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Apology from the Olympics is simply not good enough. Participants confirm they did intend to mock the Last Supper.

Nobody will believe your apology

The organisers of the Olympic opening ceremony are hardly convincing in their attempt to capture the anger that arose from what was understood as a parody of the Last Supper.

Wasn't it all meant that way? The queer staging of the "Last Supper" during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris has caused dismay and outrage around the world, and by no means only among Christians. In some countries, parts of the celebration - drag queens in a mating dance, genitals in the open air, the singer Philippe Katerine in a high-necked blue dress - were not broadcast at all because of their obscenity.

The organizing committee of the Paris Games has now responded with a statement that is meant to look like an apology. "It was clearly not our intention to show disrespect to any religious group. Rather, we wanted to show tolerance and community. If people felt offended, we apologize for that," a spokeswoman said on Sunday. Translated, this means: We are sorry if the feelings of the last backwoods people who have not yet understood that the future belongs to the brave, new, queer and hypersexualized world were hurt. That is not really an apology.

Unsuccessful attempts to limit the damage

Apparently, the organizers of the ceremony and the decision-makers who authorized the whole circus had not expected that the Last Supper scene would be the last straw. They actually only wanted to trample on a few million French Catholics who regularly attract unpleasant attention with their rejection of social advances such as abortion and euthanasia. In doing so, they forgot about the other 2.5 billion Christians around the world who are also offended when their God is dragged through the mud. Now those responsible for the opening ceremony have to be caught red-handed trying unsuccessfully to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube.

The model for the scene, which was interpreted worldwide as a parody of the Last Supper, was not Da Vinci's "Last Supper" at all, but the "Feast of the Gods" by Jan Harmensz von Bijlert from 1635, in the foreground of which the god Dionysius, crowned with vine leaves, lets grapes slide into his mouth, explained Thomas Jolly, the director of the opening ceremony. It was a shame: a spokesman for the Paris Games had already told the "Washington Post" that Jolly "was inspired by the famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci when designing the backdrop." If you look closely, you will also notice that there are 44 minutes between the parodied Last Supper scene and the moment in which Philippe Katerine, as a Smurf-blue Dionysus, sings about his delicate curves. It is likely that both paintings served as inspiration.

The Internet never forgets

It is also embarrassing that the protagonists themselves had already expressed themselves in the same direction. The French DJ and lesbian activist Barbara Butch, who was at the center of the scene, had posted a photo of the scene and an image of the Da Vinci painting with the caption "The new gay Testament" in her Instagram story. She has since deleted it and replaced it with a reference to the "Feast of the Gods". Drag queen Piche - blonde, with a beard, you remember - stated in the daily newspaper "Le Parisien": "In the past, there have been countless depictions of the Apostles' Supper and nobody was bothered by it. Only when LGBTs and drag queens do it, then it is purely by chance disturbing. But we're used to it." And to BFMTV: "It's a Biblical depiction that has been quoted in pop culture for decades, and that's never really been a problem."

The internet forgets nothing and the woke people in charge will not be able to get out of this so easily. Either they provide a genuine apology or they simply have to admit how little their ideology has to do with inclusion and reconciliation.

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