The battle lines are clearly drawn

Actually, they have been for quite a while

The anti-Christian/pro-gay/pro-trans Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony, featuring a degenerate version of the Last Supper, was watched by tens of millions of people. Owing to the wide reach of social media, it took only minutes for the disgraceful proceedings to go viral. Likewise, it took only a few minutes for Bishop Robert Barron (Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN) to post his remarks on the matter.

Barron, who is far from a rabble-rouser, urged Christians to speak out and make our voices heard. He noted that, “This deeply secular post-modernist society knows who its enemy is—they’re naming it—and we should believe them. They’re telling us who they are.”

Barron was not the only one. Negative comments were filed by the Bishops’ Conference of France; Malta’s Archbishop Charles Scicluna; and Green Bay Bishop David Ricken endorsed Barron’s remarks—to name but a few.

For those who care, here is a LONG profile on Thomas Jolly, the brains behind the opening ceremony.

Many observers are asking themselves how things could have gotten this far out of hand. The good news, I suppose, is that it took around 60 years for things to deteriorate to this extent. That’s 60 years from the infamous school prayer decisions, and related events that took us down this primrose path. Of course, the insidious double-edged sword of “tolerance” pushed things along. Exactly how much are people of good will supposed to tolerate?

As to the Olympic Games, it is worth remembering that Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned the games in 393 AD, deeming them pagan, and not exactly wholesome with nude male competitors wrestling and running about. While Pierre de Coubertin is credited as the father of the modern Olympic movement, and the Games in Athens in 1896 being the official revival, there were many organized games before that time.

In fact, the notion of an Olympic revival really dates back to the French Revolution and L'Olympiade de la République, a national Olympic festival held annually from 1796 to 1798. It’s hardly an accident that the atheist and virulently anti-Catholic revolutionaries would take delight in resurrecting a movement condemned 1400-plus years earlier.

Any observer of the Games knows that they are full of controversy, from ridiculous judging scandals to timing snafus at basketball games. Quite tellingly, the most famous controversy is actually a lie—and how typical of the revealed wisdom that passes as history in the US. That is, according to all the liberal sycophants.

Everybody knows that Hitler snubbed multiple gold medal winner Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. And this lie has been dutifully repeated thousands of times. But here’s the truth, according to brilliant forensic historian Michael Flores:

Hitler didn't meet with any of the medal winners on that particular day as he left early. He did, however, rise up in the stands to applaud Owens after his victories. Moreover, the only leader who did snub Owens was our own dear segregationist Franklin Roosevelt, who invited only white Olympic athletes to the White House. More fascinating details regarding Owens and those Games are detailed in the link.

A familiar, if stupid, insult is to accuse someone—or some movement—of being on the wrong side of history. If the Paris opening ceremony represents the direction of history, then I suppose that Christians are (temporarily) on the wrong side. After all, the trend certainly seems to be in the direction of immorality.

The fabled Roman Empire fell—after 500 years—owing to a decline in moral values and a massive invasion of immigrants, officially tolerated at first. Does this mean that the Goths were on the right side of history? The native tribes of North America fell to the invading Europeans. Were they on the wrong side of history?

Referring to the then-nascent environmental movement, in 1971 cartoonist Walt Kelly opined that “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Sorry, Walt, but this time, we have met the enemy, and he is NOT us, and we know good and well who he is.