Dr. Eli David / Ms Paroo / dinesh / Eddie :

Even as a Jew, I am infuriated by this outrageous insult to Jesus and Christianity… How do you feel about it as Christians?

The interpretation of the Greek God Dionysus makes us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.

#Paris2024 #OpeningCeremony

The official Olympics account on X posted this before the controversy and baseless claims blew up on social media, so it is pretty interesting to see that many people are unaware…

After the controversy blew up, Thomas Jolly – the Paris Olympics 2024 artistic director who created that tableau, said that it had nothing to do with Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting, telling the news channel BFMTV on Sunday, 28 July that:

It’s not my inspiration and that should be pretty obvious. There’s Dionysus arriving on a table. Why is he there? First and foremost because he is the god of celebration in Greek mythology and the tableau is called ‘Festivity’.

He is also the god of wine, which is also one of the jewels of France, and the father of Séquana, the goddess of the river Seine. The idea was to depict a big pagan celebration, linked to the gods of Olympus, and thus the Olympics.

You will never find in me, or in my work, a desire to mock or denigrate anyone. My aim was to create a ceremony that heals and a ceremony that reconciles, but also a ceremony that reaffirms the values ​​which are those of our Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity freedom, and absolutely not to mock anyone.

Jolly also said that his intention was to capture France in all its diversity because "in France, we have the right o love each other, as we want, with whoever we want, in France we have the right to believe and not to believe. In France, we have many rights."

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Fact #2 :  The Scene Had Nothing To Do With The Last Supper

The screenshots being shared on social media appear to be cropped (intentionally?) to make them appear similar to The Last Supper painting.

But if you watch the opening ceremony, or look at the unedited photos, you will quickly realise that it doesn't really depict The Last Supper painting.

For one thing - the "table" wasn't even a table at all. Rather, it was the catwalk on which models showed off the latest fashion by France's most promising young designers. In addition, the scene had dozens of performers, not just 13 men representing Jesus Christ and his twelve disciples - including women, at least one child, and at least one drag queen.

The show also featured the Greek God Dionysus painted blue, and covered in flowers and fruit. He was even seen sitting on a platter of flowers with a gigantic steel cover over him. That certainly does not look like Jesus Christ, if you ask me... even in the most artistic imagination! Of course, the blue Dionysus was somehow (miraculously) missing in those controversial screenshots and photos!

Ultimately, it looks like the controversy was fuelled by the mischievous, or simply fortuitous, cropping of the photos or screenshots, that make them appear to be similar to The Last Supper painting.

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Fact #3 :  The Last Supper Was Artistic Interpretation

I should point out that no one actually knows what the real last supper that Jesus Christ had with his twelve disciples actually looked like. The famous painting that everyone compared the Paris Olympics opening show to, was a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci, who lived almost 1,500 years after the birth of Jesus Christ.

Needless to say - Leonardo da Vinci did not witness the actual last supper of Jesus Christ, and his disciples. The Last Supper was therefore, da Vinci's artistic interpretation, and does not actually show what happened. After all, who would actually sit like that in real life - only on one side of an extremely long table???

If the Paris Olympics was somehow based on The Last Supper, then it would be mocking da Vinci's painting, and not the event itself.

If anyone should be insulted, it would be fans of Leonardo da Vinci, and not Christians per se... unless they actually believe that Jesus Christ and his twelve disciples really sat only on one side of a table for their last supper together???

Or do they believe Leonardo da Vinci travelled back in time, and actually witnessed the scene to accurately depict it in his famous painting? Interesting...

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