# "My Sweet Lord" my ass **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149 "2007-03-30T19:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/61 "2007-03-31T16:49:46Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck…Or is it news to people that Jesus had a penis?[/QUOTE] The Catholic church observes January 1 as the Feast of the Circumcision [Circumcision of Jesus - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_of_Christ) so they must be aware that he had one. Besides, Renaissance paintings of the infant Christ often show him with his little willy exposed. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/62 "2007-03-31T21:02:54Z")
Can I suggest that if the offenderati wanted to piss off the artist, the proper response would have been to ignore the silliness? _sigh_ DNFTT - so simple in theory, so hard for most people to practice. ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/63 "2007-03-31T21:06:40Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Wow, who’da thunk anyone would find [this](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_ot/chocolate_jesus) offensive? :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Because he’s edible? I don’t get what’s offensive. Is funny automatically offensive now? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/64 "2007-03-31T21:30:45Z")
I don’t quite get the outrage. I thought JC was supposed to be eaten. Heck, if I were the artist, I’d display the thing for three days then melt him into chocolate communion wafers and hot cocoa for ingestion by the faithful. As far as the visible penis, I can honestly see that as an attempt to portray Christ as wholly human and wholly divine. I recall one of the Rennaisance painters caused a stir by showing a dead Jesus from the viewpoint of the foot of the bed rather than the viewpoint of Heaven looking down on the body. RE Chocolate Stars Of David You can get those at any synagogue during the holidays. The Ineffable Name sculpted in chocolate would be offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/65 "2007-04-01T02:05:00Z")
dammit, Doccathode, he’s our lord and savior, you’re not supposed to ENJOY it any! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/66 "2007-04-01T02:12:42Z")
Hmm, I have to reread the article. Did he use milk chocolate? He should have gone with bittersweet representing the sweetness of redemption bought by Christ’s bitter suffering and death. I’m also for shoving an actual crown of thorns on the finished work. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/67 "2007-04-01T02:36:50Z")
A giant chocolate Jesus? Of course the Catholic League has to protest. I mean, the next logical step would be to EAT his body, and that would be completely… oh wait. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/68 "2007-04-01T03:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] The Catholic church observes January 1 as the Feast of the Circumcision [Circumcision of Jesus - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_of_Christ) so they must be aware that he had one. Besides, Renaissance paintings of the infant Christ often show him with his little willy exposed. [/QUOTE] Ha. You think [that’s bad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce)? Maybe we outta break out the riot-control crosses, again. Hail Caesar. ---
**Author:** ![muzzynyc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@muzzynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muzzynyc)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/69 "2007-04-01T12:41:36Z")
I think he should have made it with raspberry filling. And then, today, they could have nailed the statue to a graham cracker cross. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/70 "2007-04-02T12:34:50Z")
While the choir sings “O Those Golden Grahams, O Those Golden Grahams…” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/71 "2007-04-02T17:00:15Z")
You can keep the chocolate Jesus, I’d rather have a 6 foot chocolate [Goddess of Willendorf](http://www.chocolatedeities.com/deity.php?deity=willendorf). There’d be a lot more chocolate on her than on a Jesus, he was a skinny dude. I think the artist is just whacked though, a 4-poster ham bed? Can you imagine the stench after that gets left at room temperature for a couple days? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/72 "2007-04-02T17:07:45Z")
Hmm, I just checked the [link](http://www.gjsentinel.com/featr/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/Chocolate_Jesus-image.html). Anyone else think that photo makes it look more like he’s made out of beef jerky? Our Lord and Savoury Snack, perhaps… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/73 "2007-04-02T17:13:01Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] While the choir sings “O Those Golden Grahams, O Those Golden Grahams…” [/QUOTE] I’m guessing this is no relation to the Mummers song “O Dem Golden Slippers”? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/74 "2007-04-02T19:24:15Z")
I’m not bugged about the concept of a Chocolate Jesus. What I can’t understand, though, is that He doesn’t have long floppy ears. And He’s not carrying a basket of colored eggs. That would have made it accenptable, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/75 "2007-04-02T19:31:55Z")
I gotta say… Jon Stewart has nothing on you guys’ performance in this thread. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/76 "2007-04-02T19:44:54Z")
A naked confectionary Jesus? Was his winkie a twinkie? mm ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/77 "2007-04-02T20:05:32Z")
I know this display has upset some people, but I wish some major chocolatiers would get behind it and market their own products. I would love to eat a Nestle Christ. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/78 "2007-04-02T20:13:58Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I’m guessing this is no relation to the Mummers song “O Dem Golden Slippers”? [/QUOTE] Well, it is sung to the same tune as James Bland’s _Oh, Dem Golden Slippers_. Probably the same song. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/79 "2007-04-02T23:29:04Z")
Too bad Jesus was circumcized. That much less chocolate. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149/80 "2007-04-03T01:25:19Z")
Just an aside - has “offenderati” made it into the internet lexicon now? Did we do that? It’s such an excellent word, I think everyone should use it. (I laughed out loud more at this thread than I do at the average sitcom. Just sayin’.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sweet-lord-my-ass/398149.md?page=5)