Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Sweet Jesus


What to do with Hershey's mixes with Christianity?


The holiday egg hunt is being postponed this week so that I may search for an even more important symbol of Easter- Christ himself! Somewhere in the vast city we call New York, there resides a statue of Jesus, but he is being hidden from view because he is depicted "anatomically correct." Ah, the blasphemy of casting Jesus in man's own image...right down to his genitalia, "how dare they make him a mere mortal?" This piece of art(done by a student) was to hang in a hotel during the Easter week, but complaints by religious folks prompted the hotel to temporarily store Jesus in a refrigerated storage. Man, he was born in a stable and now is stuck in a refrigerator- you'd think being Jesus would get a man a break! What's even more odd about the complaints at this art show is that no one seems to take issue with the "Obama as Jesus" piece; false prophet versus chocolate prophet?


Now there is a bonus to this "search and report out" mission: if I find the Jesus, and I am hungry, I could take a little nibble out of the guy, seeing how this statute is made out of chocolate. I'm placing bets that if i do this, the chocolate will magically (miraculously perhaps?) repair itself, allowing for everyone who finds it the opportunity to symbolically eat the flesh of Jesus- no nasty wafers this Easter season!


What is it that people are all up in arms about? There are plenty of chocolates available that depict Jesus, so it can't be that; could it be that it was a dark chocolate (even though it is more than certain Jesus was dark skinned) statue, or is it because they made him, "a man" (penis envy)?

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