Chokladjesus - av Cosimo Cavallaro 

Nej - det lider jag inte av - jag bara gillade ordet som dök upp i min skalle.

Ska googla och se om jag det har dykt upp i någon annans skalle också. 8 träffar - men egentligen bara på 4 platser. Najs - min skalle var med i begynnelsen - för en gångs skull.

Annars är jag alltid sist med det senaste. Julkrubban står kvar. Ska jag damma av den och låta den stå kvar - eller ska jag plocka ner den?

Svår fråga - nu drabbas jag av jultraumatisk stress - och funderar på att gå till parken och leta upp några kvistar att ta in och sätta färgranna fjädrar i.

Chokladjesus av Tom Waits

In an interesting case of censorship, a Holy Week exhibition of "My Sweet Lord" (a sculpture by Montreal born artist Cosimo Cavallaro) was cancelled due to a number of complaints and even death threats.  Its also interesting because I just heard about it now, it must have recieved very little news coverage because "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever" seems like something that would stick in my head if I'd known about it.  I'm not exactly sure what all the fuss about, its pretty much the same as the sculpture of Jesus hanging over the alter in the church I used to attend.  The only differences are that (A) its made entirely of chocolate and (B) Jesus isn't wearing a loin cloth.  So what is the cause of this uproar?  If it's the chocolate than so what?  It's just the medium.  Or is chocolate somehow unworthy of being molded into Jesus' likeness?  If thats the case which medium is less blasphemous when it comes to painting Jesus.  Oil or acrylic?  If its the lack of loin cloth then once again, so what?  Jesus had a penis, whether the Christian right want to admit it or not (yeah, I know the Christian right are a little uneasy about the human body being seen by other humans).

Regardless of the source controversy, it makes me think of Tom Waits. 

"Man cannot live on bread alone, but if he were to consume Cosimo Cavallaro's newest creation he could live off of Jesus -- for approximately eight months. An oddball artist known for his "eclectic" forms of expression, Cavallaro's latest contribution to culture is a six-foot tall, anatomically-correct milk-chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ. His confectionary Christ is made with more than 200 pounds of chocolate, containing approximately 480,000 calories. (The artistic endeavor titled, "My Sweet Lord," can also give you 3,240 percent of the Vitamin A you need each day.)"

NPR Audio: Chocolate Jesus May Prompt Boycott. There are two sides to Easter. There's the Christian holiday. And then there's the bunny, the eggs and maybe some candy, too. A group called the Catholic League wants to boycott a New York hotel that is mixing the two sides by displaying a sculpture of Jesus made of chocolate. It's described as "the 485,460-calorie Messiah." People will be invited to eat it on Easter Sunday.

Chocolate Jesus
Written by: Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits

Well, i don't go to church on sunday
Don't get on my knees to pray
Don't memorize the books of the bible
I got my own special way

I know jesus loves me
Maybe just a little bit more
I fall down on my knees every sunday
At zerelda lee's candy store

Well, it's got to be a chocolate jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate jesus
Keep me satisfied

more here.

With Jesus, Do You Eat The Ears First?

Bread and Wine or the Chocolate kind? by meEE

People eat Jesus alot. They are Jesus eaters. They eat him in the form of a host, a wafer of unleavened bread every Sunday, and some more frequently than that. They also drink his blood in the form of a sip of wine. I did this growing up in the Catholic Religion. I never thought of myself as a Jesus eater but I was. I think I'll copyright a slogan "I eat Jesus."

The Catholic Church Dogma is that the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ through transubstantiation. They are the only ones who claim this power that I know of. So when you eat the bread and drink the wine it is no longer just eating bread and drinking wine, you're eating and drinking Jesus. So now you too have Jesus in you and that's how you get Jesus in you, because Jesus can't just get in you by himself for some reason. The by-products of the bread and wine, excuse me, the essence of the by-products, are still Jesus as far as I can tell. So when you go the the bathroom does Jesus come out your...well you know what I mean?

Oh, man, what vain attempts to reach for that which has always been unreachable, to grasp at that which is not graspable, meaning, I say meaning that which IS and has Always Been and Will Always Be. No need of seeking outside yourself, literally or figuratively(grasping). That's why atheists can be actually closer to "What Is", Truth, they have either forsaken appearances or never had to deal wih them in the first place. Although to be sure their are plenty of "seemings to be" to get caught up in for those of any persuasion.

Creation is One with it's Creator and that Creation and Creator is only known through Love because it is Love. That's why the Chocolate Jesus may be as close to the truth as bread and wine. More people love chocolate. Even though the Catholic Church claims this power of catering Jesus's body, it's theology is so messed up with good and evil that it really doesn't make much sense. In so many ways the kingdom is kept at a "safe"distance, for another time and place, only after this life of trials and tribulations and eating Jesus every Sunday. Eating Jesus keeps you "online" but not "logged in"(yet) to that place that you want to be someday with all the good folks in the good place.

Are you not already there? Come on...

Update: At Crooks and Liars via Shakespeare's Sister:
The Daily Donohue: The Violent Rantings of a lunatic bully over a Chocolate Jesus

me in the chocolatEE (yum)