This lovely tidbit (pun intended) came through Reuters today…

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.

Source: Reuters

At first, your attention may be on the fact that they’re using a sex calendar to promote the Gospel. That’s not where your attention should be. A German Protestant youth group. Youth.

On the bright side, these youths may be somewhat older than our familiar American youth groups:

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.”

That’s right, kids. If the Bible doesn’t explicitly forbid it, then it’s ok.

“It’s just wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with their hair and their skin to the bible,” [pastor Bernd Grasser] said.

Commit! Or else!

In any case, you can check out the official link (nudity warning). But unless you’re German or study German or know how to use a translation website, then you’re just gonna stare at the pictures. And thus think about… the Bible.