The July 2024 Paris olympics opening ceremony has brought a wave of commotions around the globe. The intake for many is that, the olympics show was blatantly offensive, a parody and derision of the Last Supper. Yet, the organizers had begged to disagree. Dionysus' supper is a celebration of the mark of the Beast. Paris set a revenge and vindication table to honor Dionysus. The adepts of Dionysus are holding grudges against the believers in Christ for a copyright infringement. Christian theology of religious meal or the eucharist has largely borrowed from the Gnostic teaching on Dionysiac ritual and worship. From this perspective, Dionysus owes no apology to the believers in Christ. Beyond the controversy and violent vitriol, the time is now to sign the divorce letter between Christ's table of Bread and Wine from Dionysus' wine ritual and ancient festival. Here is the distinctive feature of Dionysus found in his nickname: "He who delights in the sword and bloodshed", and "the eater of raw flesh". De facto, Dionysus is the ancient ruler of darkness, the god or ruler of death. Dionysus' wine ritual is an open show celebration for the achievement of the Beast. Moral depravity and chaos are the works and manifestation of Dionysus the primitive Beast. Genesis 19 gave us the high mark of the Beast. Led by the spirit of the primitive Beast, the two daughters of Lot got him intoxicated with wine and had an incestuous relationship with their drank father to have children. Chaos and insanity came into the family line. All who drank Dionysus' cup of wine are graduates in chaos, violence, insanity, and have no greater delight than bringing death and turning life upside down. Giving death is an honorary sacrifice to Dionysus. Christ's table of bread and wine is antithetical to Dionysus' supper chaos and bloodshed. Christ's wine is the symbol of the Holy Spirit who gives life. Christ brings Bread and Wine to save from death and chaos. Wine and bread are the cure against insanity, violence, death, and spiritual destruction. While Paris or Greece bows down in celebration to the god and ruler of death, Zion worships alone the ruler and God of life, the one who defeated death. In Paris, two supper tables collided in a violent clash. For as far as the west is from the east, there is nothing in common between Christ's supper and Dionysus' table.
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