Olympics Opening Ceremony

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe people are still upset about this.

Right wingers thrive on being outraged. Usually about phantom menaces like this. Reminds me of the fiction about CRR being taught in schools and their hand-wringing about transgender people. They’re gullible as shit and easily separated from their moneys by the grifters.

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Anonymous wrote:if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies.

Only to save their souls. “God created man and woman” is straight out of Genesis. God loves all his children, but doesn’t rejoice when they go astray. He helps them see how to turn toward Him.

He clearly is loosing at the game of saving your soul.

No one can spell “losing” correctly on this board tonight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mocking Christianity is like par for the course for celebrity artists. So boring. How many vapid pop stars are gonna pull a Devil era? How many times do we see some "artist" put themselves up like Jesus (Kanye?). It's not subversive anymore and therefore as a Christian I'm really not offended by it. I just think it's bad art! It's self-congratulatory and those who fall for it are just sucking D.

Also, big eyeroll trying to play it off as a different tableau. There are 12 people around a central figure with a halo. Miss me with your gaslighting.

You should watch Biblical scholar Dan McClellan dis this. It is NOT, in any way, a reference to anything in Christianity.

It's sad art education in the US is so parochial.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNQqfu28/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe people are still upset about this.

Right wingers thrive on being outraged. Usually about phantom menaces like this. Reminds me of the fiction about CRR being taught in schools and their hand-wringing about transgender people. They’re gullible as shit and easily separated from their moneys by the grifters.

And left wingers do the same...just different concerns.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies.

Only to save their souls. “God created man and woman” is straight out of Genesis. God loves all his children, but doesn’t rejoice when they go astray. He helps them see how to turn toward Him.

He clearly is loosing at the game of saving your soul.

No one can spell “losing” correctly on this board tonight.

They're not as educated as they think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies.

Only to save their souls. “God created man and woman” is straight out of Genesis. God loves all his children, but doesn’t rejoice when they go astray. He helps them see how to turn toward Him.

He clearly is loosing at the game of saving your soul.

No one can spell “losing” correctly on this board tonight.

They're not as educated as they think.

And not as loving and accepting as they think. In fact, the angriest and nastiest individuals I’ve observed online are…well, not “MAGAs”….

[Anonymous]

What has the IOC and France said about this "controversy"? What was the intended scene and setup for that portion of the ceremonies? Did they change any part of the ceremonies because of rain, covid, or trains issue that morning?

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Anonymous wrote:Mocking Christianity is like par for the course for celebrity artists. So boring. How many vapid pop stars are gonna pull a Devil era? How many times do we see some "artist" put themselves up like Jesus (Kanye?). It's not subversive anymore and therefore as a Christian I'm really not offended by it. I just think it's bad art! It's self-congratulatory and those who fall for it are just sucking D.

Also, big eyeroll trying to play it off as a different tableau. There are 12 people around a central figure with a halo. Miss me with your gaslighting.

There were more than twelve people there.

Sure...just a little artistic interpretation with the overweight woman in the middle wearing a halo similar to that usually depicted of Jesus?

I got more of a Bacchus/Dionysus vibe from that part of the opening ceremony, which would more sense than a thinly veiled mockery of the Last Supper, which was painted by an Italian and is located in Italy.

That’s because you correctly understood what you saw. It was Dionysus. It was a nod to a painting depicting Greek Gods partying. It had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity at all.

DP. It's probably both. A lot of art can be read on several levels.

Otherwise there's no good explanation for the woman in the middle with the halo. If pp has a jpeg or link the Dionysus painting, though, that would help. I googled briefly but couldn't find it.

That said, if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies. In his own day he hung out with the tax collectors and other outcasts.

The Halo is a around Apollo

Go back a few pages for the link to the actual painting

Bottom line if you are afraid of the Woke Mind Virus, refuse to acknowledge facts, and are completely ignorant of the history of the Olympics as well as French culture THEN THIS WAS TERRIBLE !!!!!!

Also, Leonardo was a gay scientist depicting an imagination of the Last Supper over 1000 years after it would have occurred. MAGA snowflakes lack internal consistency. You should be trying to destroy that sacriligious painting!

PP here and you're batsh!t. I actually said that Jesus would be hanging around with the trannies, not condemning them or gays like Leonardo.

I’m not but I didn’t do a great job with the post. I was trying to tell you that the haloed figure is Apollo. It’s not a both thing, it’s referencing a specific painting and imagery around Greek Gods.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/olympic-last-supper-scene-based-painting-greek-gods-art-experts


As for the rest I should have made it clear that it was for the ignorant outrage MAGA cult, not you. My bad

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Anonymous wrote:Mocking Christianity is like par for the course for celebrity artists. So boring. How many vapid pop stars are gonna pull a Devil era? How many times do we see some "artist" put themselves up like Jesus (Kanye?). It's not subversive anymore and therefore as a Christian I'm really not offended by it. I just think it's bad art! It's self-congratulatory and those who fall for it are just sucking D.

Also, big eyeroll trying to play it off as a different tableau. There are 12 people around a central figure with a halo. Miss me with your gaslighting.

There were more than twelve people there.

Sure...just a little artistic interpretation with the overweight woman in the middle wearing a halo similar to that usually depicted of Jesus?

I got more of a Bacchus/Dionysus vibe from that part of the opening ceremony, which would more sense than a thinly veiled mockery of the Last Supper, which was painted by an Italian and is located in Italy.

That’s because you correctly understood what you saw. It was Dionysus. It was a nod to a painting depicting Greek Gods partying. It had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity at all.

DP. It's probably both. A lot of art can be read on several levels.

Otherwise there's no good explanation for the woman in the middle with the halo. If pp has a jpeg or link the Dionysus painting, though, that would help. I googled briefly but couldn't find it.

That said, if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies. In his own day he hung out with the tax collectors and other outcasts.

The Halo is a around Apollo

Go back a few pages for the link to the actual painting

Bottom line if you are afraid of the Woke Mind Virus, refuse to acknowledge facts, and are completely ignorant of the history of the Olympics as well as French culture THEN THIS WAS TERRIBLE !!!!!!

Also, Leonardo was a gay scientist depicting an imagination of the Last Supper over 1000 years after it would have occurred. MAGA snowflakes lack internal consistency. You should be trying to destroy that sacriligious painting!

PP here and you're batsh!t. I actually said that Jesus would be hanging around with the trannies, not condemning them or gays like Leonardo.

I’m not but I didn’t do a great job with the post. I was trying to tell you that the haloed figure is Apollo. It’s not a both thing, it’s referencing a specific painting and imagery around Greek Gods.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/olympic-last-supper-scene-based-painting-greek-gods-art-experts


As for the rest I should have made it clear that it was for the ignorant outrage MAGA cult, not you. My bad

LOL you fell for it. The artist intended it to depict The Last Supper but after the outrage, the Olympic Committee did damage control and made up the Greek God story.

The main thing is that the performance was actually named ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine’ - which translates as "The Last Supper on the stage on the River Seine."

It's all explained in this twitter post. I have fact checked everything and it is very very accurate. Now you can stop embarrassing yourself with this nonsense. You're welcome. https://x.com/yankees_28th/status/1817903712880247138

From a dear friend. I have independently verified everything within this statement. Normally wouldn’t copy and paste in its entirety but I truly couldn’t have said this better myself:

The name of this sequence was ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine’ - which for those who don't speak French, translates as 'The Last Supper on the stage on the River Seine'. The pun being that Cène, Scene and Seine all sound the same in French. So we know it's not Bacchanalia, otherwise it would have been called "Bacchanalia on the River Seine". Instead, we know this is a portrayal of the last supper, because the title of the segment tells us so.

Also, the artistic director behind the scene, Thomas Jolly, said in the daily press conference following the opening ceremony, when asked specifically whether he had any views on why Christians might be offended by that segment, that he wanted to convey that in France "we have a right to not be worshippers". He did not say "you're mistaken, because it wasn't the last supper", rather, he explained why it was chosen and what it was trying to portray.

Yes, the man in blue was Dionysus/Bacchus, but the point of the scene was to insert Dionysus into the last supper. Why? Dionysus was the god of wine. The last supper is the moment where Christ (who in Christian theology is God) gives wine and bread to his disciples, asking them to continue this practice in memory of him, as it represents the sacrifice he would make on the cross the next day. In ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine', what they did was swap out Jesus (as the Christian God who gives out wine as a symbol of sacrifice for salvation) with Dionysus (as the pagan God who gives out wine as a symbol of hedonistic pleasure).

It wasn't enough that they just depict Dionysus. They COULD have just depicted Dionysus in Bacchanalia and nobody would have cared. But the whole point of ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine' was to depict a Pagan God in the place of the Christian God, in one of the most sombre and sacred moments of the Bible.

Final note, in the last 24 hours, Olympics Opening Ceremonies producers have releases a statement which confirms that (and this is a direct quote from said statement): "Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting".

Given that the producers admit that it was the last super, the artistic director agrees that he was trying to turn it into a pagan festival as a demonstration of the right to not worship, and the title of the scene is literally "the last supper on the stage of the Seine", I think we can put to rest this argument floating around on social media that the entire thing was Bacchanalia. It wasn't. It was Dionysus portrayed in the place of Jesus in the last supper, and now that the Olympics have apologised for that, maybe we can stop pretending that Christians are imagining things or taking offence unjustly.

[Anonymous]

Your tongue plots mischiefs and destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.

-Psalm 52:2

[Anonymous]

Where’s the evidence that the performance was actually called that? I see the opinion piece with that title but the author could have come up with that pun based on the outrage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where’s the evidence that the performance was actually called that? I see the opinion piece with that title but the author could have come up with that pun based on the outrage.

SMH, a random person on twitter said they verified it so that makes it true duh.

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Anonymous wrote:Mocking Christianity is like par for the course for celebrity artists. So boring. How many vapid pop stars are gonna pull a Devil era? How many times do we see some "artist" put themselves up like Jesus (Kanye?). It's not subversive anymore and therefore as a Christian I'm really not offended by it. I just think it's bad art! It's self-congratulatory and those who fall for it are just sucking D.

Also, big eyeroll trying to play it off as a different tableau. There are 12 people around a central figure with a halo. Miss me with your gaslighting.

There were more than twelve people there.

Sure...just a little artistic interpretation with the overweight woman in the middle wearing a halo similar to that usually depicted of Jesus?

I got more of a Bacchus/Dionysus vibe from that part of the opening ceremony, which would more sense than a thinly veiled mockery of the Last Supper, which was painted by an Italian and is located in Italy.

That’s because you correctly understood what you saw. It was Dionysus. It was a nod to a painting depicting Greek Gods partying. It had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity at all.

DP. It's probably both. A lot of art can be read on several levels.

Otherwise there's no good explanation for the woman in the middle with the halo. If pp has a jpeg or link the Dionysus painting, though, that would help. I googled briefly but couldn't find it.

That said, if Jesus were around today he'd probably be hanging out with the trannies. In his own day he hung out with the tax collectors and other outcasts.

The Halo is a around Apollo

Go back a few pages for the link to the actual painting

Bottom line if you are afraid of the Woke Mind Virus, refuse to acknowledge facts, and are completely ignorant of the history of the Olympics as well as French culture THEN THIS WAS TERRIBLE !!!!!!

Also, Leonardo was a gay scientist depicting an imagination of the Last Supper over 1000 years after it would have occurred. MAGA snowflakes lack internal consistency. You should be trying to destroy that sacriligious painting!

PP here and you're batsh!t. I actually said that Jesus would be hanging around with the trannies, not condemning them or gays like Leonardo.

I’m not but I didn’t do a great job with the post. I was trying to tell you that the haloed figure is Apollo. It’s not a both thing, it’s referencing a specific painting and imagery around Greek Gods.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/olympic-last-supper-scene-based-painting-greek-gods-art-experts


As for the rest I should have made it clear that it was for the ignorant outrage MAGA cult, not you. My bad

LOL you fell for it. The artist intended it to depict The Last Supper but after the outrage, the Olympic Committee did damage control and made up the Greek God story.

The main thing is that the performance was actually named ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine’ - which translates as "The Last Supper on the stage on the River Seine."

It's all explained in this twitter post. I have fact checked everything and it is very very accurate. Now you can stop embarrassing yourself with this nonsense. You're welcome. https://x.com/yankees_28th/status/1817903712880247138

From a dear friend. I have independently verified everything within this statement. Normally wouldn’t copy and paste in its entirety but I truly couldn’t have said this better myself:

The name of this sequence was ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine’ - which for those who don't speak French, translates as 'The Last Supper on the stage on the River Seine'. The pun being that Cène, Scene and Seine all sound the same in French. So we know it's not Bacchanalia, otherwise it would have been called "Bacchanalia on the River Seine". Instead, we know this is a portrayal of the last supper, because the title of the segment tells us so.

Also, the artistic director behind the scene, Thomas Jolly, said in the daily press conference following the opening ceremony, when asked specifically whether he had any views on why Christians might be offended by that segment, that he wanted to convey that in France "we have a right to not be worshippers". He did not say "you're mistaken, because it wasn't the last supper", rather, he explained why it was chosen and what it was trying to portray.

Yes, the man in blue was Dionysus/Bacchus, but the point of the scene was to insert Dionysus into the last supper. Why? Dionysus was the god of wine. The last supper is the moment where Christ (who in Christian theology is God) gives wine and bread to his disciples, asking them to continue this practice in memory of him, as it represents the sacrifice he would make on the cross the next day. In ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine', what they did was swap out Jesus (as the Christian God who gives out wine as a symbol of sacrifice for salvation) with Dionysus (as the pagan God who gives out wine as a symbol of hedonistic pleasure).

It wasn't enough that they just depict Dionysus. They COULD have just depicted Dionysus in Bacchanalia and nobody would have cared. But the whole point of ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine' was to depict a Pagan God in the place of the Christian God, in one of the most sombre and sacred moments of the Bible.

Final note, in the last 24 hours, Olympics Opening Ceremonies producers have releases a statement which confirms that (and this is a direct quote from said statement): "Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting".

Given that the producers admit that it was the last super, the artistic director agrees that he was trying to turn it into a pagan festival as a demonstration of the right to not worship, and the title of the scene is literally "the last supper on the stage of the Seine", I think we can put to rest this argument floating around on social media that the entire thing was Bacchanalia. It wasn't. It was Dionysus portrayed in the place of Jesus in the last supper, and now that the Olympics have apologised for that, maybe we can stop pretending that Christians are imagining things or taking offence unjustly.

Ahahahahahaha you’re so wrong and your validation is a rando on MAGA controlled X.

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Anonymous wrote:Cracks me up they had a literal ménage a trois in a library as part of the opening ceremony

The decapitation was more startling.

That was such poor taste.

Nah. Decapitating the aristocracy is something the French should still be rightly proud of!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cracks me up they had a literal ménage a trois in a library as part of the opening ceremony

The decapitation was more startling.

That was such poor taste.

Nah. Decapitating the aristocracy is something the French should still be rightly proud of!

And the Olympics, a sporting event, is the right time and venue to celebrate her beheading? What connection are you making?