The Paris Olympic Show: An Act of War Against Christian Civilization

by Roberto de Mattei – Corrispondenza Roman

SOURCE FR. LIVIO’s BLOG

Among the many symbolic events of our time, the grotesque spectacle that inaugurated the Paris Olympics on July 26 cannot simply be dismissed as a show of bad taste or a cultural provocation. It is the latest act of war against Christian Civilization that had one of its historical peaks in the French Revolution.  

At the centre of the controversy over the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was a choreography in which the  French DJ  Barbara Butch, known for having defined herself as ” fat, lesbian, queer, Jewish and proud of it “, led the scene, wearing a halo-shaped crown, surrounded by  drag queens , the transgender model Raya Martigny and dozens of dancers of uncertain gender, while the singer Philippe Katerine burst in, almost naked and painted blue and in the guise of Dionysus. 

The representation seemed to many to be a blasphemous parody of the Last Supper and sparked indignation and protests from Catholics around the world. The creator of the  tableau vivant,  Thomas Jolly, who is also an openly “queer” character, justified himself by saying that he was not inspired by the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, but by an unknown 17th-century artist, Jan Harmensz van Bijlert, author of a painting,  Le Festin des dieux , which depicts a banquet of the gods on Olympus.

Whatever the inspiration, the initiative cannot be traced back to a bizarre artistic director, but expresses a message commissioned by the highest French authorities, starting with the head of state. President Emmanuel Macron is the one who, last March 4, declared himself proud that France was the first country in the world to include abortion in its constitutional charter, defining this act as a universal message. Macron himself, in his arrogance, untouched by the recent  electoral debacle  , wanted to propose to the world a new message of anti-Christian “inclusivity”. Dionysus is the “hybrid” god of pagan orgies, unbridled sensuality and the blindness of reason and the declared intention of the organizers was to replace the sublime mystery of Christianity with the Dionysian bacchanal. 

Hatred towards Christianity has always needed symbolic representations and the French Revolution was fueled from the beginning by pagan mythology. There is an evident continuity between the blasphemous parody of the Last Supper on July 26 and the enthronement of the Goddess of Reason, which took place on August 10, 1793 in Paris, under the guise of the Egyptian goddess Isis. 

In this respect, there is also something sacrilegious in the gratuitous and shameful outrage against Queen Marie Antoinette, depicted in the   Parisian  performance of July 26, holding her guillotined head in her hands, singing the revolutionary anthem Ça ira.  Macron and his collaborators wanted to vindicate the French Revolution in what is most abject: the killing of the Queen of France, an innocent victim, like King Louis XVI, of revolutionary hatred, which in the French sovereigns wanted to strike the principle of the social Kingship of Christ.

Marie Antoinette, the most slandered, but also the most beloved, and even venerated, Queen in history was guilty of no crime other than that of embodying an aristocratic grace incompatible with revolutionary egalitarianism. Much has been written about her alleged frivolity and little about her piety. Yet the sovereign’s religious spirit, which emerged in the last days of her imprisonment, was rooted in an education and a conception of the world antithetical to the revolutionary one. The show trial before the Jacobin Tribunal, on 14 and 16 October 1793, saw her the victim of defamatory accusations. An image by the English painter William Hamilton depicts her in an immaculate white dress, as she leaves the  Conciergerie , surrounded by the ” tricoteuses “, who are calling for new blood from the Revolution. Henry Sanson, son of the executioner of Paris, recounts in his  Memoirs  that she ascended the steps of the guillotine with astonishing majesty, as if they had been those of the great staircase of Versailles. The same words with which Pope Pius VI, in his allocution  Quare lacrymae  of 17 June 1793, called Louis XVI a martyr can be applied to Queen Marie Antoinette. In this allocution, Pius VI exclaimed: « Alas, France, alas, France! Called by Our predecessors  “mirror of all Christianity and sure pillar of the Faith”,  you who in the fervor of the Christian Faith and in devotion to the Apostolic See have never followed the other Nations, but have always preceded them! How far you are from Us today, with this spirit so hostile towards the true Religion: you have become the most implacable enemy of all the adversaries of the Faith that have ever existed! »

The killing of the two sovereigns is the founding act of the French Republic and the constitutionalization of abortion represents a symbolic continuity in the murder of the State. However, anyone who wants to identify France with the  blasphemous show  that opened the Olympic Games would be wrong. France is not the Place de la Guillotine, but Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle; France is not Robespierre or Macron, but Saint Louis and Saint Joan of Arc. Likewise, anyone who wants to identify the spectacle of degeneration that Paris has offered in recent months with Western civilization, to which France has given so much, would be wrong. The West is the history of a religious faith, of a lifestyle, of an art, of a literature, of a music, and also of great battles in defense of civilization. 

The external enemies of the West, who are the heirs of Mohammed in the Arab world and those of Lenin in Russia and China, hate not the decadence of the West, but the West as such: that West which defeated Islam at Lepanto and in Vienna and stopped Communism in Warsaw in 1920 and in Spain in the 1930s. 

The enemies of the West seek their revenge. For this to happen, for them to win the war, they know that the West must cease to be Christian, must return to the ideas and customs of paganism, to fall like a ripe apple, as happened to the Roman Empire. The barbarians did not hate the decadence of Rome, but the power that had subjugated them for centuries. The conquest of the Eternal City by the Goths of Alaric, on the night of August 24, 410, was their triumph. Saint Jerome in Bethlehem, and Saint Augustine in Hippo shed deep tears for this symbolic event. Who cries today for the threats of the new barbarians to the West? But, above all, who is willing to defend the West in the name of the principles and institutions that made it great in history? And yet the strength of these values, which is born from the Truth of Christ, is indestructible. The future of the world is not under the banner of Dionysus, nor under that of communism or Islam, but under that of the one victorious God, who is Jesus Christ. Faith and reason attest to this.

How and when will it happen? To God, everything is possible in history. Only those who believe in blind historical determinism think that “ history is not made with ifs .” History is made with “ifs” precisely because of the wealth of possibilities that every present moment contains. This is why our examination of conscience is based on the shortcomings we have committed, but were not forced to commit. History, like our lives, could have gone differently and could go, at any moment, in a different way. What would have happened if on July 14, 1789, the dragoons of the Prince of Lambesc, contravening the order not to shed blood given to them by Louis XVI, had swept away the revolutionary rabble marching toward the Bastille? The anti-Christian Revolution should not delude itself. The dragoons of the Prince of Lambesc are always, sword in hand, just around the corner of history.