Nothing. Dont watch the olympics, dont give it prestige, dont give it the time of day. They fuck up every time, scandal after scandal.
Why give them the time of day? Let the ioc rot
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conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Alright, let’s talk. What would you see done about it? And, more relevant, what do you think Jesus would do?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I don’t watch the Olympics and never have. I would rather watch amateurs compete like Bob down the Street, who drank a few beers before the pole vault.
Watching a bunch of professional people compete isn’t that interesting to me. It requires a lot of money to get to the Olympics and I would rather see people more deserving to go.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s hard to imagine Jesus getting all super offended by this. I imagine He might say something like “You don’t have to get all furious on my behalf” or He might say “You hypocrite! Look at your own behavior!”
About the Olympics as a whole, it seems like worldlyness to me: vast sums of money spent on spectacle that benefits a relative few people. I think Christians can let the worldly do their thing without engaging and without getting caught up in controversy that distracts us from the Kingdom of Heaven.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Agreed. Jesus had no patience for people who used religion as a means of personal, political, or economic power. The impression I got about guy I read about is that he’d be a thousand times more cross (pun for you) with America’s Evangelicals than he would be with this.
realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social 4 months ago
@Bongo_Stryker @conditional_soup The origins on the #Olympics was indeed a pagan ritual as I understand it. Pagans will do as the pagans do.
I didn't hear a peep when there was blatant blasphemy at the #RNC a few weeks ago. That got me absolutely incensed.
There are few things that get me more upset than a " #Christian" misrepresenting #God or using His name for their own ends.