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You are here: Home / Politics / Religion / Pour Him Over Ice Cream for a Nice Parfait

Pour Him Over Ice Cream for a Nice Parfait

by @heymistermix.com|  October 6, 20108:11 am| 55 Comments

This post is in: Religion, Outrage

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One of the local wingnut blogs that’s usually at the forefront of outrage brought this controversy to my attention:

The art in question is a piece titled “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals” by Mexican-American artist Enrique Chagoya.

Protesters say it contains an explicit depiction of Jesus Christ engaging in oral sex.

The only image that I could find is too small to really see what our savior is up to, so it’s hard to say whether “Blowjob Jesus” will be this generation’s Piss Christ, but I’ll bet that the NEA is going to get its budget cut, if that agency still even exists.

Update: HRA found a bigger image.  Fairly tame, though God’s only son does seem to be enjoying himself.

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  1. 1.

    John Cole

    October 6, 2010 at 8:12 am

    But I thought offensive drawings of religious icons was the highest form of free speech and political statement? Isn’t that what we learned in the Draw Mohammed affair?

  2. 2.

    mistermix

    October 6, 2010 at 8:17 am

    John, you missed the Jesus exemption to that rule. And the people protesting are good Merkins, unlike those terrorists who were protesting the Mohammed cartoons.

  3. 3.

    beltane

    October 6, 2010 at 8:18 am

    This controversy will quickly blow over. Now if it was a matter of “blowjob Reagan” we’d be seeing some real outrage.

    The right-wing has so thoroughly trashed Jesus that it’s almost like they perform a daily crucifixion of him. If there was a god, he would smite these people.

  4. 4.

    El Cid

    October 6, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Apart from wondering why it may be considered so fascinating by some artists to still make risque images of Jesus, there are sentiments like this:

    Emmanuel Baptist Church pastor Bob Garner said he was not impressed that the same exhibit caused no controversy during a five-month showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.
    __
    “That doesn’t surprise me at all,” he said. “The modern secular world loves this stuff.”

    Should we prefer the pre-modern secular world? The modern religious world? The pre-modern religious world?

  5. 5.

    MeDrewNotYou

    October 6, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Jesus fucking Christ! (VERY NSFW)

  6. 6.

    Dennis SGMM

    October 6, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Mr. Chagoya would now be the resident art critic at Fox News if he’d just portrayed the prophet Mohamed delivering that holy honk job.

  7. 7.

    Smurfhole

    October 6, 2010 at 8:24 am

    “Reagan’s Death-Cops Hunt Pope:

    ‘Our Only Mistake Was Not Winning!'”

    Keith Haring newspaper headline mashup, circa 1982.

  8. 8.

    cleek

    October 6, 2010 at 8:27 am

    Emmanuel Baptist Church pastor Bob Garner said he was not impressed that the same exhibit caused no controversy during a five-month showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.
    …
    “That doesn’t surprise me at all,” he said. “The modern secular world loves this stuff.”

    seems to me that the religious world loves this stuff even more: it gives them an excuse to march around and scream and wail and rend their garments and indulge in that sweet sweet victimhood that they love so much.

    “I haven’t seen it, and I won’t,” Loveland resident Chris Jones said. “I don’t have to open up a Playboy or Hustler magazine to know what’s inside.”

    … even if they have to invent a reason to do it.

    The protest drew six television news crews from Denver and Northern Colorado, and sidewalk interviews were in progress most of the morning.

    attention-seeking loudmouths receive what they desire. film at 11.

  9. 9.

    cleek

    October 6, 2010 at 8:28 am

    no. i did not do that.

  10. 10.

    Cris

    October 6, 2010 at 8:34 am

    This reminds me of the LOLChrists that PZ linked to yesterday.

  11. 11.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    October 6, 2010 at 8:39 am

    Protesters say it contains an explicit depiction of Jesus Christ engaging in oral sex.

    Meanwhile, male prostitutes in the area report a 90% increase in business. The clients claim they’re paying upwards of $50 to gobble a stranger’s knob in front of a mirror for research purposes and they don’t enjoy it at all.

  12. 12.

    Nylund

    October 6, 2010 at 8:39 am

    @mistermix:

    John, you missed the Jesus exemption to that rule. And the people protesting are good Merkins, unlike those terrorists who were protesting the Mohammed cartoons.

    What happens if you draw Mohammed giving Christ a BJ?

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    October 6, 2010 at 8:40 am

    Seems like some Catholic, some rabid Catholic, made a movie that was two hours of torture porn centering on Jesus, and I thought that was a LOT worse.

    But I’m just a secular humanist…

  14. 14.

    El Cid

    October 6, 2010 at 8:43 am

    @Nylund: Not permitted. Now, an American Eagle buttfucking Mohammed raising guns over its head and yelling “THIS IS FOR 9/11 MOTHER FUCKER”, that’d probably be all right.

  15. 15.

    jwb

    October 6, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Look what this post has done to the sidebars: ads for “JESUS LOVES YOU” and the extremely kitschy “FREE DISPLAY OF FAITH SCREENSAVER.”

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    October 6, 2010 at 8:47 am

    @WereBear: After imagining someone walking out of Mel Gibson’s “Moses,” I can imagine him or her saying ‘I never knew that they beat Moses so much.’

  17. 17.

    New Yorker

    October 6, 2010 at 8:58 am

    Oh good, it’s almost 9 am and I was afraid I wouldn’t have something completely trivial to be outraged about today.

  18. 18.

    Kryptik

    October 6, 2010 at 8:58 am

    I find this ironic, honestly.

    Most of the Christians that obsess over this and talk about the ‘modern secular culture’ tend to promise to stay faithful to Jesus while fellating Mammon behind Christ’s back.

  19. 19.

    daveNYC

    October 6, 2010 at 9:12 am

    Not only will they demand that the NEA be defunded, they’ll also claim that doing so will totally help balance the budget.

  20. 20.

    beltane

    October 6, 2010 at 9:23 am

    @Cris: When my husband sent his fundie, wingnut creep of a brother a picture of a laughing Jesus with the caption “Ha,Ha, Jesus thinks you’re a dumbass”, a miracle happened: wingnut brother no longer speaks to him. Who says the Lord doesn’t work miracles any more.

  21. 21.

    HRA

    October 6, 2010 at 9:27 am

    I found this larger one. I can’t see anything as described. Then my eyes have already been quite a bit of print here at work.

    http://jockohomo.tumblr.com/post/1244102530/the-misadventures-of-the-romantic-cannibals

  22. 22.

    artem1s

    October 6, 2010 at 9:35 am

    there’s no indication that the gallery or the exhibit was funded by the NEA so why should they take a hit? The NEA doesn’t fund individual artists anymore.

    FREE MARKET BABY! Like the Mapplethorpe show, I’m sure now this will be their best attended event ever. so shaddup.

    also, sadly, one viewer testified there were no genitalia depicted. I’m guessing this is some vague image of Jeebus on a toasted cheese sandwich scare?

  23. 23.

    Kiril

    October 6, 2010 at 9:39 am

    @HRA: Bottom right panel. Jesus has a woman’s body and is getting licked. Someone alert 4chan.

  24. 24.

    Matthew B.

    October 6, 2010 at 9:41 am

    @Kiril: He’s getting his knee licked, as far as I can tell, with “ORGASM” written in the background.

  25. 25.

    New Yorker

    October 6, 2010 at 9:41 am

    “That doesn’t surprise me at all,” he said. “The modern secular world loves this stuff.”

    Um, no. This member of the “modern secular world” would prefer to look at the depiction of Jesus as presented by Caravaggio or by the countless anonymous medieval artist who created stunning altarpieces.

    But acknowledging that wouldn’t allow you to wallow in the victimhood you crave, would it?

  26. 26.

    Kiril

    October 6, 2010 at 9:50 am

    @Matthew B.: That’s not his knee. Look closer (if you dare!)

  27. 27.

    Matthew B.

    October 6, 2010 at 9:55 am

    @Kiril: Ah, so what I thought was a pink bedspread isn’t actually a pink bedspread. Weird perspective on that leg, though.

    So okay, he’s getting his inner thigh licked.

  28. 28.

    Kiril

    October 6, 2010 at 10:03 am

    @Matthew B.: Yeah, and Jesus is still wearing his panties. It doesn’t seem like oral sex to me, but that might be what fundamentalists think it is. They’re probably just as mad that Jesus is a woman, but whatever.

  29. 29.

    Fergus Wooster

    October 6, 2010 at 10:10 am

    @mistermix: Extra extra extra points for the Tom Waits reference.

  30. 30.

    quaint irene

    October 6, 2010 at 10:27 am

    to say whether “Blowjob Jesus” will be this generation’s Piss Christ, b

    I’m surprised the old ‘Proctor & Gamble’s logo has hidden satanic images’ rumor hasn’t been resurrected lately. That usually surfaces every ten years or so.

  31. 31.

    Hawes

    October 6, 2010 at 10:39 am

    And Jesus said, “Take, eat, this is my body, do this in remembrance of me.”

    Maybe we had the translation from Aramaic wrong…

    “Take, eat me, this is my body, do this because it’s AWESOME!”

  32. 32.

    Jules

    October 6, 2010 at 10:40 am

    I like Jebus riding the bike in a bathing suit and the bikini clad dancin’ pigs.

  33. 33.

    Sly

    October 6, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Speaking of Tom Waits and eating Jesus…

  34. 34.

    New Yorker

    October 6, 2010 at 10:51 am

    @quaint irene:

    Eh, Satanism is so passe. We need to find hidden messages of submission to Islam in Dunkin’ Donut ads, the Flight 93 Memorial, Obama’s hand gestures, etc.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    October 6, 2010 at 10:59 am

    I just want to say that this post and all of its comments have me howling with laughter. Great way to start the day. You guys are the best.

  36. 36.

    Uloborus

    October 6, 2010 at 11:02 am

    @Cris:
    I like the cut of this man’s jib.

  37. 37.

    someguy

    October 6, 2010 at 11:07 am

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Mr. Chagoya would now be the resident art critic at Fox News if he’d just portrayed the prophet Mohamed delivering that holy honk job.

    Fail. He’d be hiding underground and pissing his pants with that witless “Draw Mohammad Day” cartoonist girl, actually. Of course Fox would be lionizing him, but still.

  38. 38.

    debit

    October 6, 2010 at 11:11 am

    @Nylund:

    What happens if you draw Mohammed giving Christ a BJ?

    Dude, that would be hot!

  39. 39.

    Rick Massimo

    October 6, 2010 at 11:15 am

    The art in question is a piece titled “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals” by Mexican-American artist Enrique Chagoya.

    I wonder whether they identify the ethnicity of every artist they write about.

    I wonder whether they specify that certain artists are Mexican-American when they have complimentary things to write about them.

    I wonder how long I can go on pretending that I don’t know the answers to these questions.

  40. 40.

    Punchy

    October 6, 2010 at 11:17 am

    @debit: Add in the FSM’s noodly appendage and 4 or 5 of Buddah’s many arms/fists, and you’ve got a religious orgy of epic proportions.

  41. 41.

    geg6

    October 6, 2010 at 11:27 am

    If I had a barn, I’d have a mural of that painted on the side. And the Mapplethorpe right on the other side.

    Fuck these assholes and their phony piety and gods.

  42. 42.

    TaMara (BHF)

    October 6, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Well at least it’s keeping the local pols out of the news cycle. For that I’m grateful. Between this and the husband and wife who IGNORED all warnings and decided to jet ski across the Mexican border and get shot, we’re all the rage nationally this week. (FSM save me).

  43. 43.

    debit

    October 6, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    Punchy: Tentacles. It’s probably already been done somewhere in Japan.

  44. 44.

    Randy P

    October 6, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    @Cris:

    You people and your links. Do you have any idea how much of my life I’ve lost to Hyperbole and a Half since some BJer posted an innocuous-looking link to it?

  45. 45.

    Randy P

    October 6, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    @TaMara (BHF):

    the husband and wife who IGNORED all warnings and decided to jet ski across the Mexican border and get shot

    Maybe.

    The word “allegedly” gets overused, but this case is one that cries out for it every third word.

    The authorities aren’t outright calling the woman a liar, but they are rather cautiously saying it’s hard to believe her statement is an accurate reflection of the facts.

  46. 46.

    debit

    October 6, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    Ok, I just looked at the picture. Jesus had breasts?

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    October 6, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    The artist on his work:

    “The whole idea of the work is to express my personal anxieties about the church and religious institutions,” Chagoya said.
    __
    “It’s not about faith and belief. Personally, I respect those beliefs. I was raised a Catholic. I believe that Christ is about love, and about sharing.
    __
    “I am very concerned about the molesting of children, something that the church has kept secret and quiet for many years. That is an obscenity of the sort that no artist could ever achieve.”

    The ignorant, uninformed response:

    He’s the devil, a homemade protest sign outside the museum said.

  48. 48.

    J. A. Baker

    October 6, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Is it wrong of me to admit that when I first saw the image in question, I thought it depicted Jesus with a vagina?

  49. 49.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    October 6, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    So it isn’t scary brown messicans beheading people in the desert. It’s scary brown messicans GIVING head in the desert.

    Someone alert Angle!

  50. 50.

    fucen tarmal

    October 6, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    if jesus asked christine o’donnell for a blow job, would she give it to him?

    i mean its casual sex and very wrong, but it is jesus after all, why won’t they let me into any of those town hall meetings? i have lots of questions.

  51. 51.

    Brachiator

    October 6, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    @fucen tarmal:

    i mean its casual sex and very wrong, but it is jesus after all, why won’t they let me into any of those town hall meetings? i have lots of questions.

    Jesus is incapable of casual sex. Even a one-night-stand with Him would presumably make a woman a true Bride of Christ.

  52. 52.

    wengler

    October 6, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    In order to conserve freedom in the face of tyranny, I do declare a contest for the best depiction of Jesus having sex with Mohammed.

    Let’s let these two great world religions make sweet love to each other in cartoon form to show how united our religious people are in the West to the concepts of tolerance and religious freedom.

  53. 53.

    Gustopher

    October 6, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    It’s ok, Jesus’s semen is transmuted into good, wholesome milk on the way down.

  54. 54.

    MarkJ

    October 6, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    @Fergus Wooster: +1 – Got to be a chocolate Jesus. Great song.

  55. 55.

    b-psycho

    October 6, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    @fucen tarmal: …and then upon firing a triple-X quality (and quantity) load into her still gaping mouth he’d whip off the disguise, say “SIKE, bitch! It’s pronounced hey-soos!!” & run away laughing.

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