Posted on 07/29/2024 7:21:21 AM PDT by SJackson
"This is France!"
France unveiled a decidedly family-unfriendly spectacle last Saturday for over 28.6 million viewers worldwide as the four-hour opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, which unfolded along a 4.5 mile stretch of the River Seine in Paris, turned into the world’s most-watched Pride Parade.
Because Western cultural elites today are overwhelmingly cultural Marxists, the organizers of the 2800-year-old athletic competition decided to jettison any connection with sports, athletic excellence, or national pride, and instead promote the normalization of sexual perversion, gender ideology, and anti-Christian bigotry.
As always with Pride parades, the celebration of sexual libertinism, masked as “love” and “tolerance,” was the order of the day. The show featured the provocative dancing of scantily-clad, apparently non-binary performers. Polyamorists, transgender models, and bearded drag queens abounded. One prerecorded dance segment featured three gender-ambiguous dancers cavorting through the streets and into a building, where they ultimately entered a room and slammed the door in the viewers’ faces, clearly suggesting that sexual activity would ensue.
But the pointedly offensive lowlight of the ceremony was a blatant, live-action parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting, with Jesus Christ and His apostles swapped out for a diverse squad of gender-bending narcissists (including a child, naturally, because queering the culture includes normalizing pedophilia). Jesus Himself was replaced by a cleavage-baring obese woman forming a “heart” with her hands, because “Love is love,” don’t you know.
(Gender ideologues, by the way, are fond of claiming falsely that Jesus preached acceptance and inclusion; in fact, Jesus calls us not to love ourselves as we are, but to change, to cast off lives of sin and strive to be more holy. Jesus didn’t hang out with sinners because he approved of their behavior, but because they most needed his message.)
But that’s not all! as the infomercial slogan goes. The Olympics organizers somehow thought it would honor the tradition of the Games by sending everyone to bed with nightmares over a performance by a headless Marie Antoinette singing the French Revolutionary favorite, “Ah! Ça Ira.” The word that leaps immediately to mind is “demonic,” a description that in fact suits the impulse behind the entire opening ceremony.
Remember also that the Olympic flame had previously been carried by three drag queens along its route to Paris. What do drag queens have to do with athletic excellence and national pride? Nothing, of course; again, it’s about celebrating and normalizing the subversive strategy of gender ideology.
“This is France!” left-wing President Emanual Macron crowed in a tweet sharing video footage from the ceremony.
Other French citizens begged to differ. Former French Culture Secretary Philippe de Villiers called the opening ceremonies a “shame,” adding: “We are committing the suicide of our country in front of the whole world. The Last Supper with drag queens and the beheading of Marie Antoinette add infamy to ugliness. The France of Macron and wokism is not France.”
Populist right-wing French MEP Marion Marechal, niece of Marine Le Pen, similarly said: “To all the Christians of the world who are watching the Paris 2024 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. Not in my name.”
French bishops issued a statement denouncing the performance as “derision and mockery of Christianity” and expressed their solidarity with “Christians on all continents who have been hurt by the outrageousness and provocation.”
Devoutly Christian NFL player Harrison Butker also disapproved of the Last Supper parody as mockery of God.
Ex-musician and Dissident Dialogues founder Winston Marshall summed up the debacle as nothing less than “The Fall of Europe.”
Popular American Bishop Robert Barron nailed it by declaring,
France felt, evidently, that while trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity, where Jesus at his Last Supper gave his body and blood in anticipation of the cross. Its presented as this gross, flippant mockery.
This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is; they are naming it, and we should believe them. But furthermore, we Christians, we Catholics, should not be sheepish; we should resist; we should make our voices heard.
Would they ever dared mock Islam in a similar way? Would they have ever dreamed of mocking, in this gross, public way, a scene from the Qur’an? We all know the answer.
Indeed we do. Criticism of Islam is unthinkable now throughout an increasingly Islamized western Europe, perhaps most tragically in a Paris that witnessed the Charlie Hebdo massacre almost ten years ago. Instead of rallying against the corrosive Islamist infiltration of the country in the wake of that attack, though, France has only accelerated its embrace of its own civilizational submission.
To be clear: outrage over the mockery of Christianity is not about hurt feelings. Christian offense is not the equivalent of college students needing safe spaces in which to work out their Trump trauma with crayons. The ongoing cultural assault on Christians and their faith is hateful, open bigotry with the ultimate Marxist goal of eradicating Christianity altogether. The atheist Left would never undertake a similar campaign against Islam; Christianity is the target because no other religion is as daunting an obstacle to the Marxist agenda. Islam is off-limits to criticism because the Left sees Islam as an ally in their war on Christianity and the West. Of course, if that war is ever successful, as it is becoming in Europe, Islamic fundamentalists will turn in a heartbeat on their left-wing “allies,” who will find the hard way that “diversity” and “inclusion” are not sharia values.
Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Olympic orgy of ugliness, claimed laughably in a press conference on Saturday that his intention had not been “to be subversive, mock or shock.” He told reporters, “Our idea was inclusion. We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that.” Except Christians, of course.
Surely not even Jolly himself can believe his patently false claim that his intention was not to mock or shock. Of course it was, although his deeper intention was arguably to normalize the anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-Western worldview of gender ideologues such as himself. He intentionally orchestrated, with the full approval of the Olympics committee, a four-hour announcement that the queering of the West is in full swing, and that no amount of toothless umbrage from a diminishing Christian population will stop it.
The social media backlash and outrage were intense enough, however, to prompt a perfunctory non-apology from Olympics organizers: “There was never an intention to show disrespect to a religious group,” a Paris 2024 spokeswoman lied. “If people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really sorry.” Of course.
“We imagined a ceremony to show our values and our principles so we gave a very committed message,” Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said. “The idea was to really trigger a reflection. We wanted to have a message as strong as possible.”
Mission accomplished. The message that the Christian West is being supplanted by an unholy alliance of anti-civilizational forces – communist and Islamist – could not have been stronger. Unfortunately, Estanguet is correct: the Olympics ceremony was a successful reflection of the European elites’ woke “values and principles.”
And Jill Biden thought it was spectacular. What a wench.
I’m guessing that Jolly has smuggled more than a few pickles.
Tolerant ... except to Christians and the French government.
Perfect summary.
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There was a time when I would watch the Olympics nearly 24/7 including the opening ceremony. That time has passed.
“And Jill Biden thought it was spectacular.”
She probably got some fashion ideas from the freak show.
Message clearly received about your values and principles - debauchery reigns!
Wonder if they’ll change the closing as same gaydard is charge of that too.....
Sounds good but it really isn’t that simple.
No matter. By the time the Olympics circles back to Paris, the opening will be performed by women in Niqabs.
Watching a little of the Women’s Field Hockey this morning, the camera panned into a tight shot of a woman breastfeeding her infant in the stands. Now there’s nothing evil about breastfeeding a baby but dude, you knew what she was doing with half her boobie exposed before production went to your camera. C’mon, man...
Yeah, same here. A different world. Yet another thing that used to elevate humanity destroyed by satanic forces.
The message seems to be that the demonic and anti-Christ French Revolution lives on.
Demonic power is, and always has been on a crusade across the world. Remember Ephesians 6:12?
Spirits of wickedness in high places.
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