Little chocolate crosses, with or without Jesus, are pretty bizarre, but that one… :eek: “My Sweet Lord” is just so wrong on so many levels.
Because we (well, not me, but I’ll line up alongside those who do) think it really hey! that the Lord of all Creation should humble Himself to allow such a vile means of execution to be done on His Incarnate self. We can argue the merits of salvation theology elsewhere (on the off chance that it hasn’t been adequately covered already on the Dope :dubious: ) but the comparison with Kennedy would be more apt if he had knowingly and consciously and preventably allowed himself to be done to death for the good of all Mankind. 
Chocolate crosses sound odd to me but then I’ve unblushingly eaten hot cross buns for at least forty years (and I can remember when they were only eaten on Good Friday and just after, not for about four months of the year, but that’s another gripe entirely).
I think the point was more that the *instrument *of a loved one’s death is not often embraced as a symbol for jewelry and confectionery. It seems a bit “in your face”.
Well yes, but in this particular case the loved one’s willingness to submit to the instrument is very much of the essence. I find the confectionery odd, but never saw anything strange about the baked goods.
Note that the instrument is often (not always, but I omit the urban legend about the customer wanting one “with the little man on it”) depicted unoccupied, symbolising Christ’s victory over it.
Chocolate “t”, chocolate “A”; they’re all letters, just eat 'em.
I can’t help thinking that a chocolate cross would be a more appropriate gift for Good Friday.
A chocolate zombie would be better for Easter.
I don’t see anything bizarre about it at all. Maybe it’s different if you think of protestantism as the default form of Christianity, but I come from a Catholic family, and eating Jesus is one of the most important rituals in that faith. If you can wrap your head around that, chocolate crosses are nuthin’.
The picture caption: “Jesus, the 485,460 Calorie Messiah”, is pure genius.
There are also hot cross buns–a sort of sweet bun with a frosted cross on top–traditional for Easter as well. The real question is how this instrument of torture and execution came to be the symbol of the religion. I suspect the early adherents found it to be a powerful symbol–precisely because it had those negative associations. I’m not sure when the cross came to be used symbolically; for at least a couple of hundred years or so in the beginning, Jesus was never pictured.
Yeah…about that…
Oh, never mind! 
Mass was relatively solemn in the church I grew up in, particularly with my strict father. One Easter Vigil I look around during the offertory procession when the money and bread and wine are carried up to the altar. And what do I see but something I’ve never seen before, a lamb cake being carried up in the procession. This strikes my giggly bone and I’m off. But I’ve got to keep it quiet so the suppressed laughter is shaking the pew. Mom, on the other side of Pop, picks it up and runs with it, shaking with laughter and I’m not even sure she knew why. The people behind us catch the giggly bug. Finally, for the first and only time, Pop lets out a tiny guffaw. 
And what to my wondering eyes should appear at my friends’ house at Easter dinner yesterday? The second lamb cake I’ve ever seen. 
I wondered also why ham became a traditional Easter dish. As best as I’ve been able to tell, it’s because pork is OK for Gentile Christians (and may have even been OK for the original Jewish Christians fellowshipping with Gentiles, depending on how you read Acts 10).
Also, nothing wrong with lamb. Besides symbolizing Jesus (who also called himself “the bread of life”, and we don’t avoid bread), it was also the Passover meat (tho not so much since the destruction of the Temple).
Well, come on, the thing is just frickin’ ugly!
But yeah, it’s trivializing to make chocolate crosses. But I’ve found that a lot of so-called Christians are nothing more than superstitious peasants who’ve replaced pagan totems in their lives with crosses, beads, fish symbols and so on. Christianity is supposed to be the religion of the enlightened, but there’s not much light in a chocolate cross. On the other hand, it’s no weirder than a cross on a Christmas tree.
I saw these chocolate crosses in Walmart. They struck me as creepy in the way a chocolate tomb stone with colored icing would. The cross looked like it was a grave decoration or something.
If you’re not Christian and feeling left out, this company makes a pretty wide variety of chocolate deities. Chocolate Buddha, anyone?
Sweet! Mama Willendorf is there!
I wonder if the Loki chocolate is laxative! :eek:
Absolutely not. It is (IMHO) a very wry comment on the commercialization (by the chocolate companies) of a religious festival that is about suffering and death. I appreciate it as art and as a christian.
I remember a few years ago now - a radical political fringe group in Hamilton, NZ crashed the christmas parade with a crucified Santa Claus - to dismay and opprobrium from the city council and some religious groups. I thought it was a cool assault on commercial interests, and a pointed reminder that christmas (in the end) leads to easter - that the babe in the manger dies on a cross, and Santa (as a personification of gift giving and indulgence) actually does not belong in that picture.
Chocolate crosses - not so much. Thats just cashing in on those who know crosses are a part of easter, and so is chocolate.
Lamb - to remind christians of the very jewish roots of easter (passover) - yes.
Lamb - because you don’t understand why you are eating it - meh.
Si
No mention of Tom Waits’ song Chocolate Jesus yet?
I didn’t say I didn’t laugh. I see the irony, but it still seems like a cheap joke to me. Add to that, the fact that “My Sweet Lord” was almost certainly inspired by the George Harrison song, which wasn’t about this particular “lord” at all. My Wrong-O-Meter™ goes off-scale.