Child-Sacrifice

Before I could even finish my blog, my comment was outdated. Here it is—tongue-in-cheek: “The only moral edge today’s abortion advocates have over child-sacrifice practitioners of unchristian, indigenous cultures of times past, is that they espouse killing the baby before it breathes air.” Of course, I was being sarcastic at abortionists’ claim that killing a baby in the womb is different from killing one outside the womb; killing a child at any time, in womb or out of womb, before it breathes or after it breathes, at 6 weeks, 6 months, or 6 years, is completely morally reprehensible. The child’s age is nonconsequential in the wrongness of taking his life. Killing a child is simply indefensibly wrong. Yet, I suppose, because a fetus is hidden in the womb, unknown by sight, and is yet developing and because abortion takes place out of the public’s eye, many people often fail to feel the same repugnance as they would for ritualistic child sacrifice. They never equate abortion with the child sacrifice of ancient cultures and religions. I think most—I know I do—when they read or hear about child-sacrifice, experience revolting horror at the macabre act. Surely, our society has become too civilized to practice child-sacrifice. Only it hasn’t. Abortion is child-sacrifice. However, as I pointed out, in abortion the child is not yet breathing. Thus, many don’t see that abortion mirrors the act of worshippers placing a child on an altar where that child was stabbed or burned to appease a god. Abortionists kill in the womb. They do not kill a breathing child. Only, now they want to. The news this week is that some are advocating killing breathing children too. First, abortionists advocated for the right to abort a baby in the first trimester. Then the second. Then, recently, the governor of New York with smiling abortion advocates crowded around him celebrated the signing of a law that would allow a baby to be aborted up to the day of its birth. Not to be out done, this week the governor of Virginia opined that a woman should be able to kill her baby after birthing it—ostensibly to give the mother more time to decide whether she wanted to keep the child or not. In other words, after the baby is birthed and breathing, a woman can still choose to kill it. Think of what we have seen in the last few weeks: Not only have we seen abortion advocates bragging about killing babies but bragging about how old of a baby they would kill. To be sure, they say what they are bragging about and celebrating is the triumphant of women’s equality. Really? At the expense of babies’ inequality? However it’s argued, in the end, a baby is killed. Disliking and rejecting the moral code of Scripture, post modernists have often praised non-Christian cultures which practiced child-sacrifice as equally viable or even superiorly preferable to western/Christian culture. To these, western/Judeo/Christian culture is by no means more advanced, developed, or moral than the indigenous cultures built and based on religions of child/human sacrifice. The same post modernist mindset advocates our returning to child sacrifice. “Wait,” someone protests, “Abortion isn’t child sacrifice. There’s no religion. There’s no altar.” Yes, on both counts, there is: The religion is secular humanism, a religion of many branches--hedonism, naturalism, evolutionism, relativism, etc. The altar is the altar of personal-convenience, sexual gratification, prosperity, self-autonomy. I recently read accounts of religious child-sacrifice. One thing that struck me, was how the child to be sacrificed was well-fed and richly clothed while waiting its death. Kindness? Hardly. I could not help seeing the parallel when the governor of Virginia this week was describing the process of a woman giving birth and afterwards deciding whether to kill her child. He said, “The infant would be delivered…the infant would be kept comfortable….” “Kept comfortable.” Feed, comfort, clothe and pamper the child to be sacrificed. Again, I think most, like me, after learning about the child sacrifice of “pagan” indigenous cultures, have shuddered at the ghoulish practice—a practice God in the record of Scripture has vehemently condemned. Yet, we cannot say child sacrifice is a thing of a past, uncivilized, unchristian, ignorant culture. It’s happening in our culture. Our culture too must be uncivilized, unchristian, and ignorant. Our culture practices child-sacrifice. It’s not a time to smile and celebrate. It’s a time to grieve and repent.

Child-Sacrifice

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