The sixth-largest company in the United States, a telecommunications and technology company named C Spire, has announce that it is yanking all of its ads from the coverage of the Olympics broadcast by NBC over the opening ceremony of the event, which many argue mocked Christianity.<\/p>\n
As background,\u00a0the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris<\/a>\u00a0saw a mocking rendition of the Last Supper, the dramatic time when Jesus broke bread and shared wine with his disciples before being arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, scourged by Pontius Pilate, and crucified on Calvalry Hill.<\/p>\n The mocking Olympics of rendition, which was based on the famous Da Vinci painting of the Last Supper, saw drag queens and transgender performers reenacting the Last Supper while seated in the same formation, with an odd number of young children sprinkled amongst the performers, which many argued was highly inappropriate.<\/p>\n In addition to the Last Supper mockery, the opening ceremony referenced the book of Revelation, in what appeared to be a mocking display, with a white horseman, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, riding across water with a pyrotechnics display in the background. That rider signifies death, making it all the weirder.<\/p>\n C-Spire then yanked its advertising of the event within 24 hours of the shocking display. Doing so, it\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter), \u201cWe were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n Commenters on the post thanked it for doing so, saying things\u00a0like<\/a>, \u201cHave never been more proud of a company. Thank you for representing the values of your customers\u201d\u00a0and<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTHANK YOU!\u00a0\ud83d\ude4f\u00a0As a Mississippian, I already know what you stand for, and now I know what you value. Together, this is how we win. It\u2019s us vs [them]\u2014good vs evil. May we all continue to stand for what is right\u2014thank you for leading the way on the corporate front. :)\u201d<\/p>\n Other Christians and horrified viewers spoke out about the sickening display as well. \u201cI think, folks, what\u2019s interesting here is this deeply secularist, post-modern society<\/span>\u00a0knows who its enemy is. They\u2019re naming it. And we should believe them. They\u2019re telling us who they are. We should believe them. But furthermore, we Christians, we Catholics, should not be sheepish. We should resist, we should make our voices heard,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester.<\/span><\/p>\n