[MD] The value of art

[Arlo Bensinger]

[DMB]
I think "My Sweet Lord" is hilarious and it doesn't make fun of 
Christianity so much as it pokes fun at our ridiculous way of 
celebrating Easter.

[Arlo]
Easter is simply the Christian variant of Spring Equinox 
(Fertility... "rabbit", chocolate is a recent add-on, likely because 
of its association with sexuality) celebrations, and as such adopted 
many of the pagan rituals as Europe was "Christianized". The same 
thing happened with Christmas, which was the Winter Solstice 
celebration. (Halloween, which does not have a specific Christian 
counterpart but is widely celebrated in the America, is a Fall 
Equinox celebration.)

More than simply a take on the strange way Christians celebrate the 
resurrection of their prophet, it represents the universal solar 
origins of this holiday, and the borrowing that occurred as pagans 
were forced into the flock. Using chocolate, I suppose, emphasizes 
the sexuality-fertility connection to the holiday, something that has 
long since been lost on a congregation with no grasp of its 
historical origins. Another possible connection, the chocolate 
represents the transition of "religion" from esoteric spirituality to 
exoteric object of consumption (where we smack our lips on the idol 
but make no effort to understand the parable).