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The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics has been criticised over an obvious parody of the Last Supper that featured drag queens.
Over a dozen drag queens posed alongside a desk in a scene reminscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s well-known portray that depicts Jesus’ closing meal together with his disciples earlier than his execution.
During the scene, broadcast reside on Friday night from a rain-soaked Paris, the drag queens may very well be seen writhing suggestively alongside the desk on both facet of a lady showing to signify Jesus. She stands nonetheless within the centre carrying a headpiece paying homage to a halo and holding her arms in a coronary heart form.
The scene has sparked a backlash on social media and are available underneath specific hearth for showing to incorporate a toddler.
The CEO of the UK Evangelical Alliance, Gavin Calver, stated that whereas he hoped the Paris Olympics can be an ideal success, he referred to as the depiction “completely insensitive, pointless and offensive”.
“However, it actually was appalling to see Christianity so brazenly mocked within the opening ceremony with the unbelievably crass portrayal of the Last Supper,” he wrote on X.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has not too long ago referred to as himself a “cultural Christian”, wrote on X that the efficiency was “extraordinarily disrespectful to Christians”, including in one other put up, “Christianity has turn out to be toothless.”
Some social media commentators referred to as the scene “woke” whereas others prompt that organisers wouldn’t have mocked Islam on this approach.
American Catholic Bishop Robert Barron referred to as it “gross mockery of the Last Supper” and questioned why France felt the necessity to “mock this very central second in Christianity” on an event that’s supposed to indicate off the perfect of the nation’s tradition. He went on to say that France’s tradition “is grounded very a lot in Christianity”.
“Would they ever have dared mock Islam in an identical approach? Would they ever have dreamed of mocking on this gross, public approach a scene from the Quran? As I say, everyone knows the reply to that,” he stated in a video posted to X.
Podcaster Rev Daniel French responded to the bishop’s put up by calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to subject an identical assertion.
“The opening Olympic ceremony mocked Christianity and the Last Supper in a approach it by no means would have for some other faith,” he stated.
