Elon Is Wrong: The Gates Of Hell Will Not Prevail


By Dr. R. Scott Clark - Posted at The Heidelblog:

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris was four hours long. Part of the ceremony featured the return of Celine Dion, the procession of competitors, and other highlights. The most controversial aspect, however, was the introduction into the ceremony of the queer sexual-social agenda by the self-described “queer” artist Thomas Jolly. Those segments of the opening ceremony were a moral, religious, and aesthetic debacle featuring trans people recreating a scene featuring the Greco-Roman god Dionysius. Part of the queering of the opening ceremony also included a scene that seemed to mock DaVinci’s (c. 1495) painting, The Last Supper. From the point of view of the ancient Christian church and the Reformed churches since the sixteenth century, artistic and aesthetic merit aside, the painting is already highly problematic since it violates the second commandment (as numbered by the Jews and the Reformed churches). Setting aside, for the moment, those weighty objections, the aesthetics and ethics of crudely mocking a major world religion are highly dubious. We may test the limits of “queerness,” however, by asking whether they would have queered Islam or the prophet? The staff at Charlie Hebdo might answer that question but they are not answering the phone any more.

There has been an attempt by some to deny that Jolly was mocking the painting and Christianity. The Associated Press, however, reported:

Among their bold performances was a scene that seemed to evoke Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” featuring the drag queens and other performers in a configuration reminiscent of Jesus Christ and his apostles. This segment drew significant attention — and mixed reactions.

In fact Jolly deliberately arranged to do both things: depict Dionysius and mock Christianity. Those who suggest that that latter did not occur are not arguing in good faith.

The concern of this essay, however, is not the queering of the Olympics. France, once so staunchly Roman Catholic that her citizens brutally murdered thousands of their fellow Frenchmen, who happened to be Reformed, in 1572, is now perhaps the least Christian of any of the European nations. Given that France is what it is because of its embrace of the radicalism of the French Revolution, because it is decidedly post-Christian, we should perhaps not be surprised that the queering of the Olympics occurred in Paris. Have you seen the fashions created by Parisian designers? Clearly they are, as one ancient pagan described the Christians, “haters of humanity.”1

The concern of this essay is the response by Elon Musk to the mocking of Christianity, what his response (and its echo on some Christian quarters) signifies, and how it errs. On X, on July 27, he wrote, “Unless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish.” Musk’s response is natural. It is the way men think about human enterprises. They think this way about defending their homes, their businesses, and their communities but Christ’s church is not a natural enterprise. It is a supernatural institution.

Thus, Musk’s response is entirely wrong headed. Because it is a supernatural institution, Christianity withstood 270 years of bloody persecution from AD 40–311. Likely thousands were martyred in the third century alone. We needed no strong man then to defend us nor were we fighting any culture war against the brutal, pagan Roman Empire. I am not saying that there is no value in standing up for natural marriage and against the trans sexual revolution. There is but the existence and continuing of Christianity depends on the ascended Lord Jesus and not upon our efforts in this world.




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