Cocoa Christ Causes Catty Christians

My Sweet Lord, an exhibit portraying a chocolate depiction of a crucified Jesus Christ, will not be opening during Holy Week. What was supposed to be a week long celebration, beginning the Monday after Palm Sunday and ending on Easter Sunday, has been cancelled as a result of public outrage. The disgust has come from the Catholic community as they feel the dark chocolate depiction of Jesus Christ is blasphemous. While a chocolate, anatomically correct sculpture of a religion's savior can be seen as blasphemous by the most basic of standards, it is hard to miss the blatant hypocrisy found in the self-righteous opposition to the exhibit.

With most Christian holidays losing sight of their real purpose, I find it strange that this situation has become a call for Christian activism. Shouldn't they be focused on restoring the traditional ideals of their holidays, rather than fussing over a sculpture meant to pay tribute to the Easter holiday? Christmas has been a blasphemous practice for as long as I can remember. The three wise men traveled from far and wide to bring gifts to Jesus for he was a special child. But what is the purpose of giving all children a slew of gifts when Christmas rolls around? Does that mean those kids are like Jesus? And is Santa the wisest of the wise men? The giving of gifts has nothing to do with the celebration of Jesus' birth. And if the Christmas as we know it, is essentially the equating of Jesus to all children then that is certainly blasphemous by nature. Considering that most Christians take part in such annual activity then it appears they must have a selective perception of blasphemy.

In regards to Easter, a holiday that celebrates chocolate gift baskets filled with chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs, how can anyone possibly see the connection from such practices to the actual meaning of the day? And with so much chocolate at the core of modern Easter why is a chocolate Jesus so damn offensive? I wonder if the reaction would have been different if Jesus was sculpted out of white chocolate rather than dark chocolate. To say the negative reaction towards the sculpture was due to a subconscious racist reaction, as a result of being exposed to only white depictions of Christ for centuries, is something we cannot definitely be sure about. However, it is a question that offended Christians must ask themselves. However, it appears the kind of people who believe the chocolate sculpture is, "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever," are not sensible enough to raise such questions. Surely, the only rational way of viewing this situation is as sacrilicious. Nevertheless, it seems the only body of Christ being consumed will remain a dry, tasteless wafer.