I’m a Jew, not a Christian. But I discover mockery of the Final Supper — one of many holiest scenes within the New Testomony — on the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris distasteful.
In actual fact, it is actually painful to maintain studying the phrases “many Christians are offended” – as if solely Christians are upset that France and the Worldwide Olympic Committee are mocking Jesus’ Final Supper scene.
Certainly, if solely Christians are discontented, there may be little hope for civilization.
However we dwell in an age of groupthink, the place solely members of the goal group are anticipated to be disaffected. To write down that Christians had been outraged by what had simply occurred in Paris can be as if one may write, “Blacks are outraged” by slavery, or “Jews are outraged” by Islamic makes an attempt to exterminate Israel; Or “ladies are offended” on the rape of girls.
One presumes that every group of ethical figures drags males, transwomen and a unadorned man right into a portray of Leonardo da Vinci’s Final Supper – on the world’s largest stage – aggressively.
Certainly, what the French and the Olympics did does not do justice to how we must always all see “aggression”.
What was executed on the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics was much more critical than “offensive”. It really represents the best menace to Western civilization within the historical past of the Western world: the Left.
You do not have to be a Christian to grasp that Christianity—extra particularly, Judeo-Christian values and the Bible—created Western civilization. With out Christianity and the Bible, there can be no West. This is the reason contempt for Christianity and the Bible is synonymous with ridicule within the West. The present civil battle in Western civilization is a battle between the left and the Bible.
That is why the Los Angeles Dodgers did not simply permit a gaggle referred to as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a self-described “imitation and mockery of Catholic nuns” — to carry out earlier than a Dodgers recreation. . The Dodgers really honored them.
That is why an “paintings” titled “Peace Christ” — a crucifix immersed in a jar of urine — has toured museums throughout America.
This is the reason the European Union Constitution doesn’t point out Christianity even as soon as.
This is the reason each left-wing group in America is displeased with Louisiana’s latest choice to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in Louisiana lecture rooms; and the choice to make Bible schooling necessary in Oklahoma’s public faculties.
And why France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, praised his nation’s opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, posting on X:
“Because of Thomas Jolly (inventive director) and his inventive genius for this magnificent present. Because of the artists for this distinctive and magical second. … Because of everybody who believed in it. We are going to speak about it once more. In 100 years we did it! “
And there is extra dangerous information: As of this writing, the top of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has stated nothing in regards to the Olympic degradation of the Final Supper. Maybe he was too busy making ready one other encyclical on local weather change.
It is rather necessary that the Left, whether or not in America or Europe, by no means mocks Islam. One would assume that since nearly all non secular violence on this planet stems from that faith, the left would focus its anti-religious hearth towards Islam, or a minimum of towards fundamentalist Islam.
Why is not it?
One cause leftists concern Muslims. If you happen to mock Islam, you have to dwell in hiding or danger being beheaded. The Left, alternatively, has no concern of Christians. Regardless of how a lot the Left mocks and belittles Christianity, the Left assumes that not one of many two and a half billion Christians on this planet will harm them. And the Catholic Pope won’t solely subject fatwas towards you, he won’t converse towards you. As a result of he’s additionally a leftist.
Second, fundamentalist Islam is an ally of the left in its quest to destroy the West. This is the reason the left is allied with Islamic fundamentalists who wish to exterminate Israel and all its Jews. Israel is (rightly) seen as an outpost of Western civilization within the Muslim world.
The left doesn’t hate faith. It hates Christianity, Judeo-Christian values and the Bible. This is what it is advisable know to grasp the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth quantity of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the primary 5 books of the Bible, can be printed in November 2024 and is now accessible for presale on Amazon. He’s the co-founder of Prager College and could be contacted at dennisprager.com.
