As you have probably heard, the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris was a disaster. It was an odious display of the cultural, spiritual darkness of our time. The honor of hosting the Olympic games always gives host countries a tremendous opportunity to display and celebrate the very best of their culture and values.  

Unfortunately for Paris, its leaders thought a debauchery-celebrating version of “The Last Supper,” Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, with famous LGBTQ+ French activist and DJ Barbara Butch in place of Jesus featuring an ornate halo and famous drag queens and other hyper-sexualized characters as disciples (including a very young girl—to add insult to injury) is what France is all about. The ceremony was objectionable to many, not just Christians. 

The loathsome, faith-mocking display also featured a golden calf and the French singer/actor Philippe Katerine, almost nude, covered in blue body paint while reclining on a dinner platter to imitate the pagan god Dionysus—the god of wine and ecstasy. Apparently, “lavish festal orgia (rites) in his honour” were a thing, so it fitted the vision that artistic director Thomas Jolly wanted to celebrate. 

“Our subject was not to be subversive,” he said, “We never wanted to be subversive. We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that.”  

However, the inclusion they wanted to celebrate at the Olympics does not include Christians. Believe it or not, Brazilian surfer Joao Chianca was told two weeks before the games commenced that he must remove an image of Jesus Christ (of the famous Brazilian statue) from his surfboard if he wanted to compete. The anti-faith theme was the point. “In France, we are republic,” said Jolly, “we have the right to love whom we want, we have the right not to be worshippers, we have a lot of rights in France, and this is what I wanted to convey.” 

In his disdain for “worshippers,” Jolly fails to see his own intensely dark religious convictions. He, too, is a worshipper. His devotion was on full display at his twisted ceremony…

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