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Chocolate Jesus Makes Catholics CRAZY

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A Manhattan art gallery canceled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics.

The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

The display had been scheduled to open on Monday, days ahead of Good Friday when Christians mark the crucifixion of Jesus. But protests including a call to boycott the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel forced the gallery to scrap the showing.
spoco2says...

"ugh... inane concept art... what a thing to bother getting worked up over."

Two points made, both valid to a point.

Inane concept art : in your opinion. I personally find it to be a very nicely sculpted piece of work. The fact that it's made of chocolate is slightly irrelivant, I mean it isn't, but as has been said, if it were made of any 'normal' sculpting substance (say, marble, wood etc.) then they would be hard pressed to get riled up over it. It's no different than a billion other christ sculptures. Sure it shows his penis, but really, whoop de frigging do.

'What a thing to bother getting worked up over': Absolutely. Who the frig cares, I mean in the larger scheme of things it matters not a jot. This guy and his nutjob followers NEED to get riled up over these things because that's ALL they exist to do, just to get pissed off over stupid things, that's what idiots pay them to do.

k8_fansays...

Tragically, the artist was not able to talk in any depth about his reasons for making this - only having to defend the work against a professional nutjob's misinterpretation. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that the holiday of Easter, as practiced in the United States, has far more to do with pre-Christian fertility festivals than the resurrection. Easter to most folks here is about brightly colored chicken ova. By making a Christ figure out of the substance traditionally used for chocolate bunnies, Cavallaro has re-claimed Easter for Christ, something that should not offend any REAL Catholic.

phelixiansays...

well said k8_fan

i get the sense that jesus would be more likely to want to break bread with cavallaro than donahue. although being jesus he would just love them both and pat them on their heads.

i was really hoping for a "sweet little baby jesus" made out of chocolate "but with the holy powers of grown up jesus".

AnimalsForCrackerssays...

I thought the same thing when viewing the title after watching. From an (having been raised Catholic)atheist's perspective I don't think there is any way this guy represents Catholics even in the general sense. I sense much hate & fear in you, Bill Donahue. No sir, this (you)ass-hat is a cut above and beyond. And so is that Chocolate Jesus! Unintentionally hilarious when Cosimo briefly talks about tasting & feeling Chocolate Jesus' body in your mouth or when he nods and smiles to someone off-camera, "I'm a loser."

rickegeesays...

FTR Raised Catholic and law school at Catholic University of America. And I agree that Donahue doesn't represent most mainstream American Catholics with a brain. But I am still not losing the alliterative title.

And I wouldn't marginalize Donahue too much. His arguments and views are very much in line with Pope Ratzinger. And, at least at Catholic U., there was a strong revival of what I would call anti-Vatican II people who really took over the scene (and strongly promoted Bush) during the Terri Schiavo issue, the late-term abortion cases, and the stem cells legislation. I do think that mainstream American Catholics are going to have to come to terms with the fact that a very real schism is on the way.

And whenever there is a Mapplethrope, a piss Christ, a dung Mary, or a candy icon, the anti-Vatican II people run past the Left Behind evangelicals to the media outlets to threaten, censor, and whinge.

calvadossays...

Enh, I didn't like either of those dudes. The spokesman was a foolish blowhard and the artist should've copped to the fact that he wanted to make something controversial (ie., a crucified Jesus with his junk showing), rather than dance around it.

gwiz665says...

The artist came off as an intelligent guy, even if he looks like saddam. In the voice of pope benedict "All right Bill that's enough... I'm pretty sure that killing Jesus is pretty un-christian."

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