Sweet Jesus!

Easter.

It's the time we think about the Death and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ. Or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring. But mostly Jesus.

Oh, and chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

So why not a chocolate Christ? Sweet Jesus indeed!

What I find peculiar, is that the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights are so upset about it. Is it because Jesus is nude? Is it because he's made of chocolate? Obviously the artist is making a statement about the murky Easter waters where commercialism and religion mix. Is that so bad? Remember this is coming from a group of people who have a few very odd notions and habits concerning their god.

• They hang a graven image of their god being tortured to death on walls and around their necks.
• They believe that during communion the host and wine are transmogrified into real flesh and real blood, which they EAT.

But they're upset at a chocolate Jesus that they could also eat? Maybe, in traditional Catholic logic, they're afraid that eating a chocolate Jesus would be too much fun.