Re: Reason to watch the Olympics.

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I have watched the Olympics and am watching it now.

Aug 5, 2024, 1:25 PM

I am also a Christian.

You are misinformed about the mockery of the Last Supper. Despite the attempts to “cover it up” by claiming it was the Feast of Dionysus is transparently laughable. It was a contrived controversy and a purposeful insult to the Christian religion. However, my faith is not in religion. My faith is in a Person, Jesus Christ. This sinful world will continue to mock Christians because of the underlying and often blatant evil in this world. But, it will be judged, sooner rather than later.

And, while Jesus will welcome sinners to His table, it has to be on His terms. He loves them and wants them to repent of their sinfulness, turn to Him in faith that He redeemed them from sin by His substitutionary death on a cross, was dead and buried in a tomb, and was physically resurrected to life.

Faithful Christians will be persecuted. We will deal with it. We will continue to call out injustice. We will point out sin that has been defined by God the Father as sin. We will be merciful to those who seek forgiveness because we have been given mercy and forgiveness. We will not be perfect and sin because we are still humans. But, we are saved by grace through faith. There is nothing we can do to earn it.

John 16:33 records these words of Jesus Christ concerning the way the world will treat Christians,
“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
‭‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭33‬ ‭BSB‬‬

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That's your right, I suppose. I just don't understand why you would want to be offended and feel personally attacked.

There is a lot of evidence which goes against the idea that it was intended to mock The Last Supper. To start, the spokesperson for the Paris 2024 Olympics said that this was never the intent. In addition, the ceremony's artistic director stated that this was never his intention.

So we have the two people most involved in the opening ceremony telling us that it was never their intention.

The scene clearly resembles Jan van Bijlert's "The Feast of the Gods" painting much more than it resembles Da Vinci's "The Last Supper." There were more than 12 disciples present in the opening ceremony, more consistent with Bijlert's painting. And of course, Jesus wasn't a blue guy, but Dionysus has been portrayed that way. In addition, the elaborate costumes and dancing were clearly not meant to resemble The Last Supper.

The whole point was to pay homage to ancient Greece, where the Olympics originate. I don't think they counted on people somehow turning this into some parody of The Last Supper. It seems that they underestimated the degree to which people will try to be offended.

As a Christian, I am reminded of James 1:19-20, which says, "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to take offense, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires."

Reason to watch the Olympics.