By Mark Maynard, Kentucky Today
The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris on Friday has stirred international outrage with drag-queen themed imagery, including a mocking parody of “The Last Supper” that included a large woman in an aureole halo crown with others dressed in drag as the apostles.
Numerous drag queens were shown throughout the ceremony with three being among the 10,000 torchbearers who relayed the Olympic flame as it started in Greece and passed through French territories on the way to Paris.
The reaction to the religious abomination was swift on social media, including Southern Baptists and Kentucky Baptists.
Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, posted this statement on X.
“Every society – without exception – coalesces around a dominant religious impulse with associated symbols. The sheer horror of the secularist replacement is what we saw in Paris. It’s a deliberately pornographic corruption of Christianity. Don’t miss how intentional it is, right down to details. Paris aspires to be the new Babylon, with a drag queen at the center behind the altar.”
Andrew T. Walker, a professor at SBTS, wrote on X: “If you needed reminding, the Olympics opening ceremony is a reminder that Leftism—with its transgressive debauchery—is an acid and cultural parasite. Basically, if you want to have a civilization, you cannot allow it to metastasize.”
Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board, which has a team of people in Paris witnessing, also weighed in.
“The grotesque mockery of the #Christian faith by #TheFrench at the 2024 #Olympics reinforces our commitment @IMB_SBC to proclaiming the gospel in Paris and to all peoples.”
Shane Pruitt, the National Next Gen director, had a strong rebuke of the ceremony.
“Drag queens mock Christianity during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Paris as they attempt to recreate da Vinci’s painting of Jesus’ Last Supper. Not only are Christians the only people that it is socially acceptable to mock… it’s actually celebrated and put front and center when it happens. Remember the words of Jesus: ‘If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you (John 15:18).’ There will be a day that mocking turns into fear of the One true God. Hopefully, it happens before it’s too late.”
Journalist Kyle Becker said on X that “the 2024 Paris Olympics has gone full Woke dystopian.”
“The opening ceremony was filled with transgender mockery of the Last Supper, the Golden Calf idol, and even the Pale Horse from the Book of Revelation, “ Becker said. “The Olympics has made it clear that Christian viewers aren’t welcome.”
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker called the visual “crazy” on Instagram, and quoted Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.”
Riley Gaines, who has been front and center fighting the transgender battle in the U.S., also reacted on X.
“Men in wigs front & center at the Olympic Games. No one ever tell me this group is “oppressed” or “marginalized” again,” she wrote.
The Olympics said the performance was an “interpretation of the Greek God (of wine and festivity) Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
There was also a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to being executed during the French Revolution, singing with her severed head in her hands wearing drag makeup.
Prominent far-right French politician Marion Marechal denounced the performance on social media.
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the Paris 2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation,” she posted on X, a sentiment echoed by religious conservatives internationally.
