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‘God is not mocked’: Blasphemous depiction of Last Supper at Olympic ceremony sparks outrage – LifeSite

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(LifeSiteNews) — A growing number of prominent public figures are rebuking the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games in France for featuring drag queens and demonic-looking figures that carried out a grotesque parody of the Last Supper. 

The ceremony was conducted in Paris on Friday night amid light rain. The games are being held in the country despite a surging migrant problem that has resulted in the government bussing homeless people out of Paris to temporary lodging in the city’s outskirts until the games conclude on August 11.

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The Olympics’ opening ceremony has long been criticized for frequently incorporating Freemasonic and pagan symbolism. But this year’s performance took on a distinctly anti-Christian tone.  

NFL star kicker Harrison Butker called the Last Supper depiction “crazy” and, quoting Scripture, said “God is not mocked” on his Instagram account.

X CEO Elon Musk, who recently told Jordan Peterson he was raised Anglican and is “culturally Christian,” said the performance was “extremely disrespectful to Christians.” 

Donald Trump Jr. issued a lengthy X post calling the performance “seemingly Satanic” while lamenting that the games have become an opportunity to “push woke ideology.” 

Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna, adjunct secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), wrote of his “distress and great disappointment at the insult to us Christians” in a message to the French Ambassador to Malta, Agnès von der Mühll.

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron likewise called it a “gross mockery of the Last Supper” while rhetorically asking, “Would they ever have dare mock Islam in a similar way?” 

Other Catholic bishops have spoken out as well. Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, urged his followers on X to fast and pray in reparation.  

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said the ceremony reflected “secular fundamentalism” having “infiltrated the Olympics, even to the point of blaspheming the religion of over a billion people,” while Bishop Joseph Strickland called it a “new low for our human community.”

The French Bishop’s Conference has likewise denounced the ceremony, as has Catholic French politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. 

“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,” she said.

American Catholic author and podcast host Taylor Marshall theorized that a pope from the Middle Ages would have condemned the games and excommunicated those who coordinated the stunt.  

Aside from the Last Supper, the ceremony included a depiction of a headless Marie Antoinette, the country’s last queen who was married to Catholic King Louis XVI. Following the bloody, anti-Catholic French Revolution of 1789, which oversaw Louis’s death by guillotine, Antoinette was murdered by the same method in 1793 at the age of 37. 

The ceremony also featured a golden calf and a rider on a white horse galloping down the Seine River.  

The choreographer of this year’s ceremony is Thomas Jolly, a 42-year-old homosexual who works in the art industry as an actor and theater director. Pro-gay website PinkNews relates that he has “explored LGBTQ+ themes in his stage work.” 

Jolly, who was selected two years ago for the role, told British Vogue that he wanted to make sure “everyone feels represented” in the ceremony.  

French President Emmanuel Macron praised Jolly for his “creative genius” while heralding the performance as “grandiose.”  

Macron also thanked the actors for delivering a “unique and magical moment.”

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