Fringe religious conservatives melted down Friday night over the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, decrying the spectacle as “Satantic.”
The phase “mocking god” trended on social media following the opening ceremonies, which included drag performers and a singing — beheaded — Marie Antoinette.
“BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS” wrote @online_shogun along with a short clip showing drag queens in colorful costumes at the ceremony. “This filth is a slap in the face of all Christians. I reject this from every fiber of my being. You Moloch worshipping scum, you are mocking God, and for this you will be punished. As long as faithful people are here to reject f–otry and blasphemy, God.”
The post quickly gained traction, along with others.
“One day every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. One day every knee will bow. Mocking God is the height of foolishness,” wrote @TJMoe28.
“My opinion and I’m entiltled to it! Mocking God, never ever ends well… ILY” wrote @Wonderwpatriot7.
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“If the Olympics are going Satanic and mocking god, they might actually be worth watching this year,” chimed in @ericlahti1.
In particular, they are losing their shit over a drag queen parody of the Last Supper as well as other “Satanic” motifs:
The opening ceremony of the Olympics is not even hiding the satanic rituals anymore.
There is no longer anything hidden in plain sight.
These are the demonic dark forces of Satan who want to eclipse the light.
You can already see:
- Skulls
- Motifs of death
- Satanic red lighting
- Children trapped in tunnels
Did anyone notice that the single rider on a pale horse is straight out of the Book of Revelation?
edit: Previously: Swiss right seeks to block Eurovision’s ‘celebration of satanism and occultism’
The religious right are a bunch of christo fascist assholes, we shouldn’t care what they’re butthurt about.
I dunno, I kind of care because I find the things they get butthurt about tend to be quite interesting and worth watching/reading.
Why they get so much attention is beyond me; it only expands their platform and ragebaits more people.
Sounds like you’ve got it figured out. It drives engagement, clicks and views.
The uncomfortable truth is that that is what matters now. I wish equal attention was given to all aspects of the political spectrum but I guess it would end up in the same situation eventually because people love to feel outraged.
Well when you put it that way, it makes it sound like profit-driven news media is a bad thing
In the quoted text there’s some psycho fantasizing about forcing everyone to say what he wants them to say. “Every tongue will confess,” holy shit. It sounds like some sick fuck who tortures people until they admit to crimes they didn’t commit.
We absolutely should a) because they have a nasty habit of trying to make their displeasure everyone elses problem and b) because watching their conniptions when noone takes them seriously is fun.
I guess I mean we shouldn’t feel the need to be sensitive to their feelings.
Eh, just more Russian influence trying to disrupt the Olympics. Of course they don’t come out directly, they use one of their mouthpieces, the religious nuts in this case.
aren’t you about half a century too late for satanic panic shit
It never went away in certain quarters.
“If the Olympics are going Satanic and mocking god, they might actually be worth watching this year,” chimed in @ericlahti1.
This was my thought - I should have tuned in.
I genuinely thought it was a pretty good opening ceremony.
The themes were great, especially Marie Antoinette. By far the most inclusive opening ceremony I’ve seen!
You Moloch worshipping scum
Moloch was for Jesus a symbol of wealth. Pretty sure these pseudo-Christians worship Moloch far more than any artist, trans or not, who performed during these ceremonies.
>watches french thing
>gets mad when it’s subversive and weird
???It’s like getting mad at Italians for talking with their hands too much
Can’t imagine what they’d think about the amount of tits on french TV. Can’t even watch breakfast TV without someone showing you a vaj
Do what now?
Fuck your “god”. Religion is a mental illness.
Guess we’ll fit in with the actors doing the last supper scene, then
Oh my God when I saw that (after the babe in the heels and leotard…good gravy…)
I said aw man this sacrilegeous imagery is great, can’t for the right to seethe tomorrow.
You won’t be laughing when some lunatic gets elected because moderates are fed up with this puts in place some unspeakable law persecuting homosexuality. I know many who were just moderates but voted for Reform UK because they’re tired of the “Wokeness” movement
Im sure fucking gods is a big part of a lot of religions.
And, sadly, children.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Them critters be smoking the bad herbs
You know, this is the kind of stuff the Bible meant when it said taking the lord’s name in vain. Screaming “God God” when it’s really just you being an ass.
Taking the Lord’s name in vain is about using God’s name as a vanity. American Christians are idiots who never question or investigate that phrase so they believe any unauthorized use of God is sin. They are also hypocritically unopposed to using God’s name casually.
You’d think if their god was so almighty, he would be able to defend himself
Satan isn’t real, so you’ll survive looking at something different sometimes
I was in constant fear as I didn’t watch the opening show that they will show us biblically accurate croissant. Or a fallen baguette. Or an LAPD officer getting agitated by all the spooky stuff.
Oh no, not skulls! Christians would never use skulls as iconography, for surely that would offend THE LORD their God!
Christians being hypocrites? Hell it’s a requirement of the religion at this point!
If only there was some kind of book that could guide them.
I wonder what would have happened had they done the same thing with Islam.
But seriously, I don’t think people realise that having a drag queen re-enactment of the last supper, one of the most sacred scenes in the Bible, is simply going to embolden Christians more to push away any form of integration or acceptance with the LGBT community. Like, doing stuff like this is basically asking for a negative pushback.
Yeah! Everybody knows Jesus didn’t hang out with the people society rejected and denigrated! He certainly wasn’t hanging out with prostitutes or poor people or outcasts! He was all about maintaining the social order and keeping the Pharisees happy! That’s why he was nice enough to help the money changers set back up in the temple after some whack job came in and tossed their tables all over the place!
Next you’ll start in on some leftist propaganda about how people deserve to eat and have medical care. You think Jesus would, what, hand you some fish and bread and heal your leprosy? You better be able to pay! Inns ain’t cheap around here!
I did hear of a pretty reliable source of silver, though…
Sincerely, what are you yapping about?
I’m implying that Jesus would be more likely to hang out at a drag show than with the people who have a problem with them.
And many at that drag show would probably call Him a bigot
Nah, sweetie. That ain’t it.
You’re the one who’s so into the guy, you should know better.
Know better and do what exactly? What am I wrong about?
Fuck it, I’ll bite. Y’all are obsessed with Old Testament ceremonial law. You’re basically Pharisees. The only mention of anything remotely approaching anything we’d lump under the queer umbrella in the New Testament is when Paul is describing how the Romans are different from the Hebrews and happens to mention the sexual nature of some of the relationships common between Roman men. It’s a discussion of contrast, not a condemnation.
Let’s look at Jesus’ track record, shall we?
Here’s a guy who famously has no patience for the status quo or for authoritarian hierarchy. He literally says he came with a flaming sword and his opponents were the people in charge who were obsessed with meaningless rules and deference to corrupt power. To put it in Buddhist terms, he was trying to shake up the tendency to stare mindlessly at the finger instead of looking at the moon. I know; just Google it.
Dude was a proto-anarchist. He would have had zero patience for your hand wringing about people wearing clothes that you don’t like. He probably would be in this thread giving you shit if he wasn’t too busy with feet on the ground trying to shake down the establishment.
I have never understood how y’all are so into this guy who’s about radical autonomy and acceptance and universal love and forgiveness and yet you seem to entirely miss the plot and literally laser focus on the rules used in the same story to justify nailing him to piece of wood.
Jesus would probably be at a drag show. Just not one for rich tourists who care more about spectacle than the negative impact of the Olympics on literally every host city.
He’d be condemning bigotry, not standing beside it.
There have been countless spoofs of that painting in cartoons, commercials, and other popular media for a very long time. Let’s not pretend it’s “sacrilege” the Christians are clutching their pearls at now.
Generally stuff like this commonly gets a backlash, but basically everyone I know of was watching the opening ceremony as many do every year, so obviously people are going to notice when you mock Christianity on a global scale when everyone is watching
This is not new. So again I say, let’s not pretend it’s “sacrilege” that’s actually the offense here.
You’re assuming that these spoofs aren’t already offensive
You’re assuming we should care about offending followers of a religion that preaches bigotry and denying reality.
Then why should we care about offending those who not only deny the true reality, but are constantly attacking us for our beliefs, wanting us to change our message to fit their worldview and their morality which is subjective and push for previously unthinkable things to become more and more acceptable every decade?
If we truly hated you, we wouldn’t be telling you about Who we believe is the way to eternal life. We’d keep it as a secret to ourselves so you can suffer for eternity.
Honestly we wish you would. We already know what you have to offer. I’d say a great deal of us started out on the religious side of the fence, but eventually something opened our eyes to the EXTREME unlikelihood of any of it being true. And if it’s true, the god of the Bible (and most other gods honestly) are assholes, and not worth worship.
I’m not assuming anything. I’m pointing out no one’s made this big of a stink about spoofing this painting before. It’s blatant hypocrisy.
People probably won’t make a stink about it as much if it’s not shoved in their face on global television. It would be kind of odd for someone to deliberately pursue it just to make a stink about it.
Best. Opening. Ceremony. Ever.
I always find it entertaining when people, voluntarily watching a televized thing, where not watching it is a click of a button away, call it being “Shoved in their faces”.
This is always coming from the same people who send out people to literally bug me at my own home about how I’m going to burn in hell forever or something.
“Hell” as broadly believed, isn’t ever actually described as threatened in the Bible. The popular version came from Dante… WHICH WAS A STORY.
What would happen if they did it with Islam? The same mental illness but instead with more violence.
I mean south park had to take an episode down making fun of Islam because of death threats.
I don’t seem to recall them having to do it for any of the countless episodes (rightfully) making fun of Christianity. So there’s definitely something differnt going on there.
My thing is though if these Almighty gods (or the almighty god depending on who you ask) really didn’t like to be made fun of couldn’t they just, you know, take care of that?
I mean hey man one fiery head in the sky speaking demands for like, 20 seconds of time is all it would take. Boom. Suddenly everyone is on the same page.
But nah, god is a trickster and wants to make you pass tests for his amusement like a rat in a lab. Difference being the almighty god of course knows the results of the test anyway so really just makes you do it for his own enjoyment.
Religion is a disease. It deserves to be made fun of.
They will take care of it. The Lord laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming.
Also the fiery demands thing won’t work, as God was literally leading the Israelites out of Egypt like that, then Moses was like “I’m gonna climb this mountain, don’t worship false gods when I’m gone” and guess what they did
Again, I don’t know what tests you are talking about - you aren’t saved by your works but by a relationship with Christ alone.
If it’s okay to make fun of diseases, then you’re opening a can of worms here.
sure I know the story of that book humans wrote and what it says and I’m telling you that’s wrong.
If a fiery head appeared in the sky and rumbled the earth with his mighty voice and demands and every camera and human eye saw it on the earth at the same time (I mean it is God right? Should be doable) then nah, no one is gonna dispute that.
You’re taking stories that have never actually happened and saying they are the truth. I could do the same with the hundreds of religious texts that predate the bible by centuries but that wouldn’t make that true either.
Also, if god knows that a person will remain wicked forever why does he keep them here to live a full life? And in turn, if he thinks they might change wouldn’t that be a test?
People believe the earth is flat despite seeing pictures of it from space lmao. People also smoke cigarettes knowing it’s going to ruin their lives and people also destroy their lives with drugs and alcohol.
I love how you equate these things which people do because it makes them feel good to a giant head of fire in the sky lmao. One of those isn’t like the other.
And as far as the flat earthers go, exactly. That’s the same sort of blind belief that is at play with religion except one can actually be disproven.
Just seems like this god dude could sort a lot of shit out and end the pain and suffering in the world but doesn’t do it for some reason. And yes I know I know, some woman ate an apple and then some dude did too so that’s why we’re all tortured forever.
What an awesome god.
We’re all rebellious towards God- Many reject Him and He respects their decision
As always, how convenient.
People also leave their kids alone with priests despite how many of them rape children.
And also with teachers, too. People do stupid things
There is a big wide world outside of the United States and sometimes satire is appreciated. If some rube in one of the flyover states gets butthurt then… Anyway…
What’s this got to do with the United States?
Nobody outside the United States would give a shit about a drag reenactment of the last supper…
TIL The UK is part of the United States. I have seen plenty of Europeans pointing it out all over social media.
Not saying that nutjobs don’t exist in other countries.
People who get upset about trifles that don’t matter can appear anywhere. But mostly in the US.
It’s just a really weird double standard that we see popping up
The Olympics are a celebration of the Hellenic Gods. They need Zeus!
