Moloch, Abortion, And George Floyd:

An Apology IS In Order It is so unimaginably reprehensible one shudders to think of it: Child sacrifice. The Bible roundly condemns this heathenistic practice of idolaters, and, in doing so, forever links the killing of children to the worship of Moloch the idol. My knowledge of Moloch and child sacrifice proceeded that evening’s devotions in the men’s dorm in Bible school, but its horror became indelibly imprinted on my mind that night. The speaker was a quiet student, so we were immediately a bit shocked by the bellicose boom of his baritone voice when it was his turn to deliver the devotion. He read his text, and then came out from behind the half-wall we used as a pulpit in full-blast, prophetic bellowing against Moloch and sacrificing children to him. His finger was pointing; his eyes, bugged; his face, red; and his passion unmistakable. That he was a humble fellow only increased the starkness of his denunciation. Some of those fellows in the men’s dorm could be quite rebellious and rowdy, but I doubt any of them were Moloch worshipers. Were any of them so, I’m sure they fell on their knees in repentance that night. Yes, the child sacrifice associated with heathen idol worship was indeed horrifyingly repugnant. At the time of this Moloch message, abortion was THE prevalent, hotly-argued hot-button issue of the day. I remember both hearing other preachers and being the preacher who compared the contemporary abortion of babies with the child sacrifice of idolaters. It went something like this: “Idolaters sacrificed their children for their gods of wood and stone. Today, people kill their babies for their gods of pleasure and materialism.” In short, by our comparison, we proclaimed that child abortion was as evil as child sacrifice and the one who aborted no different from the awful, heathenistic, idol-worshiping child-sacrificers. It was only yesterday that it hit me. Preaching that, I had insulted the pagan child-sacrificers. Abortion isn’t just as bad as child-sacrifice, it is far worse! The agent of abortion isn’t just as evil as a child-sacrificer; he/she is far eviler. Let me tell you why: (First, however, let me say that I am not saying that every woman who has had an abortion is evil. The indoctrination of modern/post-modern relativism has been so successful that many have been conditioned and deluded into believing they do no evil in having an abortion, that they have not taken a life. I feel sympathy for these in their later grief and pain when their conscience catches up at the awareness of what they have done.) Why, in the end, is abortion far more reprehensible and eviler than child-sacrifice? Here’s why: When an idol-worshiping parent sacrificed a child, the whole point was to appease the idol-god by offering the best, most valued, most loved thing one had. The best, most valued, most loved “thing” parents had was their child. Evil though the pagan culture was, I cannot imagine the pain a mother felt watching her child bound on an altar and then slaughtered and burnt with fire. She loved that child. She valued that child. That was the whole point: You sacrificed what you valued. This is why abortion is more wicked and reprehensible: The child is not valued. The child is not loved. The embryo is called tissue. It is not deemed valuable, lovable. It is deemed a burden, an undesirable, an inconvenience, a pesky invader of the mother’s body. Removal of a fetus from a mother’s body is considered no different from the removal of an unsightly mole. Both are unwanted tissue. This is why abortion is far worse than child-sacrifice. In both cases, a child dies. In child-sacrifice, the child is valued, desired, wanted. In abortion, the child is devalued, not desired, unwanted. This is why it is difficult for me to believe that the rioting we see over the tragic killing of George Floyd is really about the loss of his life. Those who blathered the ideologies that are inciting the rioting are almost entirely those who promote abortion. They do not value life. The rioters who beat store-owners, shoot police, and strike non-participators do not value life. If we do not value the life of the most vulnerable, the child in the womb, we will not value the life of a human being at any stage or point in his life. The killing of George Floyd was reprehensible. But, any that support abortion should hold their tongues unless they speak to confess their hypocrisy. I can’t believe I’m saying it, but it appears we should apologize to the worshipers of Moloch for comparing today’s abortion to their child sacrifice.

Moloch, Abortion, And George Floyd:

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