28 Disciples, 3 Christs and a Kangaroo

Look, there’s a lot I COULD do.

I COULD point out that parody is not necessarily mockery, that to use a recognisable image and alter it to convey a different meaning is not the same as satirising the meaning of the original image, and that nothing the Olympic opening ceremony did can be automatically assumed to be an attack”.

I COULD observe that The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci, like all paintings of the Last Supper, is a work of art, and that parodying the composition and format of the work is parodying the art, rather than the underlying subject, just as a parody of the Mona Lisa is a parody of a painting, not a parody of a woman.

I COULD muse on the fact that The Last Supper has been the subject of myriad parodies over many years, and that anyone who takes issue with the Olympics opening ceremony doing it, but not with Salvador Dali, Mary Beth Edelson, The Simpsons, Luis Bunuel, Andy Warhol, Mel Brooks, That 70s Show, The X-Files, and so many many many more, is probably being a big fat hypocrite.

I COULD comment that those whining, “Oh you wouldn’t mock ISLAM like this, would you?” should ask themselves if a cultural shift towards Christians responding to mockery of their religion in the same manner as the most extreme of Islamists would be a positive development either for Christianity or the world at large. I might further note that even if you do identify a double standard, you haven’t got an argument unless you state which side of the double standard you’re on, and if your problem isn’t that freedom of speech isn’t more universal, but that religious intolerance should be extended to more targets, you’re not a good guy.

I COULD even reflect on the fact that many people, including those behind the tableau themselves, have made the point that it’s a depiction of a Dionysian feast, not the Last Supper, and that there is actually some decent evidence to support this - not least the presence of, you know, Dionysus.

But I don’t feel like doing any of that. So instead I’ll do this.

AWWWWWWWWW. Poor widdle Chwistians. Did the nasty Fwench tease your pwecious supper? AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. That must be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard for you. Have a nice cwy, poor widdle Chwistians. It’s OK. We won’t let the big bad dwag queens get you.

<SLAP> Now grow the fuck up you whiny little shits.