Poll of the Day > Olympics under fire from Christians.

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hungrymike posted...

You know what I meant you silly goose.

No, dude, we really don't know what you mean. You're acting like they drew a bunch of pentagrams while chanting curses and then ate some babies or something. What actually happened is that you got uncomfortable watching them.

they have the biggest stick up their ass

ConfusedTorchic posted...

they have the biggest stick up their ass

I wonder if this is what happens when a child is not given colorful toys during crucial stages of development. "COLORFUL OUTFITS?! NOOOOOOO SATAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!"

Like Jesus dude, there's MULTIPLE genocides going on in the world, but this is what you see Satan in?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f1453873.jpg

Accrovideogames posted...

We're talking about Christians, not Muslims. They obviously condemned it.

Yikes. At least you keep the Islamophobia on display.

Now they're complaining that they're worshiping a golden calf because there's a sculpture of a bull that was made in the 1930's in Paris lmao

Accrovideogames posted...

There's a lot of generational trauma caused by Catholics.

Yeah. When I see PoC Catholics, I'm like, you know they absolutely abused the shit out of your ancestors, right?

Gaawa_chan posted...

Like Jesus dude, there's MULTIPLE genocides going on in the world, but this is what you see Satan in?

I like this. It's a delightfully succinct condemnation of self-righteous evangelical types jumping at whatever bogeymen they can come up with.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/75300003.jpg

But only when queer people do it. Any of the countless other Last Supper parodies (even if we were to accept that this is such a parody) are all fair game.

Lol this is my actual dad.

https://x.com/LMTPA1/status/1817151104703971807?t=UZ_5LIYXM-y3p_Dow7PGSw&s=19

MistyKnight posted...

Lol this is my actual dad.

https://x.com/LMTPA1/status/1817151104703971807?t=UZ_5LIYXM-y3p_Dow7PGSw&s=19

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/521be0ec.jpg

Truly, no greater debauchery has ever come out of Europe than this. Europe is well-known for being a country that only has tasteful nudity and definitely not anything remotely scandalous.

adjl posted...

A bunch of posts being critical of Christian fundamentalists got nuked. Looks like Yellow's warned for them, but I don't remember who else was involved.

At least the topic wasn't nuked.

Yeah abortion is completely illegal in ~15 states I don't care what they think or feel.

It was extremely goofy to watch. Why they decided to shove that into the Olympic opening ceremony, I have no idea. They didnt seem to know their audience.

ECW_Originals12 posted...

It was extremely goofy to watch. Why they decided to shove that into the Olympic opening ceremony, I have no idea. They didnt seem to know their audience.

The Olympics opening are always over the top/cringe. Who cares. Gojira played.

SoreChasm posted...

Nah, someone in this very topic got warned for criticizing Christian fundamentalists.

You see this, broseph? @Sirius

SoreChasm posted...

You see this, broseph?

Oh, so it's ok to defile the name of the husband to the Virgin Mary!?! Did I get that right, GameFaqs!?!

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Oh, so it's ok to defile the name of the husband to the Virgin Mary!?! Did I get that right, GameFaqs!?!

You do realize youre allowed to leave at any time and never post here again, correct? That is a thing you can do.

Melody_JR posted...

You do realize youre allowed to leave at any time and never post here again, correct? That is a thing you can do.

Lol oh you.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Lol oh you.

So, youre saying you dont understand? Weird flex.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Oh, so it's ok to defile the name of the husband to the Virgin Mary!?! Did I get that right, GameFaqs!?!

I am quite sorry
Melody_JR posted...

You do realize youre allowed to leave at any time and never post here again, correct? That is a thing you can do.

Woosh!

Melody_JR posted...

You do realize youre allowed to leave at any time and never post here again, correct? That is a thing you can do.

Zangulus saying this is fucking fantastic.

Like, how many times are you going to throw a shit fit and close your account or get banned. And then come back and say that?

Melody_JR posted...

So, youre saying you dont understand? Weird flex.

Bless your heart

When multiple people need to try to make the same false claim you know they dont have anything to actually go against what was actually said. Meanwhile theyll all be patting themselves on the back like they accomplished something.

Sirius posted...

So, you're allowed to bash Christians on this site.
But you can't say anything else.
Absolutely FANTASTIC opening ceremony! Wow, such lovely and tolerant people. Amazing. They love everybody, truly.

Did I do that right for Gamefaqs?

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Oh, so it's ok to defile the name of the husband to the Virgin Mary!?! Did I get that right, GameFaqs!?!

Guess I have to explain the whoosh.

SoreChasm posted...

Guess I have to explain the whoosh.

You are truly doing God's work.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

You are truly doing God's work.

I couldn't do it without your help, my friend.

Of course they are, France, the coward country betrayed Jeanne d'Arc, the most famous female soldier in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8JtxVGvyOY

Muscles posted...

The left are a bunch of snowflakes, just because the right is too doesn't mean the left isn't

Can't argue that

faramir77 posted...

Typically, Olympic opening ceremonies artistically showcase a combination of the host nation's history and culture, as well as influences from the ancient Greek Olympic tradition.

I didn't watch the entire opening ceremony, but I watched a clip of this particular part, and I have absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey with this. I can't see how anyone involved in planning or performing this could have thought for even a moment that it was going to be either entertaining or even a good idea.

I don't generally have an issue with people being critical of religion. Religions are ideas, and ideas are meant to be challenged. But there's such a thing as a time and a place. This was out of place and extremely cringy.

On a different note, having Snoop Dogg as a torch bearer, and the performances by Lady Gaga and Celine Dion similarly made little sense as they do nothing to display either France or the Olympics as a whole.

At the same time, I really don't give a shit about any of it.

I didn't know Snoop Dogg was torch bearer this year? Neat.

Cruddy_horse posted...

What baffles me about these people is that no matter who you are and what you say you cannot pull them out of thier altered perception of reality, no amount of explaining how Drag Queens aren't pdf.files and how Drag Shows are not inherently sexual will convince them that is true.

With all the recent pedo scandals in church going on, they project an awful lot in hindsight.

SoreChasm posted...

Guess I have to explain the whoosh.

@Melody_JR

To add to what Gaawa_chan wrote earlier, they depicted a feast of the greco-roman gods, which is such a common concept in art that there is a wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Gods_(art)

One of those works is The Feast of the Gods by Jan van Bijlert:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Bijlert_-_Le_Festin_des_dieux_-_09-530998.jpg

Notice Dionysus lying in the foreground and Apollo with the halo around his head in the middle of the picture.

https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/last-supper.jpg?resize=789%2C460&ssl=1

Yeah... long-haired blonde man on the right looks more like Poseidon than any apostle I can think of. In Greek mythology, the father of Dyonisus is Zeus, who is the greek equivalent to the Egyptian god Amun, who was usually depicted with blue skin. Not sure if that's why they made him look like a smurf here, but there you go.

To be clear, I wouldn't have known any of this without research. But that's exactly what makes me so mad about a lot of conservatives and their mouth-pieces. They don't care if they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about. They will just start blabbering and living out their victim-complex and will learn absolutly nothing from being proven wrong time and time again.

the_waffler posted...

To add to what Gaawa_chan wrote earlier, they depicted a feast of the greco-roman gods, which is such a common concept in art that there is a wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Gods_(art)

One of those works is The Feast of the Gods by Jan van Bijlert:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Bijlert_-_Le_Festin_des_dieux_-_09-530998.jpg

Notice Dionysus lying in the foreground and Apollo with the halo around his head in the middle of the picture.

https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/last-supper.jpg?resize=789%2C460&ssl=1

Yeah... long-haired blonde man on the right looks more like Poseidon than any apostle I can think of. In Greek mythology, the father of Dyonisus is Zeus, who is the greek equivalent to the Egyptian god Amun, who was usually depicted with blue skin. Not sure if that's why they made him look like a smurf here, but there you go.

To be clear, I wouldn't have known any of this without research. But that's exactly what makes me so mad about a lot of conservatives and their mouth-pieces. They don't care if they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about. They will just start blabbering and living out their victim-complex and will learn absolutly nothing from being proven wrong time and time again.

They don't care. My brother and someone else left this correction on our cousins comments where she was going off about this being a mockery of the last supper. And wouldn't you know it instead of arguing she deleted both of their comments.

the_waffler posted...

To be clear, I wouldn't have known any of this without research. But that's exactly what makes me so mad about a lot of conservatives and their mouth-pieces. They don't care if they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about. They will just start blabbering and living out their victim-complex and will learn absolutly nothing from being proven wrong time and time again.

This is the problem with ignorance. If you don't learn about anything beyond your own life, the only way you ever understand anything is to try and reframe it within the context of your own limited world view. If you don't know something as simple as "hey look at that weird headpiece that blue dude is wearing, I've seen stuff like that a lot in Greek mythology," but you do know that "demons exist, gay people bad, gay people and demons! DEMONS AND GAY PEOPLE! TABLES WITH PEOPLE ALONG THEM! MUST BE MOCKING JESUS! MUST BE!" well...

Someone with a world view this narrow actively does not want to learn. They care more about the narrative than anything else, because forcing everything they see to follow a narrative in their head makes their life simple and easy to understand. They don't WANT to think or learn about other cultures or history because it undermines the story by which they shape the thoughts they have on the world. If you asked them why it is that there's so much Roman-esque architecture in old US government buildings, they wouldn't be able to tell you, because after all, this is a CHRISTIAN nation built of CHRISTIAN values, not degenerate evil GAY ROMANS (heh).

They don't know anything about other cultures, and therefore any symbolism that isn't overtly Christian to them? To them, it MUST be DEMONIC. It MUST be, especially if it has ANYTHING to do with LGBT+ people.

Worse still, they are convinced that educating themselves about anyone or anything that doesn't just reinforce their beliefs would be a threat to their faith, so they actively spurn learning anything about anyone else. In so doing, they trap themselves into this ignorant world view, where they don't understand anything, but they don't have to, because anything they don't understand = DEMONS! SATAN! DEVIL! and so act as though they do, in fact, already have all the answers even though there's not a thing rattling around between their ears. This is a very easy line of thought for them to fall into because it's also the way they think about other parts of their religion. Example:
Ray Comfort: How did matter come into being?
?: We don't know exactly, but we are pretty sure about how the universe came to be shaped how it is.
Ray Comfort: Well, I know how. God made it come into being, and I know that because the Bible says so and the Bible is the Word of God so that's how it happened.
?: How do you know the Bible is the word of god? And how did god do that?
Ray Comfort: Because it is, and He just did.

Proving the veracity of the narrative is irrelevant. It is taken as given that it is true. Evidence doesn't matter. What's important is supporting one's "story."

This isn't necessarily where stupid narratives like "pokemon is demonic" originate, but it IS how such a narrative propagates among believers.

Where did Melody go, @HelIWithoutSin ?
Is she okay?

SoreChasm posted...

Where did Melody go, @HelIWithoutSin ?
Is she okay?

I don't know, my joseph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iupSzQY1pD0&ab_channel=RevEdTrevors
Slight bump but I liked this video on the subject.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Ray Comfort: How did matter come into being?
?: We don't know exactly, but we are pretty sure about how the universe came to be shaped how it is.
Ray Comfort: Well, I know how. God made it come into being, and I know that because the Bible says so and the Bible is the Word of God so that's how it happened.
?: How do you know the Bible is the word of god? And how did god do that?
Ray Comfort: Because it is, and He just did

Which Ray Comfort video is that?

Christians are allowed to be offended in the same way that Muslims are allowed to be offended by anyone disrespecting their prophet.

Of course you can disagree. You can even say "lol all christians who dont say 'god isnt real but just be nice and happy person' are bad".

Gaawa_chan posted...

hey look at that weird headpiece that blue dude is wearing, I've seen stuff like that a lot in Greek mythology," but you do know that "demons exist, gay people bad, gay people and demons! DEMONS AND GAY PEOPLE! TABLES WITH PEOPLE ALONG THEM! MUST BE MOCKING JESUS! MUST BE!"

I don't know, maybe you're right and it was not intended to reference anything Christian at all. And of course some go too far by spreading hatred and bigotry.

Sega9599 posted...

Which Ray Comfort video is that?

*shrug* been over a decades since I listened to that dishonest grifter. It's an argument he regularly used, but I couldn't tell you if he still does.

Christians are allowed to be offended in the same way that Muslims are allowed to be offended by anyone disrespecting their prophet.

Yeah, if it's about them, sure. Too bad it's not.

I don't know, maybe you're right and it was not intended to reference anything Christian at all. And of course some go too far by spreading hatred and bigotry.

But that's literally all this freakout is. By calling the characters in the performance demons, and calling the performance a satanic mockery of The Last Supper out of ignorance, that is an attack against the people who made and performed it. I have no respect for Christians who hate the gays more than they love their neighbor.