If you are like me, you were appalled by the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Drag queens mimicking Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with mocking Christianity.
This blasphemous performance was not an isolated incident, but part of a long pattern. “Progressivism” or “wokism” is a modern-day adaption of atheistic Marxism that aims to destroy Christianity, and with it Western Civilization.
Such attacks on our faith and values happen every hour of every day. They occur in schools, libraries, movies, music, TV shows, books, public squares, awards, painting, sculpture, nightclubs, museums, parliaments, ministries, hospitals, NGOs, and more.
The Paris blasphemy set off all alarms only because of its reach: It was broadcast simultaneously on hundreds of millions of TV screens around the world.
This was a big scandal, but it’s in a myriad of small things that our Western culture is being destroyed. Because we don’t get outraged by the small things, the evil has invaded our living rooms.
It’s no coincidence that children were used in this mockery. For over 100 years, cultural Marxism has been on the march. It has focused in succession on killing God (atheism), then on killing the father (rejection of authority), and from there on killing the mother (radical feminism and abortion).
Now it’s after the child. And it wants them isolated from their parents and alone, so they can be more easily indoctrinated by the State. The “woke” view of children is that they are no longer sons or daughters, but junior “citizens”—creatures of the State whose only important “rights” are sexual and reproductive.
The main means of achieving this nefarious plan is what is called “Comprehensive Sexual Education.”
Now, this is not to be confused with education, or even true sexual education. Rather, it is a carefully designed propaganda course in gender ideology. It teaches children (!) that they have an inalienable right to have sexual relations—even with adults—as long as these are “consensual, safe, and pleasurable.”
It encourages them to have sex without love and without responsibility, even without the knowledge and consent of their own parents. It tells them they have an absolute “right” to contraception and abortion. And it tells them that their parents have no right to interfere with, or even know about, any of these activities.
Spanish journalist Álex Rosal, in his book “Wake Up and Fight the Barbarians Who Ruin Your Life,” asserts that “wokism” has advanced only because so few have fought back. Rosal calls those who do stand up and fight these cultural battles “guardians of culture.” These guardians fight the ordinary, everyday battles, acting bravely to promote values and expose deceptions.
There is no better place to do this than within the family! Giuliana Caccia, director of the association Origen, believes that the cultural battle will be won at the dinner table, in that intimate dialogue between parents and children where the things that truly matter to us are discussed. There the everyday bravery of children in being children and parents in being parents will flourish.
In the end, cultural Marxism—and its latest expression in gender ideology—is a death cult. Those who practice it will die along with their pagan dogma. The countries that were at the forefront of gender ideology are now desperately implementing policies to incentivize birth rates because the demographic winter is jeopardizing their economies.
The majority of human beings are naturally conservative. The Woke agenda and its hegemonic vision have progressed due to the indifference, and all too often the cowardice, of this silent majority.
The blasphemy that opened the Olympic Games has opened the eyes of many. And the number of those who are unwilling to accept this latest attack on life, family, and faith continues to grow.
The vast majority of parents continue to raise their children well, and therein lies our hope. The cultural battle will be won at the kitchen table—there, where parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren sit together again, leaving their phones aside, and talk about the truly important things in life.
We must not lose heart.
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