The Olympic Ceremony of 2024
It’s a weird time to be alive.
We’ve watched the age of reason push its way through the centuries and now we seem to be sitting in a weird waiting room of cultural collapse. It’s as though we’re watching Western civilization destroy itself in slow motion when in reality it is plummeting fast. From the Enlightenment to today, we’ve sprinted ourselves towards destruction.
You may wonder what Western civilization and the Enlightenment have to do with what we witnessed at the Olympic Games, but a direct connection can and should be made.
The Enlightenment
During the Enlightenment, ideas such as science, skepticism, and rationality made massive inroads. These informed the zeitgeist of the last 300 or so years. The pursuit of intellectualism during the age of reason did away with such frivolous ideas as myth, religion, or divine influence while upholding the rational basis of materialism.
A few hundred years after the Enlightenment took off, we saw a massive doubling-down on these ideas with a general acceptance of materialism. Darwin’s theory of evolution primed the pump and preceded the philosophical implications of Darwinism, which included Marxism, Fascism, and the like. Marx himself found massive inspiration from Darwin and materialism in his weighing out of the economy as a social structure.
While some may argue that Marxism itself is an economic theory, it quickly and easily consumed not just the economy but encompassed civilization and culture. After all, an economy is merely a massive expression of a society at large.
Psst - (Marx himself desired to walk through the ruins of civilization...so there’s that.)
But now, we seem to be sitting expectantly as the culture collapses like a building scheduled for demolition. And the Olympic games were a perfect example.
Pride, Greece, and the Olympic Games
Look no further than the hedonistic display at the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony. Debate rages as to whether the event evoked a theme of Greek mythology or expertly used demonic symbolism to mock and ridicule Christians.
Even if it did happen to be a truly innocuous expression of Greek mythology, it perverted its mission. The massive focus on drag queens, the LGBTQ community, flamboyancy, sexuality, gender confusion, and self-indulgence became too much to ignore. Even though the presence of Dionysus supposedly showed the “festival” nature of the event, the presence of drag, gay, and sexualized imagery everywhere became the focus while Dionysus merely pointed the way to the central theme of unbridled hedonism.
In other words, LGBTQ became the fanciful mythos of the night.
However, they chose not to stop there.
The event took on plenty of imagery that could be explained away as symbols of Greek mythology and paganism.
More and more, expressions of paganism and old-world symbolism seem to be making their way back. While the occult, paganism, and old world always threaded itself through western civilization by being passed across generations in dusty books and dark rooms; the overt expression of ritualistic symbolism and pagan worship had an age of staying out of the limelight of the general public.
No longer is that the case. The Olympic games gave us proof.
Western civilization has lost its faith in materialism. It just doesn’t realize it yet. Whether the Pride movement was borne as a natural consequence of materialism or not will be a debated conclusion for ages to come. But no one can deny that general respect for decency and morality was lost in the ages following the height of rationalism.
The rejection of Christian moral foundations provided the fertile soil for not just the immoral but opened the floodgates for people to seek meaning greater than themselves through the methods generally sought before the age of science and reason. Don’t forget, that witchcraft and the occult are rapidly growing practices.
Western Civilization and the Olympic Games
As Western civilization sought to shake off the chains of such an oppressive Christian identity, it was left scrambling to pick up a new identity. Sexuality became the religion of the masses. It consumed us and understandably so. Sexuality was God’s gift to us as humans. To unite as one flesh and create new life was akin to the joy God feels at being able to have creation itself in existence. He supercharged sexuality for us, and we removed Him from the act.
Materialism allowed for the hollowing out of the spiritual nature of sexuality and let the minds of men race to the abyss. After all, if we are mere animals, and sex has no more value than a jolt of feel-good, then why not pursue the basest of desires: self-gratification?
Western civilization fell headfirst into the trap set by Satan. We now have come full circle by reigniting the recognition that there is more to this world than just what we can experience through the five senses. Unfortunately for us, we did not reestablish the truth of God. Instead, we hollowed out faith in the supernatural and are slowly rebuilding it in our image.
The grotesque nature of pagan symbolism will only grow in its boldness as more humans become the tools of the kingdom of darkness. Our allegiance is required to one or the other. Either God’s kingdom or Satan’s. There is no neutral position to take in the spiritual war.
Pagan Symbols in the Olympic Games
When we witness imagery like the world did a few nights ago while watching the Olympic games, we must recognize it for what it is. It was a spiritual flag planted by Satan. Whether the show's director knew what he was truly doing or not doesn’t matter. Most make a pretty reasonable argument that, deep down, Thomas Jolly knew exactly what he was doing.
The woman at the center of the display even posted on social media that it was the “New Gay Testament.” You can’t get around that too easily.
But let’s say that the director and coordinators of the Olympic Games ceremony truly had no idea of what they were doing. It doesn’t matter. The presentation showed not just symbols that would be an affront to God, but uplifted and celebrated old religions as though they were uniquely worthy of celebration.
Sadly, we’ve also witnessed disgusting displays of pagan and occultist symbolism at global events such as the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022 or the 2016 inauguration of the Gotthard tunnel. Looking at these events brings an obvious gasp to any Christian who has some sense of biblical imagery and the pains which humanity has repeatedly taken to insult God through their perverted worship and insults to His holiness.
Sexuality and a Dying Civilization
The presentation seen from the Olympic Games the other night contained an endless supply of gyrating, groping, convenient slippages of private parts, hyper-sexualized gender confusion, and even the presence of children in inappropriate company. Marry the whole thing to paganism and old-world religions and you have a recipe for a true affront to the Abrahamic faiths.
We are dying as a civilization, and this is our last gasp of breath. Much like Stalin shaking his fist at God, we’re not using our final breath to repent but to pridefully resent God and His righteous nature.
In the end, sexuality plays a pivotal role in ritualism and the occult. Whether gender confusion, unnatural acts, or worse, Satan conveniently creates a dark trifecta of temptation with power, sex, and wealth.
However, this isn’t the first time a civilization has found itself dying such a death. Camille Paglia noted when discussing the gender confusion of dying civilizations, “And the people who live in such periods of late phase of culture, whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman empire, whether it's the move decade of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s, whether it's Weimar Germany; people who live in such times feel that they're very sophisticated; they're very cosmopolitan. Homosexuality, heterosexuality...anything goes and so on. From the perspective of historical distance, you can see that it's a culture that no longer believes in itself.”
Our civilization no longer believes in itself, yet it mistakenly believes it is beyond morality’s supposed chains. The modern West pursues the zest of life by chasing after the more outrageous, the more explicit, and the more animalistic. What they don’t realize is that the pathway is a steep avalanche to destruction.
And Satan will only provide a smooth pathway to speed up Western civilization toward the crushing weight of consequence. We cannot last long this way, and as our civilization embraces the ritualistic practices of the old, we will see how deep the debauchery goes.
The Book of Romans
Take to heart the death spiral of the West, and then read what Paul has to say in Romans.
Romans 1:18-32 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”