What is behind the controversy surrounding the opening ceremony of the Olympics
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has generated a worldwide controversy since its broadcast.
It revolves around the crude caricature of the Last Supper.
It has aroused the anger of Christians all over the world. But let us be reassured, no French embassy was set on fire, no one was beheaded either, because it was, let us say it again, a Christian anger.
However, this controversy was such that the show's designers had to backpedal.
They took pride in trampling on this essential representation, they claimed the legitimate right to blasphemy.
Blasphemy?They then explained that they had not spoken about the Last Supper at all, and that their references were different.
No, no, no, Christianity was not targeted!
This is what we call laughing at the world. After calling the indignant bigots, they called them uneducated.
Let us resume this quarrel on other bases.
The "right to blasphemy" is obviously fundamental. By this I mean that in a liberal society, no idea should be decreed sacred.
Each should be able to be challenged, which is less and less the case, and certain ideas assimilated to "hate speech" are now banned.
The problem is this: the only religion that we allow ourselves to publicly insult without embarrassment is Catholicism.
Who imagines for a moment that the designers of the program could have attacked other religions with such freedom without risking their skin?
It is here that we must have an overall vision of the political project of this ceremony.
Its designers made no secret of it: they wanted to use these Games to trample on a certain idea of France, generally associated with the "right", which they call "the far right".
They wanted to humiliate the patriotism of the French.
Hence the celebration of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and the bloodiest pages of the French Revolution.
Hence the somewhat esoteric symbolic references in religious matters.
Hence, above all, the massive presence of drag queens.
As we will have noted, the drag queen has become the reference figure of Western progressivism, in its enterprise of complete deconstruction of our civilization.
Drag QueensThat men dress as women has always existed on the margins of society, and it will always exist.
There is, however, a problem in making this murky eccentricity a new norm of identity.
The average person wonders from time to time if we can leave him alone with this enterprise which culminates in the desire to destabilize the sexual and psychic identity of children, by pushing little boys to think of themselves as little girls, and vice versa.
Besides, not believing that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man, isn't that real blasphemy today?
And not appreciating the world of drag queens, is that blasphemy too?
So we'll come back to it. The designers of the ceremony wanted to provoke. They provoked. But this provocation backfires on them.
So now they cry.
It revolves around the crude caricature of the Last Supper.
It has aroused the anger of Christians all over the world. But let us be reassured, no French embassy was set on fire, no one was beheaded either, because it was, let us say it again, a Christian anger.
However, this controversy was such that the show's designers had to backpedal.
They took pride in trampling on this essential representation, they claimed the legitimate right to blasphemy.
Blasphemy?They then explained that they had not spoken about the Last Supper at all, and that their references were different.
No, no, no, Christianity was not targeted!
This is what we call laughing at the world. After calling the indignant bigots, they called them uneducated.
Let us resume this quarrel on other bases.
The "right to blasphemy" is obviously fundamental. By this I mean that in a liberal society, no idea should be decreed sacred.
Each should be able to be challenged, which is less and less the case, and certain ideas assimilated to "hate speech" are now banned.
The problem is this: the only religion that we allow ourselves to publicly insult without embarrassment is Catholicism.
Who imagines for a moment that the designers of the program could have attacked other religions with such freedom without risking their skin?
It is here that we must have an overall vision of the political project of this ceremony.
Its designers made no secret of it: they wanted to use these Games to trample on a certain idea of France, generally associated with the "right", which they call "the far right".
They wanted to humiliate the patriotism of the French.
Hence the celebration of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and the bloodiest pages of the French Revolution.
Hence the somewhat esoteric symbolic references in religious matters.
Hence, above all, the massive presence of drag queens.
As we will have noted, the drag queen has become the reference figure of Western progressivism, in its enterprise of complete deconstruction of our civilization.
Drag QueensThat men dress as women has always existed on the margins of society, and it will always exist.
There is, however, a problem in making this murky eccentricity a new norm of identity.
The average person wonders from time to time if we can leave him alone with this enterprise which culminates in the desire to destabilize the sexual and psychic identity of children, by pushing little boys to think of themselves as little girls, and vice versa.
Besides, not believing that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man, isn't that real blasphemy today?
And not appreciating the world of drag queens, is that blasphemy too?
So we'll come back to it. The designers of the ceremony wanted to provoke. They provoked. But this provocation backfires on them.
So now they cry.
