News: Christians "insulted" by chocolate crosses

I gather this will stop my brilliant cross-marketing theme, the Chocolate Savior on a trailer hitch?
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A symbol of Christianity that sits atop church steeples, dangles from necks and hangs on walls is now ending up in the mouths of the faithful, over the objections of some religious officials.

A mass-produced chocolate cross is being sold this Easter by Russell Stover Candies Inc. in about 5,000 stores nationwide, which experts say is apparently a first for a major American company.

"Obviously they've seen that there's a market for chocolate crosses at Easter," said Lisbeth Echeandia, a consultant for Candy Information Service, which monitors candy industry trends. "I don't see it growing tremendously but I think there would be growth in the Christian market."

However, not all Christians are happy about it. Chomping on a chocolate cross can be offensive to some, said Joseph McAleer, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese in Bridgeport, Conn. "The cross should be venerated, not eaten, nor tossed casually in an Easter basket beside the jelly beans and marshmallow Peeps," he said. "It's insulting."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=12&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_re_us/chocolate_crosses

I find the idea of turning a cross into a delightful chocolate confection extremely morbid. Delicious, but morbid.

In a recent discussion with some close Christian friends, one woman expressed her surprise about the pagan origins of Easter. Another woman shrugged and admitted she did not think Christianity had ever had a single original thought as a religion. A third woman paused for a moment and responded, “Oh yes we did! We are the first religion to turn our founder’s execution device into jewelry.” I found her remark amusing and morbid. So many people give absolutely no thought to the horrific physiological affects of being crucified.

Crucifixion was the most horrid of death sentences. It was an excrutiating experience that usually lasted for days. The Romans had a knack for coming up with some of the cruelest ways to execute people and then people go around wearing the damn symbol of that as jewelry, with or without the tortured body of Christ.

I don't understand it either and I'm a lefty Christian. :shrug:

Because it was a personal symbol to me. Now days I see all the hypocracy going around with religion and the people abusing the cross with their hypocrtical reason's and I just can't do that anymore and how main stream Christianity has become and it's more like an "it" thing. I know now that the only thing that matters is what's inside my heart and not a piece of jewlery.

Can't remember who it was, but he did this great bit on: "When Jesus comes back, do you really think the first thing he wants to see is a fucking crucifix?!"

something important. Like, are we still at war????

They make everything out of chocolate now. I've been to bridal showers, and those of you who have been to lingerie parties or bridal showers know what I'm talking about . . . right? Nuff said.

Plus, I'm a chocoholic. What's a girl to do during hormonal imbalances?

but war is off their radar scope. Candy is so much more crucial. :crazy:

;)

"Chocolate acts as a re-evaluation catalyst for the representation of seduction.":

http://www.ndaf.org/HESLOP.HTML

savior as jewelry, eat his "flesh and blood" but can't bring themselves to eat the cross as chocolate? That's not insulting. Murdering millions of people in Christ's name is insulting!

Just for you:

:D

I couldn't believe I was seeing it. The kids would sure have been disappointed if I'd bought those. Not to mention, those Chocolate crosses were 50% off! They had a whole half shelf full of them and it looked like not a one had sold. Of course, the 12" tall chocolate hollow Bunnies -- well, I got the last 2 of those for my munchkins ;)

Maybe I can score a ton of them for cheap Halloween candy.

what underemployment and unemployment leads to. Too much idle time on their hands. "Idle hands are the devil's workshop."

hot-cross buns this Easter too.

My Grandma (first generation Italian) used to make Blood Pudding for Good Friday to commemorate the death of Jesus. Don't ask me for the Italian spelling (sangua something) of the name. lol Grandma and her sisters would go to the butcher and buy a quart or two of pigs blood. They would put chocolate pieces and candied citron in it and boil and stir away for hours. My Dad (Irish/American) would say they looked like the 3 witches (Italian widows ALWAYS dressed in black) over a boiling cauldron. Apparently, it was Italian religious custom from the old country. I liked it as a little girl, thought it was chocolate pudding. When I got older and understood it was made from pigs blood, it totally grossed me out. Any Italian/Americans ever hear of it?

Chocolate crosses PALE in comparison.

blame it on us liberals too? I betcha he'll try.

but it's so much better than the "Cherry Cordial Chocolate Jesus" ;-)

:evilgrin:

I'd pay a couple bucks to eat Mary ;-)
...in a desperate attempt to offend someone...

hehehehe

It's a miracle! The demons and sickness have left my body.


*munch munch*

:9

I'm not Christian, but I think Easter is getting almost as bad as Christmas, at least where I live. I wonder if most children have a clue what it's all supposed to be about. Kids get baskets full of presents these days at Easter, and I'm like, WHY??

At one of my local markets, they were selling cupcakes with plastic crosses stuck in them. When I mentioned this to a checker there, and that I thought it was inappropriate, she was clueless as to why I might think that.

Yeah, there are many more important things to think about right now. But I also think that chocolate crosses and cupcake crosses are a symptom of what's wrong with so many Christians generally these days: they're hypnotized by appearance and symbols while completely forgetting what their religion is actually supposed to be about.

Too many people confuse the symbol with reality rather than appreciate the full depth of meaning behind the symbol. We'll protest at burning a flag but turn a blind eye to polluting the land it flies over. We'll balk at biting into a chocolate cross but fail to extend a hand to the weak and oppressed.

And I'm going to buy some and get a few friends together and stand outside a church Sunday offering them to the people coming in. . .

OK...j/k. . .well, maybe.

BASTARD X-TIANS!!! Burn in HELL you bunny killers!!! :grr:

That guy should read up on the whole graven images thing. It's right in the 10 Commandments.

:evilgrin:

He's about halfway down the page!

http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2004/12/pssstour-marching-orders-are-in.html

:evilgrin:

The Peep contingent would be up in arms.

tsk, tsk....

/sarcasm

Most of these religious-confectionery products failed and were quickly taken off of the market, but who can forget:

--Palmer Pontius Pilate Peeps
--Brach's Shroud of Turin fruit roll ups
--Mary Magdalene M&Ms
--Nestle Crunch Lucky Barabbas Milk Chocolate Bunny
--Junior Mint communion wafers
--Sweet-Tart Ten Commandment Tablets
--Roman Emperor jawbreakers

(I'm probably now booked on the hell express for this post)

get off the computer now. I'm on overload. Short circuiting, temporarily. Oh, great, now Crossfire is on in the background. Why can't they stop with this Schiavo nightmare? It's worse than 9-11.

It's not new. I remember seeing and getting chocolate crosses at Easter 40 or so years ago when I was a kid, along with lamb-shaped cakes covered in coconut. One cross that I remember well actually had kind of neat symbolism - it was decorated with white lily-like flowers twining around the base and arms of the cross to represent the triumph of Christ over death. It was dark chocolate and the lilies were marzipan. Truthfully, I never thought twice about it - the cross, lambs, eggs, bunnies and chicks were all Easter symbols. I will say that my parents didn't buy crosses - they went for the traditional chocolate bunnies, but I did get them a few times from family friends. It seems to me that fundies these days have to be perpetually pissed off about something - it's so much easier that way to play the martyr card. Honestly, I wish they would get raptured.

anyway. Chicks and eggs ... it's kind of a spring rebirth thing, without all the crucifixion imagery.

at least the traditional pink, yellow, and white ones. The new blue and purple ones bother me.

even on your sweaty old bod - but not eat them? And you can pretend to eat Christ's body and drink his blood but not eat a cross? What's up with that?

Is it more bizarre to eat the body and blood or to eat the device that was used to kill him?

I'll stick to Peeps, jellybeans, and chocolate bunnies. The pagan candies are so much less complicated.

Maybe it's time to go back to celebrating the equinox.