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

[Anonymous]

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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.

NP. I assume because the person sitting in Jesus’ place at the table confirmed in social media that it was indeed the Last Supper?

What seems a bit silly are the people like you who are pretending that the sky isn’t blue. Come on. The gaslighting is unreal. And I’m not offended by it, I just thought it was about as artistic as a middle schooler trying to be edgy. Very cringe.

You have a citation for that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Christians let things like this slide but will make their voices heard during the election.

Exactly. Many of you won’t be laughing on November 6th.

As an American Christian, I’d like to understand what this has to do with the Americsnelection?

What did Brexit have to do with Donald Trump? It has everything to do with it.

How? You think the American Deep State designed the opening ceremony of France’s Olympics? That’s cray-cray.

France has lurched way too far left IMO. They don’t have a guarantee of freedom of religion, and religious anything is banned in public life. For example, Muslim female athletes cannot compete for France in hijabs, so many are moving to middle Eastern counties. You also can’t wear a cross necklace and compete for France either. Neither of those things would happen here with 1A protections.


You have to be pretty desperate if your current attack is— but the French IOC… I think it was in bad taste. I also think the Christian right wants another culture war issue and is overreacting. I’m not taking the bait. It’s a French issue. Not ann American one.

And that boycotting American athletes because of the French IOC is, frankly, dumb. I do feel bad for American athletes that worked so hard to get there and now have the Christian Right boycotting them. But, it’s your right to do so, so carry on.

What makes no sense is tying the French IOC to the American Democratic Party.

[Anonymous]

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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?

It’s drag queens mocking Jesus and Christianity and then lying like the heathens they are and saying they weren’t.

Again, I dare them to mock Islam with drag queens but you and I know they wouldn’t dare. Then, they will see some real fireworks at the Olympics

They were actually "mocking" Greek mythology, not Christianity. You'd think Christians would be OK with that given the text of the First Commandment.

Can anyone show me where this blue guy was hanging out during the Last Supper?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is victimhood.

No it's not.

Try making fun of Judaism like this.
Try making fun of Islam like this.

You would see fireworks if they had targeted Islam, as someone pointed out in an earlier post.

You would see advertisers pulling out their funds, if they had targeted Judaism.

Do you understand anything about France? They are a secular country and have critique all forms of religion, especially in French publications like Charlie Hebdo.

The Olympics are not catered to Americans and attract a worldwide audience. Stop acting so provincial.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is victimhood.

No it's not.

Try making fun of Judaism like this.
Try making fun of Islam like this.

You would see fireworks if they had targeted Islam, as someone pointed out in an earlier post.

You would see advertisers pulling out their funds, if they had targeted Judaism.

Jews make fun of Judaism all the time. Muslims make fun of Islam all the time. Go the f*ck outside. Stop only talking to white Christians.

Oh, murdering satirists who mock their religion is “making fun”?

Who said that? On an Internet forum it is very important to know how to read. If you cannot read you cannot participate. Got it? I hope that was clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Christians let things like this slide but will make their voices heard during the election.

Exactly. Many of you won’t be laughing on November 6th.

As an American Christian, I’d like to understand what this has to do with the Americsnelection?

The right wants outrage to counter Harris’s nomination and wants another culture war issue for the election.

In reality, the French IOC’s choices on the opening ceremonies have 0 to do with our elections.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA "Christians" got offended by it because they thought it was the Last Supper.
The rest of us knew it wasn't the Last Supper.
MAGA "Christians" are frauds who wouldn't know the Last Supper from their own rear ends.

You need to take it up with the star of the show, then, who referred to it as the Last Supper on social media.

Post a link or a source. I've only seen this alleged by rightwingers. Post a screenshot - I've yet to see one yet. Lots of "....people are saying..." vibes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Olympics is supposed to be about celebrating strength and masculine and feminine might in separate categories so it’s strange they have men dressed as women opening the ceremony. The entire ceremony has separate gender categories for sports for obvious reasons but I see that will be ending soon

Jesus dresses like a woman, WWJD

So do many ME men in that region today wear white robes and sandals. I dare the Olympics to mock them


The song “King” played loudly as a lesbian wearing a crown was depicted as Jesus surrounded by men in drag, one of whom was a bearded man with long, blonde hair who later danced suggestively down a catwalk, much like a stripper would do. The catwalk was in front of the Last Supper table, where a young girl stood near the men in drag.


The suburban moms of Bethesda don’t believe it references Jesus but these religious entities do.


Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, condemned Sunday the “insulting scenes” of Jesus Christ during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.


Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves as an adjunct secretary of the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has joined a growing chorus of protesters condemning a controversial segment of the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 'Last Supper.'

The Catholic Church has deemed the reinterpretation of the biblical scene as deeply offensive.

An MP for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) denounced the ceremony as, “LGBT, pedophile and satanic propaganda”.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-react-to-drag-last-supper-debauchery-at-paris-olympics.html

[Anonymous]

I still don't get what this has to do with politics.

[Anonymous]

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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.

NP. I assume because the person sitting in Jesus’ place at the table confirmed in social media that it was indeed the Last Supper?

What seems a bit silly are the people like you who are pretending that the sky isn’t blue. Come on. The gaslighting is unreal. And I’m not offended by it, I just thought it was about as artistic as a middle schooler trying to be edgy. Very cringe.

It was confirmed on social media to be the Feast of Dionysus.

Repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly. Stop repeating this dumb, ignorant "Last Supper" crap.

[Anonymous]

Why did they think the opening ceremonies was an appropriate place to make references to ménage a trois and prominently display some blue dude with his nuts hanging out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Olympics is supposed to be about celebrating strength and masculine and feminine might in separate categories so it’s strange they have men dressed as women opening the ceremony. The entire ceremony has separate gender categories for sports for obvious reasons but I see that will be ending soon

Jesus dresses like a woman, WWJD

So do many ME men in that region today wear white robes and sandals. I dare the Olympics to mock them


The song “King” played loudly as a lesbian wearing a crown was depicted as Jesus surrounded by men in drag, one of whom was a bearded man with long, blonde hair who later danced suggestively down a catwalk, much like a stripper would do. The catwalk was in front of the Last Supper table, where a young girl stood near the men in drag.


The suburban moms of Bethesda don’t believe it references Jesus but these religious entities do.


Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, condemned Sunday the “insulting scenes” of Jesus Christ during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.


Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves as an adjunct secretary of the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has joined a growing chorus of protesters condemning a controversial segment of the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 'Last Supper.'

The Catholic Church has deemed the reinterpretation of the biblical scene as deeply offensive.

An MP for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) denounced the ceremony as, “LGBT, pedophile and satanic propaganda”.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-react-to-drag-last-supper-debauchery-at-paris-olympics.html

Yeah, let's listen to the nut job going on about satanic propaganda.

[Anonymous]

I watched it and never thought of The Last Supper, which I’ve visited in person twice, but definitely thought of Bacchus when I saw the blue person. The explanation makes sense to me.

That said, if you disagree, boycott France. The US, their athletes, and NBC had nothing to do with the creation of France’s opening ceremony. The outrage is being directed in all the wrong places.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA "Christians" got offended by it because they thought it was the Last Supper.
The rest of us knew it wasn't the Last Supper.
MAGA "Christians" are frauds who wouldn't know the Last Supper from their own rear ends.

You need to take it up with the star of the show, then, who referred to it as the Last Supper on social media.

Wrong. The director, the organizers, everyone who put it together have said it was the Feast of Dionysus.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4797097-paris-olympics-organizer-says-drag-performance-was-nod-to-greek-mythology-not-last-supper/

[Anonymous]

This is about religion, not politics.