MOSCOW, July 30 The 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 age-old European aesthetic criteria,» the statement said.
The Synod also condemns the discriminatory and offensive attitude towards the religious feelings of Christian believers.
«We are convinced that without a real, living faith in the eternal Christian values, Europe has no 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» they saw, featuring transvestites and representatives of the LGBT* community. On July 28, the Director of Communications for the Games' organizing committee, Anne Descamps, apologized to those people whose feelings might have been offended by certain scenes of the ceremony, in particular the parody of the «Last Supper.» There were other blunders 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 banned.