Chocolate Jesus for Easter: Blessing or blasphemy? 22 Articles

by Linda Watts

I personally don't feel as though a chocolate Jesus is a blessing nor is it even blasphemy. It is art in certain cases and just a yummy reminder in other cases of a Christian holiday that is saturated with commercialism. F...read more

by Dr. Audree Tucker

A naked chocolate man might be received differently if it were a sculpture of a movie celebrity accustomed to being regularly stripped by the media. However, the Catholic church recently grew incensed when a nude, lif...read more

by Tommy Vaughan

The word "blasphemy" means "speaking rudely about God or using God's name as a swear word." Therefore, the uproar over the Chocolate Jesus isn't an issue of blasphemy. I really hate it when people use words without even ...read more

by Ronald Gibson

I have mixed feelings on this matter. One thing is that people seem to have forgotten that the lamb is a symbol of easter because it represents the lamb of God and now it's just another fertility symbol along with the rabb...read more

by Sheree Zielke

A chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ! Blessing or blasphemy? My Sweet Lord! That's the name given to an all-chocolate sculpture of Jesus once scheduled to be shown in New York City. A 1.8 meter sculpture of a nak...read more

by Evan McLaughlin

There are so many aspects that people tend to overlook because of blind conviction or fundamentalist behaviour. Why is this a blasphemy? So an artist chooses to express art in a different, non-traditional manner, what th...read more

by Michael Hicks

Something one must consider when one is marketing a new product is the target market. About 80% of Americans declare themselves Christians of one form or another, and one of the ten commandments is the forbidding of 'grave...read more

by Bruce B.

The problem with this issue is not from Mr. Cavallaro, not from the chocolate Jesus itself (albeit a grotesque waste of perfectly good chocolate), and not from the hotel's decision to host the exhibit. The problem here is ...read more

by Debra Cornelius

For the record-Blasphemy is defined as; "...An irreverent or impious act, attitude, or utterance in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct..." Did the artist intend for this to be any of the above menti...read more

by Christina A. Armani

I'm going to have to call it a blasphemy. We're supposed to praise and worship Jesus, not make him into a chocolate statue. Jesus is not a celebrity or a pop icon, so he shouldn't be treated like one. Isn't Easter comme...read more

by Michelle Burkhardt

America is the land of freedom and opportunity that was started on Biblical beliefs. Our forefathers intended this country to be run under a Holy God. With that said, I believe that there is a fine line between freedom o...read more

by Jeanne Sones

Placing a "chocolate Jesus" in public at Easter is just plain poor taste. I don't know the mind of the artist or buffoon, but I believe we need to revere Jesus, He is Holy, and I guess I would have to say, I would not eat...read more

by Ted Sherman

With the season here again, most candy you'll see will be Easter eggs, jelly beans and marshmallow bunnies. However, there was one piece of chocolate that showed up uninvited this year that was obviously meant to be eye ca...read more

by Richie Caldicott

How anybody could find the image of Jesus created in chocolate offensive is beyond me. I am admittedly not a Christian but even so; do not feel that the concept of Jesus being carved in chocolate around Easter time could r...read more

by Rienna Nagel

Blessing or blasphemy? Without any misgivings, it's blasphemy. Since it's beginnings, Easter (taken from Ishtar, the goddess of fertility) has slowly shifted the focus off of Jesus and His truly amazing sacrifice and...read more

by Sherry Bentley-Short

Are we so uptight in todays society that an artist can't depict Jesus in chocolate without being ridiculed? There is a lady in Texas that has a pancake that has Jesus's face in it and people flock from all around to see...read more

by Paul Morrow

Well, having written my first article under the wrong assumption, I decided that I should modify it. When I first read the question above, I thought that some candy factory had made small chocolate figures that could be p...read more

by Randa Morris

With all of the commercialization that now comes along with Easter, the Easter Bunny, Chocolate Easter rabbits, duckies and chicks and marshmallow peeps, and jelly beans and colored eggs and the list goes on and on- but as...read more

by Tamma Ocain

It seems that the First Amendment is being threatened once again. While we have the right to express ourselves the way we see fit, others are going to be offended. I had thought that we had more freedom than other countrie...read more

by Adam Koch

I would point out, that it is clearly idolatry! Which almost every church is guilty of committing in one form or another. Easter is just one more tradition of man not ordained anywhere in scripture. Christ didn't tell u...read more