The bloody reality of Olympics’ Opening Ceremony

We’ve all seen it by now. The naked blue man on a plate. The obnoxious Dionysus stand-in for Jesus. The drag queen version of the Last Supper.

The Paris Olympic Committee, in their bigotry, mocked a sacred Christian moment and won a gold medal.

This isn’t the first time in recent years that Catholics have had their faith publicly mocked through cross-dressing. Who can forget when the LA Dodgers invited drag queens calling themselves the “Little Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to open their Pride night and mock nuns? They were knocked off the podium. Silver medal.

But the Olympic displays were worse, for they not only mocked a group of Catholic women who had taken a vow of chastity, but also mocked our God and the most important moment in our faith, except for the Crucifixion, when He offered His body, soul, and divinity from time immemorial as a gift to His friends and followers for all time.

Describing it as an A+ level display of gaslighting, the Olympic Committee tweeted an image of the perverse exhibit, saying: “The Olympics: an interpretation of the Greek god Dionysus reminds us of the absurdity of inter-human violence.”

The problem is that while Dionysus is primarily the god of wine and pleasure, he’s also known for literally tearing his enemies to shreds. The Opening Ceremonies Committee apparently forgot to do a basic Google search, and the AI ​​summary reads, “Dionysus, god of wine, music, and dance, used his powers to punish enemies of his cult and the freedom he represented.” Oops.

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But the harsher reality is that France, once known as the “eldest daughter of the Church” and the country that has produced the greatest number of Catholic martyrs, is actually experiencing a wave of anti-Catholic violence.

Last week, the country marked eight years since the martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by a jihadist during Mass, a moment we remember at every Mass, right in the middle of the Last Supper.

But most of the anti-Catholic violence in France seems to be perpetrated not by radical Muslims but by radical secularists, who have set fire to countless churches, destroyed statues and sacred buildings, desecrated tabernacles, and scrawled blasphemous and threatening graffiti on ancient monuments, such as “Blessing of abortion” on the walls of Saint-Jacques in Grenoble, “Our lives, our bodies are ours” on the Cathedral of Saint-Jean in Besançon, and “The Devil punishes homophobes” on the Chapel of Saint-Roch-du-Férétras in Toulouse.

Vandals wrote “Blessed Abortion” on the wall of the Church of Saint-Jacques in Grenoble, and the church was burned down shortly after.

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The attacks on Catholic churches in France are by no means isolated incidents, but rather part of a worrying trend across the continent: the European Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians (OIDAC) found that anti-Christian hate crimes increased by 44% between 2021 and 2022 alone. Arson incidents increased by an astonishing 75%.

It’s a trend that’s spreading across the Atlantic to the United States, where violent attacks on churches and church-related institutions like pregnancy centers have also increased. Catholic Boat’s incident tracker has recorded more than 400 such incidents since 2020, including “acts of arson that damaged or destroyed historic churches, spray-painted and graffitied with satanic messages, stones and bricks thrown at windows, the destruction of statues (often with their heads cut off), and the unlawful disruption of Mass.” One of the incidents happened just a mile from my house, at the church where my family worships.

But despite well-known increases in violence against Catholics in France and abroad, organisers of the Olympic opening ceremony responded by mocking Christians and inciting critics with talk of human unity.

It’s truly Dionysian.

This is Olympic-level bigotry that permeates all the way to the highest levels of the world’s governing elite. “This has shown the world the moral corruption and mental decadence of many in the Western elite. This is, as the saying goes, one example worth a thousand words,” Princeton University professor Robert George said on social media.

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It was a wordless, blasphemous display of bigotry, followed by a false apology, leading Bishop Robert Barron to call it “a masterpiece of woke duplicity.”

Responding to violence against Christians by mocking what is sacred to them is as old as Christianity itself. We have seen it before and we will see it again, but we will not be fooled by attempts by hateful people to cloak their bigotry in body paint, sequins, or other costumes.