"Art" or Blasphemy?

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I don’t like the Rosary cartoon.
But what was the artists’ intentions in making the cake?
It doesn’t look like an evil cake, it looks like a piece of cake art.
Many years ago I had a friend who made art cakes and there are whole shows of art cakes.
So if the intention wasn’t to blaspheme, but just to make an impressive Jesus from cake…?
 
That’s what I was asking. What was the intent in representing Jesus?
Was it disrespectful intent, or just a nod to the very long tradition of Jesuses depicted in art?

Cake is not a disrespectful medium in and of itself, it’s not like Piss Christ, so what was the intent?
 
Funny or blasphemy?
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Sadly, I’ve notice a movement among fallen away Catholics to ridicule the faith. A few family members think it’s funny to bring Virgin Mary paper dolls to family reunions. An uncle once pretended to hand out Holy Communion, after a bbq with vanilla wafer cookies. They watch comedian Dane Cook who also had a routine in which he talks about taking “Christ Chex” (like Rice Chex).

I’ve made my displeasure known, but now I’m considered to be no fun and a “Holy Roller.” And they wonder why we don’t come to reunions anymore . . . especially with our kids.
 
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I dont care for any of it. Cookies, cartoon, cake.
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This.
And the Argentinian Minister of Culture was filmed eating a slice of the cake. You’d expect someone in his position to know better than to make a dumb blunder like that.
 
Maybe I’m an idiot, but I’m seeing in the “playful” behaviors a genuine desire to want to know Jesus and Mary better, to be their friends, to hark back to a Catholicism of childhood. I understand to some it may look very irreverent. But I know when I was not going to church but was reading “Jesus of the Week” blog and buying the Astronaut Jesus glow in the dark action figure (which I still have) I was genuinely missing Jesus and trying to keep some connection to him, even if it was mostly silly stuff interspersed with teary visits to airport chapels.

Maybe ask people why they joke about Jesus ad Mary. I bet in some cases it’s because they would really like to be better friends with Jesus and Mary but just can’t quite get there.
 
We generally agree with most things, and even in this one there is some level of subjectivity, but there is sooo much abuse out there that many of us don’t have much humor or tolerance, sad as that might be, for things that seem to skate too close to the edge. Anything presented along side that vile cartoon is doomed to failure I might add.
 
This is wrong. Very wrong. It’s not the fact that it’s Jesus depicted as an art piece, it’s the fact that it’s a cake. People eat it. Could you imagine someone cutting up poor Jesus’s leg and serving it on a paper plate? So sad.
 
There’z good art, bad art, & well, NO art, like “none of the above”
my rankings:
  1. Good art
  2. NO art
  3. bad art
The athys post stuff like that on CL ReFo often. Mary is
sometimes a target.
I reply “Awful things befall those who mock Jesus’ mom !”
 
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I read the artists’ statement and it discussed how millennials wanted to see Catholicism as a “fun” time with Jesus, as a return to the Catholicism of their youth. It went a little off the rails when it compared eating Jesus’ body made of cake to the Eucharist - not in a blasphemous way IMHO, but one shouldn’t compare a cake party to the Eucharist. On the other hand, I have seen artists doing so much more worse things with Jesus in a really nasty way that shows hatred of Jesus and hatred of religion that it’s hard for me to view this as the end of the world as we know it, as it doesn’t seem to be coming from a hateful place.
 
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The comic is not my cup of tea… (is it even a comic?)

But the cake for me its blasphemy and what is the intention anyway? I’m too lazy to read for some reason… if it was just to make a beautiful work of art and doesn’t intent on doing such wretched things then ok sure but of all things still why Jesus?
 
I think the intention matters cos that’s what is in people’s hearts.
Personally the cake doesn’t seem blasphemous to me but it does seem tasteless in that it is a lot over the top. But I wouldn’t condemn it or them, just politely decline and leave the party, it’s not me. My church is consecrated to the Sacred Heart and on the feast of the sacred heart we have a party after mass. I think in the past our cake has a little picture of the sacred heart on it, however, in view of the feast and our parish’s consecration I don’t find it offensive. Then again our cake is not life size nor is the heart life like. In my opinion, this is tasteful and respectful. But we humans are all different and if the intent is right then so be it. I am certainly rather conservative in my taste and there is no way the world should be just cos I am. In my opinion the comic is tasteless and not even funny, but then I have an odd sense of humour or some would say a missing one. It’s likely I am missing the intent here too as I dont get it, it sounds offensive. The cookies I don’t think are funny at all but not blasphemous unless their intent is to be funny or to poke fun at Christians or Jesus, so the intent would need to be known. It’s likely they are harmless and meant to teach children about the wounds of Jesus perhaps for Corpus Christi or some such. So I’d say intent is essential before committing to any response on any of these. I am inclined to think people mean well rather than that they don’t. I don’t think they qualify as art really…
 
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