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Christianities outraged by blasphemy of pagan tableau … 🙄
It’s not always about you.
ICYMI, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony included a performance by this guy:
Painted bleu and mostly buck naked, practically in the shadow of Notre-Dame cathedral, floating down the Seine, sang his hit song “Nu” (= Naked), dolled up as Dyonisus.
It also included some drag queens cosplaying as a weird mashup of the Olympian gods and anime. Hypersensitive Christians, all around the globe, egged on by their cynical libertine puppeteers like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and various equally cynical evangelicals and frock-wearing clerics, mistook the tableau for a mockery of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous mural The Last Supper.
And so:
Sheesh. Talk about getting your knickers in the wrong twist.
Those of us who think theocracy is the primary threat to half a millennium of enlightened progress (because of its full-stack nature … all the way up to the punishments 🔥for the violations) can indulge in some win-win smirking.
For all I know, France, a land that enjoys its Laïcité garni d’ironie, may very well have been mocking both the pagans and the Xians simultaneously … two ducks (or fish in the barrel, as the case may be) with one shot.
It might even have been a profound, subtle theological statement about the Pauline syncretistic hijacking of one of the most popular dying and resurrecting gods of the Hellenistic period, in order to morph the poor, pitiful, crucified Jewish wandering mendicant prophet Yeshua into the Xristos required to sell such an absurd narrative to the gullible underclasses of the Roman Empire.
Take that, superstitious supernaturalists.
Bof!
Either way, bien joué.
