Comments on: Chocolate Jesus Bites The Dust

New York Gallery Cancels "My Sweet Lord" Show Amid Flood Of Protest

[susanhelit]

How is a piece of chocolate destroying the Christian religion? Come on now! It's a bit of freedom of speech, just like the Danish cartoons of Mohammed (actually far less offensive than those cartoons - Jesus is not being painted as a terrorist here).

Everyone is offended by some speech - and everyone has different beliefs. They've got the freedom to put up a chocolate Jesus, you've got the freedom to hate it, say so, boycott the hotel if you like. But death threats - that's illegal and wrong.

What's funny is that the artist may be making a fairly valid, and pro-christian statement here. Naked - according to someone above, that was the reality of how it happened - one more injury done by the romans in addition to the nails. Chocolate - Easter is becoming more and more secular, with chocolate bunnies replacing Jesus. It's a bit of a sarcastic statement, possibly, about what will happen next, as Easter becomes just a holiday about candy for kids.

[DocD--2008]

Anyone who makes a threat of violence or death needs to examine their own lives, thoughts and actions as they are as far from God as they can be.

[passerby2]

And christians say only muslims are capable of being extremists. I say all you religious nutjobs are crazy.

[zootallures2]

Don't play with your food.

[passerby2]

maybe if the statue was not so anatomically correct, he looked too manly and not boyish enough. if they left out the pubi*c hair, he would look more prepubescent. it would better suit the churches agenda allowing them to have fantasies of sodomizing the statue themselves.

[feelfree1]

There is another CBS story on the main page entitled, "Constipation Drug Linked With Heart Risks".

Chcolate Ex-Lax Jesus could provide relief, without the heart attack risks!

[feelfree1]

This story has given me an even better idea for a sculpture- Ex-Lax Jesus!!!

[zoltaric]

The threats were from muslims. Jesus was a muslim prophet.

[feelfree1]

This statue brings a whole new meaning to the journey along the Hershey Highway, that leaders of the Catholic church are traveling.

[binkey3]

Do the extreme Christian Right not understand that Jesus was not wearing a loincloth when He was Crucified? It was part of the humiliation that the Romans wanted Him to go through.

I haven't really got an opion on this yet. It is some what tasteless (no pun intended) yet at the same time it is art. But, everyone would be upset if it was art from the Jewish religon. It would not be allowed by anyone.

I just want to know why it is okay to destory the Christian religon and no other religon.

[feelfree1]

The Catholics could purchase this sculpture, and use it as a fund-raising tool.

They could raise a lot of money towrds settling their sexual preditor lawsuits, if they auctioned off an opportunity for their members to soddomize this statue.

[betterbigger]

death threats?? Proving that Christians are just as violent as Muslims. It's sickening to me that the same people were all titillated over a movie depicting two solid hours of the bloodiest, most brutal violent acts against their God, (Passion of the Christ) but seeing that same god's pen*s is horrible to them. So violence = wonderful, but God-given anatomy = horrible. Got it. Great values, folks.

[thompstone-2009]

Interesting point re white chocolate. No mention of what makes the sculpture so revolting.

[beam_me_up1]

"sickening display", hmm...
Seems like Catholic priest violating children tops that.

[gunownerdan]

Religious nuts just can't seem to take a joke.

[avengersgirl]

If it'd been done out of white chocolate, and if he hadn't been nude...would there have been such anger, I wonder?

Interesting that there were death threats against the artist. I thought that kind of over-reaction was left to Muslims.

Having said that, I hope this artist isn't supported by public funds. Most of his work seems to be merely a waste of food.