WaPo’s Sally Jenkins Calls Artist Behind Olympic ‘Last Supper’ Display a ‘Truer Worshiper’ than Christian Critics

A columnist for the Washington Post blasted Christians on Thursday over their outrage at the highly controversial program seen last week during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Sally Jenkins took to her column almost a week after the videos from Paris riled Christians the world over for what many concluded was
WaPo’s Sally Jenkins Calls Artist Behind Olympic ‘Last Supper’ Display a ‘Truer Worshiper’ than Christian Critics

A columnist for the Washington Post blasted Christians on Thursday over their outrage at the highly controversial program seen last week during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Sally Jenkins took to her column almost a week after the videos from Paris riled Christians the world over for what many concluded was a depiction of the Christian-themed Leonard DaVinci painting, “The Last Supper,” but with gay and transgender models and drag queens replacing Christ and his disciples.

Jenkins, though, is not at all sympathetic to those who feel their religion was mocked. Indeed, she thinks those mocking are better Christians than those who feel aggrieved.

“All the religious police see are phantom insults,” Jenkins exploded on Christians.

She went on to say that the notoriously gay entertainer and director who fashioned the opening ceremony numbers, Frenchman Thomas Jolly, is a better Christian than his critics.

“Perhaps, just perhaps, Jolly is a better, truer worshiper than his critics. At the least, he did something they have failed to do: He saw faces and framed them with interest, rather than hostility,” Jenkins bloviated.

Jenkins then ascribes to the left’s claims that the catwalk sequence Jolly devised was not a depiction of “The Last Supper.”

“That drag queen sequence was meant to refer, like Delville, to Greek pagan celebrations — not, as some Christian leaders insist, to mock Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper,’” she wrote.

Jenkins then insisted that anyone who opposes Thomas Jolly’s controversial program is an art hater like those who have attacked art in the past.

“Why some church leaders are so often hostile to experimental art and treat it as anti-faith is an unanswerable question. But it’s certainly not a modern phenomenon,” Jenkins growled, adding, “Those flogging the Opening Ceremonies over one fleeting pagan tableau in a spellbinding four-hour ceremony belong to the same dry line of self-appointed judges left in the dust of history who misjudged works in their own day for not being properly venerating.”

She concluded, “Critics of the Opening Ceremonies certainly have paid attention to all the wrong things.”

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston, or Truth Social @WarnerToddHuston

Total
0
Shares
Leave a Reply
Related Posts

Mike Johnson, other pols cheer Columbia president Minouche Shafik’s shocking resignation: ‘Long overdue’

Republican politicians applauded embattled Columbia University president Minouche Shafik’s sudden resignation Wednesday — with some accusing the scholar of allowing antisemitism to run rampant on the Ivy League campus. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Shafik’s resignation was “long overdue” and comes four months after he encouraged her to step down from the job. “As
Keir Starmer to hold crisis talks with police chiefs in No10 after second night of violence following Southport knife attack – with over 100 thugs arrested, police cars torched and more officers injured
Read More

Keir Starmer to hold crisis talks with police chiefs in No10 after second night of violence following Southport knife attack – with over 100 thugs arrested, police cars torched and more officers injured

Keir Starmer is holding crisis talks with police today after a second night of rioting following the Southport knife attack. The PM has summoned chiefs to No10 as thugs again took to the streets in  London , Hartlepool and Manchester. In the capital, more than 100 people were arrested after crowds in Whitehall launched beer cans