Imagine

It seemed like everything that I believe in was openly mocked at the Olympic opening ceremonies last night. LeBron James was chosen as one of the two Americans to carry the United States flag in the opening procession. Really? LeBron James, the person who has disrespected the America flag for years, was the one chosen to carry the flag? They could have chosen one of the ten former service men or women who are on our Olympic team to carry our flag. The people who have actually risked their lives defending the flag should have had the honor of carrying the flag, not a person who has spent the last decade disrespecting the flag and the country. What has LeBron ever done to deserve that honor? He stands up for and defends China more than he stands up for and defends the United States of America.

But to LeBron James carrying the United States flag at the Olympic ceremony was not about honoring the United States, it was about honoring LeBron James. LeBron is only about LeBron. When carrying the flag puts the spotlight on him, he is all for the flag. When disrespecting the flag, puts the spotlight on him, he is all for disrespecting it. So, carrying the flag in the opening ceremony was not about honoring the flag and all it stands for, but glorifying LeBron. He doesn’t see it as an honor to represent the United States, he sees the honor was that he was chosen over the 590 other athletes on the US Olympic team. So, the person who has used his vast platform to show nothing but disdain for the United States is the one chosen to represent the United States. It was almost as if the US Olympic committee chose to openly mock the United States in the opening ceremonies. And maybe that was the point.

It didn’t stop there. The opening ceremonies were also touted as the “gayest ever” featuring an LGBTQ parody of the "Last Supper" along with a woke fashion show featuring gender-bending fashions and transgender models. We knew that there was going to be some promotion of the LGBTQ community in the opening ceremonies. There always is in an event like that. That agenda has tried to capture every aspect of human society. It must be glorified. It must be celebrated at all times and in everything, and no one shall ever criticize it. Yet, that same supposed “inclusive” agenda has no problem openly mocking Christianity with its parody of the Last Supper – a seminal moment in Christian history. It is interesting to note that they do not parody, mock or ridicule Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or any of the other world religions. They only tend to mock Christianity. It’s like what they say about the attacks that have been aimed at Trump, when you’re on the right track, they come after you. 

The LGBTQ community has even aligned themselves with Islam and the Palestinians in their “Gays for Gaza” protests which is puzzling because Islam is antithetical to the LGBTQ community. In his speech in front of Congress last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposed the “Gays for Gaza” movement by pointing out the obvious contradiction when he said, “Gays for Gaza is like saying chicken for KFC.” Christianity does not agree with the LGBTQ lifestyle while Islam actually persecutes and kills LGBTQ people in their countries, yet the LGBTQ community aligns itself with Islam anyway because Islam attacks Israel which is an attack on the Judeo-Christian ideology which is what the LGBTQ community wants to destroy. 

The LGBTQ community is not about acceptance and inclusion, it is about imposing its agenda and lifestyle on the rest of society. That is why they push for drag queen story hour with children and teaching radical gender ideology in elementary schools. They want to get to children as early as possible when their minds are the most malleable so they can indoctrinate them into their lifestyle. That’s why they inject it into every aspect of society, even in sporting events like the Olympics. And that’s why they want to destroy Christianity. Christians are the most persecuted religion on the planet. More Christians are killed for their faith than any other religious group. Yet, the LGBTQ community never aligns itself with the persecuted Christians the way they align themselves with Islam.

The world will always persecute Christians, that is the story of Christianity. When the world lines up against you, that means you are close to the truth. Jesus said, “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.” The world will always hate Christianity because Jesus and his teaching were not of this world, and he exposed the true evils of the world.

To top it off, the Olympic Opening Ceremony’s theme song was Imagine by John Lennon which is a screed to Marxism and a New World order with lyrics such as:

“Imagine there's no Heaven… No Hell below us… Imagine all the people livin' for today… Imagine there's no countries… And no religion, too… Imagine no possessions.”

So, no God, no country and no private property? That is the Marxian utopia. And Lennon claims in the song that that type of world will bring about “all the people livin' life in peace” and “no need for greed or hunger” and “nothin' to kill or die for”.  Naivety drips from each word of those lyrics. He has absolutely no understanding of the world and how human nature works. And that naivety is dangerous as we have seen.

Marxism has been tried many times over the last one hundred plus years, and how did those Marxian societies that John Lennon imagined work out? Maoist China, 50 million murdered by the communist government; Soviet Union, 40 million murdered by Stalin; North Vietnam, 4 million murdered by Ho Chi Min; Cambodia, 3 million murdered by Pol Pot; North Korea, 2 million murdered by Kim Jung Il; Cuba, 1 million murdered by the Castro regime. There is not a communist country that did not devolve into death and destruction. And even the communist regimes that did not outright murder their citizens, brought nothing but poverty and starvation to their citizens, not peace and prosperity. 

But that is not the point of all of this. They do not care about the average citizens. The point is the destruction of the Western World and all that it stands for. No God, no religion, no country, no borders, no private property, no individual sovereignty. A return to feudalism where the citizen is the property of the government, and the government is one world government. And ultimately that is what was on display for billions of people to see last night. Destroy the United States of America, the greatest expression of human freedom and individual sovereignty ever created; destroy Judeo-Christianity which was the roots and the catalyst for Western culture and classic liberalism which is expressed in the individual freedom and sovereignty of the countries in the Western World. Usher in a new world order with one global government.

They never learn the lesson. How many times does it have to be experienced? The more centralized the power, the more corruption and the more destruction of human rights. We are seeing that in the United States of America right now. The power of the US has never been more centralized in Washington, DC than it is today, and there has never been more corruption and more violations of human rights than what we are experiencing right now. So just imagine how corrupt and how few human rights we will have when all the power in the world is centralized in one place.

People like John Lennon, LeBron James and those in the LGBTQ community are being used by the globalists, one world order power brokers to destroy all that stands in their way of what John Lennon imagined being foisted upon the entire world. Was John Lennon a bad person with evil intents? Of course not, but when you are all about glorifying yourself – ‘look how great and moral of a person I am’ – that will be used to promote evil throughout the world, and that is what John Lennon’s song “Imagine” does, that is what the LGBTQ community does, that is what people like LeBron James do, and that was what was on display last night – lavish display of moral self-aggrandizing that serves no one but the globalist elites.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.