This article has been updated.
Following backlash from the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, spokesperson Anne Descamps said that the performance was never meant to insult or disrespect Christianity.
"We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry," she said.
The artistic director behind the performance, Thomas Jolly, claimed that it was not inspired by the "Last Supper," but rather a depiction of a pagan feast linked to the gods of Olympus.
"You will never find in my work a desire to denigrate anyone or anything," he said.
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The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics drew intense outrage after drag queens appeared to mock the "Last Supper."
During the opening scene, a group of 18 drag performers, including children, struck poses in front of a long table around a lavishly dressed woman wearing a silver headdress that resembled a halo as depicted in paintings of Jesus.
The Olympics claimed the performance was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
The camera then flashed to a woman, supposedly depicting Marie Antoinette, who was holding a bloody severed head and sporting drag-style makeup.
Dear Normies,
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) July 26, 2024
You’re probably sat at home, watching the French Olympics thinking what the actual **** is this.
Well it’s just another a conspiracy playing out in front of your very eyes.
The one where we tell you - the World is run by satanic globalists who control… pic.twitter.com/gkPwISo2Yk
Social media ignited a storm of fury, calling for the boycott of the Olympics.
Amen.
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) July 26, 2024
Our youth need more men like you to look up to. Thank you for your bravery in speaking the truth. https://t.co/HY6iL3LGtH
Detestable. https://t.co/To1MdGVEEl
— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) July 27, 2024
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the performance featured a "pale horse," which is straight out of the book of Revelations.
I thought it couldn't get worse...
— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) July 26, 2024
It does
They put in a "pale horse" just in case you weren't sure that this was all intentional. Straight out of revelations. Wtf is happeningpic.twitter.com/jIcgI3gpCq
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”…
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 26, 2024
Harrison Butker released a statement in response to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics, writing, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.”
In honor of the real Last Supper. Shame on the @Olympics & @nbc. pic.twitter.com/GVJI79jrHX
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) July 26, 2024
In another scene, there appears to be a balloon floating past the Statue of Liberty, with many suggesting it is subliminal messaging of an attack on the United States.
wow wtf?
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) July 26, 2024
Does anyone have the full video? https://t.co/NmA1iWOTbz
Last night’s mockery of the Last Supper was shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 27, 2024
The war on our faith and traditional values knows no bounds today. But we know that truth and virtue will always… pic.twitter.com/s88c9ymG9j
My mom was an Olympian (Czech Natl Ski Team), and as a kid we would be excited for weeks leading up to the games. Now with the ever predictable (& seemingly satanic to me) drag queen opening ceremonies and never ending bs, no one I know even thinks about it beyond maybe watching…
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 27, 2024
