MOSCOW, July 30 Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC ) expressed a negative attitude towards the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, calling it incompatible with common sense.
According to the supreme body of the BOC, the organizers of the Games in Paris demonstrated vulgarity and ideological bad taste.
«The presented artistic images… contradict and are completely incompatible not only with Christian evangelical morality, but also with common human sense, with natural human law, with centuries-old European aesthetic criteria,» the statement says.
The Synod also condemns the discriminatory and offensive attitude towards the religious feelings of Christian believers.
«We are convinced that without real, living faith in enduring Christian values, Europe does not and cannot have a future,» the Bulgarian hierarchs said.
The opening of the Games took place on July 26. Many social media users expressed outrage at the parody of “The Last Supper” with the participation of transvestites and representatives of the LGBT* community. The director of communications for the Games organizing committee, Anne Descamps, apologized on July 28 to those people whose feelings may have been hurt by certain scenes of the ceremony, in particular the parody of “The Last Supper.” Other missteps were made at the opening: at the climax, the flag of the International Olympic Committee was raised upside down, and the announcer during the parade of athletes introduced the South Korean team as the DPRK team.
* Recognized in Russia as an extremist movement and prohibited.< br>
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