Erotic Biblical Calendar

In Nuremberg Germany, a Protestant youth group just released an erotic 2006 calendar with twelve staged photographs depicting scenes from the Bible. Some of the pictures include a nude Eve offering an apple, a topless Delilah cutting Samson’s hair, and the prostitute Rahab posing on a doorstep in stockings and a garter, as she is depicted doing so in both the Old and New Testament. The goal of the calendar was to spark some enthusiasm in a new crowd who probably otherwise would not be so interested: “We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people.” The pastor of the church Bernd Grasser enthusiastically explains the project at www.bibelkalender.de. If I’m the younger generation they’re trying to attract, I’m not sure it is working so well.