Posted on 07/30/2024 9:29:45 AM PDT by george76
The leftist-populist government of Slovakia has announced that it will not take part in the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity and the “degenerate decadence” put on display during the opening of the games.
Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba announced on social media on Monday that he will cancel his planned trip to France to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics after an LGBTQ-themed apparent parody of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ enraged Christians worldwide.
Taraba, who has been covering certain responsibilities in the wake of the failed assassination attempt of PM Robert Fico in May, said: “I was supposed to represent Slovakia at the closing ceremony, but this Olympics will be forever written as a repulsive symbol and degenerate decadence.”
The Slovakian politician added that the organizers of the Opening Ceremony had “abused the beauty of sport and made it progressive political theater.”
“For that, I decided that I will not participate in the ceremony.”
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Taraba took aim at the organizers of the Olympics for making an “insult of the symbols of Christiainity” while putting forward an “abomination for the world, the presentation of full LGBT ideology.”
After the Olympics removed the opening ceremony from its YouTube page, the Slovak leader added on X: “The insults to Christianity and the presented decadence have reached such a level that they have offended the whole normal world, which understands the difference between culture and garbage.”
Taraba was not alone among global Christians to take offence at the apparent ridicule of the religion by the Olympics, with Catholic Bishop Robert Barron describing the drag queen scene as “gross, flippant mockery” of a “very central moment in Christianity.”
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leftist-populist
Isn’t that like a matter anti-matter thing? Cannot logically exist.
But Dr Jill Biden, EdE called the opening ‘spectacular’!
doesn’t matter
Which is very accurate. If we're discussing labels, though, this was transgressive, not progressive. The only "inclusion" it celebrated was the imposition of sexual license on an otherwise unreceptive audience.
europeanconservative.com
Rod Dreher
July 29,2024
IOC sends “a message of love, a message of inclusion;” they called it:
“La Cène Sur Un Scène Sur La Seine – (The Last Supper Staged On The Seine)”
The International Olympics Committee is in full-on damage control over its blasphemous Paris opening ceremony. The IOC has apologized and deleted it from its YouTube channel. These elites would like everyone to forget what a global television audience saw: a filthy mockery of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, featuring drag queens as the disciples, and Barbara Butch, an obese lesbian DJ, as Our Lord.
“Oh yes! Oh yes! The New Gay Testament!” lesbo Butch later messaged on Instagram. Underscoring the point, that tableau vivant was titled, in punning French, La Cène Sur Un Scène Sur La Seine – that is, The Last Supper Staged On The Seine.
The satanic parody feast featured as its blasphemous Eucharist a priapic Smurf meant to represent Dionysius—the Greek god of debauchery. According to a tumescent AP account, the blue Greek god pointed to his penis and sang, in French, “Where to hide a revolver when you’re completely naked?”
Thomas Jolly, the gay French theatrical director who conceived this vulgar abomination, said, “My wish isn’t to be subversive, nor to mock or to shock. Most of all, I wanted to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not at all to divide.”
There are people stupid enough to believe that.
But even the leader of France’s far left, the anti-clerical Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is not one of them. In a blog post, Mélenchon condemned the revolting event as shaming the nation.
“We were speaking to the world that evening,” Mélenchon wrote. “Among the billion Christians in the world, how many good and honest people are there for whom faith provides help in living and knowing how to participate in everyone’s life, without bothering anyone?”
Gay blade Jolly rogered the good faith of Christians the world over, and knew exactly what he was doing.
So too did everyone at the IOC and in the French government who approved this thing. It is impossible to believe that this trashy LGBT mockery of Christianity didn’t get a sign-off at the highest level. This was Paris’s chance to present itself to the world, and they wouldn’t dare leave anything to chance.
What the world saw was a transgressive homosexual romp and stomp across what Christians hold sacred. France’s elites signaled to the planet that it sacralizes homosexuality, transgenderism, sexual excess, and blasphemy. The Paris Olympics overture was a floor show for the Antichrist.
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Nobody will resist contemporary “barbarians” to defend a civilizational order that places the sexually disordered at its symbolic pinnacle. Ordinary Frenchmen might fight for the Blessed Virgin Mary, or for Marianne, the symbol of the Republic, or at least for Brigitte Bardot. But fight for obese lesbo Barbara Butch? Please.
Symbolism matters. National symbols concentrate and proclaim what a nation thinks of itself, and how it wants other nations to think of it. Speaking of the Olympics opening ceremony debacle the night before, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán noted archly, “At the end of the day, every nation has the right to show its true colors; that’s what we saw.”
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If it was not for all the controversy over the opening of the Olympic games I would not know they had even been played.
It's not often you see Islam and Christianity aligned on something.
Those woke Olympic fools managed to offend the ENTIRE WORLD.
Leftist-populist? Don’t know what their politics are but there is nothing wrong their principles and sense of morality and decency. The statement is well worded and right minded.
No more French wine for me. I’ll stick to Italian for awhile.Fools.
Unusual considering its sister state Czech Republic is western worlds least religious nation
Paris does have a lot of tall buildings. They have some good uses other than simply office space.
And yet, not a single riot. Tell me again, who are the violent, dangerous ones?
That trip was set for next year. It has now been cancelled.
This sacrilege was approved at the highest levels in France. Therefore, it appears to be representative of and with the approval of a majority of the French people. I will not sanction, with my hard earned coin and precious time, such a nation. This may not matter to them but it does to me.
Our own nation has become equally reprehensible but I still have to live here. Maybe Slovakia?
Isn’t Melania Slovak?
Figures Slovakia would do the right thing?
One thing about the Donald - he knows how to chose his women.
She is Slovenian.
I have always looked forward to watching the Olympics since I gave up on the idiocy of professional sports. But I’m done with the Olympics, too. Electing the racist and anti-American Lebron James to carry the US flag was bad enough and I decided not to watch any USA basketball (men or women). But then the absolute sacrilegious and evil spectacle of global queerness was the final nail in the coffin. The Olympics are dead to me. Just like the NFL, NBA, MLB and every other pro sport.
Okay sorry. My mistake.
Is there any truth to the rumor that they will be doing a really great skit about mohammed?
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