Chocolate Jesus for Easter but no Smarties

As the western Christian world gears up to celebrating the most important week in the Christian calendar, by gorging on large chocolate eggs (where I’m from) or dozens of small plastic eggs filled with chocolate (where I live), some people are offended and calling for the usual boycotts because a gallery is displaying coincidentally at Easter, a six-foot sculpture of the naked crucified Christ made out of 200 pounds of milk chocolate.

UPDATE - Jesus Exhibit Cancelled

I’m not sure if it’s the nakedness, the chocolate, the timing, or the disproportionate weight to height ratio, but whatever it is that’s being objected to it’s apparently, “one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever”. Yep, I can’t think of anything worse either.

Bags I a leg.

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This entry was posted on Friday, March 30th, 2007 at 2:00 am and is filed under Art, Holidays, Religion. You can follow responses via my RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Chocolate Jesus for Easter but no Smarties”

flirtysomething responds: March 30th, 2007 at 4:13 am
A great way to get kids to identify the real meaning of Easter - what’s the problem?
eolai responds: March 30th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Yep - strikes me as better than a rabbit - a chocolate rabbit that is. You can have an arm, Flirty
kav responds: March 30th, 2007 at 7:14 am
I hope the gay community sends their representative along to eat his cock.
ZRDM responds: April 10th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
forget not the Easter rising, a celebration of the beginning of liberation of ireland.

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