What we see occurring today in Western culture is the late stage of a process in which Christianity is being systematically rejected by the cultural elites. But they have no new religion to replace it. For this reason, they are unable to do anything other than tear down and deconstruct Christianity. The more they succeed, the more a vacuum is created at the heart of a culture where religion ought to exist.

The blasphemy and perversity on display at last week’s opening of the Paris Olympics raises the question: Why did they do that? When given the opportunity to put the best of its culture on display for the world, why did France resort to a tableau of drag queens posing in imitation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper? The Christian faith, as a matter of historical fact, has been integral in creating the culture of France, yet here it was mocked and treated with contempt.

France is at the heart of what historians have called the “West,” that is, a culture centered in Western Europe but now spread around the world, emerging out of the conversion of the pagan peoples of Europe during the Middle Ages. This culture was marked by the separation of church and state, the creation of representative government, the rise of universities and eventually modern science, and by the idea that God has endowed human beings with rights and dignity that the state must recognize to be just.

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