Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has reacted to the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony with utter disdain.
The Paris Olympics opening ceremony sparked massive backlash from across the globe after a performance that appeared to be a live parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” - only this time, it was performed by drag queens. Many people reacted with disgust that the Olympics would feature such a perverse mockery of Christianity .
And Butker was one of the vocal ones.
In a post on social media, Butker wrote, “That is crazy” in response to the performance, and proceeded to quote Galatians 6:7-8 which reads: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.”
Thomas Jolly, creative director of the opening ceremony events, defended the performance saying, “Above all, I want this ceremony to include everyone. We must all celebrate this diversity."
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Which is ironic because his video was deeply offensive to many different demographics.
The video has been so widely criticized that it has been taken off the official Olympics YouTube site. The olympic organizers have since come out and claimed the scene was never meant to portray the last supper, but that it was instead intended to be a depiction of an Ancient Greek bacchanal (in other words, a loud, drunken orgy). Of course, the nearly spot-on "Last Supper" imagery - and the fact that the event was billed ahead of time as having been inspired by the Last Supper - are all just coincidences.
Thankfully, Butker has never shied away from his Christian beliefs, as was clear last May when he spoke at Benedictine College and stood firm on the issues of faith, life, and the roles of men and women.
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