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New Olympic sport: Destroying Western Civilization

Dr. Bastiat
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You've probably heard about the latest attack on Christianity. Why the organizers of the Olympic Games felt the need to do so is much more interesting than what they actually did. (emphasis mine):

Paris 2024 organizers apologized Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that depicted Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" painting.

The segment, which recreated the Biblical scene of Jesus Christ and his apostles sharing a last meal before crucifixion, featured drag queens, a transgender model and a naked singer made up as the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.

"Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance," Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps said at a news conference. "We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry."

Again, what on earth does this have to do with the Olympics, or about the host country of France? Why do this? The organizers say that they were using the platform available to them to promote tolerance of LGTB issues. I don't see how this could possibly help bring people together. This comes across less like Op-Ed and more like vandalism. Of a church. Surely the LGTB organizers understood that Christians would view this as an attack on their religion. Which, surely, is exactly why they did it.

But if they were unsure, and they wanted to find out if this sort of thing might possibly be viewed as an attack, they could have performed a similar skit mocking Mohammed and Islam, and see how that was received. I suspect the criticisms would have been explosive.

Amazingly, a leader of an LGTB organization in France felt that they didn't go far enough:

"We know in the LGBTQ community in France we are far from what the ceremony showed. There’s much progress to do in society regarding transgender people. It’s terrible that to legally change their identity they are forced to be on trial," Inter-LGBT president James Leperlier said.

"If you saw the opening ceremony last night you’d think it was like that normally, but it’s not. France tried to show what it should be and not what it is."

So when he thinks of the ideal, of what France should be, he thinks of trans-sexuals in body paint pretending to be Jesus Christ. His ideal world must be quite a place.

Photo ID: 1813978943. From JessicaGirvan via Shutterstock

Martin Luther King had a dream of a world where his children would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. I'd rather live in Rev. King's world.

The difference, of course, is that Rev. King was a Christian who wanted us to live up to the ideals of Western Civilization.

The modern left is a radical movement which seeks to destroy Western Civilization, by whatever means are available to them.

Obviously.

There's just no other way to take this stuff...

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Discussion (102)

  • Bob Thompson@BobThompson
    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):

    The modern left is a radical movement which seeks to destroy Western Civilization, by whatever means are available to them.

    Obviously.

    There’s just no other way to take this stuff…

    Exactly. The "woke" movement is filled with fake work titles so most paid "jobs" must be in education and media. When DEI enters the real workplace picture we get disasters like Bud Light and Boeing. Or maybe even the Secret Service. This is the NEW Left that has chosen Kamala Harris to lead in America.

  • Percival@Percival
    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):

    Why the organizers of the Olympic Games felt the need to do so is much more interesting than what they actually did. (emphasis mine):

    Paris 2024 organizers apologized Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that depicted Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting.

    The segment, which recreated the Biblical scene of Jesus Christ and his apostles sharing a last meal before crucifixion, featured drag queens, a transgender model and a naked singer made up as the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.

    “Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps said at a news conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”

    Again, what on earth does this have to do with the Olympics, or about the host country of France? Why do this? The organizers say that they were using the platform available to them to promote tolerance of LGTB issues.

    Instead, they gave me what I didn't need: another reason to despise the French. That wasn't the goal? Tough.

    Dr. Bastiat (View Post):

    "If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”

    Liar.

  • Susan Quinn@SusanQuinn

    I feel so bad for my Christian friends. The display was disgusting. That they would deny that it was an attack on Christianity is even more disgusting. Just remember: for those of us who embrace the Jude0-Christian tradition, we are arm-in-arm with you.

  • MarciN@MarciN

    This started during the French Revolution:

    During a one-year period known as the Reign of Terror, the episodes of anti-clericalism became some the most violent of any in modern European history. The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests, and killed hundreds more. In October 1793, the Christian calendar was replaced with one reckoned from the date of the Revolution, and Festivals of Liberty, Reason, and the Supreme Being were scheduled. New forms of moral religion emerged, including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason, with the revolutionary government briefly mandating observance of the former in April 1794.

    Just my own take on things, but I would say the modern Marxist, socialist, communist totalitarianism, anti-religious mindset was established at that time. These later movements sprang from the French Revolution.

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