"Conservatives thought they saw a sacrilegious mockery of the Last Supper. But that's not what it was about at all."Here's another thing to consider, beyond what that article talks about: how do we know that the so-called Last Supper itself (as depicted by Da Vinci or otherwise) actually
wasn't a bacchanal to begin with? It certainly wouldn't be the first time a pagan practice has been (mis)appropriated by Christianity, after all. Like how Christmas was originally
Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (see also: Saturnalia). Christians just took that and replaced Sol Invictus with Jesus Christ. Oh, and let's not forget the old Norse ritual of Yule, and how the Christians just took that and replaced Odin with
Santa ClausJesus Christ (and rolled it up together with Christmas). Like how Easter was originally all about the goddess Ēostre (or, alternatively, Astarte/Ishtar, depending on who you talk to, though this seems to have been discredited now). Christians just took that and replaced Ēostre with
the Easter BunnyJesus Christ. And so on and so forth. There's a
whole lot of pagan shit into which Christians have merely shoehorned Jesus Christ, with varying degrees of success. It's all
pretty easy to Google, as a starting point. So, yeah, how do we know that the story/concept of the "Last Supper" isn't a similarly co-opted-from-paganism kind of thing as well? All we (
ostensibly) know as "fact" is that Jesus supposedly had a final meal with his disciples. How do we know for certain (assuming that this "fact" of the Last Supper is actually true at all) that they didn't actually have a big ol' freaky party as well? *shrug* As far as the "myth" of it goes, maybe Biblical writers just later took the idea of the bacchanal and replaced Bacchus/Dionysus with Jesus Christ, in this case (and "toned it down" as necessary), same as with all that other pagan stuff that was incorporated into Christianity. (And besides, while I'm on the subject, Bacchus/Dionysus was depicted as turning water into wine long before copycat Jesus ever came along, after all. And that's
not the only thing that Jesus blatantly copied from Dionysus [and many others], either.)
In
any case, even ignoring all of the above, why
the fuck would Christians watching the Olympics in 2024 see a bacchanal and
immediately go "
That's the Last Supper!" anyway? I mean, sure, I can easily see them getting their undies bunched up over the bacchanal, because, y'know,
it's a bacchanal, but the near instant association of it with the Last Supper? What.
My take on all this Olympics bacchanal/Last Supper shit, just in general, is this:
fuck Christianity, same as always (I had originally [before pre-post editing] just written "fuck religion" there, but this is some Christian-specific bullshit). Or, at the very least, fuck all the
dumbshit parts of Christianity which empower Christians with the asinine self-entitlement to feel extremely pissy over stupid, trivial, petty shit, such as belligerently confusing this 2024 Olympics opening ceremony bacchanal thing with their precious fucking Last goddamned Supper or whatever. Not to mention their asininely self-entitled, extreme pissiness over all of the
not stupid,
not trivial,
not petty things that they love to get extremely pissy about. Like, say, the very existence of LGBT people. Or like, say, a woman's right to do whatever the hell she wants with her own body. Or like, say, the fact that roughly two-thirds of the country thinks that their chosen God King (i.e. Donald Trump[1]) is actually a fetid brick of criminal shit, who knows only a single thing about the Bible, which is that he can
hold it up like a talisman and apparently magic too many Christians into just
instantaneously falling in line with his deceitful dogshit, the same way people hold up crucifixes to ward off vampires, (And, I mean, if God was actually
real and the Bible actually
was imbued with His essence or whatever, it would almost assuredly cause Donald Trump to instantly be struck by lightning and spontaneously combust and probably turned into a pillar of salt or whatever the fuck, if he ever so much as came within ten feet of a Bible.)
For that matter, I'm somewhat surprised that Christians don't get way more pissy about the Olympics,
just in general. After all, it's right there in the fucking name. Olympics. As in, you know, the Olympian gods, like Zeus? There isn't a damn thing that is Christian about the Olympics and
how they originally came to be.
(Also, apparently, depicting a
fucking bacchanal, of all things, is yet another thing that is "woke" now? Go fucking figure. "Woke" absolutely is utterly fucking meaningless now.)
[1] - Who, by the way, also felt the need to
spew some diarrhea out of his puckered face-anus about the Olympics opening ceremony, because
of course he did. *eye roll*
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