Some have called the opening ceremony at the 2024 Paris Olympics decadent, offensive, and even satanic. And in the games, themselves, more controversy as a boxer with xy chromosomes takes out a female boxer in less than a minute.

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Segment 2 - How Christians Should Respond to Mocking and Olympic Boxing Controversy

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