Why are Christians insisting the opening ceremony depicted The Last Supper when it really was the Feast of Dyonisus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People watching it made an immediate assumption based on the imagery and because The Last Supper is so, well, iconic. I am Christian and was not upset because I have a life, but the organizers should have been a little more savvy about what imagery the average person is familiar with.

They were fully aware of what they were doing. Those are not stupid people. It was intentional to mock and do something similar to The Last Supper with Jesus.

I guess you should go cut their heads off about it or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People watching it made an immediate assumption based on the imagery and because The Last Supper is so, well, iconic. I am Christian and was not upset because I have a life, but the organizers should have been a little more savvy about what imagery the average person is familiar with.

They were fully aware of what they were doing. Those are not stupid people. It was intentional to mock and do something similar to The Last Supper with Jesus.

It was not. At all. The Last Supper painting is located in Milan, Italy.

The entire opening ceremony was a showcase of French culture - art, music, fashion, literature, film....even a video game character from Assassin's Creed and the Minions (both created by French animation studios).

They recreated other French works of art - Liberty Guiding the People, The Mona Lisa, and the Feast of Dionysus.

Summary of references to French culture in the Opening Ceremony:
https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/olympic-games-paris-2024/articles/317462-olympic-games-2024-opening-ceremony-explanation-of-cultural-references-and-winks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't see the depiction on opening night but read about the outrage afterwards and it just seems to be escalating. Olympic authorities have said it was a depiction of the Feast of Dyonisus. How is this still a controversy? Do facts not matter at all to these people? At least one Christian pastor seemed to figure out what really happened.

Reverend Benjamin Cremer, based in the US, shared a post on social media which dispelled the allegation that the controversial scene featuring drag queens was mocking Leonardo da Vinci's classic painting and therefore Christianity.

The post reads: 'It was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus. Greek God of festivity and feasting and ritual and theater.'

It seems as if Christians are very invested in feeling persecuted and disrespected these days. Seems like some people are actually just riling up the base.

The ill educated MAGA Christian right wouldn't know "The Feast of Dionysus" from a feast with Baccus!

[Anonymous]

I think the Greeks are the ones who should be aggrieved! Clearly they were mocking Dionysius, and the Olympics is their Hallowed Ground!!!

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Snowflakes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drag queens and kids were unnecessarily promoted

Many on the right seem to feel that any depiction of drag queens is unnecessary because some people don't like it. Does that also mean that any depiction of Christian idols is unnecessary as well because some other people don't like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drag queens and kids were unnecessarily promoted

Many on the right seem to feel that any depiction of drag queens is unnecessary because some people don't like it. Does that also mean that any depiction of Christian idols is unnecessary as well because some other people don't like that?

In all the pics I see of Jesus he's always in a skirt or a dress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drag queens and kids were unnecessarily promoted

Kids should never be promoted. I don't want to see that!

Maybe if more kids were promoted, conditions on the manufacturing floor would improve.

[Anonymous]

My MAGA coworker refused to watch the rest of the Olympics bc he was so offended by it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't see the depiction on opening night but read about the outrage afterwards and it just seems to be escalating. Olympic authorities have said it was a depiction of the Feast of Dyonisus. How is this still a controversy? Do facts not matter at all to these people? At least one Christian pastor seemed to figure out what really happened.

Reverend Benjamin Cremer, based in the US, shared a post on social media which dispelled the allegation that the controversial scene featuring drag queens was mocking Leonardo da Vinci's classic painting and therefore Christianity.

The post reads: 'It was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus. Greek God of festivity and feasting and ritual and theater.'

It seems as if Christians are very invested in feeling persecuted and disrespected these days. Seems like some people are actually just riling up the base.

Quite easily. The "reverend" is not who you think he is.

[Anonymous]

Guess you didn’t see the circulating screenshot from the IG of the fat woman in the middle of the table:

She posted a shot of their stunt above an image of The Last Supper, and captioned it “The New Gay Testament.”

But yeah, where do people get these ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't see the depiction on opening night but read about the outrage afterwards and it just seems to be escalating. Olympic authorities have said it was a depiction of the Feast of Dyonisus. How is this still a controversy? Do facts not matter at all to these people? At least one Christian pastor seemed to figure out what really happened.

Reverend Benjamin Cremer, based in the US, shared a post on social media which dispelled the allegation that the controversial scene featuring drag queens was mocking Leonardo da Vinci's classic painting and therefore Christianity.

The post reads: 'It was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus. Greek God of festivity and feasting and ritual and theater.'

It seems as if Christians are very invested in feeling persecuted and disrespected these days. Seems like some people are actually just riling up the base.

Quite easily. The "reverend" is not who you think he is.

I think he's the Campus Pastor at Cathedral of the Rockies in Boise, Idaho. If that's not true who is he really, and what does this have to do with the topic of many Christian's reactions to the opening ceremony?

[Anonymous]

Some creeps handling things in the background deliberately dropped this on the public. Of course they were intending to use the feast of dyonisus as their explanation.

Seriously, I'm getting fed up with deliberate attempts to cancel Western culture and Western religion. Enough is enough.

Imagine pulling this shit on Buddhism, or Judaism, or Islam. Complete lack of respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drag queens and kids were unnecessarily promoted

Kids should never be promoted. I don't want to see that!

Stop being a bigot. MAP are people too!