Hey angels, don't do that!

[MotherOfGizmo]

OTTAWA (Reuters) - One of Canada's leading cinema chains has stopped handing out Christmas wrapping paper to its patrons after parents complained it featured angels fondling each other suggestively, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Famous Players acted after the wrapping paper -- a promotion for the Virgin Mobile phone service -- was handed out to young children.

The paper features a male angel grasping the breast of his female partner, while she has hold of his genitals, as they kiss. Both are fully clothed in white angel attire.

http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id...ANGELS-DC.html

[wannabethintoo]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

No picture of the wrapping paper?

[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

No picture of the wrapping paper?

Unfortunatley they didn't show it - But you're Canadian, did they show it on the news there?

[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

Wanna, I found it for you....here

http://www.adrants.com/images/virgin...ping_paper.JPG

[ladyinred]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

And they say Canadians are all polite and boring. lol Not so much, eh?

[Labarum]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

You are right.

Although the Greek noun is masculine, angels are neuter: they don't do that!

In the Jewish and Christian Traditions angels are non-corporeal creatures - no physical body and therefore no gender.

See the discussion below in St Mark's Gospel, the context is the Levirate Marriage

http://www.mucjs.org/JLAS/levirate.htm

where it was the duty of man to raise children in his death brother's name, and provide for his widow as for his own wife.

But in heaven, there is no marriage because humans become "like the Angels".

How that squares with maidens in Islamic Heaven I can't say.



Mark 12:18-27



18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him (Jesus) a question, saying, 19‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 20There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children; 21and the second married her and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; 22none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. 23In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married her.’

24 Jesus said to them, ‘Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? 25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? 27He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.’

[womanpraised]

Re: Hey angels, don't do that!

You have to wonder, what the designer of that paper was THINKING?????

Perhaps next we will have Donner and Dancer creating Donner jr behind the sleigh, or anatomically correct snowmen?

People befuddle me.