Yes, I watched a few clips of the opening ceremonies in Paris. Yes, I thought it was an abomination and just all wrong six ways past Sunday. That said, sometimes I feel this real disconnect from Christianity as a whole, from what I often call, "the churchian bubble."
Apparently this is breaking news to some, but the Olympics themselves are based on a pagan religious ceremony. Always have been. That's why you have all the symbolism, the Greek temples, the priestesses, the carrying of the flame. Never in the history of ever have the Olympics been a product of Western Christian society.
Second of all, it's in Paris. I'm not saying this with any judgement or condemnation at all, it's just an observation based on reality and history. France has always been what we shall call, "sexually liberal." Just saying the Transformistes performed in cabarets in France way back in the 1940's. And with all good humor here, "menage a trois" is actually a French phrase. Hasn't anybody ever said, "pardon my French?"
France is not puritan America. Well, shoot, America is not even puritan America. We have this weird split personality. Here people are criticizing the opening ceremony, when we went and sent our very own Lady Gaga there to perform. Like, I'm not sure if we are living under a rock or in a bunch of glass houses.
It's not about whether or not any of these things are "good," it's that a lot of Western, Christian people seem to believe all these things just spontaneously erupted out of nothingness a few weeks ago. I feel just as alienated from this conversation as I felt the other day in the comment section the Seattle Times beneath an article pretty much about, "the booming economy, thanks Biden."
Sometimes I really wonder what planet people have been living on? Surely it can't be this one?! I was not alone in that comment section. One poor soul said she was living in her car, getting ready to go to her second job which meant she had to traverse past 3 blocks of homeless drug addicts spilling across the sidewalk. Other than that, everything is just great! Needless to say the comments were not filled with compassion towards anyone denying the beautiful reality of our booming Biden-economy. I'm not sure which is worse, the idea that people are outright lying or that they live in such an insulated bubble they genuinely don't see any of the suffering going on around them.
A bit amusing, my attempt to flee from that gas lighting boondoggle, just landed me in the midst of the Olympics Outrage Camp. I'm a big fan of free speech and of discussion, and so yes, we should discuss these things, but if we could do it in a way that doesn't imply human beings were just pure and wholesome up until a few weeks ago when we started galloping a pale horse down the river Seine, that would be just lovely.
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