Candace Cameron Bure was saddened by drag performers at the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony appearing to recreate the Last Supper.
“It felt too important not to [speak up], and I love the Olympic Games. My husband, Val Bure, is a two-time Olympic medalist, my brother-in-law is also a medalist, and my father-in-law is a three-time Olympic medalist,” Cameron Bure, 48, said in an Instagram video on Sunday, July 28.
“I have many friends who have competed in the Games over the years, and as a kid, I always loved the Olympics… they have always brought me so much joy.”
“To watch such an incredible event that will take place over the next two weeks and see the opening ceremonies complexly blaspheme and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper was disgusting,” she continued. “It’s the best of the best athletes in the world competing for the title.”
Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper, showing Jesus Christ and his apostles seated at a long table. It was assumed that this lunch would be his last before he passed away. At the inaugural ceremony on Friday, July 26, it seemed as though some drag performers were assuming the roles of the apostles.
The dancers’ purported “mocking” of Cameron Bure’s religion demoralized her.
Someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad,’ and it made me really sad. The Full House alum said, “You ought to be furious about it. “Believe me, it aggravates me, but the real reason I’m sad is that I’m sad for souls.” I just think of all the people who have rejected or are unaware of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I pray for my heart to break over what hurts God’s heart.
“God is not mocked for whatever a person sows, he will also reap because the one who sows… will reap destruction from the flesh,” the Bible states in Galatians.
Some supporters of the Olympics saw the image as a depiction of the Greek celebration of Dionysus.
“[Dionysus] is a god of lust, insanity, religious ecstasy, ceremonial craziness [and] I still don’t understand how that relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and suitable for children to watch,” Cameron Bure wrote in a social media caption. “Anyway, I don’t think that makes sense.”
Kicker Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs, whose statements during a commencement address in May gained national attention due to his Christian convictions, expressed his distaste of the performance.
Butker, 29, sent a message on Instagram Story on Friday, calling it “crazy” and citing the same Bible passage that Cameron Bure used to criticize God.
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