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Well I don't want no Anna Zabba
Don't want no Almond Joy
There ain't nothing better
Suitable for this boy
Well it's the only thing
That can pick me up
Better than a cup of gold
See only a chocolate Jesus
Can satisfy my soul

(Chocolate Jesus lyrics by Tom Waits)

I'm sorry. Some sort of dark inner force compels me to share these things with people. Maybe it's a mental illness. Maybe it's chocolate Satan.

I've heard of this. Isn't it anotomically correct or something?

Yeah, he's not wearing clothes in the sculpture. Most depictions of Jesus on the cross tend to have him wearing a loincloth.. Here's the BBC version, with a small picture.

Seems it's been done before, though.

If chocolate Jesus lacks a loincloth, he's not only anatomically but also historically correct...or let's say more likely to be historically correct.

And, speaking about having been done before, chocolate Jesus was also already featured, partially, in Ghastly's Ghastly Comic last Easter.

it's been taken down.

grabmygoblin wrote:it's been taken down.

And eaten?

rkolter wrote:

grabmygoblin wrote:it's been taken down.

And eaten?

I know they were going to let people eat it before, but I don't know what the plan is now after all the controversy.

Bill Donahue has no sense of humor or good nature.

Plastic Jesus > Chocolate Jesus.

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car.
Through my trials and tribulations
and my travels through many nations
with my plastic Jesus I'll go far.

There's also Chocolate Pope..

I bought my girlfriend a chocolate pope
'Cos she seems to be at the end of her rope
Italian candy with Swiss chocolatte flavour
Such a delicious, delicious way
To save her

grabmygoblin wrote:Bill Donahue has no sense of humor or good nature.

Or proportion, or history. Calling this silly little stunt "One of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever" is pretty over-the-top. Ghastly's webcomic has got to be far more worthy of death threats than this tasteful* stunt.

* 'Tasteless' doesn't seem to apply here. That looks like halfway decent chocolate in the photos.

I wonder which was more "outraging" to "christian sensibilities" - making Jesus chocolatey delicious, or showing everyone that, in fact, Jesus is a man.

I think that if Jesus were a food, he'd probably be tofu. Very good for you, some people like it, but kind of flavorless unless you have some seasoning.

Aww =[ They could've at least melted it and made a Jesus Fondue.

Mmmm... Sacrilicious...

While I'm sure most of the people on the internet will take the tired old "bash religion" approach to this story, I can't really feels sorry about the artist.

Putting up a naked chocolate Jesus statue on Easter? I'd really like to hear if there was an actual point to this other than to just be a douchebag and try to pass it off as "art".

it could just be douchebaggery, but it made me stop and think about the commercialization of religious holidays and about the way every group hijacks religion for their own purposes. pretty deep messages for something so goofy.

grabmygoblin wrote:it could just be douchebaggery, but it made me stop and think about the commercialization of religious holidays and about the way every group hijacks religion for their own purposes. pretty deep messages for something so goofy.

That's all fine, but I somehow doubt some guy making Jesus' dick out of chocolate really had all that deep a meaning aside from "look at me! I just made Jesus' dick out of chocolate!".

The real question is...

dark chocolate or milk chocolate?



Because I hate milk chocolate.
If it's made out of dark, I'd eat that Jesus no problem.

but werent people routinely crucified naked? this is more historically accurate!

I thought it was because of the color of the chocolate and the color of the cross!