I’m going to reply despite thinking your comment to be entirely devoid of anything interesting just so I can link to the very good article about the opening cer

I’m going to reply despite thinking your comment to be entirely devoid of anything interesting just so I can link to the very good article about the opening ceremony in the sole remaining catholic newspaper in France, La Croix (The Cross for those who are sadly not blessed with French fluency here). Here is its official English translation [1]. Jean-Pascal Gay, a (catholic) historian, put the ceremony in the rich context of references to Da Vinci’Last Supper and its subversion. There is a very interesting passage about what is blasphemy and how iconodulia is actual blasphemy that I think you will enjoy plus a very interesting discussion about the tendency of taking the place of the victim in modern Christianity. It also rightfully points out that the last words of the ceremony are: God reunites those who love each other. which you might have missed. Anyway it’s good for the soul to see that it’s still possible to have an intelligent discussion about this sort of things after reading too many empty comments. [1] https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/olympic-games-is-the-contemporary-tradition-of-parodying-leonardos-last-supper-blasphemous https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/olympic-games-is...