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==Bizarre opening ceremony==

==Bizarre opening ceremony==

On the opening day on June 1, 2016, the Swiss government organized a very bizarre and disturbing ceremony that was widely reported by the media.<ref>{{cite web | title=Switzerland Tunnel: The Oddest Moments of the Opening Ceremony | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36428799 | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=[[BBC]] | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}<br>{{cite web | title=World Agog at Bizarre Gotthard Base Tunnel Opening | url=http://www.thelocal.ch/20160601/world-agog-at-bizarre-gotthard-base-tunnel-opening | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=''[[The Local]]'' | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}<br>{{cite web | last1=McLelland | first1=Euan | last2=Robinson | first2=Julian | title=A Winged Baby, Semi-Naked Dancers and a Man With a Bird's Nest on His Head: How Switzerland Decided to Mark Opening of World's Longest Rail Tunnel | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3620446/A-winged-baby-semi-naked-dancers-man-bird-s-nest-head-Switzerland-decided-mark-opening-world-s-longest-rail-tunnel.html | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=''[[Daily Mail]]'' | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}<br>'''Warning! Articles contain graphic and disturbing images.'''</ref> The ceremony included topless women, actors wearing only underwear, simulated lesbian sex, and other disturbing acts.<ref name="Breitbart">Ruse, Austin (June 7, 2016). [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/07/opening-swiss-tunnel-may-stupid-isnt-satanic/ Swiss Tunnel Opening Ceremony Draws Cries of ‘Satanic’]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref><ref name="WND">Hohmann, Leo (June 6, 2016). [http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/new-tunnel-christened-by-bizarre-demonic-ceremony/ New tunnel unveiled in bizarre 'demonic' ceremony]. ''WND''. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref>

On the opening day on June 1, 2016, the Swiss government organized a very bizarre and disturbing ceremony that was widely reported by the media.<ref>Multiple references:

*{{cite web | title=Switzerland Tunnel: The Oddest Moments of the Opening Ceremony | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36428799 | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=[[BBC]] | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}

*{{cite web | title=World Agog at Bizarre Gotthard Base Tunnel Opening | url=http://www.thelocal.ch/20160601/world-agog-at-bizarre-gotthard-base-tunnel-opening | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=''[[The Local]]'' | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}

*{{cite web | last1=McLelland | first1=Euan | last2=Robinson | first2=Julian | title=A Winged Baby, Semi-Naked Dancers and a Man With a Bird's Nest on His Head: How Switzerland Decided to Mark Opening of World's Longest Rail Tunnel | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3620446/A-winged-baby-semi-naked-dancers-man-bird-s-nest-head-Switzerland-decided-mark-opening-world-s-longest-rail-tunnel.html | date=June 1, 2016 | publisher=''[[Daily Mail]]'' | accessdate=December 27, 2016}}

*'''Warning! Articles contain graphic and disturbing images.'''</ref> The ceremony included topless women, actors wearing only underwear, simulated lesbian sex, and other disturbing acts.<ref name="Breitbart">Ruse, Austin (June 7, 2016). [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/07/opening-swiss-tunnel-may-stupid-isnt-satanic/ Swiss Tunnel Opening Ceremony Draws Cries of ‘Satanic’]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref><ref name="WND">Hohmann, Leo (June 6, 2016). [http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/new-tunnel-christened-by-bizarre-demonic-ceremony/ New tunnel unveiled in bizarre 'demonic' ceremony]. ''WND''. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref>

While the ceremony was intended to represent pagan Swiss Alpine culture, numerous people, very understandably, considered whether the ceremony was satanic or demonic due to the close parallels with satanic worship in the ceremony.<ref name="WND"/> While it does not appear that the ceremony was consciously intended to be satanic or demonic,<ref name="Breitbart"/> such fears were completely understandable and legitimate due to the graphic sexual and pagan references. Even if the ceremony was not intended to be evil, it was very disturbing and not Christian-influenced. It fit very well with the overall spiritual state of Europe.

While the ceremony was intended to represent pagan Swiss Alpine culture, numerous people, very understandably, considered whether the ceremony was satanic or demonic due to the close parallels with satanic worship in the ceremony.<ref name="WND"/> While it does not appear that the ceremony was consciously intended to be satanic or demonic,<ref name="Breitbart"/> such fears were completely understandable and legitimate due to the graphic sexual and pagan references. Even if the ceremony was not intended to be evil, it was very disturbing and not Christian-influenced. It fit very well with the overall spiritual state of Europe.