ALT-4 Chocolate Jesus for Easter Blessing or Blasphemy
Well, having written my first article under the wrong assumption, I decided that I should modify it. When I first read the question above, I thought that some candy factory had made small chocolate figures that could be passed out much like the chocolate bunnies. I then read where the question is really in reference to an artist's depiction of Christ as a six foot nude made of chocolate. My answer to that is that I think it is in poor taste, despite the fact that the sculpture is titled My Sweet Jesus. I don't think I would even mind a six foot sculpture of Christ made of chocolate, but by depicting Him nude, it would seem the artist is trying to be deliberately disrespectful. Even if that isn't the artist's intent, from what I have read on news websites, the people seemed preoccupied with the nudity issue. Is that what the artist is trying to convey? Well, it is his right to make the sculpture just like its my right not to support his art. Either way, I don't think the Lord is losing any sleep over this issue. I just wish my original assumption had been correct. I just think it would have made for a better article. So, in the spirit of purity and remembering a much simpler time in our society, I will include my original.
Jesus: as small chocolate figures (not as some extreme statement, not as an attempt to enrage people, and just in the Spirit of Easter).
I really don't have much to say about this topic, other than, "Would Jesus Care?"I don't think a chocolate characterization really does anything other than serve as a reminder of what the Easter Season is really about. When I think of Christ, I think of God who chose to humble himself and live among man. He ate with sinners, cared about them, healed the sick and offered unconditional love. He was beaten, ridiculed, and wrongfully punished; now that is humiliating. So when I ask myself, "Do I think He would care about a chocolate likeness of Himself?" I would think he would be more concerned about the person eating the chocolate rather than if it made Him look silly.
