In a video posted to Instagram, Full House and Fuller House actress Candace Cameron Bure has condemned the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics.
via: Page Six
The “Full House” alum initially claimed the production “completely blasphemed and mock[ed] the Christian faith” in a lengthy Instagram Story rant on Saturday.
She called the performance, which many believed to be a recreation of the Last Supper, “disgusting.”
The actress, 48, added, “It made me so sad, and someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad. You should be mad about it.’ I’m like, ‘Trust me, it makes me mad, but I’m more sad because I’m sad for souls.’
“I pray for my heart to break over what breaks God’s heart and I just think about all the people that have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ or don’t know the gospel of Jesus Christ,” she continued.
When the former “The View” co-host posted the video to her feed on Sunday, she clapped back at claims that the drag performance was actually an interpretation of the festival of Dionysus after many people “tried to correct” her.
“[He] is a god of lust, insanity, religious ecstasy, ritual madnes etc.,” she wrote. “I still don’t see how that relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and acceptable for children to watch.”
Bure concluded, “In any case, I’m not buying it.”
Carlos PenaVega commented on the social media upload with clapping emojis.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Nicky Doll took part in the performance, as well as multiple “Drag Race France” winners.
The show’s Season 3 champion, Le Filip, gushed to AP News about the “amaz[ing]” show.
“It felt like a crowning all over again,” she said. “I am proud to see my friends and queer people on the world stage.”
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Harrison Butker, however, made headlines over the weekend for calling the performance “crazy.”
The athlete, 29, posted a Bible verse from Galatians to his Instagram Story over the weekend about how “God is not mocked.”
A Paris 2024 spokesperson assured Page Six “there was never an intention to show disrespect towards any religious group or belief,” saying artistic director Thomas Jolly “took inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting” of the Last Supper — and “is not the first artist” to do so.
Butker’s response came two months after his sexist, anti-LGBTQ commencement speech at Benedictine College in which he referred to women as “homemakers.”
As for Bure, the “Fuller House” alum sparked backlash in 2022 when she described gay marriage as nontraditional to the Wall Street Journal.
Hilarie Burton, Jojo Siwa and more celebs criticized her at the time, with the former calling Bure a “bigot.”
Bure spoke about dealing with “difficult” cancel culture on an episode of the “Unapologetic With Julie Jeffress Sadler” podcast the following year.
“It’s important that we speak truth in love,” she said in 2023. “Listen, nobody’s gonna change, nobody’s gonna listen to you when it comes out angry, when it comes out in a harsh way, but it’s important that we don’t back down.”
That speak truth in love comment from people like her sends me over the edge, because it's condescending and disingenuous. It's like you're trying to read me for points with a smile. So here's me coming down to your level by reading you on your ignorace regarding this subject - bless your heart.
Candace always wants to assert herself in conversations whenever it comes to God, because it keeps her F-list career having behind relevant in the media. Who died and made her God's publicist?
One person's post I came across on Facebook said the following in regards to the performance which was inspired by a painting you can find in the Louvre in Paris: Many things will absolutely offend people who see the world only through the lens of Christianity and whose only reference of knowledge is the Bible. For example, this performance at the Paris Olympics. This is the depiction of Dionysius, the Greek god of wine, festivity, and ritual madness. He embodies the duality of joy and chaos, often associated with ecstatic celebrations. Greek mythology predates Christianity by several centuries. Greeks actually had first dibs on the idea of feasts, suppers, people eating around a table in mythology. Greek god. Olympics. Joy, chaos, ecstatic celebrations. Makes sense. People getting offended and asking why the Last Supper is being mocked at the Olympics. Doesn’t make sense.
Also shout out to my friend Carlos who also said the following: For all the Christians offended by the opening of the Olympics, here it goes in Spanish...
The performance was NOT the Last Supper, it was The Feast of Bacchus, or the Dinner of Bacos, or it is also known as the Feast of the Gods.
The opening of the Olympics was dedicated to Dionysus, god of wine, of partying, of party and everything theatrical. The performance seen on Friday was not of the Last Supper, it was an Agape Dionysian dinner, representing the best of the pagan tradition (eating drinking and getting drunk) of Western culture.
He, was always represented with Ivy growing on him, just like the guy in blue. If you saw it, it didn't look like a table. In fact, it was a massive catwalk for the fashion show that would be held next.
Read and educate yourself my people before posting nonsense🙄. ⭐️⭐️The more you know!!!
The one post that really summed it up for me was one I came across from a pastor by the name of Jacob Whitehead who said the following:
I’m a pastor, and I have something to say.
Christians that get online and spew hate toward nonbelievers anger me much more than nonbelievers spewing hate toward my religion.
I have no idea what the table at the Olympics was supposed to represent, as the official statement contradicts the larger opinion. But what I can say is that every single person at that table would have been invited to Jesus’ table. Jesus not only spent His time on earth with sinners, He invited them to the very table everyone assumes the Olympic table represents.
Matthew was a tax collector.
Peter was about to deny Him.
Thomas was about to doubt His resurrection.
Judas was about to betray Him.
Jesus ate with them anyway.
Jesus was with “sinners” all of the time. In fact, it’s one of the reasons the church people hated Him and wanted Him dead.
Please allow this to serve as a reminder that people who are not Christians are not our responsibility to regulate. Jesus gave us an example to follow of welcoming everyone and pointing them toward the love of Jesus. Remember that God’s kindness is meant to lead us to repentance, not the shouting of His angry “followers.”
This doesn’t mean I condone any religion (especially my own) being mocked. In fact, it is wrong. But my heart doesn’t hurt for what they are doing to Jesus. My heart hurts for people that are likely not in a loving relationship with their Creator. Jesus doesn’t need me to shout about sinners sinning. He wants me to shout about the hope and the love they are missing out on.
Before you share an angry post, or shout at people that Jesus died for, think for a while, and ask yourself if He would do the same. To be honest, you already know the answer. He wouldn’t. He didn’t. He died for them just as much as He died for you. Angrily shouting at people that don’t know Jesus is in direct contradiction to the example He gave us on the cross.
Westboro Baptist sandwich signs should anger you much more than this. Jesus flipped tables on people in the temple, not people outside of it.
Remember that.
I don't know if Christians aren't aware, but Christianity has taken a lot of it's celebrations and teachings from Paganism. Christimas, Easter, even Halloween - a day uppity Christians like to call dark-sided are all Pagan celebrations.
This is also why no one likes her or her lunatic brother Kirk.
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