Worshiping Moloch

I originally posted this on my blog "Pilgrim Musings" but decided to remove it from there (as it was not consistent with the theme and character of that blog) and post it here.

Having awakened at 3:00am, I began reading some blogs I've not perused in some time. Aimee Milburn (Historical Christian blog) recently commented (Perverted "Blessing") on an article from the Catholic News Agency regarding clergy offering their blessing on the opening of an abortion clinic in Schenectady, New York. There were plenty of comments connected with Milburn's post - most of them quite good. One comment compared the current U.S. legalization of abortion and pursuit of "reproductive rights" in that vein to the worship of Moloch.

Moloch was, supposedly, an ancient God to whom the worship offered included the sacrifice of infants and children. A large stone would be chiseled or bronze was cast and formed into an image with extended arms and hands. The hollowed out statue would then be "fired up." Worship would include sacrificing children by placing the small child into the red hot hands of this "god." (Note: there is much uncertainty regarding exactly who or what Moloch was according to archeological findings. There are variations reported as to how the children were actually sacrificed - but there seems to be general - if not universal - agreement that worship of Moloch commonly included the sacrifice of children.)

Even if my historical assessment is flawed, the point is that our children have become the last disposable inconvenience to our pursuit of unbridled hedonism. The difference between our promotion of abortion and the worship of Moloch is that, at least when children were sacrificed to Moloch, the parents would weep and wail (although that was to be drowned out through loud music and the shouting crowd). As Planned Parenthood and its supporters (such as the wolves in clerical clothing) promote abortion as a social blessing, those of us who correctly understand this to be "the great evil of our time" ought to weep and wail for this contemporary slaughter of the innocents.

How corrupt and wicked is the thought: better to take responsibility for saving an endangered owl or a tree than to take responsibility for a human child... and kill it. The clergy that "blessed" the abortion clinic and declared it to be a "sanctuary" and "holy ground" have pervertedly replaced the birth of a baby with its destruction as a blessed event. And Moloch smiles.

May God have mercy.