John Cooper of Skillet Whines About Last Supper Tableaux in Olympics Opening Ceremony
Wasn’t that Olympics opening ceremony amazing? While most metalheads were focused on Gojira’s spectacular performance, most Christians are getting their panties in a twist over one section of the ceremony that they think parodied Leonardo DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” and, by extension, Christianity somehow. The segment featured a tableaux of drag queens and dancers gathered around a table and a naked blue dude on a serving tray with fruit. It was weird, but it was interpretive art for the Olympics. It’s supposed to be weird.
Well, unfortunately, one of the people mouthing off about the segment is the last person you wanted to read a news story about on a Monday morning: John Cooper of Chrisian metal act Skillet. Cooper posted a video on Instagram (as transcribed by Blabbermouth) in which he went on a long diatribe against the display:
“For all the people that are always saying it’s so polarized, we gotta get along, everybody stop yelling at each other, we just gotta agree we all want the same things. Do we, though? Do we?“Let me explain this to you. This is what tolerance looks like in the new world. According to all of these global elites that want to change all of Western civilization and remake the world in their image, this is the way tolerance works for them. You sit down to watch the Olympics with your kids. They’re going to start the show with drag queens who come out and mock Christianity. They’re going to mock the number one largest faith in the world. They’re gonna mock it on TV in front of the whole world.
“The way that tolerance works is this: if you’re sitting with your kids and you go, ‘What the heck’s going on? I don’t want my kids watching drag queens. That’s not my values.’ If that’s what you say, well, then you’re a bad person. You need to change. You’re old school. You’re the person that is causing all the hate in the world and they gotta shut you up. At the same time, the way tolerance works in the new world is that it’s okay for the drag queens to mock Christianity. Christianity is okay to mock. All right? So they can do whatever they want to, but you can’t.
“You see, this isn’t normal. This is not normal. It’s not the world that I wanna live in. I don’t think it’s the world that most people in the Western civilization wanna live in.
“They are, in fact, coming after your kids, because the global elites are perverts. They are coming after your kids. The question is, what are you gonna do about it? Are we gonna stop watching? Are you gonna stop watching? Say, ‘No, we’re not doing that.’
“What in the world does sexuality have to do with the Olympic Games? Can we just leave your sexuality out of the opening for the Olympics? Something we all try to do together around the world, and they make it a celebration of sexuality. That should tell you something.
“So I reject the new world. I reject their false tolerance. It’s not real tolerance anyway. I reject it and I say this: God will not be mocked. Go for it. Go for it. God will not be mocked. You will reap what you sow.
“I don’t know about you, but I am not bowing down to this new regime.”
Wow, that’s a lot of crazy to unpack, but let’s start with the fact that anyone who complains about “the global elite” is about three drinks away from explaining to you why they think “the Jews control the government.”
Secondly, drag queens are not a sexuality. But I’m going to go ahead and say, in response to his rhetorical question about whether not wanting your kids to see drag queens makes you a bad person… if you think queer people are “perverts” and you complain that the Olympics are shoving sexuality down your throat, you might not be the most well-adjusted person out there..
