By Hannah Gebhardt
Last Friday, the 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off in Paris with a trip down the Seine, basked in the glamor of the city of lights. But what Paris holds in architectural beauty, it quickly tarnished with the accompaniment of several crude and tasteless performances. But we’ve chosen to highlight two particularly sordid performances that stood out among others.
Framed in the windows of the building where the real aristocrat once awaited death, several decapitated Marie Antonette’s celebrated the so called “liberation” of France. Satanic and morbid, this performance left the average viewer uncomfortable and disgusted.
The evening’s events only got worse with the outright mockery of Christianity. Gathered down a long table, creatives paid homage to Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” with a horrid ensemble of drag queens and half naked men. Social media immediately took to calling out the performance, and our personal fav, Candace Cameron Bure shared her thoughts as well.
“The Olympic Games have always brought me so much joy. It’s the best of the best athletes in the world competing for the title,” she said. “So to watch such an incredible and wonderful event that’s going to take place over the next two weeks, and see the opening ceremony completely blaspheme and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of ‘The Last Supper’ was disgusting.”
Candace Cameron Bure Via Today.com
In the wake of such debauchery, we yearn for a return to the tradition of the olympics. To the honor each athlete bore in representing their country. To the pride of cheering on the United States.
As the 2024 Summer Olympics come to a close this Sunday, let’s take a moment of gratitude for those athletes who have represented our country with pride in Paris. While there has been much controversy surrounding the outright mockery of Christianity, drag queens, and men dominating in women’s sporting spaces during these games, let this serve as a reminder that we do not belong to this world. May we take heart and preserve in our call to share the gospel with the lost world around us.
John 15:18
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
Hannah Gebhardt is founder of The Edifier, a writer for Lifeway Christian Ministries, and a columnist at the Standing for Freedom Center at Liberty University. She can be found on Instagram @hannah.gebhardt.