If you were offended, here’s the Olympic response:
“Oh, I’m sorry you were upset when I peed in your cornflakes. But you needn’t be so sensitive. We were just being inclusive, and nobody could object to that, could they?”
Well, you can stick your finger in the eye of “turn the other cheek” Christians, but not everybody possesses that kind of human kindness or forgiving attitude.
Anyone remember Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine based in Paris?
You could look it up, but the Cliff notes version is that some years ago, they ran a cartoon featuring a likeness of a certain 7th century prophet, and adherents to that peaceful religion fire-bombed the magazine’s office, killing several innocent people.
So here’s the Molière Citation, and a challenge to go along with it, to the International Olympic Committee and the Organizers of the Games: For the closing ceremony, just be really inclusive. Try a tableau featuring the same crowd of actors, but dress them up like prophets from other religions, and see how that works out for you.
P.S. Moliere took issue with phoney-baloney Catholicism extant at the time in Tartuffe.
He wound up being excommunicated by le Pape du temp. King Louis interceded and Moliere was buried at Pere LaChaise.
Tartuffe was classical satire as was almost all of Moliere’s works…the destructive, blasphemous bs we saw at the Opening of the Olympics by a few overzealous LGBTQ+ XYZ weirdo idiots cast a pall on an otherwise elegant opening.