Meanwhile, in France

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goodness. MARINE LE PEN

RUSSELL BRAND / The Right Just Scored A KNOCKOUT Blow In Europe And Liberals Are STUNNED / -5min

Description:
Following a historic loss to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party in European elections on Sunday,
French President Emmanuel Macron said he is dissolving the French parliament.

Marine Le Pen calls on ‘patriots’ to build future majority government / 1min

Desciption:
France’s far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen on 10 June invited ‘men and women of good will, who are patriots’ to help her party obtain a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Le Pen said she met various officials, including the far-right party Reconquête’s executive vice-president, Marion Maréchal.
Le Pen added that the National Rally’s president and lead candidate in the EU elections would be prime minister if her party obtained a majority.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, called surprise snap elections on Sunday in response to his group’s defeat in the EU elections.

Marine Le Pen
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marine-Le-Pen

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Updates on France elections found in another topic:

P.4 / viewtopic.php?t=6908&start=30

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EU MADE SIMPLE / France's Election Results Explained / 8min

[Ken]

The authors of the above video seem to be under the mistaken impression that the political block representing an actual majority of voters did something nefarious by acting strategically to prevent a political party representing only 1/3 of the electorate from winning power.

Marine Le Pen was not "denied victory" nor is she entitled to cruise into power with a minority of votes on the backs of a divided opposition. This is no different from the sour grapes from the Bernie Sanders crowd who expected a divided primary in 2020 would allow him to cruise to the nomination with only about 30% support.

If the right wants to actually win power in France they need to do better than 37%.

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France has outdone itself.

The warning signs wrt where The Olympics were headed emerged in the obama years.
The (Olympic) race to the bottom.

The Officer Tatum / The Olympics Opening Ceremony BACKFIRES For Mocking Christ! / -8min


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Just posted in another topic:

A few years ago I heard an interview of Christian thinkers about the waning Christian majority. There was a general consensus of gloom until the last speaker, theologian Stanley Hauerwas. He said this the greatest gift the American church has ever been given. Now we no longer need to pretend, or apologize for unchristian things in society. Now we are free to simply live the truth. I think of him often, that is the salt and light I want to be.

What feelings do I get when I think of the candidates? Hope, energy, vision.

The church is more free from party alliance than it has ever been in US history.
The whole world can see neither of them have much to do with Jesus. We are finally free.

Let's think of creative ways to live that out for the next four years.

In spirit, admirable. Idealistic.
In real life: prepare for hell on earth. Of Biblical proportions, in wars, carnality, in every way.

Without any fear or respect for God, no boundaries. i wish we had to guess at what that would look like.

.. Truth be told, anything out of the Democratic party scares me. ..

They don’t even lie about their intentions. Not just domestically, globally.

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^^There has been global protest against the Olympics debauchery.
So much, there was a (tepid) apology.

There is tremendous need for prayer. God wants ALL to come to repentance. 2Peter 3:9

“Paris Olympics organizers apologize after critics say 'The Last Supper' was mocked”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/o ... 582213007/

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Sadly, Jill Biden is in Paris “with bells on” to represent the U.S.:

“First lady Jill Biden praises Olympics opening ceremony that mocked Last Supper”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-lady-j ... 39526.html

i never followed the Olympics closely, i have avoided them in recent years, once homosexuality became a feature.
This Paris display reflects “the nose of the camel” ..

when i was young, the message was the Olympics were to be a place for ATHLETES to be featured, to compete fairly
without regard to politics or other distractions, which can be terrific.

[steve-in-kville]

Never thought I"d see Russel Brand's name grace the pages of MN. But here we are....

[Grace]

“First lady Jill Biden praises Olympics opening ceremony that mocked Last Supper”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-lady-j ... 39526.html

Why am I not surprised at Jill Biden.

The Olympic Committee is now back pedaling and saying that the despicable mockery with it's blue naked man, was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus.

[Szdfan]

“First lady Jill Biden praises Olympics opening ceremony that mocked Last Supper”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-lady-j ... 39526.html

Why am I not surprised at Jill Biden.

The Olympic Committee is now back pedaling and saying that the despicable mockery with it's blue naked man, was a representation of the event called the Feast of Dionysus.

This is an explanation by Dutch art historian Walther Schoonenberg that the tableau vivant at the Olympics is based on the 1635 painting The Feast of the Gods by Jan van Biljert:

https://x.com/wschoonenberg/status/1817 ... 8-khs7cmwA (it’s in Dutch but X can translate tweets).

It’s this painting that’s being referenced—

[Josh]

So, the Olympics either

(1) Blasphemes the Last Supper

or

(2) Celebrates false pagan Greek gods and disgusting, immoral practices they used to worship them.