RADIOJuly 29, 2024

Drag Queens, Paganism, Golden Calf: Did the Olympics Opening Ceremony BASH Christianity?

Many around the world are saying that the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony was a mockery of Christianity with its alleged drag queen parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But others, including the organizers of the Paris Olympics, have insisted that it wasn’t on purpose. So, what’s the truth? Glenn reviews that moment, along with others that he believes were clearly anti-Christian. Why is nobody talking about the golden calf that was on display?! Between the calf, the inclusion of the Greek god Dionysus, and the Last Supper drag show, Glenn says one thing is clear: “This is a pagan ritual.” But hey … at least Celine Dion was amazing!

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay. So, Stu, what have you seen, because you didn't watch it. What have you seen?

STU: A bunch of stuff, I wish I hadn't seen.

GLENN: Yeah. Okay.

STU: You know, dudes, with beards. Doing a lot of dancing. A recreation of the last supper with genitals flopping out of undershorts.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: You know, I -- it was all stuff that -- I mean, I guess there were some sporting events, as well, tied to this in some way.

GLENN: Right. I haven't seen anything about those sporting events.

STU: It was disgusting.

GLENN: Okay. Okay. So here's what's being said. What's being said is there was a golden calf on the main stage.

And no explanation of it. There was a recreation of the -- of the Last Supper. And people have been saying, that wasn't a representation of the Last Supper.

But even the director. The guy who was the artistic director for the whole thing said, I'm not the first one to use that image. And to change it.

I mean, the Simpsons have done it. Everyone has done it.

Okay. So now we know that that was the Last Supper. Then there was this picture of this -- of this woman, with her head chopped off. And it was a very, you know, fire and brimstone kind of thing. But that was about the French Revolution.
Then there was a -- a really interesting party, that -- that went on.

That seemed I don't know. Kind of pagan. But that was the point, they say.

And then there was a pale writer. A writer that was dressed in carrying the Olympic flag, and he was on a pale horse. And he was dressed in pale armor.

And he was riding the horse, on the Seine. Now, let me tell you that -- let me first give a review of the opening.

Celine Dion ended everything. And it was one of the most powerful moments I've ever seen. She sang I don't know. Some Frenchy French song about, you know, if you only love me right now, that will be fine.

Whatever. But it was -- it was powerful. And it was powerful because she conquered all odds. She was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome. Where your body just stiffens up and you can't move it.

And she was incredible. And she had her on the second level of the Eiffel Tower. They used the Eiffel Tower as a back -- as a backdrop for much of this.

And it -- I've never seen the Olympics, ever. I've never seen anybody, do anything like what they did in Paris. And making the entire city a stage.

It was beautiful, powerful. Cost them $150 million. So if it wasn't beautiful and crazy, outrageous, in a good way, you would wonder what they did with the $150 million.

But I kept saying all the way through it, I cannot imagine what this costs, to put on.

I'm surprised it was only $150 million.

Now, let's take the imagery. And let's take it two ways. Let's take it as what the Olympic Committee said it was.

That -- that writer and the horse is the -- I don't know. The -- the God of the Seine River. That this was all about the history of France, which it was.

And it had nothing to do with mocking Christianity. Well, I would say, that you could read it that way. Absolutely.

Like the horse, you could read it as the pale rider, or you could read it as, you know, the spirit of the Seine. Fine. And I won't argue about that.

You could read it either way. But there are some things here that you cannot read any other way.

One, the golden calf, on the main stage, facing the Eiffel Tower. There was a golden bust of the bull. And then there was the golden calf, beneath that.

It was never mentioned. Why?

If you watched the -- the segment with the Lord's supper, it only was on the frame for -- on the TV for about two or three seconds.

Now, I want to show you that it's not just Christians in America, and conservatives that are all upset.

Could you please play the video that we got from -- I don't remember what. One of the social services. Where they're in France.

And they're watching it. And are these French people watching that scene. Watch.

Hands on their faces. (foreign language)

Now, head in the hands. (foreign language)
(laughter)

GLENN: So even they were a little shocked by it. Maybe they thought it was funny. But their expressions show that they were also kind of embarrassed that that would be happening. The -- the announcers never said anything about even that being a table, other than the runway has been fashioned from a banquet table. And then they passed over that scene. Well, that scene was carefully constructed to look like the Last Supper. There's no way you can deny that. The positions and everything else. However, it's all drag queens. So all of the apostles are a drag queen. And Jesus is a fat lesbian.

And there was a child at the table. And if you look at a screen grab, you can see the man behind her. His testicles are escaping, and wandering about.

It was -- it was truly horrifying, if you look at it as the last supper. It is mocking God.

And as I said last week, we are no longer chasing God out of the public square. That's been done a long time ago.

We're now taking him bound and gagged to our public square. Tying him to a pole. And mocking him every day. That doesn't end well for any civil disobedience.

I don't believe that everybody had seen this. The director had kept a lot of it a secret. So nobody knew what everything meant, or why it was done.

But that was clearly done. As were the golden calf, to say that this is a pagan ritual.

Now, the guy -- the little blue guy is the -- is the God of wine. He is also the -- the God of the theater. Eventually.

It's -- I think it's Dionysus.

Dionysus. Dionysus is the Greek God of wine, which goes into France.

But also, of this -- of ecstasy.

And they used to have rituals. This cult gathered around him. And it was a festival, which is said that this is what this festival was supposed to represent. Which was really decadent and evil.

I mean, let's just be honest about it. It was just evil, the way it happened. In fact, it was so evil the way it happened. In fact, it was so evil that in 186 B.C.E., the Italians banned this god. And that festival.

It was not good. So you can't just say that this is something that is, oh, well, this is -- this is just the god of wine.

He's also the god of ecstasy and ecstasy without any shame. He is also the god that you would see on old theater marquees, with the grapes over his head. He's also the God of the pagan theater.

So he comes out to be served. And they have an orgy. While there is a fashion show, that was going on with men in dresses and -- it was just all gender-bender. It was just all basically, that whole scene, and much of the night was, we reject all the norms of God.

We object and will mock everything that people say is -- is good. And we will mock those who are offended by this.

I believe this was some sort of an -- I would have to talk to Rabbi Daniel Lapin into find out.

But I would like to hear his opinion on this. Because I think this was a pagan ritual that we just don't understand, because we're too far away from it.

But this is a -- a gauntlet, thrown down, in trance.

Now, why would you do this?

People would say, and I've heard them say, why would they do this? To all of the Christians in the world. There's almost 2 billion Christians in the world.

Yeah. But if your country was being taken over by Islamists. And they were already on the streets, saying, how decadent and perverse of a society you are. Why would you put that on full display?

This was a gauntlet that was thrown down.

And I don't think it's going to end well.

So congratulations, Celine Dion, for taking that $8 million to stand up and sing. You were amazing. But the rest of it was highly, highly disturbing.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.