The scene created by the group of 18 performers showed an ornately dressed woman at the center of a long table wearing a halo crown and making a heart shape with her hands.
On either side of her were drag queens in various poses as well as a child. The scene culminated with a scantily-clad man painted from head to toe in sparkling blue curled up on a silver platter.
The Paris Olympics committee said that this was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
But Christians said the organizers created a ‘woke’ parody of Jesus' last meal with his disciples before his betrayal and crucifixion on the cross.
Texas Republican August Pfluger posted on X, saying: “It is unacceptable that the opening ceremony mocked Christianity and the Last Supper and included a child in a drag queen performance.”
Ex-transgender influencer Oli London said: "Olympics openly mocks Jesus’ Last Supper as drag queens dressed as women play the role of disciples while a plus size woman appears in the middle symbolising Jesus wearing a giant crown."
Conservative French politician and European parliament member Marion Maréchal said: “To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname.”
X owner Elon Musk also joined in the criticism, saying: “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
But other social media users applauded the performance as historic, pointing out that three drag queens carried Olympic torches for the first time.
As the Olympic flame journeyed from Greece to Paris, three of the 10,000 torchbearers were drag queens.
