There has been so much controversy already about the Paris Olympics. The Satanic opening ceremony was a major blight on the IOC, and other issues also deserve massive condemnation. Allowing women to be pummelled by those who are not women is the latest outrage. But also a real worry is the number of Christians who seem to have no problem with these things.
I really thought I had seen it all when those calling themselves Christians sought to fully defend the diabolical opening ceremony in Paris. But I was wrong. Now we have those calling themselves Christians seeking to fully defend the diabolical violence and abuse of women by men in Paris.
The battering of women
Everyone by now knows about the Italian boxer Angela Carini who ended up breaking down in tears and bowing out after just 46 seconds in Round One of a match with an Algerian boxer. As she sat in her corner the two-time Olympian shouted out, “This is unjust.” She also said, “I quit to save my life.” I am glad she did.
International outrage over putting women at risk like this was instant, and rightly so. Putting the word “woman” on a passport does not make a male a female. But let’s be clear about this: Even IF the exceedingly rare Intersex designation is correct here, these persons should NOT be allowed into the ring with a woman.
The International Boxing Association had already disqualified Imane Khelif (Algeria) and Lin Yu-ting (Taiwan) for failing gender eligibility tests. And Lin Yu-Ting was disqualified from the 2023 Women’s World Championships for testing positive for “XY chromosomes”. But the IOC was happy to let them waltz right in! And now women are paying the price for this.
Imagine women spending most of their lives training for this event, only to lose it all in such an unfair and unjust manner. Plenty have already spoken out against this. Tennis champion and lesbian activist Martina Navratilova said this: “Deplorable. This will not end well for the people in power who allowed this to happen.”
And NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines said this incident was “heartbreaking” and said, “This photo [of the bowed and bruised Carini] should haunt the IOC (but it won’t).” Aussie boxing star Tim Tszyu said. “Shameful. This is wrong.”
Professional boxer Jake Paul put it this way: “This is sickening. This is a travesty. Doesn’t matter what you believe. This is wrong and dangerous.” And the Australian boxing great Billy Dib said this: “Olympic boxing needs to ban this. It’s a joke, disgusting on so many levels.”
Earlier on NFL great Rob Gronkowski had put it this way: “There are men’s sports for men, there’s women’s sports for women. It should just stay like that. It’s just as simple as that, man. There’s really no argument. There should really be no conversation about it.” One news report said this in part:
Khelif stopped briefly to speak to the BBC: “I am here for gold,” the Algerian said. “I will fight anybody, I will fight them all.” Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, expressed her concern about what had happened. “Angela Carini rightly followed her instincts and prioritised her physical safety, but she and other female athletes should not have been exposed to this physical and psychological violence based on their sex,” she tweeted. Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, weighed in, saying: “I think that athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not be admitted to women’s competitions … from my point of view it was not an even contest.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/01/angela-carini-abandons-fight-after-46-seconds-against-imane-khelif
All this will continue to be discussed in the days and weeks ahead. And at the very least, Australia had better sort things out here before they host the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane. This sort of cruelty to women, this sort of abuse of women, cannot be allowed to continue.
Since when does the stuff of domestic violence and abuse now become a major sporting event? Had this happened anywhere else the perpetrator would have been jailed by now. But we glibly allow it in sport because we have lost all moral and mental clarity about such matters. Even more appalling are all the clueless and compromised Christians.
Where are the courageous and uncompromised Christians?
As I have been saying all week now, I expect pagans to not give a rip about any of these matters. But I am astounded at how many folks who call themselves Christians also do not seem to care at all – or worse yet, are quite happy to defend these things.
Courageous Christians who stand fully on God and his word are in real short supply nowadays. Cowardly Christians who think the gospel message is ‘Be nice, don’t upset anyone and never judge anything or anyone’ are all over the place. And there is no question that during the past week we have seen this.
If Christians can actually accept and support a direct, deliberate and diabolical attack on the Lord Jesus Christ and make excuses for it – even after those behind it said this WAS fully intentional – then we are in massive trouble. With Christian friends like this, who needs enemies? Lord Jesus, help your church to once again represent you fully, faithfully, and unashamedly.
In light of all the evangellyfish and milksop ‘Christians’ who cannot see a Satanic attack on their faith when it stares them right in the face (and the perpetrators fully declare their intentions), the words of martyred missionary Jim Elliot are needed now more than ever:
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are ‘harmless,’ and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are ‘sideliners’ – coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous!
With all the cowardly and clueless Christians who defend sin and evil while attacking real-deal believers (think of their appalling responses to the Paris demonfest), the words of Catherine Booth on why we have so many weak and unstable believers are worth hearing once again:
Here is the reason why we have such a host of stillborn, sinewless, ricketty, powerless spiritual children. They are born of half-dead parents, a sort of sentimental religion which does not take hold of the soul, which has no depth of earth, no grasp, no power in it, and the result is a sickly crop of sentimental converts. Oh! the Lord give us a real, robust, living, hardy, Christianity, full of zeal and faith, which shall bring into the kingdom of God lively, well-developed children, full of life and energy, instead of these poor sentimental ghosts that are hopping around us.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen had so many terrific quotes on the need for courage and the need for Christians to become fully involved in the battles of the day. Here are just five of them:
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
“What the world needs most is a voice that courageously speaks the truth, not when the world is right, but a voice that speaks the truth when the world is wrong.”
“The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.”
“Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.”
“A religion that doesn’t interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it.”
Amen to that. If what we have been witnessing in Paris this week does not wake up a few of these confused and cowardly Christians, I really wonder what will.
11 Replies to “Violence Against Women in Sport and the Need for Moral Clarity”
You have XX and XY, female and male, this is the norm for 95.446% of human live births.
Intersex, is a live birth that can’t be identified as XX or XY by simple observation, A simple blood test, and within a day, the baby will be identified as an X (female) or a Y(male).
At puberty, that person’s gender characteristics will show through.
As for these ‘boxers’ claiming to be female, while being obviously male, they are entering women’s sports because they hate women and girls, and are violent and abusive in their mentality (psychopath, or anti social personality disorder). They should not legally be able to enter a woman’s sport anywhere, but they would be nobodies if they competed against other biological males.
Christ is KING, and WILL be judging one and all for crimes against nature and creation if this keeps going at this same pace.
Straight is the gate and narrow the path that leads to eternal life, few are they who find it. < quoted as being said by Jesus the Christ.
Thanks Neil.
Cruel yes, but unfortunately it seems almost necessary. Is this the only way to get people to wake up? By wake up I mean waking up the brain-dead people (mostly Facebook women and white-haired sporting officials) who have been supporting the trans movement left, right and centre. When a reasonably proficient male athlete competes – as a female, all of a sudden reality strikes home. Like male swimmer Lia Thomas, who did a great job in shutting down the romance between the NCAA and the trans fantasy, simply because this 65th fastest male swimmer was faster than the girls. Fortunately, world athletics IAAF has a decent person in charge, decorated champion Sebastian Coe, who has stuck his neck out by demanding birth gender competition. Rightly so. No problems in Athletics, it’s running along just fine. International boxing has previously cancelled these two guys (Imane Khelif & Lin Yu-ting) from female competition. So somewhere in the 111 Olympic Committee there are some sadistic perverts, the same kind of people that would re-assign the gender of a confused kid. Maybe we should put those boxing officials in the ring for a few bouts, and we can all cheer…https://olympics.com/ioc/members
Quite so Tim.
I understand the entymology of the word “intelligence” derives from the Latin and means being able to tell the difference between things. Clearly the French Olympic committee lacks this ability.
Surely this level of profound stupidity, as seen in this Olympics, has got to be the supernatural fulfilling of the prophesied delusion. How else could you explain this level of absolute absurdity and wrongness?
Seems so Michael.
This is what happens when a culture and society rejects God. Evil wickedness and immorality run rampant and rife in the culture and society and evil wickedness and immorality take over the culture and society. Lies deception delusion madness and insanity also run rampant and rife in the culture and society and lies deception delusion madness and insanity take over the culture and society. Western culture and Western societies have rejected God and that is why Western culture and Western societies have been taken over by evil wickedness and immorality and that is why Western culture and Western societies have been taken over by lies deception delusion madness and insanity.
Bill, great article. You are courageous pointing this out, as well as your previous piece on the opening ceremonies.
Related to this is, albeit indirectly, Megan Basham’s new book just out, Shepherds for Sale, is a must read. I’m part of the way through it, highly recommend it.
What clear thinking human being could not condemn what happened in that boxing ring? A person doesn’t need to be a Christian to see it as both insane and unjust!
And while I agree with your overall perspective 100%, I do somewhat take issue when you put parentheses around the word Christian when applying it to those who are believers but fail to speak up. Cowardly and clueless many may be, but I think the more appropriate word is brainwashed, or maybe gullible. They are surrounded by a culture, a mass media, a political environment that fosters this gender nonsense, and think they must go along. That is a sign of ignorance and a lack of confidence in their ability to discern right from wrong, not necessarily a sign of unbelief. I remember during the Covid hysteria, many of my Christian friends just assumed what they were being told was right — that we needed to lock down, that every sniffle was a sign of the end, that the vaccine was safe and effective, and that those who refused vaccinations were either nuts or evil. (I even heard a leading preacher where I live say — from the pulpit — that all true Christians would get vaccinated!) These Christians were wrong (and some of them now admit it) but they were still Christians. Not a perfect parallel example, I realise, but I hope you see my point.
Bless you for your own commitment and your courage to speak up for what is true,
I believe this Algerian boxer is probably a eunuch. In scripture and from ancient history we see eunuchs were always, rightly treated as men. If reports are correct this is confirmed by him having XY chromosomes and naturally high testosterone levels.
In scripture we see Potiphar, who imprisoned Joseph, was a eunuch and chief executioner having his own prison and clear authority in Egypt. He was clearly respected as a man and had his own wife (which was likely unfair on her – Gen 37 & 39).
From history I believe we are taught that Persian kings would use eunuchs to protect their harem, something you would not do if they were not strong.
In scripture we also have multiple places where eunuchs were given special mention such as 2 kings 8 & 9 Dan 1:18 etc. and God even giving them special honour if they turn to Him (Isa 56:4-5, Mat 19:12, Acts 8) yet in modern society we say you have to become and act like a woman and are even often surgically mutilate them to turn them into pretend women.
This is why I say when people do not face up to truth we open the door to all manner of perversions and stupidities as is now seens clearly shown by the French Olympic Commitee.
What did you think was going to happen? At the moment there are massive social, financial, psychological and cultural incentives for men to be women, and massive social, financial, psychological and cultural DIS-incentives to be men. It’s unsurprising that young men, who bear the brunt of cultural misandry might see a shift to the other side of this massively tilted deck in women’s favour as a matter of sheer survival.
Feminism, aided and enabled by misguided chivalry by men, is the proximate cause of this. It isn’t the ultimate cause but it’s a vector Satan has used to attack men and women both. Adam’s sin didn’t excuse Eve’s. The problem won’t be solved by more misguided chivalry. To solve it, men and women both need to address the underlying problem which is rebellion against God.
Feminism is organised rebellion. It needs to be removed from society, all of its unhelpful programs rolled back and all of its ill-gotten gains returned.
Incidentally, Imane Khelif (the Algerian boxer in red trunks) was apparently born with a vagina. I don’t know this for certain but information is starting to come out in the media about that. Either way, how that can or should be verified, or splayed across the world for all to see without damaging the heart of the person is beyond me.
You have XX and XY, female and male, this is the norm for 95.446% of human live births.
Intersex, is a live birth that can’t be identified as XX or XY by simple observation, A simple blood test, and within a day, the baby will be identified as an X (female) or a Y(male).
At puberty, that person’s gender characteristics will show through.
As for these ‘boxers’ claiming to be female, while being obviously male, they are entering women’s sports because they hate women and girls, and are violent and abusive in their mentality (psychopath, or anti social personality disorder). They should not legally be able to enter a woman’s sport anywhere, but they would be nobodies if they competed against other biological males.
Christ is KING, and WILL be judging one and all for crimes against nature and creation if this keeps going at this same pace.
Straight is the gate and narrow the path that leads to eternal life, few are they who find it. < quoted as being said by Jesus the Christ.
Thanks Neil.
Cruel yes, but unfortunately it seems almost necessary. Is this the only way to get people to wake up? By wake up I mean waking up the brain-dead people (mostly Facebook women and white-haired sporting officials) who have been supporting the trans movement left, right and centre. When a reasonably proficient male athlete competes – as a female, all of a sudden reality strikes home. Like male swimmer Lia Thomas, who did a great job in shutting down the romance between the NCAA and the trans fantasy, simply because this 65th fastest male swimmer was faster than the girls. Fortunately, world athletics IAAF has a decent person in charge, decorated champion Sebastian Coe, who has stuck his neck out by demanding birth gender competition. Rightly so. No problems in Athletics, it’s running along just fine. International boxing has previously cancelled these two guys (Imane Khelif & Lin Yu-ting) from female competition. So somewhere in the 111 Olympic Committee there are some sadistic perverts, the same kind of people that would re-assign the gender of a confused kid. Maybe we should put those boxing officials in the ring for a few bouts, and we can all cheer…https://olympics.com/ioc/members
Quite so Tim.
I understand the entymology of the word “intelligence” derives from the Latin and means being able to tell the difference between things. Clearly the French Olympic committee lacks this ability.
Surely this level of profound stupidity, as seen in this Olympics, has got to be the supernatural fulfilling of the prophesied delusion. How else could you explain this level of absolute absurdity and wrongness?
Seems so Michael.
This is what happens when a culture and society rejects God. Evil wickedness and immorality run rampant and rife in the culture and society and evil wickedness and immorality take over the culture and society. Lies deception delusion madness and insanity also run rampant and rife in the culture and society and lies deception delusion madness and insanity take over the culture and society. Western culture and Western societies have rejected God and that is why Western culture and Western societies have been taken over by evil wickedness and immorality and that is why Western culture and Western societies have been taken over by lies deception delusion madness and insanity.
Bill, great article. You are courageous pointing this out, as well as your previous piece on the opening ceremonies.
Related to this is, albeit indirectly, Megan Basham’s new book just out, Shepherds for Sale, is a must read. I’m part of the way through it, highly recommend it.
What clear thinking human being could not condemn what happened in that boxing ring? A person doesn’t need to be a Christian to see it as both insane and unjust!
And while I agree with your overall perspective 100%, I do somewhat take issue when you put parentheses around the word Christian when applying it to those who are believers but fail to speak up. Cowardly and clueless many may be, but I think the more appropriate word is brainwashed, or maybe gullible. They are surrounded by a culture, a mass media, a political environment that fosters this gender nonsense, and think they must go along. That is a sign of ignorance and a lack of confidence in their ability to discern right from wrong, not necessarily a sign of unbelief. I remember during the Covid hysteria, many of my Christian friends just assumed what they were being told was right — that we needed to lock down, that every sniffle was a sign of the end, that the vaccine was safe and effective, and that those who refused vaccinations were either nuts or evil. (I even heard a leading preacher where I live say — from the pulpit — that all true Christians would get vaccinated!) These Christians were wrong (and some of them now admit it) but they were still Christians. Not a perfect parallel example, I realise, but I hope you see my point.
Bless you for your own commitment and your courage to speak up for what is true,
I believe this Algerian boxer is probably a eunuch. In scripture and from ancient history we see eunuchs were always, rightly treated as men. If reports are correct this is confirmed by him having XY chromosomes and naturally high testosterone levels.
In scripture we see Potiphar, who imprisoned Joseph, was a eunuch and chief executioner having his own prison and clear authority in Egypt. He was clearly respected as a man and had his own wife (which was likely unfair on her – Gen 37 & 39).
From history I believe we are taught that Persian kings would use eunuchs to protect their harem, something you would not do if they were not strong.
In scripture we also have multiple places where eunuchs were given special mention such as 2 kings 8 & 9 Dan 1:18 etc. and God even giving them special honour if they turn to Him (Isa 56:4-5, Mat 19:12, Acts 8) yet in modern society we say you have to become and act like a woman and are even often surgically mutilate them to turn them into pretend women.
This is why I say when people do not face up to truth we open the door to all manner of perversions and stupidities as is now seens clearly shown by the French Olympic Commitee.
What did you think was going to happen? At the moment there are massive social, financial, psychological and cultural incentives for men to be women, and massive social, financial, psychological and cultural DIS-incentives to be men. It’s unsurprising that young men, who bear the brunt of cultural misandry might see a shift to the other side of this massively tilted deck in women’s favour as a matter of sheer survival.
Feminism, aided and enabled by misguided chivalry by men, is the proximate cause of this. It isn’t the ultimate cause but it’s a vector Satan has used to attack men and women both. Adam’s sin didn’t excuse Eve’s. The problem won’t be solved by more misguided chivalry. To solve it, men and women both need to address the underlying problem which is rebellion against God.
Feminism is organised rebellion. It needs to be removed from society, all of its unhelpful programs rolled back and all of its ill-gotten gains returned.
Incidentally, Imane Khelif (the Algerian boxer in red trunks) was apparently born with a vagina. I don’t know this for certain but information is starting to come out in the media about that. Either way, how that can or should be verified, or splayed across the world for all to see without damaging the heart of the person is beyond me.