Chocolate Jesus Refuses to Melt Away

[DeSwiss]

SOURCE: AP

Artist: Many Offers For Chocolate Jesus
Sun Apr 1, 4:42 PM ET

NEW YORK - An anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ infuriated Catholics and even led to threats, but the artist says offers to buy or exhibit the piece have been pouring in.

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro said Saturday that because of "some people who are fanatics" and the threats he received, he had stored the sculpture in a refrigerated truck in an undisclosed location.

A Manhattan gallery on Friday called off a planned exhibit of the 6-foot sculpture — called "My Sweet Lord" — amid a deluge of complaints from Catholics, including Cardinal Edward Egan.

They were offended by the confection, which does not include the loincloth typical in religious portrayals of Christ. Many also were outraged that the gallery planned to display the sculpture during Holy Week. The exhibit was to have run from Monday through Easter Sunday inside Manhattan's Roger Smith Hotel.

Cavallaro said the controversy spurred "thousands" of e-mail messages from people offering help, donations and exhibition space.

"It's quite amazing," he said.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_re_us/chocolate_jesus

*** - All I want to know is, is there nougat or nuts inside???
:shrug:

[eleny]

1. it's a miracle

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Sounds like they were on the outside................

[C_U_L8R]

3. melts in your mouth not in your hands

just like communion wafers.. but chocolate. divine.

[Miss Chybil]

5. This is what I thought! You could really eat the body of Christ.

I don't know. Since it doesn't have a loin cloth, eating all of it would be a little weird...

[Heathen57]

4. Seems the biggest complaint

was that their Christ was shown with all the human parts.

This was supposed to be God in human form, so shouldn't he have all the proper parts? It just goes to show that they are very hung up on sex and the human body.

Wonder if he was depicted as being circumsized, like any good Jew would have been? :think:

[TlalocW]

6. It's not sacrilegious

It's sacri-licious!

Well, I hope that the artist either sells it for big bucks or gets to display it somewhere else so that Bill Donohue's blood pressure will go up again. They were both on Anderson Cooper's show, and I doubt the artist is like this, but he should really send Bill and the Catholic League a thank-you note for drawing attention to it and helping the artist rake in the cash. The best revenge is living well after all.

I don't get the hubbub. The guy wasn't making an anti-Catholic statement. I guess the medium - chocolate - is what has people upset. Guess the Catholic League thinks the church should keep the monopoly on the body of Christ with Communion wafers. But isn't this just the next step in the evolution (or intelligent design) of chocolate eggs and rabbits for Easter? I could understand an outcry if it were made of those disgusting Peeps...

TlalocW

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. Sacro-licious?

:rofl:

Love the word.

[Bragi]

8. How about an anatomically-correct chocolate Mohammad?

That would be far more exciting.

- B

[Waya]

9. Well, if it would have been Mohammed .....

.....made from chocolate the Christians couldn't care less (Muslims might be ticked off, tho). It's fascinating how when it comes to Christians feeling offended by something involving Jesus it turns into a major crisis and the cauterwauling, griping and whining never stops - but when it is a figure of another religion being portrayed in an 'inappropiate' way (in the opinion of the followers of that religion) then the Good Christians just shrug their shoulders and wonder what the big deal is - well, chocolate Jesus, what's the big deal?

[jgraz]

10. At first I thought this guy was kind of a hack

but after seeing him attacked and bullied by Bill Donohue, I hope the dude makes millions off this.

[NAO]

11. Eatable Jesus has been around for 2,000 years

Granted, it usually (appears) to be saltines (although the ESSENCE is the ACTUAL body of the Saviour), but I don't see any reason why it couldn't be chocolate.

In fact, if you put cherry cream filling inside the chocolate Jesus, that could serve as His blood, and you could have a single item serve both functions of the Eucharist!

The cannibalism and vampires implicit in the Eucharist has always grossed me out and seemed very bizarre.