The Paris Olympics have just ended, with the closing ceremony dubiously accused by some online of being a secret vehicle for Satanism. I think they’re getting confused with the opening ceremony, which seemed to go out of its way to mock Christianity by virtue of being unnecessarily presided over by a big blasphemous blue Smurf surrounded by a hideous harem of transgender disciples lampooning the Last Supper upon the banks of the Seine.
The Smurf Supper may have been widely ridiculed, but it did have at least one constructive outcome – it caused the founder of this very website, Toby Young, to have what he called “a revelation” whilst watching it. A religious revelation? Sort of, but not in a personal, Damascene, sense. Instead, it allowed Toby to gain a sudden insight into the new religion of our governing classes: a creed which, in a recent article in the Spectator, he has aptly dubbed “technocratic theocracy”.
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