# Christians, does this offend you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 25, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103 "2000-04-25T16:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/1 "2000-04-25T16:58:00Z")
Today, I went on my traditional two-days-after-Easter shopping spree to get myself some Easter candy at 50% off. While I was filling my basket at CVS, I noticed a whole huge pile of these: > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! In case you can’t tell, these are giant chocolate crosses. Of course, I about laughed my ass off, and had to buy a couple. Thing is, is this offensive to Christians? The Jesus coming back from the dead part of the holiday has always been sort of separate from the Pagan, Easter Bunny, let’s eat lots of chocolate side of the holiday. To make a chocolate cross, a confection that is symbolic of an entire religion, not to mention the torture device of the man that countless millions believe is the Son of God, seems to be sort of cheapening Easter and Christianity in a way. Am I right on this one? What do you think, Christians? Oh, and Brian? Lest you despair, I got a white chocolate one for you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/2 "2000-04-26T05:20:00Z")
I was gonna say, “I suppose I should be, but I am not surprised, but given commercialism, blah blah blah …”, BUT I will retract that unposted post. While it is silly and I can’t quite imagine myself biting into Christ’s bane, Easter is a day of celebration. What better way to celebrate than eating Chocolate! If nothing else, I suppose I should be glad someone might ask “why a cross on easter?”. ## Tinker mmmmmmm … chocolate ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/3 "2000-04-25T18:16:00Z")
I suppose they could make chocolate replicas of the stone that was rolled away from the tomb entrance, instead. BTW, if you’re a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup fan, would it be considered desecration to put peanut butter on a chocolate cross? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/4 "2000-04-25T18:24:00Z")
I’ve seen chocolate Last Suppers, which floored me. And last time I was in England, I saw chocolate Six Wives of Henry the Eighth (“no, you only bite the heads off Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard!”). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/5 "2000-04-25T18:29:00Z")
Yes, chocolate crosses fill me with deep resentment–resentment that I didn’t think of it first. How come everybody else always gets the good ideas to market before me? Do you suppose there’s a chocolate Jesus in the offing? Which part would you eat first? The head, hands, or nail-pierced feet? Ooops, sorry, I think that last part was blasphemy. Sam Walton, forgive me for I have sinned… ## Or maybe I should pray to Saint Barnum, who said, “There’s a Jesus-shaped lollipop born every minute.” (I hope you stocked up on peeps, as well. Won’t see 'em again till next year, ya know.) “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/6 "2000-04-25T18:29:00Z")
I’m just glad to hear I’m not the only fan of the white stuff. ## Mmmmmm. What is this, some kind of freakout?? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/7 "2000-04-25T18:32:00Z")
Deeply offended? No. Will I be buying one? No. Do I think it is tacky? Yes. But a lot of things are tacky these days. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/8 "2000-04-25T18:35:00Z")
I can’t help but think of Tom Waits’ song “Chocolate Jesus”, from _Mule Variations_. (An excellent disc, BTW.) “When the weather gets rough, and it’s whiskey in the shade It’s best to wrap your savior up in cellophane He flows like the big muddy, but that’s OK– Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait” I think it’s safe to say that if there is a hell, Tom Waits is going there. Dr. J * * * “Seriously, baby, I can prescribe anything I want!” -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/9 "2000-04-25T18:41:00Z")
No, I’m not really offended by it. They could have done a lot worse. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/10 "2000-04-25T19:12:00Z")
“A lot worse” … hmmm … like, perhaps, a rendering in chocolate of a certain scene in _The Last Temptation of Christ_? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/11 "2000-04-25T19:14:00Z")
{Homer Simpson} Mmmmmm… Blasphemous. ## {/Homer Simpson} What is this, some kind of freakout?? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/12 "2000-04-25T19:15:00Z")
Being a Christian, it doesn’t bother me. Chocolate is chocolate no matter what image its in. Easter is Resurrection Day to me, but if people want to eat chocolate, they don’t need a special holiday, as far as I’m concerned! ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/13 "2000-04-25T19:20:00Z")
I wouldn’t even be offended if they started making Peeps in the shape of a cross. * * * Well, honey just tastes better when it comes from a bear’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/14 "2000-04-25T19:40:00Z")
Anyone catch the name of the picture? * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Two weeks, two days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 10 seconds. 669 cigarettes not smoked, saving $83.68. Life saved: 2 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/15 "2000-04-25T19:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Mmmmmm… Blasphemous We also would have accepted “Mmmmmm… Sacri-licious!” * * * **Tony Soprano** : We’re the only country in the world where the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed in writing… Where’s _my_ happiness then? **Dr. Melfi** : It’s the _pursuit_ that’s guaranteed. **Tony Soprano** Yeah, always a fucking loophole. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/16 "2000-04-25T19:42:00Z")
An ironic simulpost… 🙂 * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Two weeks, two days, 17 hours, 41 minutes and 53 seconds. 669 cigarettes not smoked, saving $83.68. Life saved: 2 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/17 "2000-04-25T19:55:00Z")
Well, I’m offended. I don’t want my delicious, delicious chocolate sullied with religious imagery! ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/18 "2000-04-25T21:01:00Z")
So how about a chocolate crucifix? With raspberry sauce on the temples, hands and feet, and side. Maybe a spun sugar crown of thorns? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/19 "2000-04-25T21:29:00Z")
… with a white chocolate INRI pasted on over his head? :9 ---
**Author:** ![jenkinsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jenkinsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jenkinsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103/20 "2000-04-25T22:57:00Z")
Just so you guys don’t get bored agreeing with yourselves… Yes, I think that making a chocolate cross is as bad as making a chocolate Ghandi or Mother Teresa(and I don’t follow the teachings of either.) Anyone who would give their life for others deserves better. * * * **ETERNITY: SMOKING OR NON SMOKING?** Itchy the flea-filled beagle hound. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-does-this-offend-you/18103.md?page=2)