Was it, or wasn’t it?  That’s the question people worldwide were asking about one scene in the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Was it a mockery of DaVinci’s painting of the Last Supper or, as the opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly insisted, simply a celebration of pagan gods?

So, we can rejoice that it wasn’t a mockery of Christianity, but a celebration of pagan gods, which is a mockery of Christianity.

The fact that culture and society in 2024 France might mock and trivialize the Last Supper shouldn’t be shocking.

What I found shocking was the fact that nobody seemed disturbed that the Olympic Committee would find it acceptable to mock and trivialize the murder of a woman. Even, if that murder happened over two hundred years ago.

Thomas Jolly insisted “Most of all, I wanted to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not at all to divide.”

I’m not sure that Marie Antoinette would have felt that her beheading was a celebration of love or inclusion. 

The message that many of us heard during the opening ceremony was that you are only included and loved if you are like us, and any other view is divisive. 

Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.