Newsweek provides us this quote:
“I just don’t think that you should eat anything that’s Jesus. It’s OK to eat the cross as long as God is not on it.”
–Liz Samuel, a supervisor at the Gertrude Hawk Chocolates store in Langhorne, Pa., on the store’s selling chocolate statues of Jesus
A chocolate statue of Jesus? It just doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. For one thing, where would you start eating? To bite the head off a chocolate bunny and come back to finish him later is no big deal, but doing that to our Lord’s image would be a sort of profanation.
For convenience, you might press our Lord’s image into a chocolate coin so that you could receive it whole and entire — that would go over better. If you wanted, you could even put Caesar on one side and Christ on the other.
eje asks: “If they made a statue of John the Baptist, would it be appropriate to eat the head first?”
Now, he’d be bittersweet.