The right reason to take religious offence
Oh, great was the fuss. A Bacchanalian scene of a drag queen and an oversized smurf during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, redolent of the Last Supper… and more than one painting of Dionysus, of which I understand at least one or two are held in French art galleries, unlike da Vinci’s fresco. As I pointed out, the wrong reason to get offended. If someone thinks that a painting is satirising Christ, use the situation to talk about the real …
