[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 so they must be aware that he had one. Besides, Renaissance paintings of the infant Christ often show him with his little willy exposed.
Can I suggest that if the offenderati wanted to piss off the artist, the proper response would have been to ignore the silliness?
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DNFTT - so simple in theory, so hard for most people to practice.
Because he’s edible? I don’t get what’s offensive. Is funny automatically offensive now?
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.
dammit, Doccathode, he’s our lord and savior, you’re not supposed to ENJOY it any! 
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.
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.
Ha. You think that’s bad?
Maybe we outta break out the riot-control crosses, again. Hail Caesar.
I think he should have made it with raspberry filling. And then, today, they could have nailed the statue to a graham cracker cross.
While the choir sings “O Those Golden Grahams, O Those Golden Grahams…”
You can keep the chocolate Jesus, I’d rather have a 6 foot chocolate Goddess of 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?
Hmm, I just checked the link. Anyone else think that photo makes it look more like he’s made out of beef jerky?
Our Lord and Savoury Snack, perhaps…
I’m guessing this is no relation to the Mummers song “O Dem Golden Slippers”?
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?
I gotta say… Jon Stewart has nothing on you guys’ performance in this thread. 
A naked confectionary Jesus?
Was his winkie a twinkie?
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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.
Well, it is sung to the same tune as James Bland’s Oh, Dem Golden Slippers. Probably the same song.
Too bad Jesus was circumcized. That much less chocolate.
Regards,
Shodan
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’.)