From dailysignal.com
I am a Jew, not a Christian. Yet I found loathsome the mockery of the Last Supper—one of the holiest scenes in the New Testament—during the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
In fact, it is actually troubling to constantly read the words, “Many Christians are offended”—as if only Christians are offended by France’s and the International Olympic Committee’s mockery of Jesus’ Last Supper scene.
Indeed, if only Christians were offended, there is little hope for civilization.
But we live in the age of groupthink, in which only members of targeted groups are expected to be offended. To write that Christians were offended by what just transpired in Paris would be as if one were to write, “blacks were offended” by slavery, or “Jews are offended” by Islamic attempts to eradicate Israel, or “women are offended” by the rape of women.
One assumes that moral individuals of every group would find men in drag, transwomen, and a naked man enacting Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper—on the world’s largest stage—offensive.
In fact, “offensive” doesn’t do justice to how we all should view what the French and the Olympics did.
What was done in the opening to the 2024 Paris Olympics was far more serious than “offensive.” It actually represented the greatest threat to Western civilization in the Western world’s history: the Left.
You don’t have to be a Christian to understand that Christianity—more specifically, Judeo-Christian values and the Bible—made Western civilization. Without Christianity and the Bible, there would be no West. That is why contempt for Christianity and the Bible is synonymous with mockery for the West. The current civil war within Western civilization is a war between the Left and the Bible.
It is also the reason the Los Angeles Dodgers not only allowed a group called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—a self-described “order of queer and trans nuns” that mimics and mocks Catholic nuns—to perform prior to a Dodgers game. The Dodgers actually honored them.
It is the reason an “artwork” titled “Piss Christ”—a crucifix submerged in a jar of urine—toured museums throughout America.
It is why the European Union Charter does not once mention Christianity.
It’s why every left-wing group in America is apoplectic over Louisiana’s recent decision to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in Louisiana classrooms; and Oklahoma’s decision to make teaching of the Bible mandatory in public schools.
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