Catholic group: Chocolate Christ no Easter treat
Lady Carrigaholt
Jesus Christ, dubbed "My Sweet Lord" by its creator, left a sour taste
Thursday in the mouths of a Catholic group infuriated by the
anatomically correct confection.
"This is one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever,"
said Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League. "It's not just
the ugliness of the portrayal, but the timing _ to choose Holy Week is
astounding."
The 6-foot sculpture by artist Cosimo Cavallaro was to debut Monday
evening, the day after Palm Sunday and just four days before Roman
Catholics mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The final
day of the exhibit at the Lab Gallery inside midtown Manhattan's Roger
Smith Hotel was planned for Easter Sunday.
"The fact that they chose Holy Week shows this is calculated, and the
timing is deliberate," said Donohue, whose group represents 350,000
Catholics nationwide.
He called for an economic boycott of the hotel, which he described as
"already morally bankrupt."
The gallery's creative director, Matt Semler, said the Lab and the hotel
were overrun with angry telephone calls and e-mails about the exhibit.
Although he described Donohue's response as "a Catholic fatwa," Semler
said the gallery was considering its options amid the criticism.
"We're obviously surprised by the overwhelming response and offense
people have taken," said Semler, adding that the Holy Week timing was an
unfortunate coincidence. "We are certainly in the process of trying to
figure out what we're going to do next."
The artwork was created from more than 200 pounds of milk chocolate, and
it features Christ with his arms outstretched as if on an invisible
cross. Unlike the typical religious portrayal of Christ, the Cavallaro
creation does not include a loincloth.
Cavallaro, who was raised in Canada and Italy, is best known for his
quirky work with food as art: Past efforts include repainting a
Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, spraying 5 tons of pepper
jack cheese on a Wyoming home and festooning a four-poster bed with 312
pounds of processed ham.
The Christ sculpture will be on display April 2-7 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
with a final showing from midnight to 1 a.m. on Easter Sunday. Its
location on the first floor ensures attention from the thousands of
passers-by in the busy neighborhood just north of Grand Central
Terminal.
Semler was particularly upset by the call for a boycott of the hotel,
which he said was not involved in the selection of "My Sweet Lord."
It's not the first time that Donohue's group and the art world have been
at odds. A painting of "The Holy Virgin Mary" that used a splash of
elephant dung drew outrage in 1999.
--
Caillean, Lady Carrigaholt
"I am not one of a malignant nature, but have a quiet temper."
Sappho of Lesbos
Great song:
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Fred
The Romans crucified people in the nude. The condemed almost touched
the ground with their feet. The cross was not perfectly sculptured.
It was two cross beams of a roughly hewed assembly. The cross was
recycled. It took energy to create a workable cross. That means that
there were men crucified on the original cross before Christ, and men
crucified on this cross after Chist. The nails did not go into the
palms, they went into his wrists with green wood between the wrist and
the cross. The nail held this assembly together.
Christ hung there in the nude - not the way that St. Augustine tried
to portray. BTW, St. Augustine was a whore before he got religion.
He then tried to make everyone be as "pure" as he tried to be.
Condemed people were first scourged so that they could not fight
against their weight. Ther was a foothold where the condemed persons
ankles were nailed to the cross. If the Roman soldiers really wanted
to make their victems suffer, they did not scourge them. They would
then have the strength to stand on their footrests until exhausted.
The weight of their bodies would then cause them to slowly
aphysicate. If they had some strength, they would again try to stand
to relieve the pressure. A strong man could hold out for about 3 days
before he died. They scouraged Christ to the point where he could not
physically fight. This is so that he would die before the beginning
of Passover - he died before sunset and the beginning of Passover.
This is why Passover and Easter are so closly linked. The rest of the
story is subject to the beliefs of Christains, Jews, and Muslims.
Christ was naked on the cross.
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> "We're obviously surprised by the overwhelming response and offense
> people have taken," said Semler, adding that the Holy Week timing was an
> unfortunate coincidence. "We are certainly in the process of trying to
> figure out what we're going to do next."
>
Yeah! Right! They're "obviously surprised!"
What a crock of BS!
They thought that they would insult us and that we would not respond?
If anyone believes that I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to show
them.
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> Christ was naked on the cross.
>
Another revisionist! Where do you fairies come from?
Newk Indofman
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Your closet is so big you can fit a bridge inside?
Lady Carrigaholt
Newk Indofman wrote:
I would not be suprised at all.
Fred
wrote:
The crucification process was done to inflict the most amount of pain
and humiliation to a non-roman person. St. Augustine just comvered
up Christ's private parts because of his newly found morality.
Besides, the Romans crucified Christ, not the Jews. Now get yourself
circumcised.