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Not any significant or important number of them.
You can think what you want. I do believe there was an outrage seen throughout the world but you go right ahead and think what you want.
There wasn’t really, though.
Yes there was lots of non Christians that didn't appreciate it either. This will be the last time we talk.
 
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I see no reason to censor words like "transgender", "drag" or "naked".
Believe it or not....some people find those words offensive...don't ask me why.
 
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I don't think it is sad at all. The French are not sad about it. I have spent a good bit of time in France and have French friends. I think Catholicism has become something of an irrelevance to them.

Church buildings are often neglected with their little congregations struggling to keep them maintained. Even their great cathedrals suffer in this way. I don't quite see how the 50% Christian figure was calculated. It might be the figure the Catholic Church puts out - a wildly optimistic figure in my view.
It's such shame since France produced so many Saints in the Catholic Church and has beautiful Cathedrals such as Notre Dame and Chates Cathedral which I visited personally. The Sainte-Chapelle chapel is incredibly gorgeous and remains, in my memory, as being the most gorgeous building I've ever visited. Such a beautiful country with a beautiful culture.
 
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Why the attack on Christianity ?
I reckon we are getting closer to the end times & these Satanic cults are becoming desperate to drag our souls away from God.


This is a video about Paris Olympics Mocks Christianity With Demonic Opening Ceremony.


It all stinks :mad:
Imagine if they attacked Muslims or Homosexuals!

How would the left react!

There would be a HUGE outcry and boycott.

tsk tsk tsk
 
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What does outrage about 5 minutes of a theatrical performance in poor taste accomplish?

Something tells me when this life is over, we aren't going to be judged by how outraged we were at the Olympics.
The same could be said concerning any outrage at all over most things, like Trump overstating the value of his apartment or Vance saying something about people who don't have children holding office.

When this life is over we aren't going to be judged by how outraged we were at a VP nominee.

I do believe I addressed this earlier and how I feel about it. I'm not outraged at all. I'll ket God deal with the offenders who mock his son without repentance.

I mean I can certainly acknowledge how wildly inappropriate and perverted it was. That's just speaking the truth. But I'm not personally offended.
 
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Why the blue guy ? Blue bloods like Royalty maybe or a representation of their ancestors ' The Nephilim' ???

a blue guy.jpg


 
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True, and honestly, the real Last Supper would not have been in a fancy building as depicted in Da Vinci's art. But yes, my tongue was firmly in my cheek, but it is true. Let people be free to bring religious symbols into the games. I am for freedom of religion. In fact, let the Muslim athletes wear hijabs, if they so choose to wear one. Thought that France is supposed to be a free country.

Quote from The Guardian: "In June, a coalition of groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International wrote to the International Olympic Committee condemning the ban and urging IOC intervention. 'The bans imposed by the French sports authorities are discriminatory and prevent Muslim athletes who decide to wear the hijab from exercising their human right to play sport without discrimination of any kind,” the letter said. “The bans also fly in the face of the human rights requirements for host countries and the IOC Strategic Framework on Human Rights, as well as being antithetical to the fundamental principles of Olympism.'"

French athletes banned from wearing hijabs:
If the participants of the Olympic Games want to mingle and trade cultural and religious traditions that most of the probably practice, that’s great!

But keep it out of sight, not that it’s “shameful”, but taking pride in believing in the “correct” religion to the point where one needs to work it into everyday conversation, or, in this case, a Medals ceremony, could look kinda “pushy” to people who believe in the “incorrect” religions, and be seen as needlessly agitating.
 
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Believe it or not....some people find those words offensive...don't ask me why.
It's 2024. For just about anything, you'll find someone who finds it offensive. If you're going to self-censor for "some people", might as well not say anything at all.
 
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Imagine if they attacked Muslims or Homosexuals!

How would the left react!

There would be a HUGE outcry and boycott.
Must be sobering for conservative Christians to realize their views put them squarely in the minority on social issues, unlike the views of people mentioned above.
 
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But even still, pretty anti-Christian for a statue like this to exist.
Why is that! If someone made a statue of you could then your Christianity be judged by the statue you had nothing to do with? So now are we to conclude that all of the radicals who are tearing down and defacing historical statues are really crusaders for Christ in disguise? Your above statement is not supported by scripture.
 
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Nothing personal about it, or religious. It is bible 101
Pretty sure “God will make Christians authoritarian rulers of earth” is in my Bible.
 
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You can think what you want. I do believe there was an outrage seen throughout the world but you go right ahead and think what you want.
Thanks for the permission.
Yes there was lots of non Christians that didn't appreciate it either.
Again, you just want to be mad. Be mad. But it doesn’t change the fact that the tableau was inspired by something having zero to do with TLS, which is not a religious item or relevant to Christian practice, and this whole “worldwide outrage by even non-Christians” was something a few people who clearly don’t know their art history were mad about for a brief moment. You make it sound like people took to the streets and burned Olympic flags, but that didn’t happen.

And I think it wasn’t a manifestation of “I’m mad about this art being mocked because it’s about Christianity,” it’s a manifestation of the homophobia and “ITS DRAG QUEENS I’M BIG MAD.” Nevermind that drag queens have been depicted in popular, mainstream media for literal decades without a single person caring, a group of people got together and said “let’s get out followers frothing around the mouth about this” and then proceeded to wind them up and now they just freak out about anything. People have satires The Last Supper a gajillion times without an issue, but involve the people you’ve been conditioned to be afraid of and suddenly, even though that’s not what they were going for, that’s what people see and sends them into a tailspin,
This will be the last time we talk.
Oh no.
 
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Must be sobering for conservative Christians to realize their views put them squarely in the minority on social issues, unlike the views of people mentioned above.
So do you conclude the majority is always right?
 
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If the participants of the Olympic Games want to mingle and trade cultural and religious traditions that most of the probably practice, that’s great!

But keep it out of sight, not that it’s “shameful”, but taking pride in believing in the “correct” religion to the point where one needs to work it into everyday conversation, or, in this case, a Medals ceremony, could look kinda “pushy” to people who believe in the “incorrect” religions, and be seen as needlessly agitating.
So then keep the woke drag stuff out of sight. It has become a cult.
 
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Why is that! If someone made a statue of you could then your Christianity be judged by the statue you had nothing to do with? So now are we to conclude that all of the radicals who are tearing down and defacing historical statues are really crusaders for Christ in disguise? Your above statement is not supported by scripture.
Well, I am not a fan of Trump or the left either (I'm a centrist, one of a rare type of people). But, we can both agree that this was the worst Olympics in the history of the games.
 
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It's 2024. For just about anything, you'll find someone who finds it offensive. If you're going to self-censor for "some people", might as well not say anything at all.
If it is 2024 now, imagine what 2034 would be. People are gonna identify as objects or animals by then. Or, people will become transracial

Some people are gonna say, "I identify as a genderqueer tire" or "I identify as a nonbinary veteran", or a Korean man turns himself into a black man in the 2030s.
 
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If it is 2024 now, imagine what 2034 would be. People are gonna identify as objects or animals by then. Or, people will become transracial

Some people are gonna say, "I identify as a genderqueer tire" or "I identify as a nonbinary veteran", or a Korean man turns himself into a black man in the 2030s.
Youre being silly. Trans people have been among us forever in every culture. Some cultures recognized it. Others rejected them. Nothing new here.
 
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Youre being silly. Trans people have been among us forever in every culture. Some cultures recognized it. Others rejected them. Nothing new here.
Yeah, but it has gotten worse over the past 5 years. That stuff belongs in the privacy of one's own home. :)
 
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