RE: Humility and Outrage: Why I'm Proud to Be a Heretic

[allentaylor]

As it turns out, since my writing this, organizers have admitted that they were taking shots at the Lord's Supper. Still, my point remains: we ought to be more offended by the sin within than the darkness on the outside.

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[aussieninja]

I'm not sure that's correct:

The opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, said at the Games’ daily news conference on Saturday that the event was not meant to “be subversive, or shock people, or mock people.” On Sunday, Anne Descamps, the Paris 2024 spokeswoman, said at the daily news conference, “If people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really, really sorry.”

Mr. Jolly said on Sunday that he had not been inspired by “The Last Supper.”

“It is Dionysus who arrives at the table,” Mr. Jolly said in a television interview with the French media outlet BFMTV. Dionysus is the Greek god of festivities and wine, and is the father of Sequana, the goddess of the Seine River, he said. “The idea was instead to have a grand pagan festival connected to the gods of Olympus, Olympism,” he added.

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[allentaylor]

https://nypost.com/2024/07/30/sports/paris-olympics-admitted-opening-ceremony-drag-show-was-based-on-last-supper/

[aussieninja]

Oooof. This is a tricky situation. The NYPost uses an unnamed representative while the NY Times uses the event coordinator himself. I'm inclined to believe the named source over the unnamed source, but I guess this is unfortunately where readers themselves need to decide which publication/article is more factual.

Oh, in the NYPost reporting it looks like the unnamed representative made the statement on Saturday but then updated and changed their statement on Monday. NYPost is focusing on the Saturday statement instead of the Monday statement.

[allentaylor]

Yeah, it's difficult to know which is more reliable. I'm inclined to discredit unnamed sources, but there have been times when they were reliable. It could be an instance of fake news trying to cast doubt on real reporting. This is why I'm not inclined to readdress the issue with my content, because I can't be sure the NY Post is accurate. I've tried to corroborate it, but can't seem to find reliable sources that do so. Given that virtually every news agency these days operates on a bias, I don't feel the need to put too much energy into it. My original post stands. Christians need to get off it and move on.