117 points

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

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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.

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

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5 points

Seriously, just look up images for “Isis and child Horus”, for instance.

Without context he only way to tell if it’s Christian or ancient Egyptian is the hat, if present.

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

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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

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

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77 points

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

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54 points

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

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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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I’ve got copies of both the US and Australian broadcasts. I’m in the process of building a synchronized side-by-side video showing what each broadcaster put out.

I’d love to share it if I could convince YouTube’s bots that it’s not a copyright violation.

And if there’s a PeerTube instance out there that won’t mind me uploading it there, I’m happy to share it with you.

Update: I uploaded this to the Internet Archive today: https://archive.org/details/olympic-blue-man-4

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You should totally upload it to the Internet Archive. They have something similar for 9/11 news programs.

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This is a FANTASTIC idea. I’m uploading it now.

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71 points

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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The sad part is, that this just gives them more ammo. Having said that though, they look for ammo constantly, even without olympics they would find something else.

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12 points

i’m glad they’re triggered. fuck christians.

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2 points

Who cares

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But only against christians, no othetlr religion or lack thereof.

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Pretty sure some of these other religions have a problem with scantily clad women, gay people and drag queens. That you think this was “only against christians” is pretty telling.

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I would imagine if it was a bunch of straight people in silly costumes we would be having a very different conversation… Maybe about how art was once part of the Olympics. That would be a fun thing to talk about.

“How dare the queers…” is so tiring a conversation to keep having over and over.

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So you’re indignant that the middle finger was only to Christians? And not everyone else? Weird hill to die on. And I’m pretty sure the middle finger wasn’t specifically to Christians, but to literally every moron with a stick up their ass about what other people do in their personal lives.

Also, the “lack thereof” is called atheism and attacking atheism is like attacking someone for not collecting stamps (to bastardize Penn Jillette). Quite a waste of time and effort.

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That’s because other religions are minorities in the West and get too much hate and vitriol as it is.

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Isnt the olympics about unity? If you have to single out a group to make fun of, maybe you shouldnt

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they think that. somehow it doesn’t occurs to the “christians” that the olympics aren’t about them and aren’t focused on them at all. it wasn’t the last supper. it was homage to greek and french culture and history. because the olympics originated in greece and are being held in france. sheesh.

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And we aren’t the ones beheading teachers and shooting up art studios

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No, you’re just the ones producing most of the stochastic terrorism in the US

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An event that’s supposed to bring people together, instead purposely creates division. I’m agnostic af, but I can clearly see this is bad taste.

If you like creating division, then by all means celebrate it I guess…

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They included everyone who has been excluded from the beginning and made a statement that they will not pander to those who want them excluded anymore. Those who were angry at this are those who wanted to keep these people excluded. I’d say it’s a pace in a good direction to bring people together. There is only a group of people who will need to learn they can’t force their way on others anymore.

For crying out loud had these people had their way again we wouldn’t even have had that badass metal music show in front of the Bastille Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette was trialed and sentenced to death.

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badass metal music show in front of the Bastille.

Didn’t realize that was in front of the Bastille, you can’t get more anti authoritarian than that.

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It’s the agnostics who want to force our churches to go woke in Europe.

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22 points

Ah yes, inclusion is division. Good double speak here.

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No no, you don’t get it. They don’t like drag, and we should’ve known christian’s don’t like drag and wouldn’t want to go to a drag show. So by us doing them anyways, knowing they won’t be there, we’re excluding them by not excluding them while they exclude themselves. We’re the assholes y’all.

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19 points

The only people creating division are religious people who can’t switch off their offended brain for once and laugh a little.

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Same logic can be applied to people being (rightfully) outraged at blackface

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19 points

It’s Christianity causing the division. Not the inclusions of the LGBT.

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Drag !== LGBT.

LGBT is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, three sexual orientations, and Transgender- a modifier of gender expression.

Drag is a performance.

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if you have to conform to what a single group wants while ignoring the actual countries who created the games and those who host them, that’s not”bringing people together” it’s just giving in to narrow views and acting as if only one group has legitimacy and the right to decide on anything. there is no “bringing together” of different people and things in that.

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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.

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Judas: so lets get this last supper going.

Jesus: the what supper?

Judas: good supper, nice supper, normal supper!

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good supper, nice supper, normal supper!

Super supper!

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You’d be surprised how much of the belief was added as expansion packs by the early church.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

The painting is just another notable addition to the cinematic universe.

We don’t talk about the rival fanfic, or the original book fans. It’s not as good as ours. And our main character in the sky is totally different.

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I’ve never met a conservative who didn’t want to burn most paintings.

How does ignorant, fabricated hate get so many upvotes here?

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Just a product of people having an overconfidence in themselves being right (and therefore good) while those that disagree are wrong (and therefore wrong).

The irony is that the most batshit insane MAGAs have the same thought process. Liberal tears and all that.

This is a “conservative tears” kind of thing. It’s a “they take the low road, we also take the low road” kind of strategy which only gives credence to the usually fallacious “both sides” arguments.

General lack of critical thinking skills. If you want a tolerant society, actively disrespecting the beliefs of others probably isn’t the best way to go about it.

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Yup. Maga supporters are some of the worst I’ve come across. But what I’ve learned, especially on Lemmy, is that it’s not even remotely isolated to them.

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lol. you are so fucking naive. you think they’ll return the favor if we respect their idiotic beliefs? do you think that aliens are going to land and take our side because we took ‘the high road’? there’s only one solution for christian conservatives.

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Matthew 26:20-29 ESV

When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.” Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 ESV

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” [26] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

The last supper is very much biblical

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They weren’t saying the event called the last supper wasn’t in the bible, but that the artistic depiction of that event, “The Last Supper”, isn’t a part of the Christian religion. It is a painting.

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I think religion is hogwash but criticizing a famous depiction of an event that happened in the Bible because it’s not actually being part of the Bible strikes me as desperate.

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It’s a painting of a scene from the Bible, though

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That’s just artistic depiction. Scared Artwork (or Icons) are more about portraying and telling a story to an illiterate audience rather than realistically depicting something as we may think about some historical artwork nowadays. Although there are plenty of battle scenes in art which are clearly exaggerated also

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