Posted on 07/28/2024 10:01:00 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The organising committee of Paris 2024 has apologised to Catholics and other Christian groups who were outraged by a scene during the opening ceremony that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper painting with drag queens, a transgender model and a singer made up as the Greek god of wine.
The parody of the biblical scene, performed against the backdrop of the River Seine, was intended to interpret Dionysus and raise awareness “of the absurdity of violence between human beings”, organisers wrote on X.
The committee was forced to apologise after the performance caused outrage among Catholics, Christian groups and conservative politicians around the world.
“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” the Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps told a press conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.”
France has a rich Catholic heritage but also has a long tradition of secularism and anti-clericalism. Blasphemy is legal and considered by many to be an essential pillar of freedom of speech. Supporters of the tableau praised its message of inclusivity and tolerance.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The Red Guardian gaslighting as hard as possible in the face of the undeniable truth. Clearly it was an open insult, an expression of perversion and contempt, smug derision over the literally sacred. And the subsequent actions of the French Olympic Committee to suppress the videos and destroy the evidence is an admission of guilt, not respect.
Nice try. If that was the case, they would have used a round table. And placed grapes on it and eat from it so we'll know that it's supposed to be a feast.
Not the "Last Supper".
Do whatever
Fake apologize later
Then when people don’t buy it, be fake offended and gaslight again
Not good enough. Fire the perp and adjust the rest of the show.
Patriots: boycott no matter what the do for damage control.
Too little and too late. The Olympics are dead to me.
Translation
They are sorry you don't like depravity
I may forgive but not always and I never forget.
Yeah, real apologetic.
Apology not accepted.
Sorry. That bell cain’t be un-rung.
These are people who are offended by everything and ashamed of nothing. They are now asking nor seeking forgiveness. To Hell with Them. They probably wrote the appology before they aporoved the Affront to God. Godless Marxists.
Very half-assed anyway, if that’s what the apology was.
Rather late for that. Should have stopped that blasphemy before it started.
I’ve got the same freedom to interpret their performance. I saw it, especially when the fat naked guy painted blue on a platter of food, representing Bacchus, as an affront to the Body and Blood of our Lord.
Insincere apologies are not accepted. I forgive them, however, because they are lost and being used by Satan. I need the Salvation offered through Jesus Christ just as much as they do.
They intentionally rubbed drag queens in our faces using a graphical depiction of the Last Supper. That was intentional. To say otherwise is an outright lie.
Sochi. It was magnificent.
That was not an apology, that was, “hey sponsors, don’t pull out” CYA.
The only way they could possibly apologize to me is to mock Muslims, Islam, and Mohammed in a similar way in the closing ceremony. Otherwise, I will never watch the olympics again.
Classic non-apology apology.
Actually if you watch later, a blue Pan looking guy lays on the table, and others show up. It gets way past the Last Supper head count. It really does look like they just wound up with a couple of very bad frames on the way to their “bacchanalia”. Of course then there’s the question of why exactly they think putting a bacchanalia in the opening ceremonies was a great idea. But whatever. Everybody always hates the ceremonies anyway, so good job I guess.
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