Q24N — A parody of the Last Supper during Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics sparked a backlash, including from Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota.
Drag queens parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s rendition of the Last Supper, Jesus Christ’s final meal with his disciples.
In a video post on X, Barron said the act was emblematic of a “deeply secularist postmodern society” that identifies Christianity as its enemy.
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X owner Elon Musk also joined in the criticism, saying: “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
But other social media users applauded the performance as historic, pointing out that three drag queens carried Olympic torches for the first time.
Drawing from his personal affection for Paris, where he studied for three years, Barron criticized France for the “gross mockery.”
He questioned why France, which has sent Catholic missionaries all over the world and whose culture of “honoring the individual and of human rights and freedom” is grounded very much in Christianity, chose to “mock the Christian faith.”
He urged Christians and Catholics to not be passive, but to make their “voices heard.”
Christians have accused Olympic organizers of ridiculing religion after drag queens at the games’ opening ceremony in Paris appeared to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’.
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The scene created by the group of 18 performers showed an ornately dressed woman at the center of a long table wearing a halo crown and making a heart shape with her hands.
On either side of her were drag queens in various poses as well as a child. The scene culminated with a scantily-clad man painted from head to toe in sparkling blue curled up on a silver platter.
The Paris Olympics committee said that this was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
As the Olympic flame journeyed from Greece to Paris, three of the 10,000 torchbearers were drag queens.
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Sources: Washingon Times, AA.com.fr
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