Jodie Sweetin took what seemed to be a dig at her former TV sister Candace Cameron Bure following the devout Christian’s comments regarding drag queens appearing in the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Social media users and Christians around the world accused the performance of mocking Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper.”
Cameron Bure posted on Instagram Friday, “To watch such an incredible and wonderful event that’s going to take place over the next two weeks and see the opening ceremonies completely blaspheme and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper was disgusting, and it made me so sad.”
Sweetin reportedly wrote in an Instagram story alongside a reel mocking ceremony critics, “Tell me you don’t know about art or history without TELLING me you don’t know about art or history.”
Sweetin went on to say that the skit was referring to the “feast of Dionysus,” the Greek god of fertility, wine and pleasure.
“The drag queens of the Olympics were re-creating the feast of Dionysus, not the last supper,” she explained in her post, according to Entertainment Weekly. “And even if you thought it was a Christian reference — what’s the harm? Why is it a ‘parody’ and not a tribute? Can drag queens not be Christian too?”
The official Olympics X account posted, “The interpretation of the Greek God Dionysus makes us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
On Sunday, however, Cameron Bure edited her post to add this defense.
“Since posting, many have tried to correct me saying it wasn’t about an interpretation of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, but a Greek god and the festival of Dionysus; who is a god of lust, insanity, religious ecstasy, ritual madnes etc. I still don’t see how that relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and acceptable for children to watch. In any case, I’m not buying it.”
