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| Did the Olympics mock The Last Supper? |
Now many will say that the opening ceremony was not a right left political issue. That it was intended solely for its entertainment value for all audiences. Regardless of one’s political orientation. And that people on the left were offended by it too. I'm sure that’s true. But the positive spin by the left leaning mainstream media tells me that although there are exceptions I dare say this is the rule.
First, in the interest of full disclosure, I did not see that opening ceremony. I actually tried to google it to see what all the fuss was about – but came up empty. It has apparently been removed by the Olympic committee because it offended so many people. I therefore have to rely on the many stories I read about it and the near universal condemnation of it by religious figures around the globe.
In a Christian Post article entitled ‘Paris Olympics Last Supper blasphemy was repugnant to Jews as well’ Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein describes the event and registers his own reaction to it. Which completely resonates with me:
Its aim was to mock all religious beliefs, not just the Christian faith…
What you saw was an attempt to take something Christians see as holy and ridicule it in the extreme. The target of that mockery was not limited to Christianity per se, but to all who manifest intense belief in a God who has normative demands on human beings. That includes Jews…
Pushing a libertine agenda while showing hostility to traditional faith is… nothing new in Paris. Disparaging the Last Supper is just the latest installment…
…from whatever angle you approach it, it is hardly surprising that the French opening of the Olympics would push the limits, and contain elements of hostility to religion, shock (like the headless Marie Antionette), sexuality, and abandoning traditional norms…
Another skit approvingly pictured a threesome approaching a bedroom door, with shared amorous intent. It has been suggested that those in charge wanted to introduce as much French into the celebration as possible and figured that one of the few phrases that would be recognized outside of France was menage-a-trois.
The left surely embraces these messages as art and freedom of expression. But more significantly - what they are also embracing is that the more sacred something is - the more it is to be ridiculed. I’m quite sure the left was pleased with this these ‘skits’ and had a good laugh about it among themselve
These days, the further one goes to the left, the more full frontal nudity and all manner of explicit sexual scenes in entertainment are celebrated as art. What they don’t realize is that they are running away from the holiness of being created in the image of God.
Once you go far enough down the path of the leftwing ideology, God becomes almost totally irrelevant. Often references to God these days by the left is in the from of ridiculing those who worship Him and abide by His Word in the bible. We are ‘Bible thumpers’ who are living in the past. This is why they mock ‘The Last Supper’.
In a world that has become drunk on left wing progressivism one will also find the following:
In museums around the world, you will find many works of art depicting Dionysus. Previous Olympiads did so as well. Those displays acknowledged the past; the recent one celebrated and embraced it. (The blue, Dionysus guy on the platter also released NU, a song touting his novel idea for bringing about world peace: If everyone gets naked, there will no longer be any wars, because where could we keep our weapons?)
This is why the Olympics can have a display of drag queens sitting at a table with a nearly naked man sitting in the middle mocking the iconic religious image for Christians called The Last Supper. And why you can have museums showing Dionysus claiming that getting naked is the best way to bring about world peace.
Rabbi Adlerstein mentions the Judeo-Christian legacy. I stand by my view that this concept is not a mere slogan to provide cover for a nefarious goal to forward Christian Nationalism. While there are some Fundamentalist Christians like that, by far they are not the majority. It is not the idea behind the term Judeo-Christian legacy.
The idea is that we share a set of values based on a belief in God and His word as transmitted in the bible. Many of which are shared by both faiths. And that ridiculing them as did the opening ceremony of the Olympics is indeed a blasphemy.