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In reply to the discussion: It Was NOT The Last Supper... [View all]UTUSN
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In the past few years I’ve been studying via The University of YouTube, a very large component of which has been modern scholarship of the emergence of Christianity, which turns on its head what we all grew up with. A main thread has been how both Testaments were written in a particularly Greek world, with the literary models of Homer, myths and legends being rewritten into the Bible. So the French put on their spectacular show incorporating educated, literary references including the one that uneducated wingnut fundamentalists (who are very UNchristian) think supposedly mocks the Last Supper. I had already seen a dozen or more videos about Dionysus being one of the several gods of some different cultures that Jesus was based on (death and resurrection), last suppers and bread/wine. So, no, today’s outraged “christians” are wrong again about THEIR being mocked. Now, the part with the beheaded Marie Antoinette might be justified as her representing symbolically the threat to democracy, am looking at Kathy GRIFFIN's posing with Drumpf's head.
So there’s a BBC clip with a panel (all Brits), excoriating over this “last supper” their ancient enemies, the French, one dude calling them “obnoxious, rude, stupid, started the Vietnam war, never funny” and more. Actually for a couple of centuries after 1066 the “Brits” were Normans and spoke French. And modern Brits put a distance between themselves and Americans, saying, “We are Europeans.”
My takeaway impressions were the erudite references of the whole spectacle, Celine’s pulling off the performance after all we’ve heard has been how ill she has been, and how the French merely stand with simple dignity for La Marsellaise with their hands at their sides and only put the hand to heart at the end while American civilians do hand-heart throughout the anthem.
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