Only in Germany

German youths offer R-rated Bible calendar (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10297248)

BERLIN - A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson’s hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.

“There’s a whole range of biblical Scriptures simply bursting with eroticism,” said Stefan Wiest, the 32-year-old photographer who took the titillating pictures.

Anne Rohmer, 21, poses on a doorstep in garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab, who is mentioned in both New and Old Testaments. “We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people,” she told Reuters.

“Anyway, it doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that you are forbidden to show yourself nude.”

Bernd Grasser, pastor of the church in Nuremberg where the calendar is being sold, was enthusiastic about the project which is explained online.

“It’s just wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with their hair and their skin to the Bible,” he said.

It will be officially launched over the weekend.

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That's all I have to say

i think people make too big of a deal about nudity these days....at least in the States

i think people make too big of a deal about nudity these days....at least in the States


True, but its biblical characters, thats knockin it up a notch. The last thing I wanna see is Jesus' shlong.

i'm not religious or anything but that's just wrong to do to the bible. and the whole ''we wanted to interest the youth" um hello u don't need to strip to get our attention, that's what youth groups are for. stupid stereotypers. *grumbles*

I've just lost a little more faith in humanity upon reading that. Religion--the Bible and Christianity specifically--one of the things that many people look to for support because of its purity, has now been made a mockery of. No words can really express how disappointing this is to me.

I had a Catholic education from pre-school through undergrad, including a Jesuit college. Trust me, there is ALOT of sex/eroticism in the bible. Many fundamentalists won't agree with this, but I want anyone to read the Song of Songs in the Old Testament and deny just how erotic it is. There are also some highly erotic scenes regarding King David. Of course it is not nearly as blatant as something more modern, but many scholars argue this very point. Many religious conservatives don't like to talk very much about these parts of the bible, but they are there and they should not just be looked over.

I can see where they could easily go over the top with this, and I don't really agree with using this kind of stuff to bring people into religion, but then again I don't understand German culture half as well as I understand German cars...