers off the face of the earth. A win-win proposition....Israel rids the world of stupid fools and Palestinians go straight to heaven. A result to be desired.

[rmurrayatlanta]

01:34 AM on 11/03/2012

You truly have no ideal of the history of the area do ya?

[Rob Devitt]

01:56 AM on 10/30/2012

so the constitutional right to free speech should protect racists and homophobes but not blasphemers?

[SBinF]

12:02 AM on 10/30/2012

Presenting Jesus and Mary as people of European descent, by far the most egregious crime here. They were from the Middle East, why in the heck would they be white?

[arachne646]

02:57 AM on 10/30/2012

Exactly!

[revmonty]

10:47 AM on 10/31/2012

The very famous depiction of a sandy brown haired, blue eyed Jesus has always bothered me.

[Sheryl L Bratcher]

03:43 PM on 10/29/2012

Hmmmm, I wonder how many of you commenters thought the Mohammed movie was perfectly OK

[Dogger807]

09:16 PM on 10/29/2012

Well, both are valid expressions of free speech. There the similarities end. Blasphemy is legal and good, but not all of it is tastfully done.

[Sheryl L Bratcher]

05:19 PM on 11/01/2012

well said

[Rob Devitt]

02:00 AM on 10/30/2012

If there was a dog and a small child in the bed instead of mary then maybe they would be similar. one is a cheeky add for a bar, the other is denigrating the main prophet of a major non Christian religion implying he has sex with animals and children. both are blasphemy in the sense, one is overt religious hatred. Both are with in the realms of free speech, one is outside the realms of taste (barely), the other is an overt attack on muslims.

[wisdom4you]

12:13 PM on 10/31/2012

Robert Devitt ... you wrongfully 'assume' that so called blasphemy is valid to start with. duh.

[Yorksgal]

02:50 PM on 10/29/2012

What comes to mind immediately is............... never would happen in America - the faux Christians would be up in arms before the print hit the streets.

I find that genuine Christians are much more tolerant just as they see their loving and tolerant Christ.

[revmonty]

11:02 AM on 10/31/2012

I am an American, but lived in NZ from '72-'75 and although there are similarities in their cultures, this is actually probably less of an offense to their populace. As a Christian, I despise this picture; however, as an American, I believe in the rights of that owner (even in a foreign country) to display what he wants within the confines of the law. It is beyond what I would find repugnant, but I do not have to frequent their establishment and I can give my opinion to others who believe as I do. If I demand he takes it down in a private place of business, would he then have the ability to have me take down a copy of the Ten Commandments in my church?

[wisdom4you]

12:15 PM on 10/31/2012

Yorksgal, I have news for you, being, there ain't no such thing as a 'genune' christian. duh.

[Tanasis]

02:12 PM on 11/01/2012

yay clap trophy for you