Life-sized, anatomically correct, milk-chocolate Jesus resurrected!
posted at 3:32 pm on October 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
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The blogosphere had a fun run with this dopey story in the spring, culminating in one of the more fragrant apologias for the Muslim/Christian double standard that you’ll ever read.
I thought the Catholic League had silenced him forever. But now, he is risen. And he’s more delicious than evah.
“My Sweet Lord,” an anatomically correct milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ that infuriated Catholics before its April unveiling was canceled, returns Oct. 27 to a Chelsea art gallery, its creator said Tuesday. This time, artist Cosimo Cavallaro said he expects the public exhibit to proceed without a problem…
Cavallaro, who received death threats before the April show was canceled, said the vast majority of his mail was in support of his six-foot piece.
“I got a lot of positive mail from people in the Catholic Church, people studying theology, people in monasteries — all kinds of letters and e-mails of support,” he said.
The last show was criticized for its timing and its location. The exhibit, in a gallery visible to passers-by on a Manhattan street, was set to open one day after Palm Sunday and four days before Christians marked the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday.
The new chocolate Jesus is actually a different cast from the same mold as the earlier chocolate Jesus, whose extremities were eaten by mice. Yes, really. Exit question borrowed from one of my posts this spring: With the Catholic League vowing to stand down over this new display, isn’t it a perfect opportunity for a new champion to rally to the side of Christians and defend the faith? We need someone ideally who’s from New York, who’s motivated to prove himself to believers, and who’s prone to flying off the handle about nonsense like this.
But where can we find someone like that?
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I’m more outraged they used milk chocolate, instead of dark chocolate.
So where’s the chocolate Mohammed
Iblis on October 17, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, what happened to dark chocolate? Just the thought of that is making me hungry.
Allahpundit on October 17, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Wish it was in Boston. I’d go eat the extremities off it too. Then I’d pass them, and create a sculpture of Mohammad in the process. In fact! I make Mohammad sculptures every morning!
Masscon on October 17, 2007 at 3:40 PM
Exactly.
FireFly on October 17, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Sorry AP! I couldn’t resist.
Masscon on October 17, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Dude, you clearly don’t understand the depth of the gravity of this little chocolate affair. OK….or maybe I’m jus’being a little too Ellen DeG….but IF! there is a GOD, & IF He sacrificed His only Son by crucifixion to ransom us from evil….this isn’t cute & God isn’t laughing. let me put it another way…If your Father stepped in front of a car to rescue someone & died doing so……& then that person treated his death as so much….o I don’t know….chocolate to be molded in the shape of your father as he was found on the street where he was killed…..are you following me here???
Atheism is the last refuge of lazy thinking….in chocolate form, that’s a ‘dingdong’…..empty calories w/ no value to nourish.
lobosan5 on October 17, 2007 at 3:43 PM
It depends how dark. Too dark, and Jesus would just be too bitter.
Maybe they should make him out of Sweetarts, or marshmallow Peeps. Or into a Pez dispenser.
nailinmyeye on October 17, 2007 at 3:44 PM
A Mohammad made of ham.
csdeven on October 17, 2007 at 3:47 PM
lobosan5, Yes but you could also say that God my subscribe to the thinking that any publicity, is good publicity. And having Jesus in the news, is still a plus if people are talking about him.
Masscon on October 17, 2007 at 3:49 PM
So where’s the chocolate Mohammed
Iblis on October 17, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Wasn’t he on the Folsom Street Fair poster? I thought I saw in the bottom right corner.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 17, 2007 at 3:50 PM
That is one SWEET Jesus!
I love Jesus, but after too much I get burnt out.
TheSitRep on October 17, 2007 at 3:52 PM
I’m a Christian, and I don’t need to “defend the faith.” Jesus knew that He would be mocked; and He knew that His followers would be mocked. Accordingly, when Jesus Christ, or His followers are mocked, I don’t feel compelled to “defend” anything – I just remind myself of Scripture:
Jude 17, – But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
There is nothing to defend. There is only the understanding that prophesy will be fulfilled.
OhEssYouCowboys on October 17, 2007 at 3:54 PM
SitRep, LOL! So That’s what George Harrison was referring to when he wrote “My Sweet Lord”
Masscon on October 17, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Christian Rage Boy is nowhere to be found
Kini on October 17, 2007 at 3:57 PM
AP, I share your taste for dark chocolate. It’s also allegedly good for you, because it contains a chemical called polyphenol.
Instead of making Jesus or Mohammed out of chocolate, I would suggest my namesake, a chocolate Bigfoot, or maybe his cousin, a chocolate Yeti. They both have brown fur, so the natural color of chocolate would be appropriate.
Bigfoot on October 17, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Hmm…I would’ve thought they’d bite off his ears first.
James on October 17, 2007 at 4:05 PM
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Pulchritudinous Patriot on October 17, 2007 at 4:05 PM
I also heard that the invitations to the opening were in the form of a scratch-and-sniff Virgin Mary. No, I am not making that up — I swear.
lan astaslem on October 17, 2007 at 4:08 PM
ditto
sunny on October 17, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Speaking of anatomically correct chocolate
Kini on October 17, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Cross-thread exit question: If Randi Rhodes eats of this body of Christ, will her teeth be healed? How about her memory of her fall?
James on October 17, 2007 at 4:12 PM
AP dude, do you really need comment numbers *that* badly?
;-)
angryoldfatman on October 17, 2007 at 4:12 PM
I think that you’ve come up with a plan on how to win the War on Terror(ists). ;-)
On topic: these folks may be mocking God, but the Great Comedian always has a countering joke up His sleeve.
Oh and love all the praise for Dark Chocolate…
What?
baldilocks on October 17, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Not dark chocolate. Try chopped liver.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 17, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Or lovingly sculpted from Jew foreskins…Oy Vey!
Ochlan on October 17, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Mohammad sculptures! Too much!! I used to call those algores, but not any more!
*howling*
RushBaby on October 17, 2007 at 4:22 PM
This is one of the Virgin Mary.
kiakjones on October 17, 2007 at 4:27 PM
The article makes it clear it wasn’t those extremities.
Tell that to my triglyceride count.
In that case, Catholics have been pissing off God for over a thousand years by putting Jesus in that shape
I’m no expert on scripture, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t referring to chocolate Jesuses.
calbear on October 17, 2007 at 4:29 PM
Well, Muslims believe Jesus, “Issa” is a prophet of Islam, one who will return at the end of days to kill the swine and break the cross.
I think pictorial representations of Allah and Muhammad are deemed haram in Islam and has been known to “cause a stir” in the Islamic community when encountered.
That being said, even though Issa is a lesser prophet and not THE prophet, wouldn’t you believe that a single solitary Muslim would come out publically in Issa’s defense, since I always hear from Muslims about the high-esteem that Islam holds for him?
Just wondering.
awake on October 17, 2007 at 4:48 PM
I heard Fox report that there is also a scratch and sniff Virgin Mary.
Buy Danish on October 17, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Do we get to burn some embassies for this?
TheSitRep on October 17, 2007 at 6:04 PM
Jesus should be sculpted in bread, obviously.
(Chocolate is too new world.)
If it were a “Mohammad”, would have to be marizipan (almond paste), which is all nuts.
Just like its model.
profitsbeard on October 17, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Why should a Christian be surprised by such blasphemies?
What’s “the other cheek” for?
Randy
williars on October 17, 2007 at 6:27 PM
I think since this new Jesus is made of milk chocolate (you know, made of creamy white milk and smooth dark chocolate)…wouldn’t the statue fair much better in a church somewhere in “Narlans” to commemorate the Katrina disaster?
Not my idea though. Ask his honor the mayor.
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2007 at 7:11 PM
um. So, statues of Jesus are limited to certain media?
I’m trying to get all worked up over this. Gimme a minute.
TexasDan on October 17, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Never mind the mice!!! I hope no true chocoholics attend this exhibit!
jeanie on October 17, 2007 at 7:55 PM
It’s an Immaculate Confection.
greenonions on October 17, 2007 at 8:17 PM
Can we put the chocolate Jesus on a Candy Cross?
In fairness some people have been objecting to this sort of thing. I don’t think the objection here is to the medium, but to the anatomical correctness.
And speaking of that, did anyone else notice that he, um, doesn’t appear to be circumcised? Maybe this is supposed to represent that Jesus is a “perfected” Jew. Must be a Coulter supporter.
JackOfClubs on October 17, 2007 at 8:55 PM
*grabbing torch, Che shirt, face hiding bandana*
OK…where’s the riots at?
Alden Pyle on October 17, 2007 at 8:58 PM
He he ! Good one!
4shoes on October 17, 2007 at 9:52 PM
This thread, and the asshole MM employs, is sooo cutting edge! How can anyone who calls himself a Christian continue to support this shit? MM needs the business THIS bad?
Fuck this site, and all who think this idiot is clever…
JWS on October 17, 2007 at 11:28 PM
Thanks for your Christian well wishes, and for all the comments in the same vein that you’ve left over the past few weeks. Take care.
Allahpundit on October 18, 2007 at 12:01 AM
The artist just does this ’cause he knows Christians won’t kill him for it. Howz about he tries a marshmallow Mohammad and let’s see where that gets him.
Mojave Mark on October 18, 2007 at 12:10 AM
Really not cool.
John on October 18, 2007 at 2:05 AM
Will they be handing out Testamints?
Sensei Ern on October 18, 2007 at 8:48 AM
Hmm…somebody sure put themselves up on a chocolate cross.
James on October 18, 2007 at 1:19 PM
I don’t know which is more offensive, Jesus porn or the fact that the “artist” thinks Jesus looks like Michael Gross (aka Stephen Keaton).
Right on.
srhoades on October 18, 2007 at 1:21 PM
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