We have seen the furor created by Bill Donohue, leader of the “Catholic League,” a homophobic, misogynist, racist, and Catholic-supremacist hate group which poses as a civil rights organization. Their latest jihad is over the chocolate depiction of the founder of Christianity in chocolate.
Although the artist meant it as an homage and chocolate is a much more pleasant substance than the paint which is usually used to depict Joshua Bar-David (“Christ's” real name), that hasn't kept Christian nutjobs from going ape over this.
One item in today's New York Daily News article shows how nutty Christian militants can be.
"I don't want to disclose the location because of people, some people who are fanatics," (the artist) said, adding that he's received threats.
It is amazing that people could get so worked up over a trivial event involving something as silly as religion. No wonder most of the world's wars are being fought entirely or largely over religion.
The only reaction sane people would have to this scupture would be a mixture of amuzement and hunger, not anger and hysteria.
My reaction was awe at the title- My Sweet Lord-
how can you get angry at a pun so powerful it might well need to be regulated by the IAEA. That was weapons grade comedy genius. Amen.
JUST as idiotic? Look, the Chocolate Jesus complaints are annoying, but nobody got killed over it.
You seem to forget that fundamentalists have made terrorist threats against the artist and the gallery hosting the event.