It's weird how the only way that _I_ have heard about the "chocolate Jesus" was by Conservative bloggers...

And then it turns out that C for conservative comes before L for liberal in my RSS reader. I'm retracting that previous statement...

I'll also ask when it became taboo among Christians to display images of Jesus. Or, if it isn't the image of Jesus that's the problem, I'll ask why Chocolate is a taboo material?

Actually the main point of my post is mostly not to criticize the coverage of the "choco-JC," but to criticize the gross hypocrisy of the news outfits who only claim to "respect religion" when they want to cringe before Islam. If they were "equal opportunity" scoffers it would be different.

Most American Christians would say that an artist has a constitutionally protected right to mock Christianity. (And we'd add that Christians have a right to mock the "artist," and point out that he is a scamster, and what he is doing is not art, and that his mockery only has a point because Christianity is True. The world would yawn if he mocked Scientology or Zorastrianism.)

There is no taboo against images of Jesus, as you know perfectly well. But there's ALSO no taboo against us mocking them what mocks us...

Yes, but you're begging my question-- perhaps I wasn't clear. Let me try again
A) any depiction of Mohammed is considered blasphemy by Muslims.
B) (some) Depictions of Jesus are fully allowable by Christians.

If CNN wishes to respect Islam, they need to refrain from violating A. To be consistent in their treatment of Christianity, they need to refrain from showing images of Jesus which are blasphemous in themselves (keeping in mind B). So I ask: what makes this depiction of Jesus different from all other depictions of Jesus?

(do I get bonus points for sneaking in a passover reference?)

We'll send you an egg!

I think you are logically correct. I stand corrected in that.

But I don't think for a moment that CNN is using your reasoning. I think this is the principle that guides them.

The offense is not, if I understand correctly, the fact that Jesus is depicted in chocolate, but the fact that it is a naked chocolate Jesus with a sign that essentailly says, "Eat Me."

I, for one, find the phrase "Naked Chocolate Jesus" pretty darned hilarious, but then I have a group of friends who are apt to say things like, "Hey, they've got the blood of Christ on tap!"

We're going to Hell...