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Olympics organizers finally speak up about blasphemous opening ceremony

July 29, 2024 | | Print Article

Two days after the shocking display of anti-Christian blasphemy that opened the Paris Olympics, organizers have addressed the raging controversy and their excuse is a doozy.

Outrage erupted over a bizarre opening ceremony that featured what some described as “Satanic” imagery along with a sick mockery of Jesus Christ, replacing the Lord and Savior and his apostles with a fat lesbian and a gaggle of colorfully dressed drag queens in a sacrilegious reimagining of “The Last Supper” as depicted by Leonardo Da Vinci in his famous artwork.

As condemnation rained down over what Christians saw as an uncouth attack on their religion, the organizers finally spoke up and claimed that they didn’t mean to offend anyone.

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,” organizer Anne Descamps said of the twisted tableau at a Sunday press conference, claiming that the display “tried to celebrate community tolerance.”

“We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense we are really sorry,” she added, a lame non-apology that suggests that if anyone was offended, that it’s their problem.

Thomas Jolly, the homosexual artistic director behind the grotesque scene where a nearly naked blue man was lowered inside of a huge dinner platter that was opened in front of the drag queens at the “Last Supper” table also insisted that there was no intent to offend and that the scene was a “celebration of Greek mythology.”

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“The idea was to have a pagan celebration connected to the gods of Olympus. You will never find in me a desire to mock and denigrate anyone,” Jolly said during a Sunday appearance on French news channel BFM-TV, according to an NBC News translation.

“We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that,” he said. “In France, we have freedom of creation, artistic freedom. We are lucky in France to live in a free country. I didn’t have any specific messages that I wanted to deliver. In France, we are a republic, we have the right to love whom we want, we have the right not to be worshippers, we have a lot of rights in France, and this is what I wanted to convey,” he told the outlet.

“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,” Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote in a Saturday post to X. “The war on our faith and traditional values knows no bounds today. But we know that truth and virtue will always prevail.”

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Donald Trump Jr. described the pagan ceremony as “satanic’ and said that it was “not only a shame, but a true disservice” to athletes.

“Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians around the world was a really bad start, dear French,” said Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, sharing a picture of the debauchery on X. “Seedy”

No word yet from the Pope.

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