Example?? I am only mainly familiar with Monte Python and the Holy Grail, the dead bird sketch and I think the Spanish inquisition one is Monte Python.
Johnson decries Olympic opener for mocking christianity
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Example?? I am only mainly familiar with Monte Python and the Holy Grail, the dead bird sketch and I think the Spanish inquisition one is Monte Python.
Toughen up.
This was so much more offensive than any boat parade:
You think I am not offended by that? What confuses me is how many so called Christians love that walking example of everything Jesus told us not to be.
Watched some clips and read about it on Wikipedia. I don't see much about it that bothers me. I note that Wikipedia kind of shows that it mocks the followers more than it mocks Jesus. I am all for mocking Christians who purposefully ignore major parts of Jesus's message for their own ends.
The mocking goes after the ridiculousness of dogma, artifacts, religious politics, unverified history.
It was inspired by the last supper and uses a very similar setup. It just changes it from the last supper with Jesus to a party with the Greek God's.
It takes a pretty high level of incompetence to not see how it might be interpreted as a mocking of The Lasr Supper.
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Monty Python mercilessly mocks all religions and all religious ideas. They definitely do not focus solely on Christians but they also mock them.
I also note that Monte Python is a comedy group, not the Olympics opening ceremony. Olympics are suppose to bring people together. Comedy usually insults one group or another. Although the insults might vary as to how hard hitting they are
And Da Vinci based the LS on "The Feast Of The Gods"...
Which brings us back to square one here...
Counterpoint: how many things did Christianity steal from pagan religions? Given the similarities, it really wouldn’t surprise me to see that the images of the Last Supper were inspired by the Feast of Dionysus.
Also, France is a pretty strongly Catholic country. The only people that seem offended are Americans.
If that's the case why take down the opening ceremonies from their site and issue an apology instead of just telling America to stick it?
Several of them.
Christmas/winter solstice
Easter
...to name a couple. Both holidays were aligned by Christians to match up w/ existing pagan holidays.
Is this like when the ol' Sherlock of HBOT, @Whiskeydeltadeltatango solved the case of @millah_22 being @Huey Grey ?
Speaker Johnson is a bootlicker on Trump. Trump is so anti-christian yet Johnson keeps fawning over trump just to keep his job. Johnson, like Trump is going for power, greed, power over others, extreme stances against citizen freedoms and so much more.Perhaps these morons should have gotten an education instead of trying to ruin everyone else’s.
Speaker Johnson blasts Olympics for mocking Christians, Last Supper
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday blasted the opening ceremonies of the Olympics for mocking the Last Supper with a recreation that featured performers in drag. “Last night’s mockery o…thehill.com
Dearest Gentle Reader,
I’m about to step on some toes in regard to the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics.
The headless woman was Marie Antoinette. She ruled over France and was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and stealing from the country.
Sound familiar?
Also, it was not the Last Supper. It was a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal… because, you know, the Olympics are ancient and Greek. Surprise!
And if you didn’t know, a Bacchanalia is an uncontrollably promiscuous, extravagant, and loud party. The parties often spanned several days which honored the god of wine, Bacchus (the blue guy covered in grape vine). He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure.
And finally, it was not Death on a pale horse. It was Sequana, Goddess of the Seine, the River in which the boat precession took place. She was meant to be the representation of the Olympic spirit and of Sequana.
If some of you weren’t so busy trying to end the Dept. of Education, you might know this.
Loosen the clutch on your pearls.
Yours truly,
Lady Francis
-Marla Francis
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“Paris is back on its feet, jubilant, flamboyant, creative and open. Free,” - Thomas Jolly, the artistic director.
Why won't liberals stop making fun of Christians??!?!?!!?
Oh, and here is MAGA yoked Jesus sitting next to our other lord and savior in court.
Oh, and here is MAGA yoked Jesus sitting next to our other lord and savior in court.
Because there’s lots of idiots online. Their apology was essentially we’re sorry you were offended.
So it wasn't really an apology at all
Not really on topic, but I think it's sad how Dionysius is sort of getting overshadowed by all of this controversy.
Maybe? I mean isn't there an expectation that if you bump into someone on accident, you say excuse me, my apologies, I'm sorry about that...intent isn't always a required element for an apology. There was zero empathy that they realized how their artistic vision could have been (easily) misinterpreted.
The show went for shock value, not wholesome family entertainment and they succeeded. This was choreographed, rehearsed, written, approved, and intentional. Nobody went rogue or offscript. This was the script. This was the visceral reaction they wanted.
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Ok?
I wasn’t talking about the Olympic Opening Ceremony - which for the record also was not comic.
All I’ll say about their opening ceremony as a whole was that it get to me like there was an awful lot that went over my head because I didn’t get the cultural references. Have a feeling that accounts for a lot of the “outrage”, or they didn’t bother to try to understand at all.
Haven't watched one minute of the olympics and won't. Not a huge fan of the French. I guess you are happy with high gas prices, food prices, energy prices and interest rates.
If you work, which I doubt, you're looking forward to higher taxes to pay for socialized support of millions of illegal immigrants.
Let us not forget mandates to drive electric cars. Drive 300 miles then wait an hour to charge before hitting the road again. Great for productivity. Not to mention higher costs for vehicles and energy. Let's not forget China wins big time on this.
I'm retired and living very nicely, my concern is for my grandchildren. FWIW, I would be fine without SS, will you?
If you are happy with the way things are going, vote for the party that hand picked their candidate and disinfranchised 11 million people, democracy? I don't think so! Keep gagging on state run media and high tech. interference.
Probably more that he's just tried (and failed, like the rest of us) to get a Frenchman to do something -- anything -- during the month of August.
The Last Supper is one of the most parodied pieces of art in history. There's Simpson's last supper, South Park last supper, Sopranos Last Supper. You can go on and on. And for the most part nobody cares about these in fact most people think they are fun. People are upset about the drag queens.
The blue dude made it pretty clear to me that this wasn't a Last Supper performance but that's just me.
The blue dude made it pretty clear to me that this wasn't a Last Supper performance but that's just me.
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No, he’s not a big fan of high gas prices.
It all ties together, you see 😂😂😂
If French artists would just be normal, inflation ends, DUH. You libturds just don’t understand.
Actually, it was inspired by THIS painting by Dutch painter Jan van Bijlert, created in the mid-1600's. It hangs in the Musée Magnin in Dijon, France. Bijlert WAS inspired by The Last Supper but brings various Greek gods to the table. That's a crowned Apollo at the center with his lyre.
So if Bijlert was mocking The Last Supper (he wasn't)...was the tableaux presented mocking the mocker??? It wasn't.
What does any of this have to do w/ the Olympics ceremony?
You've gone Full Potato here.
Actually, it was inspired by THIS painting by Dutch painter Jan van Bijlert, created in the mid-1600's. It hangs in the Musée Magnin in Dijon, France. Bijlert WAS inspired by The Last Supper but brings various Greek gods to the table. That's a crowned Apollo at the center with his lyre.
So if Bijlert was mocking The Last Supper (he wasn't)...was the tableaux presented mocking the mocker??? It wasn't.
You missed my point. Since Bijlert was inspired by the more famous The Last Supper. It is incompetent to not see how people are going to interpret your skit.
And Bijlert's painting is not that famous so it's unlikely that people are going to relate it to that painting. If it was famous it would be in the Louvre not some random museum in Dijon.
What's more insulting is the leftists who almost certainly found out about this after the fact act like they always knew about this random painting in Dijon and the Christians are all dumb for seeing the last supper in that skit and not Le Festin Des Dieux.
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well let this be a lesson to the rest of the world
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Dude this was controversial outside of the United States. The Vatican which is famously not in America expressed offense.
Catholics, Vatican officials react to controversial Olympic ceremony
Catholic leaders along with a host of other Christian groups voiced outrage following the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris over a scene starring drag performers and French entertainers that many interpreted as a parody of Jesus’ Last...
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Bishops in FRANCE the host of the olympics itself found it offensive. France is also if you arn't aware not in the United States.
French Bishops lament 'scenes mocking Christianity' at Olympic Ceremony - Vatican News
In a statement released the day after the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, the French Bishops' Conference praised the "wonderful moments of beauty, ...
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Stop making this just about American conservatives. Because it's not just them.
The archbishop of Athens also took offense. Athens, Greece. Not in America.
orthodoxtimes.com
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches who is from South Africa demanded an explanation. South Africa. . . not part of America.
orthodoxtimes.com
Archbishop of Athens condemns Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Paris | Orthodox Times (en)
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens has expressed strong disapproval of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, particularly criticizing an event that allegedly featured Leonardo da Vinci's painting with the participation of drag queens. Responding to inquiries about the matter, the...
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The general secretary of the World Council of Churches who is from South Africa demanded an explanation. South Africa. . . not part of America.
WCC calls for explanation of Olympics opening ceremony
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, in a letter to the International Olympic Committee and the French Olympic Committee, urgently called for an explanation of what has been perceived as a depiction of the Last Supper during the Olympics opening ceremony. “In...
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these are great and important corrections.Dude this was controversial outside of the United States. The Vatican which is famously not in America expressed offense.
Catholics, Vatican officials react to controversial Olympic ceremony
Catholic leaders along with a host of other Christian groups voiced outrage following the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris over a scene starring drag performers and French entertainers that many interpreted as a parody of Jesus’ Last...
Bishops in FRANCE the host of the olympics itself found it offensive. France is also if you arn't aware not in the United States.
French Bishops lament 'scenes mocking Christianity' at Olympic Ceremony - Vatican News
In a statement released the day after the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, the French Bishops' Conference praised the "wonderful moments of beauty, ...
Stop making this just about American conservatives. Because it's not just them.
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