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...

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’

    • FlaxEnglish
      -11•2 months ago

      You’re assuming that these spoofs aren’t already offensive

      • @BallsandBayonets
        18•2 months ago

        You’re assuming we should care about offending followers of a religion that preaches bigotry and denying reality.

        • FlaxEnglish
          -7•2 months ago

          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.

          • @Chuymatt@beehaw.org
            1•2 months ago

            Please grow up and become a bit more introspective.

            The reason you guys always try to proselytize because it earns you points to get into the exclusive sky club. I was once a true believer, and I realized that everyone was out for their own satisfaction and superiority over others who are not in the in club.

            It’s your own personal beliefs, don’t try and make anyone else’s. If you truly are a Christian, be more Christian-like.

            Christians have caused incredible amounts of damage, in so many awful ways, which always gets the no-true-Scotsman defense. It seems to happen so very often, maybe it’s time to look at why.

            “True Reality”… this is a phrase. I’ll tend to see with people who see the world in black-and-white. Like there is only one way to do everything in the world.

          • @nieminen@lemmy.world
            1•2 months ago

            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.

            • FlaxEnglish
              -1•2 months ago

              Extreme unlikelihood? The extreme unlikelihood is the properties of the universe being so randomly perfect to spawn a planet and life, as well as the New Testament and Jesus being one of the best documented figures of antiquity.

              • @nieminen@lemmy.world
                2•2 months ago

                Using the claim as proof of the claim is still an unsustainable argument. Find really old book (translated dozens of times by people with agendas), book must be true because it’s really old.

                You know what’s even older? Norse mythology.the epic of Gilgamesh. Etc.

                • FlaxEnglish
                  -2•2 months ago

                  1, we have the original text so the translation thing is irrelevant, 2, what has Norse Mythology and the epic of gilgamesh got to do with Jesus?

                  • @nieminen@lemmy.world
                    1•2 months ago

                    Yes, some of it. Have you read it? Or read the scholars direct translations? I have read parts to contrast how the modern translations differ from the original intent. And they are often quite significant. For instance, the idea of Hell does not exist in the original texts. When you die, and you don’t go to paradise, you just end. You go to oblivion, not endless torment. The idea of torturous hell was Dante’s doing, and religions ran with it. Satan isn’t even really a thing in the original Bible, but interpretations could be made.

                    I added those in to the conversation because apparently the only thing that makes the Bible legitimate is it’s oldness. Both those mythologies predate Christianity and the Bible.

                    In fact it’s not too difficult to see where the Bible mythos stole many ideas from existing religions.

                    Side notes:

                    Due to how much of an asshole the Bible God is, I like the interpretation that the Bible God is actually Loki, and had the book made so people thought he was the good guy.

                    The god of the Bible is a tantrum throwing, overreacting, jealous, hypocritical, and genocidal prick, who doesn’t deserve any adulation or worship.

      • @Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7•2 months ago

        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.

        • FlaxEnglish
          -6•2 months ago

          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.

            • @nieminen@lemmy.world
              1•2 months ago

              Honestly, I didn’t enjoy it until I heard it made so many bigots mad. I much preferred China’s in Beijing this last time.

          • @nieminen@lemmy.world
            2•2 months ago

            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.