I am a Jew, not a Christian. Yet I found loathsome the mockery of the Last Supper—one of the holiest scenes in the New Testament—during the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
In fact, it is actually troubling to constantly read the words, “Many Christians are offended”—as if only Christians are offended by France’s and the International Olympic Committee’s mockery of Jesus’ Last Supper scene.
Indeed, if only Christians were offended, there is little hope for civilization.
But we live in the age of groupthink, in which only members of targeted groups are expected to be offended. To write that Christians were offended by what just transpired in Paris would be as if one were to write, “blacks were offended” by slavery, or “Jews are offended” by Islamic attempts to eradicate Israel, or “women are offended” by the rape of women.
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