This past Friday was the kick-off of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, and the super liberal folk within the organization that planned the opening ceremonies wanted to ensure they offended as many people as they possibly could while also winning woke points for jam-packing every possible second with their sick and twisted ideology.
During the program, we witnessed an absolute mockery of the Last Supper featuring drag queens, which is totally blasphemous to the Christian religion and displays a lack of “tolerance” — something progressives claim to have by the metric ton — as Communion is a a sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ Himself the night before his passion and crucifixion.
Funny enough, there wasn’t any part of the program that mocked Muhammad, the central figure/leader in the Islamic religion. No mocking of Buddah or Kali or any other major religious figure. Just Jesus. Wonder why that is?
Check out more details from The Christian Post:
In this controversial performance, over a dozen individuals, including drag queens, were arranged along a long table in a tableau reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting, which portrays Jesus’ final meal with His disciples before his crucifixion.
Broadcast live from a rain-drenched Paris on Friday evening, the scene showed the drag queens moving suggestively along the table on either side of a lesbian who appeared to represent Jesus. Standing still at the center, she wore a headpiece resembling a halo and held her hands in a heart shape. The scene quickly sparked backlash on social media, drawing particular criticism for including a child.
Gavin Calver, the CEO of the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom, expressed his disappointment. While he wished for the success of the Paris Olympics, he labeled the depiction as “utterly insensitive, unnecessary and offensive.”
“However, it really was appalling to see Christianity so openly mocked in the opening ceremony with the unbelievably crass portrayal of the Last Supper,” he stated in a post on X.
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Even Tesla CEO and owner of X, Elon Musk, who just recently called himself a “cultural Christian,” responded to the controversial display at the Olympics, calling it “extremely disrespectful to Christians, before publishing a follow-up post slamming Jesus followers for not fighting back against the mockery, saying “Christianity has become toothless.”
Many considered the performance to be doused in woke ideology, while a few others noted, as I did earlier, that the organizers of the games would have never, ever considered mocking Islam in a similar fashion.
Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, hailing from the United States, put out a video response to the fiasco, strongly condemning the display, calling it a “gross mockery of the Last Supper,” then going on to ask France what made them decide to “mock this very central moment in Christianity,” in an event that was supposed to elevate the best French culture has to offer.
He then reminded everyone that the cultural identity and heritage of France is “grounded very much in Christianity.”
“Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way? Would they ever have dreamed of mocking in this gross, public way a scene from the Quran? As I say, we all know the answer to that,” he said in the video.
Rev. Daniel French, a podcast host, shared similar sentiments, strongly urging Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to come out and give a similar response.
“The opening Olympic ceremony mocked Christianity and the Last Supper in a way it never would have for any other religion,” he said.
Meanwhile, Conservative French politician and Member of the European Parliament Marion Maréchal, emphasized that the performance did not reflect the views of everyone in France.
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname,” she stated on X.
Christians should always seek to pray for those who oppose and persecute them. However, that does not mean we just sit down and do nothing. Pray and then take action. Boycott if you want and don’t turn on the games this time around. Protest. Or, most effectively, share information that details why this was so wicked and blasphemous.