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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

"My Sweet Lord" Is BAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right boys and girls!! My Sweet Lord is back, new and improved!!

Chocolate Jesus sculpture returns to NYC

NEW YORK - "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.

"There is nothing offensive about this," Cavallaro said of his controversial confectionary work. "If my intentions were to offend, if I did do something wrong, I wouldn't be doing this. But I didn't do anything wrong."

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 Catholic League, which led the charge against "My Sweet Lord" back then, said the change to the Proposition Gallery and the exhibition's new opening date would keep it from calling for another shutdown of the sculpture's showing.

"We don't approve of the piece at all, but it's not something we're going to protest," said Kiera McCaffrey, the league's director of communications. "This is much less an in-your-face assault on Christians, and it's not happening during Holy Week."

The exhibit, at the Proposition Gallery in Manhattan, will be accompanied by a set of chocolate Catholic icons created by Cavallaro, a group that includes the Virgin Mary and saints Francis, Augustine, Michael, Jude, Anthony and Fermin.

"After the cancellation of the show, it got me to look into the Catholic religion a little deeper," Cavallero said. "I started thinking about the saints, how they were ostracized for their beliefs and then canonized."

Cavallaro's work features Christ with outstretched arms, as though hanging from an invisible cross. Unlike traditional religious depictions of Christ, Cavallaro's Jesus lacks a loincloth.

The sculpture is actually a new version of "My Sweet Lord," created with 200 pounds of chocolate over three days. The original was stored in a Brooklyn facility where mice nibbled away at its hands, ears, nose and feet, forcing Cavallaro to toss the original and recast the sculpture.

Man, Catholics are hilarious!! It's now somehow less offensive because it's in a different location and it's not Easter. So, now they pick and choose when to be offended? Does it go a little something like this? We're offended if it's on display around Easter, but not during the summer. It's okay to be on display around Halloween because that's Satan's holiday. But don't even think about having it up at Christmas because holy hell will break loose!!

Are the "Christians" going to come out of the woodwork again with their death threats over a piece of chocolate? Yeah, death threats are really Christian-like!! Hmm, I wonder if Jesus would issue a death threat over the chocolate sculpture!!

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2 Comments:

  • At 7:10 PM, Blogger Randal Graves said…

    For all of their bloviating about Chocolate Jesus...mmm...chocolate...their cohorts here in Cleveland remain conspicuously quiet about the Xmas manger scene on public property. Hypocrisy must be genetic to wingnuts.

     
  • At 12:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Jesusistanis also have no problem with stoning, jailing, and killing anyone who doesn't think as they think. Par for the course.

     

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