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Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody
The Guardian ^ | Sun 28 Jul 2024 | Angela Giuffrida

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 ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: annedescamps; boycottolympics; dragfags; fakeapology; notaccepted; notgoodenough; olympics; paris; queers
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To: MinorityRepublican
Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.

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.

21 posted on 07/28/2024 10:12:13 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dforest
I see some Leftists are trying to frame the narrative that it was the "Feast of Dionysus".

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".

22 posted on 07/28/2024 10:13:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Do whatever

Fake apologize later

Then when people don’t buy it, be fake offended and gaslight again


23 posted on 07/28/2024 10:13:29 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not good enough. Fire the perp and adjust the rest of the show.

Patriots: boycott no matter what the do for damage control.


24 posted on 07/28/2024 10:13:48 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Too little and too late. The Olympics are dead to me.


25 posted on 07/28/2024 10:13:50 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Scarborough: "This is the Best Biden ever.")
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To: MinorityRepublican
“ If people have taken any offence we are really sorry”

Translation
They are sorry you don't like depravity

26 posted on 07/28/2024 10:14:32 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Great, makes it all better. /s

I may forgive but not always and I never forget.

27 posted on 07/28/2024 10:15:43 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“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.”

Yeah, real apologetic.

28 posted on 07/28/2024 10:17:07 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Apology not accepted.


29 posted on 07/28/2024 10:17:32 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sorry. That bell cain’t be un-rung.


30 posted on 07/28/2024 10:17:32 AM PDT by OKSooner (Waterboard Cheetos)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


31 posted on 07/28/2024 10:17:57 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: mykroar

Very half-assed anyway, if that’s what the apology was.


32 posted on 07/28/2024 10:18:36 AM PDT by OKSooner (Waterboard Cheetos)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Rather late for that. Should have stopped that blasphemy before it started.


33 posted on 07/28/2024 10:20:10 AM PDT by madison10
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


34 posted on 07/28/2024 10:20:19 AM PDT by mware
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


35 posted on 07/28/2024 10:20:37 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: martin_fierro

Sochi. It was magnificent.


36 posted on 07/28/2024 10:20:54 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: MinorityRepublican

That was not an apology, that was, “hey sponsors, don’t pull out” CYA.


37 posted on 07/28/2024 10:21:29 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


38 posted on 07/28/2024 10:21:32 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.

Classic non-apology apology.

39 posted on 07/28/2024 10:22:43 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: dfwgator

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.


40 posted on 07/28/2024 10:24:16 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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