Does it hurt me as a believer in Christ, that nowadays at the openings of many international sport events the ceremonies contain elements, which can be rated as examples of cheap mockery?

Especially when it goes against Christian athletes from various countries?

No, it doesn't. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but representations can never hurt me. Yet I think mockery hurts the truth as I see it and as many others see it as Christians.

Namely who knows for sure, that the Biblical and apostolic truth may not turn out to be in great demand some day?

Since the 1940's and especially at Paris the postmodern cultural revolution, by the inspiration of it's avant-garde thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault, has wanted to invalidate all institutions, which are seen as systems of oppression.

Certainly there are man made systems, which serve the purpose of oppression. Reformation is required on the field of social justice, equal opportunities and so on. Thinking globally the to-do-list is a long one.

But there are also natural systems, which prevent individuals from doing whatever they like and which some consider as oppressive constructions. This is actually the same as giving a subjective definition to nature.

Modern people don't possess authority over nature, yet they're enticed by the thought of continual advancement of sciences and technology, which will liberate them from uncomfortable necessities such as labor, duties, dead lines, commitments, gender and ageing. This way of thinking is based on a myth of progress as much as Christian faith is said to be based on ancient legends.

It has been experienced by many generations in succession, that absolute freedom is rather a source of evil than a source of good. We need only to bring to mind the slogan of the French revolution of 1789-1799:

"Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ou la mort!"

This motto promised liberty, equality and fraternity to the oppressed, but it brought death not just to those who opposed the uprise of the poor, but also to countless revolutionary brothers and sisters.

The reign of terror was not what the great minds behind the French revolution had been aiming to. Yet the revolution devoured it's children, as Pierre Vergniaud put his words on the way to the guillotine.

Neither has it been the purpose of postmodernism to release the dark side of humanity and to inflict chaos. Yet postmodernism has been quite inept to provide the masses with a set of sustainable values. It has emancipated numerous individuals from their traditional beliefs only to guide them to the edge of a deep gap, where they stand wittnessing the great paradox of progress. 

People who don't study history and who don't write books, take at face value the ideas conceived by intellects of the Enlightment, the Modernity and the Postmodernity. Lay people are in a childish way unaware of the roots of those ideas and unable to recognize the properties let alone the outcomes of those ideas. Yet the derivatives of the ideological currents of bygone ages float all around the infosphere of the 21st century. 

Taking something at face value and treating it thereafter as the Decisive Truth is something, which any serious philosopher would not do. Because of this most philosphers prefer to take everything with a grain of salt, that is to give the benefit of doubt to poor reasoning.

But the way of lay people, who are far more in numbers than well educated people, is to accept whatever is presented to them and to believe whatever is told to them, be it true, partially true, partially false or completely false. The foundation of mockery and spitefulness is molded in ignorance. And in many cases this ignorance regards one's own religion and culture.

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Most often those, who mock God, Jesus, Christians, the Holy Bible and the Church as an institution are not powerless, marginalized, vulnerable or oppressed people.

Jesus spent his time with sinners, but he didn't make himself a sinner. On the contrary he gave himself as an offer to atone the sinful mankind with God the Father. Thus he lifted and does lift from sin anybody, who believes in him.

Where do we find powerless, marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed people?

Certainly they are not the ones, who have freedom of speech, a variety of political rights, the ability to implement themselves, ample resources for a good life and visibility among the media.

The powerless, marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed are to be found, as Jesus said, at the backstreets and lanes of cities and the highways and hedges of every countryside on Earth (see Luke 14:21-23).

For some reason those who are the most eager to make use of their freedom, rights, abilities, recourses and visibility aren't very keen to raise their voice and to take action behest the powerless.

True activism is something else than being a do-gooder and marching along with the masses. A tree is known by it's fruit, and a man is known by what he does and leaves undone.

"For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by it's own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush." (Luke 7:43-44).

The problem with our world is, that it doesn't want to take seriously the word of God, to acknowledge it's sin, to change it's mind and ways and to receive salvation in the blood of Jesus Christ the Lord.

Mockery is only a mere implication of this attitude, which derives from the workings of demons.

Therefore many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first (see Mark 10:31).

Despite the fact that in sports those, who are first are also the best, true believers in Jesus Christ should give a thought or two to what it means in real life to take up ones cross and follow him. For lukewarm Christians his only message is:

"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold or hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth." (Revelation 3:15-16).