Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, believes the strange events surrounding the Olympics this year have presented “a microcosm of what’s not right in the world today.”
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“They start off the Olympic ceremonies with the open mockery of ‘The Last Supper,’ the painting by Leonardo da Vinci,” Laurie told CBN News. “And then they deny that’s what it was.”
He juxtaposed the massive debacle over what many have taken as a drag-queen-driven mockery of the Last Supper against a report that Brazilian surfer Joao Chianca was reportedly forced to remove an image of Jesus from his surfboard before the Olympics began.
“So, we can openly mock Christ here,” Laurie said. “But you can’t have any representation of Jesus on your surfboard? … Everything’s upside down.”
The preacher said the “whole thing is just ridiculous,” but emblematic of a broader problem unfolding in the culture at large.
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“This is … really a representation of culture saying, ‘We don’t want God … we’re gonna openly mock God now, we’re gonna make new rules, we’re gonna define what a man is, what a woman is, what marriage is, and I’m gonna change everything,’” Laurie said. “And you have chaos as a result and you see it in the world; you see it in America.”
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