Comments on: Holy Week Angst Over Naked Chocolate Jesus

Sculpture By Cosimo Cavallaro To Debut At Gallery In NYC

[silver9991]

Nekkid chocolate Jesus... why does this controversy remind me of the Mohammed cartoon bruhaha?

We're more civilized in the West, so there are several less death threats.

You don't like it, don't go to view it. Personally, I think it weirdness on a level I don't need to visit, either.

[me4prezz]

ttinsly:

Go read up on your American History and you will find that this country was founded on Christian principles and a faith in God. It is in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, etc. Religious freedom also do not mean the right to persecute others. Religious freedom means the right to practice your faith without risk of being persecuted.

[tucano2]

The roman catholics are offended???heck they are not even Christian. Aren't they just papists? Aren't their priests just child molesters? Isn't their laXXX cardinal phoney baloney mahoney just another human traffic smuggler and appologist for slave labor in the USA and isn't he one of the proponents of illegal aliens over American citizens?

[me4prezz]

SusanHelit:

What I meant by Freedom of Religion does not exclude Christians is that Christians are increasly told to stop putting up or celebrating aspects of our faith because it "offends" someone of another faith and yet those of the other faith are allowed to pray in schools, disband prayer groups of Christians, demand nativity scenes removed and we are supposed to put up with it for the sake of a politically correct society and frankly, I am tired of it.

I refuse to put aside my faith and my beliefs for those who don't believe in it because it might offend someone, especially when they do something like this--which is OFFENSIVE. If I have to put my faith aside to not offend, then others need to put aside theirs in risk of offending Christians. You can't have it one way and not the other.

It is not the "chocolate Jesus" itself that offends, but the total disregard for a sacrad symbol of the Christian faith. If someone took the Koran and did something to it or made a recreation of this ilk of Mohammad, then people would be on here saying that the Christians are once again out to destroy another religion in lieu of their own, but we are not supposed to stand up when our faith is abused? Think again!

As a Christian, I am proud to say that I am so and I am not going to step aside any more for politically correctness. You can bend so far you before you have to snap back or break and I, for one, refuse to break my faith!

[anopinion1]

anyone ever watch Dogma?

he should have made a chocolate buddy christ nacked.

[susanhelit]

Sorry - but they did promise to destroy something. People's LIVES. There were death threats made to the hotel and artist.

Yeah, you have the right to object - and no one was saying you didn't. People do have the right to not agree with your objections though.

[perimogi]

The amazing attack on Christians who object to this is uncalled for. You say Christians are terrible for objecting, yet if this had been Muhammad, you would have seen something like what occurred when Denmark had the cartoons deemed vile by Islam. Christians have the right to object to things that offend them. But you notice they did not promise to destroy something. Think, Think Think. Why didn't the artist do this portraying Mohammad?

[inventagod]

They are removing the sculpture, but the same religo/wackos will fatten the wallets of countless chocolate egg manufacturers and all the other corporate giants during Easter week.

Again, this points out the futility and sillyness of the gullible superstitious masses...

[susanhelit]

Well - so much for how tolerant Christians are - the display is being taken down, after they recieved a ton of DEATH THREATS - good christians, huh?

[shingles1]

Good point - couldn't this art piece actually be interpreted as pro-Christ; ie. making a point that the whole Easter Bunny and Choclate aspect takes away from what Easter is all about?

[susanhelit]

Silly posts about how "freedom of religion does not exclude christians" - putting up art that offends you should not prevent you from being Christian, unless you are very weak indeed. You have freedom of religion - believe in whichever you want, go to church, work, and you won't be discriminated against. But you can't force others to respect your religion, pretend they believe in it, to never make an image that offends you. Yeah, that applies to Muslims too, and every other religious group. Just because they had a bigger temper tantrum, doesn't mean that they won.

[susanhelit]

I see a funny aspect to this - Easter being celebrated with so many chocolate bunnies, why not a chocolate Jesus - kinda maybe making a point merging the secular Easter with chocolate bunnies and egg hunts with the religious Easter with Jesus.

Making him naked - maybe as a bit of an insult, maybe just to stir a reaction.

Art? Who knows - people call lots of things art that I don't. It isn't to me, might be to others. But freedom of expression it definitely is. Boycotting the hotel, being outraged is also freedom of expression. Making laws to ban this, violence - that I think is just plain stupid and wrong - whether it's chocolate Jesus or chocolate Muhammed.

[shingles1]

I think I see an image of the Virgin Mary in that swirly pattern on his tummy.

[anopinion1]

next he will make mary out of white chocolate to go in front of him, mourning his death.
Maybe that will draw more attention to himself once his chocolate jesus looses it.
The race card will draw him more attention for sure.

[extremophil]

Hey! Who bit the ears off the chocolate Jesus?

[diplomacy3]

rohink

Reality & truism.

[iceman_1960]

"Apparently there was some odd connection between Rushdie and Ortega in the past."

Wikipedia:

"In the 1980s, Rushdie visited Nicaragua, the scene of Sandinista political experiments, and this experience was the basis for his next book, The Jaguar Smile."

Hence Pat Buchanan's personal fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

[diplomacy3]

Salman Rushdie is Islamic name. He was so desparate that he even forgot to change his name before publishing that book. He thought it later but it was too late. He had already got that cash.

[diverinnl]

dsutton13, what many don't realize is that the SP crowd, who claimed to be the "enlightened" and "tolerant" are neither. If you don't fall boot step in line with their popular beliefs, your critized and called ignorant, narrow minded, etc. Some on this board use the most fowl of language as is possible without getting censored. They're all hypocrits. I say let them keep hugging themselves and keep looking down they're noses. I really couldn't care less what they think of me.

[rohink-2009]

I don't believe in fantasy. I have not seen the prophet muhammad how he looked like. No matter what you write or sketch that's someone's own wisdom. I won't mind. And won't waste my time.
Posted by diplomacy3

Not quite sure what you meant by "write or sketch that's someone's own wisdom" What actually do you believe in?