Behold! A six foot high sculpture of Jesus, made from chocolate. The artist, Cosimo Cavallaro, calls it “My Sweet Lord”. Not sure why it caused a ruckus, it would seem to combine the two greatest loves of some of the Christian gals I know.
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Hi! Thank you for your blog!
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Thanks Galya. That’s certainly an usual set of images you’ve got on your blog.
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Jon, thanks for the background info. Personally though, I think I still prefer ‘my sweet Lord’.
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it did cause a lot of media driven critisism- they were simply not going to allow this to go ahead- interesting when the media decide what Christians should and should not be offended about!
It would have been a sweet exhibition 🙂LikeLike
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Interesting indeed. I’ve had some vaguely similar experiences with some Atheists recently, who kept insisting that I MUST read the Bible in a fundamentalist way. Who were they to dictate to me how I read it? To refuse me space to take genre and context into account? They were nonplussed when I pointed out how fundamentalist they were being towards me. I was left with the impression they actually need fundamentalists in a funny co-dependent way to buttress their own worldview. I was a Christian behaving badly for not behaving badly.
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lol Matt, interesting when you meet with statements like ” well obviously you will say/ think….”
How do they know?
from a badly behaved Christian 🙂LikeLike
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I think we sometimes victims of projection. People will see what they want to see, but little do they realize it is sometimes nothing more than their own shadow in a mirror.
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People always get bent out of shape about anatomically correct Jesuses — and the chocolate makes him all the more, er, bodily. ’cause you know what we want to do with chocolate.
Folks’ reactions to works of art do tell us as much about them as about the art itself… Art as Rorschach.LikeLike
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I must be having a moment of naiveté. Blush. That angle had not occurred to me. Rorschach indeed you naughty woman 😉
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