France's Olympic Trans Last Supper

[ZealoulyStriving]

What France did with their moment.

Light the match already. 😐

[LDSGator]

Yikes. They must have been crazy to think that wouldn’t be in bad taste. 

[Phoenix_person]

1 hour ago, LDSGator said:

Yikes. They must have been crazy to think that wouldn’t be in bad taste. 

It seems like they weren't too worried about being tasteful. 

[Ironhold]

Several people on Twitter are claiming that NBC Universal is *very* aggressively pursuing copyright takedown claims on anyone on Twitter who has posted any images or video from the opening ceremony. 

This is leading to conspiracy theories about whether NBC Universal is actually trying to protect what copyrights they have or if they're desperately trying to prevent anyone from seeing what went down. 

[LDSGator]

12 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

or if they're desperately trying to prevent anyone from seeing what went down. 

Good luck with that NBC, it’s already made the rounds 

[Ironhold]

1 hour ago, LDSGator said:

Good luck with that NBC, it’s already made the rounds 

I just spent several minutes looking since my mom was wondering why the much calmer of my two SiLs was freaking out on Facebook, and all I found was a single long-distance shot. Everything else, including on Wiki, has been scrubbed if it ever existed at all. 

[mirkwood]

France won the first gold medal for best satanic ritual.

[LDSGator]

3 hours ago, Ironhold said:

I just spent several minutes looking since my mom was wondering why the much calmer of my two SiLs was freaking out on Facebook, and all I found was a single long-distance shot. Everything else, including on Wiki, has been scrubbed if it ever existed at all. 

While I don’t have precise numbers, judging from my FB 70%+ of my conservative friends have posted about it. In fact, I don’t watch the Olympics and only heard about it through social media.  

[ZealoulyStriving]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

* Where exactly is the apology? They are either completely clueless, or they are intentionally needling believers:

"Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” the Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps told a press conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.”

&

"Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the flamboyant opening ceremony, said religious subversion had never been his intention. “We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that,” he said on Saturday."

[LDSGator]

6 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

Where exactly is the apology?

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody
 

Someone apologized, but let’s be honest. Our side will not accept any apology. It’s too late. And that baffles me, given that forgiveness is relatively important in Christianity.  

[LDSGator]

Like everyone else (including some members of the LGBT community and non Christians) I found it in poor taste. 

Edited July 28, 2024 by LDSGator

[ZealoulyStriving]

O, I forgive- but part of an apology is understanding what you did wrong, not just saying words. By the "apologies" quoted they clearly have no clue where they went wrong- IF the apologies are indeed sincere.

[LDSGator]

8 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

O, I forgive- but part of an apology is understanding what you did wrong, not just saying words. By the "apologies" quoted they clearly have no clue where they went wrong- IF the apologies are indeed sincere.

That’s fine, but I think I was 100% correct when I said our side would not accept any apology. Short of an honor suicide (and even then, our side would fuss) nothing will satisfy those offended by this. 

[zil2]

11 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

Diversity means being together.

Erm.  No it doesn't.  It means being different...

Quote

the state of being diverse; variety.

diverse:

Quote

showing a great deal of variety; very different.

Someone buy them a dictionary.

 

11 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

We wanted to include everyone

By making a mockery of an event considered sacred by a huge percentage of the world's population.  As if they couldn't have been "inclusive" without said mockery....  As you said, they have no clue.

[The Folk Prophet]

4 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

Short of an honor suicide (and even then, our side would fuss) nothing will satisfy those offended by this. 

Actually, I'd be okay with repentance.

[LDSGator]

This is why I was never good at being conservative. I’ve never really felt that sense of moral outrage over these things. What they did was offensive and silly-but the right is giving them exactly what they want. Attention.    

[zil2]

4 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

our side would not accept any apology

Depends who you mean by "our side".  Folks who gain from the political hype will of course go over the top with "outrage".  Some folks will forget to love their enemies.  But I expect a lot of good Christians (and others) will just be sad about it without holding on to animosity.

[LDSGator]

4 minutes ago, zil2 said:

Depends who you mean by "our side".  Folks who gain from the political hype will of course go over the top with "outrage".  Some folks will forget to love their enemies.  But I expect a lot of good Christians (and others) will just be sad about it without holding on to animosity.

I see it differently. Everyone is wrapped in “outrage mode” to show off- but I’ve seen no one talk about the apology except to whine that it wasn’t enough.  

Edited July 28, 2024 by LDSGator

[The Folk Prophet]

5 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

This is why I was never good at being conservative. I’ve never really felt that sense of moral outrage over these things. What they did was offensive and silly-but the right is giving them exactly what they want. Attention.    

You talking out of both sides of your mouth when you say you have no moral outrage but then follow it up by saying what they did was offensive. "Morally outrageous" and "offensive" are the same thing.

Moreover, you're discussing it just as much as anyone else here, which means you're also giving them exactly what they want.

But mere attention is not all they want. Not by a long shot.

[LDSGator]

2 minutes ago, The Folk Prophet said:

You talking out of both sides of your mouth when you say you have no moral outrage but then follow it up by saying what they did was offensive. "Morally outrageous" and "offensive" are the same thing.

Moreover, you're discussing it just as much as anyone else here, which means you're also giving them exactly what they want.

But mere attention is not all they want. Not by a long shot.

Here among friends-yes. On other social media? Nope. 
 

And they wanted to outrage you. You are giving them what they want.    

Edited July 28, 2024 by LDSGator

[zil2]

9 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

Everyone is wrapped in “outrage”

No one is excluded from the set called "everyone".  I'm pretty sure there's a fairly large subset of "everyone" who don't even know about this event (I wouldn't , were it not on this forum).  Further, of the subset who do know, I expect there's a large percentage of folk who are indifferent.  Of the subset who consider it in bad taste or even offensive, there's a subset who don't let that evoke emotions like anger, hate, outrage, etc.

Clearly, when you say "everyone", you mean "everyone I see posting about this topic on the social media platforms I use" - which is a pretty small subset of "everyone".

Edited July 28, 2024 by zil2

[LDSGator]

1 minute ago, zil2 said:

Clearly, when you say "everyone", you mean "everyone I see posting about this topic on the social media platforms I use" - which is a pretty small set of "everyone".

True, but I’m guessing there’s a LOT more conservatives talking about it than those on my FB.  

[NeuroTypical]

6 hours ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.

lol.  Sorry definition #4.

 

[Backroads]

I was seeing that it wasn't even supposed to be The Last Supper, just a random baccannahal and wound up looking too much like the painting.

[ZealoulyStriving]

1 hour ago, Backroads said:

I was seeing that it wasn't even supposed to be The Last Supper, just a random baccannahal and wound up looking too much like the painting.

Mhm