update: Sweet Jesus!

Recently, Scot S W posted an item about the chocolate Jesus which has since become notorious all across the world. Scot made an excellent point or two. To see shame in this artwork may be silly. (See below, or CLICK HERE )


Here are some new developments.
1. Chocolate Jesus is in hiding:

The artist who created this artwork has put his creation in a refrigerated truck, and he isn't saying where. Meanwhile, he looks for a new venue.

STORY CLICK HERE



2. It's definitely not the first chocolate Jesus.

A little research has revealed that edible Messiahs of the chocolate type are not unheard of.
In fact, this is not the first crucified Jesus chocolate art work extant.
See here: CLICK

or, Here: CLICK



or, Here: CLICK

3. Go watch and hear Tom Waits sing his "Chocolate Jesus" song from 2004.
CLICK TOM WAITS

Some of the lyrics are:

"I fall on my knees every sunday
At zerelda lees candy store

Well its got to be a chocolate jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate jesus
Keep me satisfied"

Read them all here: LYRICS

4. Go here to buy your own chocolate Jesus candies and then you can eat them for Easter. (Get a Virgin Mary, also.) CANDY HERE

or, Here: CANDY
(you can even get Marys or choir boys)


5. Even the Last Supper has been done, and this in two colors of chocolate. That's Jesus in the middle .

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We conclude that it's not the medium (chocolate) or the message (Christianity) or the milieu (art), that offends several people, it's the penis!

Sweet Jesus!

So an Italian sculptor has created a nude depiction of the crucified Christ out of 200 lbs of chocolate, just in time for Easter. The NYC gallery that was going to show the piece has been overwhelmed with complaints, though I must confess that I don't recall any instructions left by our Lord and Savior regarding the proper materials with which to make graven images of Him. Would he necessarily prefer wood or iron to chocolate? Did his Message, after all, not stress the ephemerality of this material world?

A Catholic "civil rights" group is leading the media campaign against the sculpture, titled "My Sweet Lord." The group's leader, a gasbag named William Donohue, indicates that the timing of the display is somehow part of the reason he's objecting; The gallery claims the coincidence was entirely coincidental. Isn't that a pretty good sign that the gallery owners haven't been going to church much lately? Easter doesn't sneak up on most people, Christian or not.

BBC Online article

Perhaps it's a sign that I've become a member of the liberal elite that I don't see anything particularly offensive in this. But the episode does raise lots of questions.

If you snap the Savior's head off and eat it first, do you suppose that the sculpture is hollow inside, like those chocolate bunnies? And why does Donohue not object to the heretical nonsense of Easter Bunnies anyhow. Antropomorphic hares handing out egg-shaped confections? I mean, talk about undermining the real meaning of Easter.

And is this really worth outrage? I actually think it looks like a quite moving and reverent piece of art. It's an excellent sculpture, and a strange item to make a big deal about, any way you think about it. Pedophile priests, wars of adventure in Iraq, gun crimes, social injustice.

I guess Donohue has become inured to the many actual insults to the sensibilities of peaceful people, and having come unhinged entirely from the spirit of Christianity, this is the best the old curmudgeon can muster. Next year, maybe he could give up demogoguery for Lent.