"Last Supper" depiction at Olympics Opening Ceremony

So if someone portrayed Mohammed as an obese drag queen, nobody could reasonably say that Islam was being mocked?

Right?

FFS this is hilarious. I don’t give a hoot about them mocking Christianity, but it is blindingly obvious to me that that’s what it is: it’s a parody of Jesus and his disciples at the last supper, based on a world famous painting so we all get the reference easily . A parody AKA mockery.

Well based on where "Jesus" (inverted commas because I don't believe in religion) was born and raised he probably looked more like the person portraying him in the opening ceremony that the 6ft5' white ripped bodied figure in most Churches around Ireland.

Are we not causing offence by essentially changing his race in all of our art and depictions?

Reminds me of this.

Yes but we now know what he probably looked like if he ever existed and it certainly isn't what's on display in Churches and continues to be produced today in new statues and paintings.

Maybe the idea of a 5ft5' middle eastern looking Jesus wouldn't sit well with most religious types though.

FFS the press releases from the organisers in advance of the ceremony specifically referenced the Last Supper. I posted a screenshot of a (since deleted) description from France television saying so. They're busy trying to rewrite history now to avoid embarrassment, but that's what happened all the same.

(Taking a world-famous depiction of the Last Supper and showing Jesus as an obese trans woman DJ, and then putting Dionysis the god of wine as a centre piece on the table to make the LS into a Bacchanalian orgy is exactly why it is a mockery of the Last Supper. Don't you get how references work in the creative arts?)

ETA: Oh wait:

Maybe it was a lot more fun than we've been led to believe.

You do get it really. And yet somehow, you still don't. A refusal to join the dots. I'm seeing religious levels of blind faith here, like back when I was a child and adults believed in holy medals and miracles and that bread became the actual flesh of christ. Or else kept quiet when they didn't.

They're busy trying to rewrite history now to avoid embarrassment

Like every good Christian 😏

You're wrong, I think they do care. I'm old enough to remember when christians were seriously offended by things like the Life of Brian and the Meaning of Life and tried very hard to get them banned - but they were (quite rightly) told where to get off, so now they've stopped objecting.

Turns out that if only they'd murdered a few dozen people, and sent some others into permanent hiding, we would all have known to be far more respectful of christianity. Stupid christians, eh?

Sure. What's your point? The OP here said this:

OK, it will offend some but I don't have an issue with it except one thing…

Why is it OK to do this to Christians and not Jews or Muslims?

If they don't want that question asked why go near it at all?

Seems one religious cult is fair game and others are not.

IOW that if anyone had done something similar wrt Islam, their lives would have been at risk. I think that's not only self evidently true, but that this thread also shows that apparently some people are prepared to push self censorship so far that they are happy to pretend to themselves that it isn't true and that they could do something similar in Islam if they only wanted to, but that mysteriously, nobody ever wants to do that.

Or alternatively, but barely more credibly, there is no issue in the first place because it is not offensive to anyone anyway.

but that’s their problem.

That's a tad disingenuous, as the Charlie Hebdo people would no doubt tell you, only they're dead. Or a certain Yorkshire schoolteacher, who is still alive, but hard to get hold of, being in permanent hiding along with his whole family.

Butch isn’t trans. But even if she was, she wouldn’t be a drag queen. Drag queens and trans women are different things. Several of the disciples were drag queens, but I’ve no idea if they were trans.
Sure - I realise that.

The world is a far more complicated place than you seem to realise. It’s better not to get offended every time you don’t understand something though.
LOL. I'm not offended, as I've said before, and I really don't think I need you to talk down to me to explain the world to me. I'd be willing to bet I have a lot more experience of it than you. I don't know you, so maybe not, but how many languages do you speak and how many countries in the world have you lived/worked in? It would have to be a certain number if you're going to claim to have more experience of different cultures than me.

A group of people put on a performance that used some elements of the Last Supper painting as inspiration. That’s it. That is all that happened

I know. That's not in dispute.

But well done for a classic of mansplaining there. Nice one. 😀

I mean, the organisers implied this themselves, when they said they were free not to be worshippers/believers. They expected (wanted) believers to be annoyed by it. Why are you so determined to pretend otherwise?

Is this still being debated?

Its old news at this stage.