Comments on: Holy Week Angst Over Naked Chocolate Jesus

Sculpture By Cosimo Cavallaro To Debut At Gallery In NYC

[rohink-2009]

rohink

All religions are mumbojumbo superstition so it doesn't matter who gets bent out of shape.

LJ
Posted by larry123777

I bet you a million dollars you'd feel safer with a Christian getting bent out of shape than you would a Muslim.

[me4prezz]

The point is--- when Christians (which includes Catholics) put up a manger scene during Christmas, say Merry Christmas, or do anything or say anything that involves a Christian faith or religion, we are told that our religion is offensive to those of other religions and we need to stop. BUT, when we as Christians, are offended, we are to suck it up and take the blow. I don't think so! This is utterly lacking in tact and using Holy Week, the most sacred time for all Christians, is demeaning. And no, using "white chocolate" wouldn't have made a difference.

It is taking a Holy and treasured symbol of our beliefs and turning it into something less than demeaning and then expecting us to except it, is absurd. I have said it before and I will say it again and again: FREEDOM OF RELIGION DOES NOT EXCLUDE CHRISTIANS.

[Syndicate]

I beleive in freedom of speech. The only way this could be any better would be for it to be a naked representaion of Mohamed. Catholics need to understand that in a free society where they are free to believe what they want others will disagree and laugh at them. I guess one solution would be to bann catholisism.

[larry123777]

rohink

All religions are mumbojumbo superstition so it doesn't matter who gets bent out of shape.

LJ

[diplomacy3]

I think the artist better had named it "Chocolate Gandhi or Delai Lama"

[rohink-2009]

L J,

Do you get off when the muslims get bent out of shape?

[larry123777]

They were surprised the Christian community would be outraged by this? What rock have they been living under for the past 2000 years? Personally, as an athiest, I find it appropriate when someone does something to get Christians bent out of shape about their mythology.

LJ

[diplomacy3]

The basic question is: Who has seen Jesus in life time that he looked like what the sculpture depicts. We waste our time for nothing. I don't know where it takes us.

[gunownerdan]

Don't let your kids get too close to the Chocolate Jesus ***.

[ecuadoriana]

"Maybe if they used White Chocolate it would have been more acceptable!"
Posted by falasha at 10:49 AM : Mar 30, 2007

HA HA HA!!!
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The only way this sculpture could be any better is if the artist, at the end of the gallery run, had people dressed in nun & priest costumes come up & take bites out the the sculpture! But they have to be blindfolded w/ their hands tied behind their backs w/ rosary beads! THAT would really be a statement.

[rohink-2009]

You're trying to understand something that maybe isn't supposed to be understood...just looked at.
Posted by jh6379

Sucker. Are you willing to pay money to "look at it"?

He did it to create a controversy and get fools to defend his art. Or condemn it.

[iceman_1960]

"Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League."

Never mind.

(Some old religious movies required absurd concessions to Victorian prudishness. The actor portraying Christ in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" was required to shave his armpits before he could portray Christ on the Cross. I'm not making that up. One of my Catholic professors told me that.)

[rohink-2009]

Cosimo calavaro takes advantage of christian barking dogs.He surely would not dare to do the same with islamic biting dogs.
Posted by oswaldoC

Well said.

[gwagener]

So Jesus didn't have an organ down there? Is that what they are saying? Or is it that they think Jesus must have had a larger/smaller organ than the one depicted?

[mike71067]

I%u2019ve never had any respect for artists. I am a painter myself, but the notion that these idiot %u201Cartists%u201D, many of whom are unemployed and contribute nothing to society, are somehow important, is absurd. People like this bozo, and that other genius who pissssed into a jar containing a crucifix and called it %u201Cart%u201D are simply parodies of themselves. They are looking for attention, and are doing whatever it takes to get it. I have a 6-year old who behaves the same way. These are the same clowns who stage %u201Cdie-ins%u201D at the White House, chain themselves to trees, etc. They need to get real jobs and do something beneficial.

[iceman_1960]

"It's not the first time that Donohue's group and the art world have been at odds. A painting of %u201CThe Holy Virgin Mary%u201D that used a splash of elephant dung drew outrage in 1999."

These people are cultural vandals. They want this publicity.

Phil Donohue used to be such a senitive guy, too. He wore a dress on TV to show support for women's issues. Why has he turned so mean ? What's gotten into him ? Is Dr. Phil aware of this ?

[oswaldoernesto]

Cosimo calavaro takes advantage of christian barking dogs.He surely would not dare to do the same with islamic biting dogs.

[nwihoosier]

Read, actually read the illiterate, attention seeking responses by many reviewing this article. I suppose saying outrageous things behind the cover the the Internet makes them feel important.
Poor, sad people.

[anopinion1]

HAHA FALASHA
probably

but christians don't like anything to do with the crucifiction to be joked about or messed with.

[falasha-2009]

Maybe if they used White Chocolate it would have been more acceptable!