Actor Megan Fox and musician Machine Gun Kelly are in hot water with conservatives and religious types after their Halloween costumes struck some as blasphemous.
Machine Gun Kelly dressed as a priest, while Fox dressed in racy fake leather lingerie with a leash around her neck that was held by Kelly.
In images Fox posted to Instagram, she was pictured kneeling before Kelly, who held up a chalice of a wine-looking liquid in an imitation of communion.
Another panel within the post included a video of Kelly feeding the scantily-clad Fox a communion wafer. The post was captioned:
“On Sundays we take communion."
Conservatives and religious types were outraged, accusing the pair of "appropriating" Christianity and mocking its most sacred rite in an act of blasphemy.
And as always, Christians with a persecution complex held the stunt up as an example of how Christianity is supposedly the only religion on Earth that people are allowed to mock.
\u201c@cathponeill @machinegunkelly @meganfox This is disgusting, and blasphemous \ud83e\udd22\u201d— Catharine O\u2019Neill (@Catharine O\u2019Neill) 1667180514
People took to social media to lambaste the couple's Halloween costume with everything from Bible verses and warnings about the couple going to hell, to castigations of Fox as a bad mother and bad-faith accusations that the couple were appropriating a culture that isn't theirs.
The outrage was truly on another level.
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\u201cBruh, Kanye West is being cancelled but this disgusting crap by Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly is supposed to be normal?\u201d— Bent Syria\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\udf39 (@Bent Syria\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\udf39) 1667302311
\u201c@MailOnline Embarrassing \ud83d\ude48 doesn\u2019t she have children? They must be mortified.\u201d— Daily Mail Online (@Daily Mail Online) 1667218931
\u201cMachine gun Kelly and Megan fox\u2019s Halloween costumes are disgusting and distasteful. People really spend a lot of time mocking Christianity and for some reason it\u2019s acceptable. Horrific.\u201d— Mutsa Romanna (@Mutsa Romanna) 1667406498
But not everybody hated the look, which was reportedly for a Stanley Kubrick-themed Halloween party.
\u201c@meganxcolson @machinegunkelly and #meganfox DEFINITELY understood the assignment. Definitely Eyes Wide Shut vibes\u201d— best of megan & colson (@best of megan & colson) 1667129249
\u201cmegan & mgk sexualizing communion.. the catholic church will never be the same\u201d— \u30c4 (@\u30c4) 1667221704
\u201cI actually love Megan Fox & Machine Gun Kelly's Halloween costume this year. If you don't like it, don't bother looking. Move on. #Halloween2022\u201d— DJ-K (Kenji) \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \u2022 they/them (@DJ-K (Kenji) \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \u2022 they/them) 1667368391
Fox and Kelly were seen out over Halloween weekend in two other costumes, as a pair of characters from video game "The Legend of Zelda" and as former couple Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.