(LifeSiteNews) — A growing number of prominent public figures are rebuking the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games in France for featuring drag queens and demonic-looking figures that carried out a grotesque parody of the Last Supper.
The ceremony was conducted in Paris on Friday night amid light rain. The games are being held in the country despite a surging migrant problem that has resulted in the government bussing homeless people out of Paris to temporary lodging in the city’s outskirts until the games conclude on August 11.
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The Olympics’ opening ceremony has long been criticized for frequently incorporating Freemasonic and pagan symbolism. But this year’s performance took on a distinctly anti-Christian tone.
NFL star kicker Harrison Butker called the Last Supper depiction “crazy” and, quoting Scripture, said “God is not mocked” on his Instagram account.
Since Harrison is being censored: https://t.co/SKfKz3fbRk pic.twitter.com/8TKsnI9ErI
— Matt Gaspers (@MattGaspers) July 27, 2024
X CEO Elon Musk, who recently told Jordan Peterson he was raised Anglican and is “culturally Christian,” said the performance was “extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
This was extremely disrespectful to Christians
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. issued a lengthy X post calling the performance “seemingly Satanic” while lamenting that the games have become an opportunity to “push woke ideology.”
My mom was an Olympian (Czech Natl Ski Team), and as a kid we would be excited for weeks leading up to the games. Now with the ever predictable (& seemingly satanic to me) drag queen opening ceremonies and never ending bs, no one I know even thinks about it beyond maybe watching…
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 27, 2024
Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna, adjunct secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), wrote of his “distress and great disappointment at the insult to us Christians” in a message to the French Ambassador to Malta, Agnès von der Mühll.
I have just sent these two messages to H.E. the French Ambassador to Malta expressing my distress & the disappointment of many Christians at the gratuitous insult to the Eucharist during the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. I encourage others to message H.E. pic.twitter.com/KKdebHYh9d
— Bishop CJ Scicluna (@BishopScicluna) July 27, 2024
Catholic Bishop Robert Barron likewise called it a “gross mockery of the Last Supper” while rhetorically asking, “Would they ever have dare mock Islam in a similar way?”
Friends, my thoughts on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. #Olimpiadas2024 #OlympicGames pic.twitter.com/xU1ljFMZft
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 27, 2024
Other Catholic bishops have spoken out as well. Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, urged his followers on X to fast and pray in reparation.
In reparation for the blasphemy in Paris, let’s fast and pray, renew our devotion to the Eucharist, the Sacred Heart and the Virgin Mary. May Jesus be adored and loved in every tabernacle throughout the world. Thank you Lord for the Eucharist and the Last Supper, your love for us
— Bishop Donald Hying (@bishophying) July 27, 2024
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said the ceremony reflected “secular fundamentalism” having “infiltrated the Olympics, even to the point of blaspheming the religion of over a billion people,” while Bishop Joseph Strickland called it a “new low for our human community.”
Secular fundamentalism has now infiltrated the Olympics, even to the point of blaspheming the religion of over a billion people. Would they do that with any other religion? I ask all of our people to pray for a restoration of good will and respect. https://t.co/gO8PK0gBcB
— Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone (@ArchCordileone) July 27, 2024
The bigotry toward Christians and the blasphemy of Jesus Christ, God’s Divine Son on display at the Olympics is a new low for our human community. Shame on those who produced this mockery, shame on the Olympic Committee and the nation of France for allowing it. This tarnishes… pic.twitter.com/NLQuARKHyu
— Bishop J. Strickland (@BishStrickland) July 27, 2024
The French Bishop’s Conference has likewise denounced the ceremony, as has Catholic French politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
[𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄] 🇬🇧
Response from the French Episcopal Conference and Holy Games initiative following the Opening
Ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Games. pic.twitter.com/gkBKe79P85— Holy Games (@holygames2024) July 27, 2024
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
À tous les chrétiens du monde… pic.twitter.com/GusP2TR63u
— Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) July 26, 2024
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation,” she said.
American Catholic author and podcast host Taylor Marshall theorized that a pope from the Middle Ages would have condemned the games and excommunicated those who coordinated the stunt.
A medieval pope would condemn the 2024 Olympic games and excommunicate those that did this. pic.twitter.com/fdH20R8KuB
— Dr Taylor Marshall™️ (@TaylorRMarshall) July 27, 2024
Aside from the Last Supper, the ceremony included a depiction of a headless Marie Antoinette, the country’s last queen who was married to Catholic King Louis XVI. Following the bloody, anti-Catholic French Revolution of 1789, which oversaw Louis’s death by guillotine, Antoinette was murdered by the same method in 1793 at the age of 37.
The ceremony also featured a golden calf and a rider on a white horse galloping down the Seine River.
The 2024 Paris Olympics has gone full Woke dystopian.
The opening ceremony was filled with transgend*r mockery of the Last Supper, the Golden Calf idol, and even the Pale Horse from the Book of Revelation.
The Olympics has made it clear that Christian viewers aren't welcome. pic.twitter.com/LgawyE6YRX
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 26, 2024
If you have any doubt what is going on at the Olympics opening ceremony
A single rider on a pale horse is straight out of the book of Revelation
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto… pic.twitter.com/r4sIcAIwAG
— Vision4theBlind (@Vision4theBlind) July 26, 2024
The choreographer of this year’s ceremony is Thomas Jolly, a 42-year-old homosexual who works in the art industry as an actor and theater director. Pro-gay website PinkNews relates that he has “explored LGBTQ+ themes in his stage work.”
Jolly, who was selected two years ago for the role, told British Vogue that he wanted to make sure “everyone feels represented” in the ceremony.
French President Emmanuel Macron praised Jolly for his “creative genius” while heralding the performance as “grandiose.”
Merci à Thomas Jolly et son génie créatif pour cette cérémonie grandiose. Merci aux artistes pour ce moment unique et magique. Merci aux forces de l’ordre et de secours, aux agents et bénévoles. Merci à tous ceux qui y ont cru.
On en reparlera dans 100 ans !
ON L’A FAIT !
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 26, 2024
Macron also thanked the actors for delivering a “unique and magical moment.”