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Chocolate Jesus Exhibit Canceled

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/index.html

But word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics, including Egan, who described it as "a sickening display." Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."
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One wonders if Mr. Donohue is equally outraged by pedophile priests? Somehow, I doubt it.
 
I would suggest that Mr. Donohue was probably upset at the "anatomically correct" part since he likely gave up chocolate for Lent. ;)
 
This is an interesting juxtaposition:
But word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics, including Egan, who described it as "a sickening display." Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

The hotel and the gallery were overrun Thursday with angry phone calls and e-mails. Semler said the calls included death threats over the work of artist Cosimo Cavallaro, who was described as disappointed by the decision to cancel the display.
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The Central Scrutinizer said:
One wonders if Mr. Donohue is equally outraged by pedophile priests? Somehow, I doubt it.
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I don't see what would make you doubt it, except possibly a desire to imagine yourself morally superior to Donohue. I hope I'm wrong about that, though. Donohue, by the way, has said:

I don't know of a single Catholic priest or layman who isn't furious about the sex abuse scandal, in terms of the tolerance they [the hierarchy] have had for intolerable behavior and the way they've played musical chairs with these miscreant priests.
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In my experience, the people most outraged by Catholic clerical sex abuse tend to be the Catholics themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if Donohue were even more indignant about it than you or I.
 
I don't care if it rains or freezes
As long as I got my chocolate Jesus
Melting on the dashboard of my car...
 
First they came for the cartoon Muhammad, but I said nothing because I wasn't Muslim.

Then they came for the chocolate Jesus, filled with bloody nougat...

mmmm... nougat...
 
I could care less about any modern artist's opinions regarding religion, so the offensiveness issue is irrellevant to me. What I'm wondering is why the hell anyone thought this sort of food-based "art" is worth anything. What the hell has the art world come to when coating a room in something that rots is taken seriously?
 
thaiboxerken said:
So you don't like abstract art, Ziggy?
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Abstract art made from rotting material? No thanks. The chocolate jesus isn't abstract, though. Neither was "Piss Christ", a banal exercise in controversy if I ever saw one. Modern art of that variety is a joke. But no, I'm not automatically averse to abstract art - much of it isn't really to my taste, but I do run across abstracts which I like (especially abstract scultures).
 
It's because he didn't have a candy shell. You want Jesus to melt in your mouth, not in your hand!
 
Ziggy's favorite painting is the one of the clown-
-with the flower in his hand and the tear rolling down
 
Ziggurat said:
I could care less about any modern artist's opinions regarding religion, so the offensiveness issue is irrellevant to me. What I'm wondering is why the hell anyone thought this sort of food-based "art" is worth anything. What the hell has the art world come to when coating a room in something that rots is taken seriously?
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It's obviously a joke based on the rampant 'Easter Egg' frenzy. What gorging yourself on chocolate eggs has to do with Easter is beyond me.
 
ceo_esq said:
I don't see what would make you doubt it, except possibly a desire to imagine yourself morally superior to Donohue.
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Or, you know, his actual words: "Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

In other words, for Donohue, there are only a few, if any, assaults on Christian sensibilities worse than this. It is only natural to wonder if the sex abuse scandal made it to this exclusive list.

If one assumes that "one of the worst" means, say, one of the three worst, then of the sex abuse, the Holocaust, and 9/11, at least one must be less important than a chocolate Jesus. Which one is it?

In my experience, the people most outraged by Catholic clerical sex abuse tend to be the Catholics themselves.
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Correction: the people most outraged are former Catholics. Anyone who still supports the Catholic Church is either ignorant or seriously deficient in morality.

I wouldn't be surprised if Donohue were even more indignant about it than you or I.
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I would. He's HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE! If I had been the head of the Catholic League, I would have resigned in protest. Ergo, he is clearly not as indigant as I am.
 
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