The Olympics is an opportunity for host nations to celebrate their cultural contributions to the world. Apparently, the French are most proud of mocking Christians under the shadow of Notre Dame.
I’m not straight and I’m not baptized, but you don’t have to be either to be repelled by the openly naked ugliness on display at the Paris Olympics Friday night.
🚨Just in: The 2024 Olympic Games featured imagery involving women and drag queens at the opening ceremony re-creating the last supper.pic.twitter.com/xuCflvlJT4
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What was France trying to say of itself with a drag-themed parody to mock one of the holiest scenes in Christianity? Was this an image of France as an oasis of global inclusion? Or was it a neopaganistic expression of 21st-century transformation against the background of the world-famous 14th-century cathedral? Recent elections largely reflected a French population frustrated by mass migration, and they certainly still don’t love “body positivity,” so it is probably more so the latter.
The French also have a recent history of persecuting Christians, so don’t expect those who were mocked on Friday night to be all that included when these people take over. And let’s not pretend the performance, which featured a child, was an exercise in honoring the biblical supper scene because everybody knows Christians see drag as a manifestation of some underlying evil.
The gay movement took decades to convince its Christian neighbors that gays were normal. However, mocking one’s religious
