“an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.”  -Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of the Modern Olympics

Everyone gets offended by this, but is he correct?

Impractical:  Extravagant displays of sport are not cheap. Every modern Olympics loses billions of dollars(Tokyo 30bn).  If we compare it to professional sports, we can see that no one watches women’s sports. If you don’t sell tickets, you don’t make money.  An olympics of men would probably be profitable, like men’s professional sports are.

Uninteresting:  From above the fans vote with their feet, the WNBA loses 10million dollars a year, even after slick accounting tricks.  As I always say the only women’s sport that makes any sense is beach volleyball.  I suppose we could add gymnastics and figure skating, but not for the ‘right’ reason.

Unaesthetic:  Unfortunately we have lost our sense of feminine beauty and redefined it to idealize the female as a greek god statue.  If our aesthetics were based on the God-given purpose for women, their super power, having kids, we might find muscle bound women who probably can’t have kids due to the stress their body is experiencing, unattractive.  If you have never appreciated the soft beauty of a woman with no sharp corners as Edmund Burke instructs us,  I can’t help you.

Improper:  From all the numbers I have seen 80-90% of female athletes think they are lesbians.  Which, to use a sports metaphor, is like showing up for a game of one-on-one and no one has a ball.  This is about as improper as it gets, as far as I can tell.  Are hyper competitive women loving their husbands and their children?  That’s a hard no.  First most of them avoid both.  And those who get married: 80% of divorces are filed by women, in a culture where domestic violence is falling like a rock, before COVID.  And these divorces are leading to destroyed children.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin was correct, even if you are just offended.

 

“ ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers,” –Mat 25:26

I never really go this verse until I heard it today.  He is saying because this is how I roll, you should do that too.  I have always heard it explained away, that this was just how the servant saw the master and not how he actually was.  But this is how God rolls, and how his people do too.

“I gave you land you had not worked on, and I gave you towns you did not build—the towns where you are now living. I gave you vineyards and olive groves for food, though you did not plant them.” –Joshua 24:13

Normal blessing is where you plant and God makes it grow, you don’t make it grow.  You don’t give the increase, the profit.  And this is the next level, you didn’t even plant and you get the benefit.  And this is God’s expanding vision for his people as they entered the land.  This is why they didn’t take all the land immediately, God was keeping it in escrow until their tribes expanded to enough people to take in the harvest.

It’s no concidence that Jesus uses the same language to describe his Kingdom, coming.  It’s no coincidence that this was the language used by the Pilgrims who came to this land.  Read the story of William Bradford.  God prepared the way for them, no question.  And I think for all Christians.

And we have yet another promise from God to the same effect:

   “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities jthat you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—“ –Deut. 6:10,11

Christians don’t like this kind of talk today.  We as Christians are to go into the whole world and conquer in a similar way.  But it isn’t the conquering of one tribe over the others.  It’s the dividing of the sword. Do you want to join the Israel of God and become a Christian, or do you want to cling to your old paganism?  Do you want to join the real tribe, bringing His will to Earth as it is in Heaven? Or do you want to have your wealth devoured by the New Israel?  This is a battle, but it has never been fought with swords the way Islam has always expanded.  But it is still a battle, which means conflict, coming to swords sometimes.  Did you really think that great commission thing would be easy and without conflict?  Could you sail over to another continent and do a better job?  I doubt it.    And the other idea is that when one person has something it means he took it from someone else.  Stragely the economy and the Kingdom of God are an expanding pie.  His blessing and profit abound.  The more people you invite into the great tribe of Christendom, the more you have.  It is a ponzi scheme that actually works.  The only way to lose is to stay ouside in the cold with the other pagans.  Or be thrown out by the master.

The next verses are the scary part.  It’s where we in the West are today:

“and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.  You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—  for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.” –Deut 6:12-15

The false god we are worshipping tells us that all the winning that Christianity did was wrong.  We don’t say the calf brought us up out of Egypt(Exodus 32:4) we say it was wrong to be so mean to Egypt and to conquer all those evil pagans offering their children to Molech.  So we join them in bashing the work of God and call it multiculturalism.  We want to offer our children to Molech too, and we call it Planned Parenthood.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,

but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.  –Prov 13:22

We don’t like this version, we don’t like the end of Jesus’ parable either:

‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver.  To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. –Matthew 25:28,29

That’s not fair, that doesn’t sound like hippie Jesus at all.  It sounds more like, the traditional American Protestant work ethic.  We should help the poor, but we need to have the wisdom to distinguish those who hate God and are reaping what they have sown, like all the pagan peoples in Indian Reservations, from actual poor. Do you really think we should give the sinner more, or feel bad that his wealth has been the inheritance of the Godly? God doesn’t. Instead we should be leveraging what God has given us to get more.  We want the whole world.  Expecially now.  This is a time when we are doing the a horrible job at this  The Kingdom is contracting while foolish Dispensationalists cheer that it means Jesus is coming back.  No it means we have been foolish, we are the wicked servant and he is casting us out.

 

 

 

 

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