07/28/2024
I keep seeing posts that are telling Christians to calm down because the opeing ceremony at the Olypics wasn't mocking The Last Supper. They say it was only a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal. According to Britannica they are festivals with a reputation as being "or**es". Wikipedia says "The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy." And, according to Livy, the historian, this was a murdereous religious cult and an instrument of conspiracy against the state. He says they had "sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes." The historian goes on to say that they "broke civil, moral and religious laws with impunity" and that "weak-minded individuals could be persuaded to commit ritual or political murders undetected, at the behest of those who secretly controlled the cult." So, in other words, I am not seeing really a single good thing said about the "Bacchanal". They were religious, immoral, anti-state, murderous, violent, preyed on the young, and the weak, etc... So, even if this wasn't a direct mocking of the Lord's Supper, why would they want to pay hommage to such debauchery at the Olympics? Should we glory in such filth? With all that said, multiple new agencies are reporting today "Paris 2024 organizers apologized on Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo Da Vinci's famous 'The Last Supper' painting."
