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'God is not mocked': Blasphemous depiction of Last Supper at Olympic ceremony sparks outrage

(LifeSiteNews) — A growing number of prominent public figures are slamming the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics in France for featuring drag queens and demonic-looking figures who performed a grotesque parody of the Last Supper.

The ceremony was held in Paris on Friday night amid light rain. The games are being held in the country despite a growing migrant problem brought on by the government bussing homeless people from Paris in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city until the games conclude on 11 August.

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The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has long been criticized for frequently incorporating Masonic 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, citing Scripture, said “God is not mocked” on Instagram account.

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

Donald Trump Jr. published a lengthy post on X in which he called the performance “seemingly satanic” while lamenting that the games have become an opportunity to “promote woke ideology”.

Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna, deputy 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 ambassador of France in Malta, Agnès von der. Mühl.

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron also called it a “gross mockery of the Last Supper” as he asked rhetorically, “Would they ever have dared to mock Islam in a similar way?”

Other Catholic bishops have also spoken out. Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wis., urged his followers in X to fast and pray in reparation.

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

The French Episcopal Conference has also done so denounced the ceremony, as did Catholic French politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.

“To all Christians in the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and I was insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France who is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation,” he said.

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

Apart from the Last Supper, the ceremony included a depiction of a headless Marie Antoinette, the country's last queen who was married to the Catholic King Louis XVI. After the bloody, anti-Catholic French Revolution of 1789, which oversaw Louis' 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 for this year's ceremony is Thomas Jolly, a 42-year-old gay man who works in the arts industry as an actor and theater director. Pro-gay website PinkNews relates who has “explored LGBTQ+ themes in his stage work”.

Jolly, who was that? selected Two years ago on paper, he said british vogue that he wanted to make sure “everyone feels represented” at the ceremony.

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

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

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