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The Olympics, the Christians and the ‘Last Supper’ parody that wasn’t – 18 gold-medal-winning responses

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 29th, 2024

Mary Whitehouse may be long gone, but it seems her particular brand of outrage is alive and well online.

The admittedly bizarre Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony has got the Christian Right up in arms in general, but one section in particular has really put le chat among les pigeons.

Despite the performance – featuring comedy actor and singer Philippe Katerine accompanied by DJ Barbara Butch, several dancers and drag artists – being a nod to Dionysus, God of Partying (to paraphrase), the table reminded people of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Some weren’t happy.

Elon Musk - This was extremely disrespectful to Christians

Katie Britt - This was an intentional choice to mock Christianity and Christians. It’s disgraceful. And it’s the same kind of bizarre craziness that’s being pushed on children and teenagers across America. We need to turn our eyes back to God and restore common sense.

Piers Morgan - Btw, what the f*ck was all this about? A drag queen mockery of the Last Supper at the Olympics? Would they have mocked any other religion like this? Appalling decision.

We’re struggling to remember any part of the Bible that says drag queens shouldn’t depict scenes from scripture, but since they weren’t doing that anyway, a lot of people tried to draw attention to the mix-up.

There was one other huge fly in the performative outrage ointment, at least where American ‘Christians’ were concerned.

Here’s a little of the enormous reaction from Twitter/X.

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