The Victim Complex of Christianity: The Olympics Opening Ceremony
NOT The Last Supper
The Olympics are in Paris this year, which means Christian’s least favorite thing—progressive imagery and iconography from different cultures.
This year the opening ceremony of the Olympics featured a group of drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ+ community surrounding a large table with an individual painted in blue resting in the center. This ceremony was conducted by artist, Thomas Jolly, and was a reference to the painting “The Feast of Dionysus”
As stated by Travis Akers:
The Need To Be A Victim
Christians are REQUIRED and ENCOURAGED to be victims. As stated in the Bible:
(2 Timothy 3:12): In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
(Matthew 5:11–12): Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
This victim complex is built into the religion itself. It values being victimized for the sake of their belief. Believers are rewarded when they endure hardship and victimization. So this leads believers of this religion to crave and thirst for any kind of persecution they may be able to find. Anything that they can grasp onto as being some form of persecution even when it’s not. This is what has happened with the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Somehow, Christians have interpreted this opening ceremony as being a “mockery of the Last Supper” and proceeded to spread this misinformation to fellow Christians who eat it up like a bullfrog, sitting in a circle and reveling in their fantasy world where god makes a fool of these people by throwing them in a pit of fire and sulfur. This is the mentality that Christianity creates.
Egocentrism
For Christians, it’s all about them. The world was created for human beings, animals were made to be killed and eaten by humans, and humans were given divine authority over the earth to govern it. But this mindset has gone even further.
The claim now is that Western civilization was shaped by Christianity, Christianity is the one true religion, everyone else is going to hell, and my religion’s ideas of morality are the only right ones. It has gotten to the point where Christians, especially in America, are not even willing to learn about other cultures. Every other religion and culture is considered wrong and misguided. This issue of Christians’ egocentrism is what has led to all the controversy surrounding the Olympic opening ceremony. They are so blinded by their religion and indoctrination that they completely ignore everything about the ceremony that isn’t related to the Last Supper and focus on the elements that vaguely resemble it in order to further their victim-complex agenda. If only these Christians had the willingness and openness to honestly research cultures and topics before claiming victim status this entire controversy wouldn't exist.
A Fantasy of Revenge
There are two things Christians love more than being victimized, and that is coincidences and revenge fantasies.
During the Olympics in Paris, there was a sudden power outage. This led to Christians using this event as “evidence” of their god getting angry at the opening ceremony. Many took to social media to claim, “This is what happens when you mess with god” and “This is what happens when you mock Christianity.”
As addressed in my article about god not saving Trump. The standard for which Christians identify something as supernatural or the work of god is pretty much non-existent. There doesn’t need to be good objective observations and a study of the situation to figure out what happened. There doesn’t need to be an ounce of investigation. As long as it furthers their agenda and matches up with their fantasy of revenge, that is enough to qualify as evidence that the creator of the universe unplugged the lights.
Many have cited the fact that the only building that still had operational electricity was the Sacre Coeur Chruch. Claiming that god is sending a message. But I do wonder, how did they distinguish from god interfering in the world to send a message versus the church having a backup power generator as most large-scale historical tourist attractions do. Ask yourself, what is more likely? The god of the universe intervened with space and time to unplug electricity except for one church, or the church had a backup power generator.
As humans we LOVE coincidences. We are pattern-seeking creatures after all. So when something happens that seems to line up with our ideas and convictions, we go nuts. That is what’s happening with these Christians currently. They’re receiving enormous amounts of confirmation from their pattern-seeking brains that so desperately want to give meaning to anything that happens. But when we think about this situation a bit more in-depth, there are undeniable flaws with the character of the god Christians worship.
A Petty Vindictive Monster
The god of the Old Testament can only honestly be described as a vindictive, violent, psychopathic, genocidal, racist, egotistical, jealous, warlord.
In many passages god has no problem claiming that he is jealous and proud of it, that is willing to punish those who mock him and even curse generations in the future for the blasphemy of one parent. (Leviticus 24:16)
But the god of the New Testament, Jesus is a completely different character. He is gentle, kind, and forgiving. He even teaches that we should turn our cheek when slapped by our enemy (Matthew 5:38–40). So why then, is god taking action against those who are mocking him? Isn’t the best way to lead and teach to do so by example? And even Christians seem to forget this as well. When it suits their revenge fantasy they’re willing to depict god as the Old Testament brute who takes revenge on those who mock him, but in other cases, they switch to the god of the New Testament, lovey-dovy Jesus. The inconsistency is astounding.
Christians also love to use free will as an apologetic tactic against the problem of suffering. Claiming that god allows evil and doesn’t intervene with human affairs because it is necessary for free will. But, when it comes to mocking, it’s the straw that breaks the camel's back. God is fully willing to intervene and disrupt human free will to send a message against mocking him, but he is completely apathetic to thousands of children dying of disease every day. No other religion loves to have their cake and eat it too as much as Christians do. They want to have an all-loving god who doesn’t interfere with human free will but also desire a god who interferes with human free will to fulfill their revenge fantasies.
If your god is willing to step into space and time to unplug a couple of lights in Paris but is unwilling to do the same to stop the needless suffering of innocent children around the world, then that is not a god worthy of worship.
Not ALL Christians
Christians if you were offended by this opening ceremony I sincerely recommend you do some research before bursting a couple of blood vessels over the supposed “mockery of The Last Supper”. But if you’re a Christian who is willing to do their research and learn about other cultures, I sincerely thank you. I appreciate you and hope more people will be like you.
