For a spectacle that was clearly beneath the occasion, which contained scenes of irreverence that were offensive to Christianity and the Church, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia comments, referring to the recent opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. In his message, through the Instagram social networking site, His Eminence underlines: “Everyone has the right to be an atheist, but no one has the right to mock or ridicule my faith, especially the truth of the Gospel for which blood has been shed.”
“You have the freedom to live as you choose; you have the right to be homosexual, but you do not have the right to impose your way of life on our society,” comments the Archbishop of Australia, among other things,while concluding his message he says: “We pray that God will enlighten those who seek to undermine the value of faith, and we assert that it is unacceptable for such ideologies to be promoted in institutions as prestigious as the Olympic Games” .
Here is the post on Instagram: