whatever happened to sweet baby jesus?
April 02, 2007 NEW YORK: Pressure from angry Catholics has forced the cancellation of an exhibition featuring a life-size, “anatomically correct” milk chocolate statue of Jesus Christ.
The 300,000-strong Catholic League mobilised last week when it was announced that the sculpture, the work of installation artist Cosimo Cavallaro, would go on show at Manhattan’s Lab Gallery.
The league said the decision to show the chocolate Christ in Easter week was a calculated insult. (from The Australian)
dan: here’s the question i still don’t know the answer to: what exactly is the objection? is it just that it’s a jesus you can eat? because isn’t that what the eucharist is? i’m being serious here. would there be an objection if someone made a jesus statue using wafers?
jay: i think the catholic league’s objection was the idea that jesus could be anything other than white chocolate.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:15am
I think also the objection was that Jesus had a big fat chocolate peeper that stuck out.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:58pm
yes. probably the stick-out peeper.
8==D
only it was chocolate.