Liberal Church Lampoons Virgin Birth

Just in time for Christmas, a New Zealand church has erected a billboard that depicts the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together.

The billboard -- paid for by St. Matthew-in-the-City, a liberal Anglican church in the town of Wellington -- reads, "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow." According to the Huffington Post, the "progressive Christian" Anglican church hopes that the billboard will "get people talking about the Christmas story."

Church leader Archdeacon Glynn Cardy told the A.P., "This billboard is trying to lampoon and ridicule the very literal idea that God is a male and somehow this male God impregnated Mary ... We would question the Virgin Birth in any literal sense. We would question the maleness of God in any literal sense."

A press release on the church's Web site asks, "Is the Christmas miracle a male God sending forth his divine sperm, or is the miracle that God is and always has been among the poor?" This is just one of a growing number of liberal churches who don't believe in the Bible, but promote a semi-belief in a universal God to push "social justice" (redistribution of wealth) and good deeds for the poor. See Chick's SIN CITY.