Source: LifeSiteNews.com
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.
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.”…