Former Fuller House star Candace Cameron Bure isn’t holding back when it comes to how she really feels about the opening ceremony at the 2024 Paris Olympics. After a performance on July 26 appeared to recreate the famous painting The Last Supper with drag queens taking part, Candace took to Instagram to share how “disgusted” she was, even going so far as to accuse the performance of blasphemy.
The opening ceremony, which featured drag queens sitting together at a long table as they’re joined by ancient Greek god Dionysus, has created a lot of buzz online, both from those who loved it and those who weren’t feeling it. There are also people who are deeply offended by it and believe that it was intended to mock Christianity by depicting the famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, which shows the artist’s interpretation of Jesus announcing that one of his apostles will betray him.
As CBS reported, Anne Descamps, the spokesperson for the 2024 Olympics, apologized and attempted to clarify what artistic director Thomas Jolly was trying to accomplish with the scene.
“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. On the contrary, I think Thomas Jolly, we really did try to celebrate community tolerance,” she said. “Looking at the result of the polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense we are, of course, really, really sorry.”
However, some people are still outraged by the whole thing, and Candace is one of them.
Candace, who has always been open about her faith and opinions, shared a video on Instagram with her thoughts on the performance, which she called “disgusting.”
“It made me so sad, and someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad. You should be mad about it.’ I’m like, ‘Trust me, it makes me mad, but I’m more sad because I’m sad for souls,'” she said. “I pray for my heart to break over what breaks God’s heart and I just think about all the people that have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ or don’t know the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
She also responded to those pointing out that the performance was meant to center on Dionysus, not The Last Supper, in her Instagram caption.
“Since posting, many have tried to correct me saying it wasn’t about an interpretation of DaVinci’s The Last Supper, but a Greek god and the festival of Dionysus; who is a god of lust, insanity, religious ecstasy, ritual madnes etc. I still don’t see how that relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and acceptable for children to watch. In any case, I’m not buying it,” she wrote.
Her Instagram comments were filled with messages from followers who disagreed with her take.
One person wrote: “You do realize that only a small percent of the world is Christian right? There’s a ton of other religions. And gasp the Olympics, who started in Greece, would do something based on Greek mythology! How hard is that to comprehend? The world does not revolve around you or your religion.”
“Oh honey,” another commenter wrote. “Learn your history. Study literature. You are offended by what you don’t understand. There was no mocking of God.”
