tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post8430364159143847788..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: My sweet Lordbyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-26068830081796675252007-04-07T06:34:00.000+01:002007-04-07T06:34:00.000+01:00There are remarkable similarities to the storm in ...There are remarkable similarities to the storm in a cistern over Andre Serrano's "Piss Christ". It only highlighted the religious community's ongoing anxieties about the abject, the profane and the body, instead of embracing a dialogue on the humiliation and the scandal of the cross...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-8339078604899979692007-04-03T02:26:00.000+01:002007-04-03T02:26:00.000+01:00hughd,That is just a thoroughly AWESOME little fac...hughd,<BR/><BR/>That is just a thoroughly AWESOME little factoid. That settles it for me. I want a chocolate Jesus statue in my house (if it wouldn't melt everywhere!)Aric Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15241157655075444268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-32830023413402051552007-04-03T01:45:00.000+01:002007-04-03T01:45:00.000+01:00HI Byron - Haven't had a chance to check out your ...HI Byron - Haven't had a chance to check out your blog for a while...I look and you're talking about chocolate and the gospel... That's me all over (PhD topic = chocolate).<BR/><BR/>I reckon this is such a quirky, yet poignant image...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I thinks that there is an added level of irony or something in making a chocolate Jesus. Consider the meaning of the latin botanical name for the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-40087924364352399782007-04-02T14:21:00.000+01:002007-04-02T14:21:00.000+01:00I guess the thing is that they'd say it was offens...I guess the thing is that they'd say it was offensive to God.<BR/><BR/>I see Byron's point about Jesus humiliation in obeying God, yet also feel uncomfortable with the item itself... maybe I'm just a <I>prude</I>. So I probably wouldn't go to see it. There, that's my protest!<BR/><BR/>But I wouldn't bother putting my name on any list, especially when I don't know what behaviours the owners of theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-63954031863844397202007-04-02T12:59:00.000+01:002007-04-02T12:59:00.000+01:00Spot on. How can this representation of how the au...Spot on. How can this representation of how the author of our salvation was made perfect by offensive?<BR/><BR/>But there is more being missed than this difference between Christianity and Islam, isn't there? Even if there were a good enough reason to speak up against something offensive, it would not be because it was an assault on Christians, but an assault on God.<BR/><BR/>When Goliath defied Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04663760985851423746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-70463415156767120192007-04-02T05:25:00.000+01:002007-04-02T05:25:00.000+01:00Josh, that may or may not be true, but I think mor...Josh, that may or may not be true, but I think more interesting is the question <I>why</I>: the difference in logic regarding how to face opposition.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-54576194133242859452007-04-02T04:47:00.000+01:002007-04-02T04:47:00.000+01:00the quote misses a crucial difference between Chri...<I>the quote misses a crucial difference between Christianity and Islam.</I><BR/><BR/>I think the crucial difference is that when you do something of this nature, the likelihood that an enraged Christian cleric will issue a <I>fatwa</I> against you that culiminates in some thug slitting your throat is pretty low.Fearsome Piratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12171985273546955313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-62757532216787192782007-04-02T02:42:00.000+01:002007-04-02T02:42:00.000+01:00I wonder if the sculpture was inspired by the Tom ...I wonder if the sculpture was inspired by the Tom Waits song "Chocolate Jesus".<BR/><I>Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside<BR/>Got to be a chocolate Jesus<BR/>Keep me satisfied</I>Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02031551405442888131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-66181354367649660712007-04-02T01:40:00.000+01:002007-04-02T01:40:00.000+01:00Ah yes, I should have called this post 'Taste and ...Ah yes, I should have called this post 'Taste and see that the Lord is good'!byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-60053638714118587822007-04-02T01:36:00.000+01:002007-04-02T01:36:00.000+01:00how is a chocolate Jesus any more strange or offen...<I>how is a chocolate Jesus any more strange or offensive than the eucharist?</I><BR/>Indeed, or more offensive than the 'difficult teaching' of John 6 with which I began, and which sent many disciples scurrying to call the local paper and generate email petitions about boycotting Jesus from then on.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-89551514674033433452007-04-02T01:12:00.000+01:002007-04-02T01:12:00.000+01:00mind you I AM an American, before any American's g...mind you I AM an American, before any American's go taking offense.Aric Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15241157655075444268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-4957808395985808032007-04-02T01:11:00.000+01:002007-04-02T01:11:00.000+01:00how is a chocolate Jesus any more strange or offen...how is a chocolate Jesus any more strange or offensive than the eucharist? What about Ezekiel's honey-flavoured scroll? What about the psalmist exclaiming 'taste and see that the Lord is good'?<BR/><BR/>I think what they REALLY find offensive is the nudity and that's just good old-fashioned American prudery at play there, which I think we can safely ignore as having any relevance to the faith.Aric Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15241157655075444268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-20130559619357947842007-04-02T00:10:00.000+01:002007-04-02T00:10:00.000+01:00"Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth h..."Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you." ps.73:25<BR/><BR/>It is an <I>excellent</I> comment on easter, I think!Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03148452877425621293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-47903496790456430372007-04-01T23:40:00.000+01:002007-04-01T23:40:00.000+01:00Amen.I might also add that the vulnerability that ...Amen.<BR/><BR/>I might also add that the vulnerability that is being exposed here is a Christianity that has lost its Messiah to the foibles of Western consumerism. Considering the level of homogeneity between Christianity and conservative/reactionary politics in certain countries, I rather suspect that the artist has put his/her finger on the spot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com