Sweet Jesus! Chocolate Christ art exhibit canceled after Catholics protest

Sweet Jesus!

A New York hotel has canceled an exhibit of a giant naked chocolate Jesus, the AP reported.

The Catholic League or Religious and Civil Rights had called for a boycott of the hotel, which had planned the event to correspond with Holy Week.

The hotel canceled the showing, and issued a statement saying the threat was "crystal clear and has brought to our attention the unintended reaction of you and other conscientious friends of ours to the exhibition of Cosimo Cavallaro.... We have caused the cancellation of the exhibition and wish to affirm the dignity and responsibility of the hotel in all its affairs," the statement said.

The director of the art gallery that was to set up the display admitted the hotel did not know the chocolate Christ was to be exhibited, but said the artwork was not irreverent.

"It's intended as a meditation on the Holy Week," Matthew Semler said of the sculpture.

The news report says the artwork is called "My Sweet Lord," but the artist's website lists its title as "I did it daddy."

Image: "I did it daddy," from the artist's website.

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If Jesus invited Moroni over for coffee, would the angel say no?

The Mormon church has trademarked the angel Moroni, or so they claim. I guess they can have him; they're the ones who made him up, after all, aren't they?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a.k.a. The Mormons, have gotten their halos in a twitch over a t-shirt produced by two coffee-sellin' joes that shows the Moronic Angel swilling coffee through his trumpet.

Taylorville, Utah "Just Add Coffee" coffee shop co-owner Ed Beazer said he and partner Van Lidell have been using the Moroni symbol for about a year, and added it to the back of a now-best-selling t-shirt around Christmas. On March 9, they ran a print ad locally featuring the logo, and promptly heard from the LDS Church's attorneys, the Deseret News reported.

Can you imagine the panic in the streets when Jesus returns and demands licensing fees for all the abuse His Name has taken in the past 2,000 years? All the people who've said "Jesus H. (or F***ing) Christ!" as an interjection and all the Hispanics who've named their children after Jesus will probably get off with just a warning, perhaps even a touch on the face or a pat on the head.

It's all those preachers and ministers and priests and popes who've been b.s.ing us for two millenia, saying "Jesus spoke to me!" and "Jesus wants you to [fill in the blank]!", who are going to catch Hell.

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Rev. Ron Saunders channels Jesus!

A city manager for Largo, Florida recently came out of the closet and announced he was planning to have a sex change operation, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

The town held a hearing with plans to fire Steve (soon to be Susan) Stanton from the job he had held for 14 years.

As you might expect, the council voted to fire him.

Townspeople packed the city hall for the meeting.

"If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want him terminated," said Pastor Ron Saunders of Largo's Lighthouse Baptist Church. "Make no mistake about it."

Who died and made him Jesus' spokesman?

Not content just to show his supernatural ability to channel Jesus, Saunders, who is the pastor of a church with thirty — count 'em, thirty! — members showed his knowledge of biology and psychology by adding, "He's not going to be a man, and he's not going to be a female. He's going to be an 'it.' It's going to be the most sorrowful decision he has ever made."

Stanton is married, with a 13-year-old son. He says he's wanted to be a woman ever since he was a child.

Image: A very feminine-looking Jesus tiptoeing across the Sea of Galilee

Additional links:
Video of Stanton's speech to the council, from the St. Petersburg Times
The Florida Masochist
Sticks of Fire
Alien Intelligencer
The Delightful Yank
Blurbex
Pushing Rope

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What bank would Jesus use?

A 21-year old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant," the AP reported.

Kevin Russell had several other checks with him that were signed the same way but made out in different dollar amounts, including one for $100,000.

He was charged with one count of attempted check fraud and one count of intimidation, both felonies, and one count of resisting law enforcement, a misdemeanor.

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