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― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever".

Even worse than the Piss Christ? I guess so, since Chocolate Jesus is naked.

― Jenny, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever".

but why? if it was made of metal or wood it wouldn't be a problem. are they afraid ppl will start eating it?

(isn't that what happens at Communion anyway?)

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but they be enjoying it this time

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Mark 15:24 informs us "Then they crucified Him. This done, they divided His garments among them, drawing lots to decide what each should take." So, if we accept this as true (big assumtion I know) then he would've been nude.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

But they might have left his speedos on for all we know

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, would you want some manky Jewish criminal's smalls? I mean, even if I was as desperate as a 1st Century Roman soldier in Judea, I'm not sure I'd go that far.

That said, chocolate, mmmmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

And they'd want his Speedos first!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

You can buy chocolate crosses for Easter, so why not a chocolate Jesus?

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

JESUS WAS A FREEBALLER, dudes

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, would you want some manky Jewish criminal's smalls

Thanks. Tea came out my nose.

Don't any of these religious types ever have the brains to come up with a good spin on something? Obviously making a Jesus on the cross out of chocolate is something that's supposed to provoke people into thinking, and it could be used by priests everywhere to kickstart some majorly good sermons on transubstantiation, Easter being a festival solely associated with food rather than its religious significance (witness the storm surrounding this, as an example. The only way the crucifixion is getting much air play this Easter is because it's dipped in chocolate as a sweetener) and the whole idea of Lent and sacrifice being bound up with something more significant than just giving up chocolate.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Don't any of these religious types ever have the brains to come up with a good spin on something?

Bill Donahue is a professional grump, though. Irony/sense of humor bypass long since carried out.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Don't any of these religious types ever have ~~the~~ brains ~~to come up with a good spin on something~~?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I really want one of these for easter. To give to my granny.

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled "My Sweet Lord"

ha ha

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Nihilistic artist baits bourgeois, bourgeois takes bait. Film at eleven.

― fife, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Just imagine if Giuliani was still in office.

Yo Mama's Last Supper to thread:

http://www.sattlers.org/mickey/site/archive/2001/03-01/images/ReneeCoxYoMamasLastSupper.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

obviously this has less to do with chocolate than it does with the Catholic Church's pathological aversion to nudity

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

and women.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

obviously this has less to do with chocolate than it does with the Catholic Church's pathological aversion to nudity

erm...the statue is pretty much an exact replica of the ones found in Catholic churches

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Christ is rarely depicted overdressed at the best of times - certainly not on the cross!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

exactly, there's plenty to slam the Catholic church about, you might as well get it right. They love sex and nudity.

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen crucifixes, Ronan, but never have I ever seen Christ depicted nude in a church.

The sculpture being made of chocolate definitely conveys the ideas of pleasure and indulgence, which ideas are pushed to full-blown eroticism, I guess, when the blessed phallus and scrotum of Our Lord are involved.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh god, not bill donohue

― kingfish, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Well, he's almost always semi-naked, about as naked as any religious icon gets I think.

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

elmo, are you anthony?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who Bill Donohue is, but I think the artist should do a life-size chocolate nude Bill Donohue for his next exhibition

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

And yes, there's plenty of sublimated sexual imagery in the Catholic tradition, but it's usually not so overt as full frontal nudity.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that there's a sexualisation at work, but they didn't have far to go, the large crucifixes in Catholic churches here always make sure to depict Christ in a garment that could only be described as flung across his midsection, there's no attempt to cover him up.

Basically what I'm saying is, Christ was already sexy, they just unleashed it.

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

anything is sexier if you make a chocolate version

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Christ was already sexy

oh, for sure

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

christ is fairly frequently depeicted nude, thruout the medevial era, and sometimes erect. leo steinbergs:The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion is the go to text for this, and highly recommened as it obliquely talks about serrano and company.

i know what the artist is doing here, but the cheap pun, and the obvious symbology suggests somebody with more barnum then brains.

donahue is an asshole.

― pinkmoose, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

the real question here is not "is it art", it's "how does it taste?????"

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Anthony! :) (I was just kidding, I know elmo=you but he sounded like you for a second.)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the pun is pretty cheap. Joking around with a friend back in my confirmation class, when I was 16, we came up with the idea of marketing chocolate Christs as "O Sweet Jesus" with the slogan being "Mm, Mm, Sacrilicious." I guess we should have applied for an NEA grant.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/chocolate_jesus.jpg
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/ChocolateJesus.jpg
http://www.wokq.com/images2/wwjd1.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

The chocolate on the original has bloomed badly. Either it's not very good chocolate, or it's been stored at the incorrect temperature.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

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