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I saw an interesting story on the news the other day.
A man in New York has made a life-size, anatomically correct, crucified Jesus out of pure chocolate. He had plans to show it in a gallery during the week of Easter, but (of course) the backlash from the fundamentalist Christian community caused the gallery to cancel the exhibit.
Here's the funny thing: I took one look at this chocolaty Jesus and thought "Wow! What a brutally simple concept! It so effectively lampoons how Christian holidays have been warped into bizarre amalgamations of worship and consumerism! How ironic that the groups up in arms over 'My Sweet Lord' are really only seeing what most of America sees when they think of Easter: chocolate."
The artist's (paraphrased) interpretation of his work, according to a CNN interview: "I just wanted to associate Jesus with a taste." 
Lame. I liked my interpretation a lot better.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6509127.stm |
I read something about this too, and as a matter of fact, this artist was on the Opie and Anthony show today. They actually had him face off against Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, and try to defend his views on Catholicism and Christianity. It was quite entertaining to listen to, since the artists honestly did
not sound convincing at all, and Bill Donohue was battering him with accusations of blasphemy left and right.
Personally, I think the idea of creating a nude, bald Jesus
is indeed insulting to the Christians and Catholics. I mean, sure, artistic expression knows no bounds, but when it comes to portraying a religious figure in such a way, I feel that it's going a little to far. Also, in my opinion, it seems like this artist just did this for attention, like he just wanted to create something
so outrageous that people would recognize him for it.
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Anyway! Jezus candy? I could bite his head off  . |
I hope you mean the one on his shoulders
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