(Excerpts, see file “Sports” in filing cabinet)
Article gives an overview of Olympic history, ancient and modern.
Notes pagan aspect of originals, compares to “one-world-ism” and similar sentiments in modern Olympics.
“The Olympics are pagan. This statement may raise some eyebrows, but I believe it is true. The word ‘pagan’ comes from the Latin paganus, which means ‘of the earth.’ The religious festivals and rituals expressed at the Olympics center on earth spirits and mother earth deities.” (p.3)
Spargimino’s arguments are well researched and soundly reasoned. The modern Olympic movement is an element of the revival of the religion of man. We are overwhelmed with this in Western society these days.