[Mrluvaluva]

From www.bbc.co.uk

A New York gallery has angered a US Catholic group with its decision to exhibit a milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ.
The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled "My Sweet Lord", depicts Jesus Christ naked on the cross.

Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever".

The sculpture, by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, will be displayed from Monday at Manhattan's Lab Gallery.

The Catholic League, which describes itself as the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organisation, also criticised the timing of the exhibition.

"The fact that they chose Holy Week shows this is calculated, and the timing is deliberate," Mr Donohue said.

He called for a boycott of the gallery and the hotel which houses it.

'Overwhelming response'

The gallery's creative director, Matt Semler, said the gallery was considering its options in the wake of angry e-mails and telephone calls.

"We're obviously surprised by the overwhelming response and offence people have taken," he said. "We are certainly in the process of trying to figure out what we're going to do next."

Mr Semler said the timing of the exhibition was coincidental.

Mr Cavallaro, the Canadian-born artist, is known for using food ingredients in his art, on one occasion painting a hotel room in mozzarella cheese.

He used 200 pounds (90 kg) of chocolate to make the sculpture which, unusually, depicts Jesus without a loincloth.


Anybody wanna comment? I am confused why it is "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever".

[Bells]

Is all this controversy because it's made out of chocolate? I don't get it.
The fact that paintings, or any sculptures for that matter, were made of Jesus weren't a problem but this is?
I mean yeah I suppose it's weird that it's made out of chocolate definitely, but I don't see why it's such a huge problem when there have been many other representations of Jesus made.

[spacebandit]

He used 200 pounds (90 kg) of chocolate to make the sculpture which, unusually, depicts Jesus without a loincloth.


So its fruit and nut then ???





Singalong :

"God...Oh Son Of God
OOOHHH!!
Cadbury take him and they cover him in chocolate"




...and all because the lady loves....Milk Jesus.



Only the crumbliest flakiest Jesus, tastes like Jesus never tasted before.







Sorry - Couldn't resist

[Psylocke]

LMAO!!!

yum yum.

[GiRTh]

It's religion. Ttheir opinions are not based on any kind of rationale. Any thing in the past the depicts any kind of religious image that deviates from the norm always gets this kind of repsonce. I say ignore them,

[Emilee]

I dont see the problem.... Whats wrong with a chocolate Jesus???

[spacebandit]

Originally posted by Emilee
I dont see the problem.... Whats wrong with a chocolate Jesus???

Theres the rub - considering those complaining will presumably celebrate easter with their families, and will present children with chocolate bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs to "celebrate" the execution of a bloke 2000 years ago, it all smacks of pedantic childish hypocrisy to me.

Or maybe it is just me ???


These are the same people who invariably depict Jesus as white [caucasian] and with a perfectly layered shoulder length haircut, perfectly highlit, when in reality Jesus of his time looked like the very people they cheerlead the bombing of, and excuse the torture of - all in the name of God suporting the US of A - just because they happen to sit of billions of gallons of oil.


Ah yes, Right Wing American "Christians" - a bigger bunch of hypocrites you will be hard pressed to find. They make the Catholics look like bastions of purity over their handling of the paedo's in their midst.