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‘Mocking god’: Religious right melts down over ‘Satantic’ Olympic opening ceremonies (www.rawstory.com)

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Fringe religious conservatives melted down Friday night over the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, decrying the spectacle as “Satantic.”

The phase “mocking god” trended on social media following the opening ceremonies, which included drag performers and a singing — beheaded — Marie Antoinette.

“BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS” wrote @online_shogun along with a short clip showing drag queens in colorful costumes at the ceremony. “This filth is a slap in the face of all Christians. I reject this from every fiber of my being. You Moloch worshipping scum, you are mocking God, and for this you will be punished. As long as faithful people are here to reject f--otry and blasphemy, God.”

The post quickly gained traction, along with others.

“One day every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. One day every knee will bow. Mocking God is the height of foolishness,” wrote @TJMoe28.

“My opinion and I’m entiltled to it! Mocking God, never ever ends well… ILY” wrote @Wonderwpatriot7.

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“If the Olympics are going Satanic and mocking god, they might actually be worth watching this year,” chimed in @ericlahti1.

In particular, they are losing their shit over a drag queen parody of the Last Supper as well as other "Satanic" motifs:

The opening ceremony of the Olympics is not even hiding the satanic rituals anymore.

There is no longer anything hidden in plain sight.

These are the demonic dark forces of Satan who want to eclipse the light.

You can already see:

Skulls

Motifs of death

Satanic red lighting

Children trapped in tunnels

Did anyone notice that the single rider on a pale horse is straight out of the Book of Revelation?

edit: Previously: Swiss right seeks to block Eurovision’s ‘celebration of satanism and occultism’

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Yes, I regularly read the scholar's direct translations. Jesus' reference to hell is a literal place, especially told from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Satan is also mentioned from Genesis to Revelation and multiple times by Jesus in the New testament. I know this because I have actually read the Bible and not watched tiktoks making up BS. And "I don't like the character of God from my cherrypicking of the Bible" isn't actually a bearing on whether or not He is real.

The Bible's legitimacy isn't in the oldness, it lies within textual criticism and undesigned coincidences, the early Church, tiny details here and there, manuscript comparisons (for example, we have more examples of Jesus written about Him from the time He was on earth than we do about many Historical figures or facts that are seen as factual)

Most historians and scholars agree on the existence of Jesus, and that He was executed under Pontius Pilate and that His grave was found empty. The 12 disciples ended up dying for preaching the idea that He rose from the dead, so it's unlikely that they staged it. They also had nothing to gain from perpetuating a farce like this either. Even non Christian sources outside of the Bible report of Jesus' existence, some even just put His miracles down as "sorcery" instead of slight of hand.

I became a Christian because I realised that the whole death and resurrection of Jesus would have had to be some form of extremely elaborate hoax, and the Four Evangelists and St Paul really believed in what they were writing about to be true.