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Olympic chiefs 'sorry' opening ceremony caused offence
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Posted on 07/28/2024 12:36:58 PM PDT by RandFan

Olympic Games organisers have said they are "sorry" that scenes in Friday's opening ceremony caused offence.

A banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from Christian groups, who felt it parodied Leonardo da Vinci's painting 'The Last Supper'.

That famous 15th Century work depicts a key biblical scene.

The Catholic Church in France was among critics, saying the ceremony featured "scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity".

A US telecommunications company, C Spire, said it would be pulling its advertising around the Olympic Games after being "shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dragfags; olympics; openingceremony; parisolympics; queers
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To: RandFan

This is not about offended people.

The problem here is about the Global Olympics ceremony celebrating Satan and Satan’s work openly and literally nakedly in front of the world and presenting it as appropriate and normal.

It is about presenting at the Olympic Games a mockery of the most sacred expression of sacrifice, the Eucharist, the death of God’s son Christ our Lord, who died for our sake, to save these very sinners and all of us.

This heinous perversion of the most sacred sacrifice of our Lord is not an artistic expression. It is an IMPIETY: a lack of respect, for God and religion.

The perversts responsible for this abomiation will answer to the Lord Almighty for this heinous and disgusting display of Satanic mockery of the Sacrifice of Christ.


21 posted on 07/28/2024 12:59:14 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: RandFan

Shows these Olympic chiefs are Morons and have NO common sense


22 posted on 07/28/2024 1:00:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RandFan

No excuse for that filth.
Organizers were aware and all of them ought be ashamed
Is this the kind of trash French want us to believe this was an example of them?


23 posted on 07/28/2024 1:00:17 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: RandFan

Bud Light- The official beer of the Last Olympics.


24 posted on 07/28/2024 1:01:09 PM PDT by samadams2000
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To: RandFan

Just the mentally ill being mentally ill.


25 posted on 07/28/2024 1:02:14 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: RandFan

“ Olympic Games organisers have said they are “sorry” that scenes in Friday’s opening ceremony caused offence.”
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NO, THEY ABSOLUTELY ARE NOT SORRY!!


26 posted on 07/28/2024 1:03:12 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: frank ballenger
Put it behind you. Heard that a lot lately.

Yup. If we're offended it's our problem...well, the same guy who designed this one is also reportedly in charge of the closing ceremonies. That, sadly, is a long way from behind us. I doubt the organizers will care much at that point, either.

27 posted on 07/28/2024 1:05:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: FlyingEagle

A good post


28 posted on 07/28/2024 1:05:54 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: FlyingEagle

A good post


29 posted on 07/28/2024 1:05:54 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Massive, MASSIVE blowback at Comcast.

Wasn't in the script, Jolly was left a free hand, he is a fruitcake, wasn't vetted by Comcast, part of a cabal with the Mayor, they snuck one past the IOC to give the finger to 2B Christians.

BUT they are in serious crisis management, Comcast is concerned they can't have any major advertiser defect on Monday.

This has the potential to be as big as Butt Wipe, and tie it to Karamela's F@g Race camelo, but we need to get going.

GET ON THE PHONE TO YOUR LOCAL NBC AFFILIATE, GET ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PUNCH DOWN PUNCH DOWN PUNCH DOWN!

30 posted on 07/28/2024 1:08:41 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: RandFan

For the finale can we hope to see Muhammad in drag ascending into heaven with a 9 yr old bride, and being greeted by 72 drag queen virgins?

We’ll wait.


31 posted on 07/28/2024 1:09:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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guessing many are far beyond the point of being offended, and that may be the cause for concern


32 posted on 07/28/2024 1:25:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: RandFan

F*ck them.


33 posted on 07/28/2024 1:32:45 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: RandFan

No, they are not sorry.


34 posted on 07/28/2024 1:40:26 PM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: RandFan

If this had been an insult to Islam by Christians, they would
be calling for blood and the mass of wolk folks would seek
to punish them with force.

Remind me again how we should simply say, “Oh okay, no
problem.”


35 posted on 07/28/2024 1:48:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: DoughtyOne

In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/the-olympic-flag-was-raised-upside-down-during-the-opening-ceremony-in-paris/5636447/


36 posted on 07/28/2024 1:49:23 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: RandFan

I am sure it had been discussed but if they did a satire of Muhammad. Paris would already be rubble. With jihadi flags covering the wreck of the Eiffel Tower and notre dame a mosque.


37 posted on 07/28/2024 1:53:42 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“I hope my fellow Christians burn the elite parts of Paris to the ground.”

It’s much more likely... that the hoards of anti-Christian Muslims they’ve imported, and that they were trying to appease with the mocking of the Last Supper, will rise to the occasion and accomplish that task.


38 posted on 07/28/2024 1:54:16 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Texan4Life

“In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.”

Thanks for pointing that out. I actually watched the part where the weirdo on the horse walked (stalked, is more like it) up to the flagpole carrying the flag, handed it to the guy standing there, and then the guy he handed it to unfolded the flag and affixed it to the cord. I stopped watching at that point.

Makes you wonder though, doesn’t it. Was that a sign, indicative of what might possibly be coming for the “Olympics” in Paris this year? These days... I find myself wondering about a whole lot of things.


39 posted on 07/28/2024 2:08:18 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: RandFan

Who could have thought this might possibly offend anyone? (sarc for the slow witted)


40 posted on 07/28/2024 2:14:52 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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