Paris Opens the 2024 Olympics: “Behold Our Abominations”

Paris’ Olympics opening ceremony has been widely criticized by many who still hold to standards such as dignity, decency, modesty, and other biblical values. Parts of the ceremony deserve a range of adjectives such as disgusting, ugly, perverted, wicked, and abominable.

For those of you fortunate enough not to have seen the entire ceremony, here is how one review described it:

Paris didn’t just push the envelope. It did away with it entirely as it hammered home a message that freedom must know no bounds. A practically naked singer painted blue made thinly veiled references to his body parts. Blonde-bearded drag queen Piche crawled on all fours to the thumping beat of “Freed from Desire” by singer-songwriter Gala, who has long been a potent voice against homophobia. There were the beginnings of a ménage à trois [a sexual encounter between three people]—the door was slammed on the camera before things got really steamy—and the tail end of an intimate embrace between two men who danced away, hugging and holding hands (“Paris’ Olympics opening was wacky and wonderful—and upset bishops. Here’s why,” AP News, July 29, 2024).

This quote is a brief summary, as it doesn’t cover other details, such as a grotesque depiction of Marie Antoinette singing while holding her own severed head, all the other drag queens showcased, or the major performances given by Celine Dion and Lady Gaga, reported as “queer icons.”

Notice how this writer admired the ceremony’s celebration of “freedom”—a good illustration of how this primary value of today’s Western nations is replacing biblical values of purity, chastity, innocence, self-control, family, marriage, modesty, and decency.

By the way, the main event is the Olympics, right? Is it possible to leave out sexual perversion and just focus on the athletes and the sports?

Many specifically criticized the drag queen segment for its alleged mockery of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” a famous though certainly inaccurate Renaissance painting attempting to depict Jesus and His disciples. The director of the ceremony, a homosexual man named Thomas Jolly, denied that the drag queen segment drew from da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” although many reports cited the resemblance.

In Mr. Jolly’s response to criticism of the ceremony, he described some of his goals: “The idea was instead to have a grand pagan festival connected to the gods of Olympus, Olympism,” he said. “Most of all, I wanted to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not at all to divide.”

Paris’ Olympics ceremony provides a lurid example of how many people, organizations, companies, and leaders of Western societies today push values they call love, inclusion, diversity, tolerance, and freedom. Their overarching thoughts can be summarized as, “Everyone can do whatever they want. The only boundary is that boundaries must not be set. Accept everyone for who they are how they choose to live.” This is nothing new—in fact, it has been quite common in history. For instance, ancient Israel’s period of Judges is characterized with this statement: “everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25)—as opposed to what was right in God’s eyes. God distinguishes right from wrong, specifically by setting boundaries that the Bible describes in great detail (see the Tomorrow’s World article “The War Against Normal”).

Where sin is concerned, God is a God of exclusion. The Bible expresses repeatedly that God, in His eternal kingdom, will categorically exclude every form of sin, many of which were depicted and celebrated in Paris’ opening ceremony. And, not only will God exclude sinful behavior from His kingdom, He will exclude people who are not willing to seek God’s forgiveness and repent of such behavior, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9–10).

It is important to note that these verses do not just focus on homosexuality, “drag queens,” or other behavior in “LGBTQ+.” They also reference sins that heterosexuals can commit just as easily, like adultery and fornication, as well as nonsexual sins like idolatry, covetousness, theft, and drunkenness.

The book of Revelation gives much detail about the wrath of Almighty God, which will one day be poured upon mankind (Revelation 6:16; 11:18; 14:10, 19; 15:1). Until then, sincere Christians must “sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done” (Ezekiel 9:4), while striving to deliver one of the Bible’s central messages: Turn from wickedness to righteousness.

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