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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 117 points 4 months ago

People who get upset over everything are upset. More at 11.

[-] automaton@lemmy.world 97 points 4 months ago

It was not the last supper but a representation of the greek god Bacchus, since of course the Olympics have a greek origin. I find it funny that christians got so triggered.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

A lot of Christians don't realize how heavily influenced their religion is is by other more pagan and polytheistic religions.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

No, the blue smurf dude was Bacchus. This was a different part.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Blue dude is Philippe Katerine. He is know for doing weird things. About his show in the ceremony he declared to the press "I was cold and I liked it" article in French

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He was also delighted that Musk was shocked. Katherine is,rightfully, quite popular around here.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago

NBC didn’t even broadcast this part of the ceremonies, people who are upset about this are looking to get upset.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

The real news story here is that NBC is apparently censoring the Olympics.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The link literally goes to nbc news, and contains a video of that exact performance. How exactly are they censoring the Olympics? Edit: was this not broadcast on live tv, just online? I didn't watch live.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago

The entire opening ceremony was riddled with elements that were exaggerated specifically to give the middle finger to people who can't help but force their personal religious beliefs on others. And seeing how riled up they've been getting over it, I must say it worked.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

This is really killing me. The Last Supper is a fucking painting. It ain't in the book. There's no part of the Bible where it says and Jesus sat down at a stupidly long table and all of his asshole Apostle sat down on the same side and posed weirdly. Why is the painting suddenly holy? Since when do conservatives like art? I've never met a conservative who didn't want to burn most paintings.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Judas: so lets get this last supper going.

Jesus: the what supper?

Judas: good supper, nice supper, normal supper!

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[-] glizzyguzzler 57 points 4 months ago

Dipshits don’t even get it’s this based on this painting https://musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19 which is in a French museum, about the gods of Olympus, and includes the lyre you see in the recreation. It’s not the last supper which is in Italy and not in France. Similar framing of course - clearly on purpose - but who cares. What dumbasses, outrage machine go burrr

[-] Flanders_Poppy@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

I wish conservative Christians were educated enough to know what a bacchanalia is.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

I wish conservative Christians were educated

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[-] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago

Imagine you're the master race, confident and strong and then some people wear different clothes than you expected on TV and your whole world is just shattered lol.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 43 points 4 months ago

Oh no, the poor christians and conservatives who rather see us at the burning stake than acknowledge that their God created us queer-people just like we are. Fuck em that they felt hurt looking at this display, we were and are constantly hurt!

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

I'm a Christian for 13 years, I see this all the time Nowadays and it actually fortifies my beliefs even more, because our bible and particularly our Jesus, said would happen in the last days before he returns. If only you all had faith you could appreciate the magnitude of what's to come, heaven isn't a place in the sky, it's another world ruled by aliens thar have been around long enough to create us and this entire universe.

Hilarious comment from an article I read. Meanwhile,I thought Da Vinci was excommunicated.

[-] prole 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just wish these people had reading comprehension beyond a third grader so they could actually read that awful book (the Bible)

Even in you take everything in it at face value, it's not even a good story (overall), and all of the little stories are shit.

Christians need to: first, read the Bible, and the second, read a few pieces of classic literature. Your book is shit, most of it doesn't even make sense

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 35 points 4 months ago

Surely there have never been any parodies of the Last Supper before this one.

(I'm partial to this one)

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is the one that always stuck in my head.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

It was supposed to be the Last Supper?

I totally didn't get that.

Also, I was hoping for a real drag show when I saw them, but instead I got a sort of "gender bent catwalk" thing. Boo.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was supposed to be a representation of a bacchanal or dionisya. There are dozens of paintings of those celebrations that look sorta like the last supper, if you squint very hard and turn off your brain.

[-] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

NBC's coverage only detracted from the ceremony. They cut most of the fashion show. And the hosts did nothing to explain or put the various acts in cultural context.

For those who don't like the queer fashion show, no one is forcing you to watch it. It's a cultural expression of the host country. It's like going to Gramany and hating the beer or the Netherlands and hating the tulips.

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[-] clot27@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

Religious bigots offended, yet again

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[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

I'm also pissed at the Olympics this year, mostly because I got stuck one hour on the road, but maybe I just don't want to admit how dumb I was to not avoid Paris on my trip to the west... nah it's them! not me!

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Rankled is a kind of default status of most conservatives, and the way I most prefer them to be.

I like them to be discomfited too.

And stilted. Stilted is nice.

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

It wasn't even the last supper, it was referencing Greek stuff from what I have heard

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

I’m not exactly the most religious person, but this seems to be step one in how to piss off a nice chunk of those watching.

Not the route I would have gone.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Drag cabaret was huge in France in the 1940s and 1950s and has continued to this day, so that part is not really especially weird or or provocative.

But then they decided to mix it with Paris Fashion Week and that made it far less interesting, at least to me.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Well they can be pissed or grow up then I guess lol getting angry over a performance on tv, what are they, 6 years old?

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

Mentally, yes. Lol

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It was made to kind of piss right wing people, yes

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[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Some people really just wake up looking for something to get rankled about.

[-] Tinks@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I find it funny that this is what they're up in arms about, not the happy little threesome. I saw it and was shocked that NBC actually aired it, because that's just much too controversial for we puritanical Americans to handle.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Let me explain it this way. If I am going to sit somewhere, if we as left leaning individuals are going to sit and say "it's not what you say it's how others take it and be sensitive to that" then we need to follow the same rules.

If I tell a joke or do something that others take offense to, then maybe it wasn't ok to say that, or to have done that.

If I am going to tell people to pay attention to how others respond to what they are doing or saying. Then i need to follow those same rules.

It is not ok for me to tell another person, you can't say that (what ever that thing is) because of how others are viewing it or how it makes them feel. Then turn around and say but i can do what ever I want even if it offends others.

It is not relevant if we are talking about drag, or trans people, or black people, or minorities, or white people, or religions. What is relevant is that we are running around saying "you can't do that because it is offending others". Yet look through this thread, go all the way up to my top comment and look at all the responses. Notice something? People are acting like this was totally ok even though there are a shit ton of people that it offended.

So it's ok for the left to put in rules that says "you can't do that because it is offending others, but we the left can do what ever we want". That makes sense?

and you are telling me to change my tune?

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

It wasn't the last supper or anything with Christianity. Maybe if they were actually educated instead of being anti-schooling...

https://x.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1817569151432458399

[-] jispal01@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I saw people pissed off about this on social media last night. I didn't even really understand what they were upset about. Other than the fact that it's a handful of people sitting at a table, I didn't really see any similarities with the Last Supper. Christians don't own the concept of people sitting on the same side of a table.

TV shows put all the people on one side of a dinner table all the time - because of camera/blocking reasons. Is every episode of Eight Is Enough blasphemous?

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[-] ImADifferentBird 19 points 4 months ago

You're right, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And in that spirit, I will treat these complaints exactly the way right wingers treat it when others point out that they're being offensive and gross.

In other words, I will mock you for being offended and suggest that you're trying to kill free speech any time you try to voice your point of view.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 16 points 4 months ago

Religion has been behind so much discrimination over the centuries. I, as a leftist, will never care to not offend religion.

Also I'm very strongly of the opinion that being a leftist is about ending capitalism. The acceptance/bigotry spectrum is a different axis. And while ending bigotry is an important fight, it's a separate one from ending capitalism.

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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

Why can't drag queens portray the last supper, even make fun of it, when

a) Jeezy Creezy himself invited sex workers to his shin digs. Also cracked a few jokes himself ("Why were you looking for me? I was in my father's house")

b) veggie tales is about sentient vegetables giving Bible lessons, Narnia is about a fursona giving Bible lessons

c) if Jesus can take being crucified I imagine he can take a joke

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Paradox of tolerance. Christians are actively trying to invite violence against LGBT people by calling them groomers. That's the basis of their outrage, so it is simple to dismiss it as hateful or inauthentic.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

It is not relevant if we are talking about drag, or trans people, or black people, or minorities, or white people, or religions.

then why are you doing that?

also, username checks out.

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[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They got a bbw Jesus!

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