Hung Chocolate Jesus Offends Catholics
The planned exhibition of a nude chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ, by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, has been canceled due to overwhelming angry protests from members of the Catholic church. The sculpture, titled “My Sweet Lord” was to be displayed at a Manhattan gallery beginning on the Monday following Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday.
The life-size sculpture was created from over 200 pounds of milk chocolate (probably Ghiradelli, since the artist is Italian) and depicts Christ with arms outstretched and hanging on an invisible cross.
The outrage seems to stem from the fact that the sculpture is anatomically correct and sans the traditional loin cloth, even though the New Testament indicates that Jesus was ’stripped naked’ before he was crucified. Of course, the usual response from Christians when passages from the Bible are called into question, is that it’s not to be taken literally. To me ‘naked’ means without clothes, but apparently the Biblical meaning is with very few clothes.
Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League and the idiot that started the campaign that led to the boycott which led to the cancellation, said it was, “one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever.” Damn right, Bill. This has got to be right up there with priests having sex with young boys.
Hey Bill, have you ever seen this painting before? It was painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome by Michaelangelo. He was kind of a famous painter and the Sistine Chapel is a kind of famous Catholic church. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Hey, what the fuck, is that Adam’s penis I see in that painting? I admit it’s no kielbasa, like the one on chocolate Jesus, but I’m pretty sure that’s his penis.
Maybe Catholics would have found this less offensive if Cavarello had used white chocolate instead of brown and made Jesus a little less well hung. Of course, even though Christians want to act like Jesus was white, he was from the Middle East, which means he was closer to being a brother than a white man.
Hell, if the furor is over the size of the penis, just find some nice Catholic lady that loves chocolate and let her go down on Jesus for a while.
These religious zealots are all the same. They complain that Easter has been commercialized and isn’t about chocolate bunnies, but along comes an artist that does focus on the religious side of the holiday by creating a chocolate Jesus, and they complain about that too.
Watch this video and if you’re a Catholic, ask yourself if you really want Bill Donahue to be your spokesman.
Source: MSNBC
Posted: March 31st, 2007 under Nutty News.
Comments: 15
Comments
Comment from Denise
Time: March 31, 2007, 9:17 pm
Is that a chocolate penis I see?
Comment from Jack
Time: April 1, 2007, 12:28 pm
Great that it has been canceled.
Comment from Owned
Time: April 2, 2007, 9:01 am
Cavarello put that Donahue jackass in his place. Christians are kind, loving, TOLERANT people indeed.
Freedom of speech is cool, so long as these religious idiots get to say whatever they want, put their crosses and jesuses and angels wherever they want, but if someone else says or does something they don’t agree with, freedom of speech/expression flies out the window.
Comment from Astra
Time: April 2, 2007, 9:16 am
They have a problem with the nudity part - not that it’s made out of chocolate. Seems to me that those people just have a personal problem with full frontal male nudity. Which is a crying shame - because if more people were accepting of male nudity, then perhaps the male figure wouldn’t be seen as any less beautiful then the female form.
Comment from Owned
Time: April 2, 2007, 11:35 am
About the nudity. It’s what God gave all men. So they are saying that God isn’t so perfect after all since he gave men something so vile and disgusting. Boggles the mind.
Comment from Hammer
Time: April 2, 2007, 11:41 am
That does seem logical, Owned, but according to the Christian religion, Adam and Eve screwed the naked and innocent part up for everyone and now we must all go through life being ashamed of our bodies.
Comment from Davidus
Time: April 2, 2007, 3:20 pm
Censorship has always been the religious zealot’s modus operandi. When it comes to them, those vertues they are bragging about all day long like tolerance and respect, it suddenly vanishes…They kinda remind me those nobles in the middle ages, do as i say, not as i do.
They are easily offended by a chocolate christ and remain silent when they hear about pedo-priests.
Comment from Not Surprised, but Disapointed
Time: April 3, 2007, 7:48 am
Wow, that sexually repressed moron. I feel that Bill Donahue is a raging retard.
I fear for the public if that man isn’t put into a mental health facility.
He used his network of friends to bully an artist out of an art gallery. I think this artist’s work is a great thing. If he enjoys his religious experience so much that he wanted to make a sculpture about Jesus so be it!
I personally won’t be attending church just because of people like Bill Donahue. He’s accusing Cavarello of being morally bankrupt but I think Bill is truly lacking in this department.
Perhaps he’s just had those ideas beaten into him by being born in a completely different time than I was.
Comment from Owned
Time: April 3, 2007, 1:48 pm
@Hammer
Not all of us have to go through life ashamed of our bodies, just the delusional morons who follow religion.
Comment from last
Time: April 3, 2007, 10:43 pm
Donohue made some dumb comments, but the artist is clearly full of shit as well. He’s looking to create some outrage so that he gets publicity for his worthless ass.
Honestly, if Catholics are offended of a chocolate Christ and write a few letters saying they’ll boycott a hotel, big fucking deal. They did everything within the law and didn’t “force” anyone to take the thing down. To say they shouldn’t be allowed to complain is just to practice the same censorship in the opposite direction.
Moreover, they didn’t riot and kill innocent people or the artist like the fucking Muslims do. So again, big fucking deal.
No one has a right not to be offended. But no one can say the other side isn’t allowed to boycott or speak out against such offenses, provided they do so within the law.
Comment from Hammer
Time: April 4, 2007, 6:39 am
Last, you are apparently unaware that the wonderful Christians that simply ‘wrote a few letters’ actually threatened the hotel and made death threats against the artist. The hotel didn’t pull the display just because of a few letters of protest, they did it because they were afraid someone would fire bomb the place. You know, like the same wonderful Christians that attack abortion clinics do.
This has happened every time that Donahue calls for a protest. Whether he actually encourages the death threats or simply attracts nutjobs isn’t known, but anyway you look at it, his protests never involve some decent Christians participating in a legal protest.
Comment from Owned
Time: April 4, 2007, 6:57 am
What they did is bordering on terrorism. Using bullying and scare tactics to get their way.
Comment from Fellow
Time: June 28, 2007, 1:38 pm
I think Cosimo handled this amazingly well. Bill was making completely invalid points. He compared this sculpture of Jesus to a postage stamp with a swastika distributed by the USPS. He also was saying things that no politician, or any person under public scrutiny, would say in their right mind. He called this man a loser, said the whole borough of SoHo to be a dump, and obviously doesn’t understand the meaning of what he is saying. “You’re lucky I’m not like the Taliban, because you would lose more than your head.” If he had bothered to think before he spoke, he would have realized this comes across as a death threat. He also assumes this man is a Muslim Arab, when he is an Italian Catholic, and accuses him of lying when he says so! This man is completely incompetent, and deserves no public office.
Comment from Bill Donahue
Time: June 29, 2007, 5:41 pm
Hey guys, I’m an asshole!
WRAAAAAGH MUST SMASH JESUS COCKS RWAAAAAH!
Comment from Zack
Time: July 3, 2007, 9:21 am
Uhh, was a swastika, a symbol by which over 10 million people of all denominations were killed by, really compared to sculpting Jesus’ penis in chocolate.
Wake up, go back to 7th grade, and take health: men have penises, women have vaginas. We’re all born naked you stupid, fat, republican, overly-zealous, lacking half a brain, pro-life yet pro-war, hypocritical pigs.
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