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I'm not religious either but I find this revolting. A bit of a piss-take by a comedian, poking fun at religions, is fine. This- is NOT fine. It's a complete mockery of both Christianity and women.

I've never bought the whole 'be kind and inclusive' shit either. That simply means allow the boundaries of what's decent and acceptable to be pushed further and further towards debauchery...and people are too scared to speak out and decry it for what it is. This is where the rot begins...then continues to fester until it becomes the new normal.

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i hate the way art is always used as a means of justifying doing things that upset people. Whilst good art evokes strong feeling, why is it always the bad ones these people want to focus on? Compassion should win out over controversial every time.

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Why choose to parody such a beautiful story? Whatever your belief system, a man facing a horrendous death and knowing that it’s going to happen - yet having one last meal with his friends beforehand - is a moving image. It’s also about courage, self-sacrifice, loyalty, love and humility. Why mock that, of all images?

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They said it was to allow for ‘reflection’ but I would say it was to provoke a reaction. Whether this was done with just this intention ‘to get people talking’ or with a more sinister intention of dark spelling, is up for further speculation and analysis.

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BECAUSE THEY ARE EVIL

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I like the way you witness this, and would agree with your poetic findings. It seems a lot of effort has been put into the pantomime to intentionally divide and rule, also distract.

I bet most of the general public think this was more like a woke symbolic inverted pantomime, I know I do. The 'land of Saint Joan and yes depiction of the Pagan god Dionysus as a clown'. But is this not like politics, Trump or Johnson both clowns for those who follow the clown project, even trump being a galactic commander from the future to save the world.

The pagans like the horned god of wine, Bacchus supposedly a blue guy covered in grape vine. He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure. But lets invert this with trans wokeism and insult the Pagans

You couldn't make this shit up, although corporate sponsorship, think tanks, the Olympic committee, governments and controllers can invert almost everything in this specific pantomime. A bit like all the beds and death sequences in the last Olympics art predicting what was about to happen.

Yes it is easy to laugh and maybe we should, but this inversion and psychological grooming of the mind, is mostly disturbing. But it can be disguised and passed off as art and it is all well and good getting the popcorn out and laughing at such a spectacle, but the bigger picture looks as sinister as it gets...

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I think public opinion is probably split. It’s easy to assume she in the company of likeminded people, that that is the case but I have heard other people say they enjoyed it and thought it did a good job at showcasing ‘diversity’ in an artistic way.

Those of us sensitive to dark energies , as you say do not see them as isolated events but one of several ways we are being targeted. Marina Abramović At Glastonbury for example.

It’s interesting to mention the inversion and maybe by having all those trans people on the stage they want to open up conversations around whether they should compete in female categories.

But to pitch it by means of this spectacle automatically applies a bias.

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Yes good point, public opinion is probably split, however that I think is the desired outcome, for distraction or divide and rule

I also think it is blatant that much is not from isolated events but one of several ways we are being targeted.

We, as in you, me and some may create reality so those in positions of power with an agenda will pitch their criminal or Machiavellian intent by all means possible. Big 'ostentatious spectacle' automatically applies a bias and if that bias can be slit, helping the divide and rule program gains power

I have been looking into pattern recognition, I and others might only notice patterns that fit our expectations and overlook those that don’t, leading to faulty or misleading predictions or divide and rule.

Understanding that we are socially conditioned with biases and nudge psychology can help us develop strategies to avoid impact of scripted emotional influences.

However pattern-recognition biases can be very useful, if discerning and looking at a subject or happening from more than one angle, it can cut out lots of nonsense and misdirection. Also when you are coherently in realise that politics, corporate greed and nefarious organisations have misled humanity since time began, to benefit a few

Right now we are being bombarded with disturbing scripted events that have many hidden and blatant meanings. Especially in heavily funded situations that are driven by agendas to reshape mainstream flow and unquestioning obedience. So control systems make it a trend, where those who follow are the heroes and those who object are the villains. While those divided are busy policing each other, the control systems are less hindered to do stuff covertly.

Some people are very good at observation, discernment, creative translation, and pattern recognition bias. Even better if they have no agenda and wish to live an authentic, sovereign and fair life with opportunity and adventure. I have begun to think it is useful to recognise a pattern and if that is an unhealthy oppressive pattern to challenge, change, break or walk away from it.

I think it is obvious that humanity is waking up from unquestioning compliance and witnessing the pattern of a long history of oppression, by the few and at the expense of many. Right now the few are very frightened of humanity awakening to the power they have within to be sovereign and question them. Today it is more difficult just to kill, imprison and sanction them or manufacture a world for a cull. I think pattern recognition bias can be very useful, if it is fair, or a blatant pattern that is visible...

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"If there’s a gold medal for being dark, insensitive and inappropriate, France, hands down, you take it." YES.

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My question is why they are so threatened by Jesus question if they don’t believe in Christianity or Jesus from the Bible, then move on. Why make a big world statement about some thing you don’t believe.

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They say (I don’t believe them) they wanted to open up conversations, but by framing it in the way they did they automatically get people’s backs up, make a lot of people defensive and upset.

It was very distasteful and some would say meant to be more than that, darker still.

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It was an adversarial move which to me shows they are very frightened by the very thing they attack. So inappropriate 🙈

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Thank you friend 🙏🏻

We shouldn't have to write this right? ox

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I’m sorry that as a Christian you had to endure this x

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I only felt sad for them and most of all for any children watching. Self-serving grownups ruining young minds. It's nothing new under the sun... but now, more than ever, on public display. "Art" as you say. We see it. We know it's twisted.

I thank God for that internal truth. And thank you 🙏🏻😘

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Whether it is a done with nefarious/satanic intention or just to be ‘edgy’, neither justify it. It saddens people.

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I agree.

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Diversity or division? There’s a fine line.

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Indeed. Was it an exercise in box ticking gone to far and edgy ‘art’ or deliberately antagonistic?

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A degenerate, divisive freak show. It was far too good an opportunity to let pass wasn’t it. Most people knew it would be packed full of dark symbolism and were proved right

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Yes, I deliberately didn’t go down the route of dissecting that because it is harder to substantiate but it was most certainly sinister.

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What was creepy about the 2012 Olympic ceremony? My French family much preferred it, and it was voted their favourite of all; I agree.

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I think people saw it as a very dark vibe and in retrospect many thought it looked symbolic of world events that followed it.

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If you didn't think 2012 was creepy I can't help you.

Too far gone

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While I sympathize with your viewpoint, your interpretation is not correct. The scene in question wasn’t about the Last Supper at all. It was a portrayal of a Greek Bachannalia, and a parody of the “other” French competition: fashion. Of course who better to parody that than drag queens?

Does knowing this change your views? Or are you still hung up on being offended that marginalized people got so much attention? I think it was all in a spirit of fun, so — people can either go with the flow or take a detour to a darker spot. That’s the way I see it, after I learned the facts.

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I wrote a substack note on this actually this morning. Whether it was or wasn’t it doesn’t change my views because the upshot was the same - it upset a lot of people and they knew it would do this. Knew it would be controversial. So why do that? Why deliberately offend a massive segment of your audience?

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Love this! 💯

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"But was a large public event supposedly for everyone, the right place to do it?"

Exactly, I am practising Catholic and I don't get easily offended. The problem is this was made in a show that was supporting "inclusivity" (though some were clearly excluded) and paid with public funds, so the people they were actually mocking with the scene have paid for being mocked. I don't think that is really logical.

Anyway, the image of all the countries following the horse with that creepy rider was shocking and really disgusting too.

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Yes it was all levels of creepy.

Make light of what you want but not at an event supposedly meant to appeal to all.

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I am starting to wonder if the wokesters have overdone it this time. We've been bombarded for years with accusations of our evil bigotry against...well...everyone who is not white, male, heterosexual.

But the Olympics are ideally above all that, focused as it is supposed to be on excellence, althleticism, etc. Could it be that this display of outright hateful mockery of Christianity is among the final straws?!

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I think with every new low we wonder will this be ‘the tipping point’.

I don’t believe there is a tipping point as such more a gradual realisation. A collection of ‘aha’ moments individuals have that together contribute to a mass consciousness.

I try not to buy into the them and us rhetorics with labels like ‘normies’,’wokers’, ‘truthers’ etc as it is my hope that people of all backgrounds come together to find common ground rather than stay in their ‘group’.

But I would definitely concede that Christianity sometimes seems easier pickings than other religions, and I do also see the efforts to erode the white, heterosexual male. This leads to unfortunate situations where dodgy people offer themselves up as ‘heroes’.

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That admirably fair-minded. I hope such sentiments can seep into the wider culture. But the accusation-fatigue I am feeling seems to be growing. Some people I know are tired being called racist and are starting to think, "ok, I guess I'm a racist. Might as well act like one!" This is not good.

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Dark times make dark minds; or is it, dark minds make dark times?

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So you think it creepy but can’t explain why.

Got it.

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Oh I can

Satanic images. Angry images, angry music

SATAN USES THIS

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Kinda like “artistic” trolling- good article, good points, great discussion in the comments.

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