French revolutionaries massacred Christian clergy, plundered churches, banned Catholicism, and completely destroyed the country before creating the first of several failed republics.
De-Christianization Country.
Some revolutionaries even sought to replace the long-standing state religion with an atheistic cult of Reason. To this end, believers replaced the remaining religious statues at Notre Dame with secular busts, engaged in rituals that mocked the ceremonies that had once been performed at the altar, and paraded overly sexualized women, including an actress playing the role of the Goddess of Reason.
In a similar spirit, France opened the 2024 Olympics with an anti-Christian taunt and substitution, except this time they chose men posing as overly sexualized women.
The ceremony designer, Thomas Jolly, Directed the stage The broadcast was clearly intended to resemble Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” but instead of faithfully depicting Christ and the apostles, Jolie had cross-dressed actors assume symbolic poses on either side of a morbidly obese figure wearing a crown-like halo.
“In fact, they are trying to harden the very principles of God.”
Then a nearly naked man painted blue (thought to be Dionysus, the Greek god of winemaking and ritual madness) was seated on a plate placed on a table in front of the mock apostles and began to sing.
In a recent BlazeNews op-ed, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) stated:
In European history, conquerors often commemorated and publicized their victories by replacing the sacred religious symbols of the conquered peoples with their own. In some cases, they destroyed sacred landmarks and symbols and built new ones on top of those their predecessors had built and maintained. In other cases, they commandeered existing religious symbols and structures and made significant changes to reflect the conqueror’s values and goals.
The recently baptized actor and podcast host Russell Brand Thoughtfully What exactly is the symbol these would-be conquerors are trying to promote, and what is at the heart of the Frenchman’s latest cultish display?
“It’s a kind of spiritual warfare in which we’re engaged, and I wonder when it became clear that secularism, rationalism, and materialism are themselves kind of atheistic, let alone pantheistic or pagan, beliefs,” Brand said. “In fact, they are trying to staunch the very principle of God.”
Brand added that he was struck by “the deliberate evocation of Christian imagery, and for what purpose? To ridicule? What? To attack? To undermine? What are the values being proposed here? Hedonism? Decadence? Individualism? Is the self, its own set of commands, desires, decrees, the pinnacle of ideology, the supreme hierarchy? Is there nothing better, nothing supreme to which we must succumb?”
Brand concludes that what lies behind this propaganda corresponds to the plan of the worshippers of reason in 18th-century Paris, a plan “to derail the sacred and to create a kind of nihilistic state in which everything is taken to be true.”
The podcast host later suggested that he wasn’t entirely convinced that painting the Dionysus character in corpse-like colors and presenting him as a meal was intended as a direct mockery of the Eucharist, but said the display was at the very least oriented toward “the celebration of nihilism, unbelief, and selfishness.”
Judging by Brand’s comments in a video posted to his X account on Wednesday, he seems to see the nihilistic project as a trap for the soul.
“I have told you that I have a distant feeling toward Christ.”
Said Brand: “This is the scripture that reconnected me with the Lord. It’s from Isaiah: ‘Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, for you are mine.'”
“My faith has recently shifted because I now believe that fear is what forces me to take back control, to use fear to regain my will,” Brand continued. “If I’m feeling attacked or threatened, it seems natural, rational and sensible to take back control.”
“But the sense of faith is allowing Christ to order all things from the molecular level to the particle level to the cosmic level, because we’re dealing with an eternal King,” Brand added.
Brand pointed out that surrendering to Christ “is a way of liberating ourselves from the three-dimensional reality given to us by materialism and rationalism and of entering a transcendent realm of grace where, if we accept our sin, surrender ourselves, and allow ourselves to be led by Christ, we are given a new freedom…. I no longer belong to myself, and that is true freedom.”
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