The Jerusalem Post reports: “The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday was particularly spectacular, in what was a form of compensation for the previous Olympics in Tokyo, which took place under the COVID-19 restrictions. The five-hour long event was held under the motto of equality, where alongside the history of Olympic sports and of France – it strove to give expression to the multifarious human fabric. 

However, some did not find it to their taste.

One part of the ceremony included an homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting The Last Supper, which depicts the last time Jesus dined with his disciples before being crucified by Pontius Pilate. This is of course a founding event in the Christian religion.

During the show, the painting was recreated by a human performance of drag artists, infuriating the global Christian community.

Many social media users worldwide, and not only Christians, criticized the move and claimed it was disrespectful, sacrilegious, and expressed contempt for religion. The official X, formerly Twitter, account of the Universitarios Católicos wrote in a post: ‘Sodom and Gomorrah is televised and watched by tens of millions of people live.’

The post further cited, J. R.R. Tolkien, adding, ‘Evil cannot create anything new, only corrupt or ruin what the forces of good have invented or built.’…”