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Oh Sweet Jesus

By Sparkus ⋅ April 5, 2007 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

The upcoming Easter weekend is stirring up religious events and debates.

Roman Catholics in New York are up in arms over a naked Jesus sculpted entirely out of chocolate that was supposed to go on display Monday in a Manhattan art exhibit according to this article on CNN.com.

“This is an assault on Christians during Holy Week,” said Kiera McCaffrey, director of communications for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which describes itself the largest U.S. Catholic civil rights group. “They would never dare do something similar with a

chocolate statue of the prophet Mohammad naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan,” she said.

If Christians angered over the statue are gonna compare their religion’s respect to that of the Muslims, perhaps they should look to how radicals of that religion handled the disrespect Mohammad garnered when his likeness was published in a Denmark newspaper’s cartoon in September, 2005. Muslim groups threatened to blow up the newspaper’s building and called for the deaths of the authoring cartoonist.

My grandmother always scoffed at the issue of nudity by saying “That’s how God made us.” Amen, grandma.

Elsewhere, a holy war wages in the streets of Connecticut. Er, a street in Connecticut.

The owner of a store hung a side outside her “Photos Onto DVD” shop which read, “Easter: Beep for Christ.”

In response, the owner of the NoRegrets tattoo shop right next door hung his own sign which read “Honk twice for…” and had a picture of a red devil’s head.

“More people have been killed in the name of God than over anything else, and so I don’t think people should fight about religion,” said Phil Young who owns the tattoo shop and claims he is not a Satanist. “Satan is part of the same religion as Christ, so it’s a contrast, not a competing religion.”

Coincidentally, a bar graph has been circulating recently which compares the number of people that God killed in the bible to the amount of people Satan killed. View the results here.

Also check out this graph of how and where evolution is taught in schools around the United States.

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