I'm sure you've all heard about the art show that was canceled a couple weeks ago, the chocolate Jesus statue, entitled My Sweet Lord, by Cosimo Cavallaro. This is the same guy who covered an entire house with cheese, genius artist if you ask me. The show was cancelled before it was ever open to the public, thanks to a 'watchdog' group, the Catholic League. They found it offensive, "this is one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever," said Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League. The offense was taken by the Catholic League, and they took the offense on behalf of all Christians, but other Christians did not necessarily share that offense. And what did the chenius (that’s cheese genius) artist say about the show being cancelled? “They jumped to conclusions completely contrary to our intentions.” Hmmm. So what were their intentions?
Even as a non-Christian, I find the commercialization of Easter more disturbing than that of Christmas. Christmas is a time of giving, everyone can get into the act, but Easter is supposed to be a pretty darned sacred time, and everyone’s more worried about their new clothes and candy, than the actual meaning of Easter. Perhaps the statue is representing exactly that. Like the chocolate Gestheminie hill I made out of melted Easter candy.
How is a chocolate Jesus offensive?
Oh, did I mention the statue was naked. And there in lay the offense.
I think the nudity was a problem specifically to the Catholics because in general, Catholics like to prentend there is no such thing as sex. They don’t want their priests and nuns having any, they don’t even want their members having it, if it’s not for procreation. Sex only for procreation? Doesn’t that make us more like animals?? If Jesus was the son of God, that makes him a male, and that makes him anitomically correct, like (most of) the rest of us. Get over it.
Just my opinions, of course, but bottom line: it’s unfair to cancel an art show before anyone has even gotten to see it.

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