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What do you think of the chocolate Jesus statue? |
Info here: http://www.christianpost.com/article/200... One of NYC's news stations was making a big stink about it being displayed in a gallery in a hotel in Manhattan. People seem to have big problems with the statue's nudity. As do I. I'm quite familiar with classical art and the ideas of heroic nudity, but this just seems to have been done for the shock value, with no other redeeming reasons. Your thoughts? I am a Christian. I love God. Easter is the most important time of the year for me. But frankly, I couldn't give a damn about this statue. As a Christian, there are so many things that offend me. This is just one of them. I certainly wouldn't pay to see it. If the artist is a Christian and did not intend to offend, then that's fine. But if he was simply trying to use religious imagery to get attention, then I am offended, and I pity him. The whole thing is chocolate? It's made out of chocolate, it can't be that bad. I think we should eat it. Well, maybe... but when shame pervades society, as unnatural as shame is, sometimes it takes a jolt to get people to overcome it. The heroism is that the artist refuses to be shamed into compromising the truth in his art. I think it's stupid, on many, many levels. The first of which is we don't know what Jesus looked like, other than the fact that He was Jewish, so why make a statue? Didn't Jesus say that you had to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood? This tends to make it a little more literal. i think it's not a good thing to do. |
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