SKILLET’s JOHN COOPER Slams Paris Olympics For ‘Last Supper’ Act In Opening Ceremony: ‘God Will Not Be Mocked’

John Cooper

SKILLET frontman John Cooper condemned the 2024 Paris Olympics for featuring a drag queen performance that appeared to mock Leonardo da Vinci‘s iconic painting, “The Last Supper.”

Cooper, who has previously stated that his Christian faith compels him to address cultural issues, posted a two-and-a-half-minute video on Instagram in which he criticized the Olympic Games for “mocking” Christianity. He also accused the “global elites” of being “perverts” who are “coming after your kids.”

He said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “Hey, guys. What’s up? I’m about to go on stage right here, but my phone’s blowing up from all these people sending me videos of the opening ceremony for the Olympics of insane, crazy stuff because we don’t live in a normal world any longer, okay?

“For all the people that are always saying it’s so polarized, we gotta get along, everybody stop yelling at each other, we just gotta agree we all want the same things. Do we, though? Do we?

“Let me explain this to you. This is what tolerance looks like in the new world. According to all of these global elites that want to change all of Western civilization and remake the world in their image, this is the way tolerance works for them. You sit down to watch the Olympics with your kids. They’re going to start the show with drag queens who come out and mock Christianity. They’re going to mock the number one largest faith in the world. They’re gonna mock it on TV in front of the whole world.

“The way that tolerance works is this: if you’re sitting with your kids and you go, ‘What the heck’s going on? I don’t want my kids watching drag queens. That’s not my values.’ If that’s what you say, well, then you’re a bad person. You need to change. You’re old school. You’re the person that is causing all the hate in the world and they gotta shut you up. At the same time, the way tolerance works in the new world is that it’s okay for the drag queens to mock Christianity. Christianity is okay to mock. All right? So they can do whatever they want to, but you can’t.

“You see, this isn’t normal,” Cooper continued. “This is not normal. It’s not the world that I wanna live in. I don’t think it’s the world that most people in the Western civilization wanna live in.

“They are, in fact, coming after your kids, because the global elites are perverts. They are coming after your kids. The question is, what are you gonna do about it? Are we gonna stop watching? Are you gonna stop watching? Say, ‘No, we’re not doing that.’

“What in the world does sexuality have to do with the Olympic Games? Can we just leave your sexuality out of the opening for the Olympics? Something we all try to do together around the world, and they make it a celebration of sexuality. That should tell you something.

“So I reject the new world. I reject their false tolerance. It’s not real tolerance anyway. I reject it and I say this: God will not be mocked. Go for it. Go for it. God will not be mocked. You will reap what you sow.

“I don’t know about you, but I am not bowing down to this new regime.”

Cooper was not alone in his criticism of the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Tech mogul Elon Musk also condemned the “Last Supper” performance, describing it as “extremely disrespectful to Christians.”

The Catholic Church in France expressed disapproval of the segment, issuing a statement: “This ceremony has unfortunately included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity, which we very deeply deplore.”