You may have heard about the six foot chocolate likeness of Jesus Christ as fashioned by artist Cosimo Cavallaro that was due to go on display this Tuesday at a hotel in New York.
You may also have heard that this produced an uproar among Catholics and the exhibition has been canceled.
The statue, called My Sweet Lord, was anatomically correct.
I don't know what the protesters found offensive.
It's not as if it was a six foot statue of Jesus made out of elephant dung. It was made out of chocolate. Doesn't everyone like chocolate? Don't we like cross-shaped chocolates on Easter? Personally I can't think of any better material than chocolate from which to fashion the Messiah.
Did they not like the fact that the display was to be held during Holy Week? What better time to call attention to the Christ! Even though the statue did not hang on a cross he was in the crucified pose with arms outstretched.
Or was it the fact that Jesus was not covered with a chocolate loin cloth and had a penis and testes? Wasn't Jesus in fact a man with the appropriate genitalia?
Sorry, I just don't get it.
The problem cannot be that Jesus was made of an edible material since the body and blood of Jesus is offered for ingestion at every holy sacrifice of the Mass.
Nope. I just don't get it.
1 comment:
Maybe if He had a M&M like cover. Ya know, melts in your mouth not in your hands. Certainly no one wants Jesus to melt in your hands.
Maybe that was the problem.
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