ESPN’s Pat McAfee has joined the chorus of voices condemning Olympic organizers over a satanic and blasphemous opening ceremony program created by an activist French artist.
Last Friday’s opening ceremony featured dance performances set across Paris, including scenes in the streets, inside famous historical buildings, on bridges spanning the Seine, and on the river itself. But while the dance scenes featured plenty of LGBTQ “representation,” it was the fashion show and catwalk scenes that drew the most criticism, for their apparent parody of “The Last Supper,” a famous painting of Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Eventually, organizers issued a non-committal apology and removed the videos of the various dance numbers and catwalk scenes from YouTube.
Three days later, McAfee jump in According to Mediaite, the song was created to denounce Olympic organizers for delivering a satanic opening number.
McAfee spoke about Thomas Jolly, the gay artist who conceived and directed the opening number.
“There are a lot of people who aren’t watching the Olympics because of the opening ceremony,” the host said on Monday’s broadcast. “I learned a lot over the weekend about this guy, Thomas Joly. I think we all did, but what I didn’t read or see is that he doesn’t care about sports at all. So I think that’s the biggest thing. People who love sports need to be at sporting events.”
Pat McAfee talks about the Olympic Opening Ceremony:
“We want it to revolve around sport. We cannot allow the opening ceremony to be the reason people don’t watch the athletes who sacrificed everything…”pic.twitter.com/iWupJmUDq6
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 29, 2024
McAfee agreed that “some French history has to be told,” but insisted the piece had little to do with sports.
“We want it to revolve around sports,” he said, “and the Opening Ceremony shouldn’t be the reason people don’t see the athletes who sacrifice everything in their lives to be successful at something and only get to experience and celebrate it once every four years.”
The ceremony has been the subject of much criticism in the United States and other countries.
At about the same time, one of the Olympics’ US advertisers pulled its ads, citing blasphemous content, after C Spire deemed the dance number a shocking “mockery” of Christians.
Various religious leaders, including French bishops, also condemned the conference.
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