A Deaf Ear & Blind Eye To Ba'al Worship

The ancient worship of Ba'al [lit: Lord] was widespread throughout Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Carthage, Philistia and Canaan. Also known as Marduk or Dagon, Ba'al was a generic name for an especially horrific form of pagan worship. One that required the sacrifice of infant children.

The Bible speaks of King Ahaz and King Manasseh offering their children to Ba'al/Moloch [2 Kings 16:3; 21:6]. The Bible speaks of making their sons "pass through the fire." History illuminates this practice.

Ba'al worshipers brought their infants to the priest. The priest would set the child on the outstretched arms of an image of their god. From here the child would be either rolled backward into the "chest" of the image, where a fire burned, or simply roasted over the flames of an open fire, below the arms.

Why? Well, as in all pagan religious thinking, the gods held the keys to a nation or a family's well-being. They were sacrificing their children for personal convenience. Either they could keep and nurture these innocent babies or they could have rain, or peace, or victory over their enemies. But, apparently, they could not have both.

In 1973, we're told, women won the right to have an abortion. Until then, they had been forced to bear children regardless of how they were conceived, or their own health -- they said.

But, the truth is more gruesome. Abortion was a right in this country BEFORE Roe v. Wade. What happened in 1973 was that women won the right to have an abortion, On Demand. For no reason other than they didn't want to carry the child full-term and have to rear it.

In less than a decade, abortion on demand, in the first trimester, became abortion on demand through the second trimester and, depending on the doctor, any time the woman demanded it. Of course it wasn't long before that meant partial-birth abortions.

You see, Americans want personal convenience too. Even if it costs the life of an unborn, helpless child.

But what can you expect of those who worship self? The humanist is all about doing whatever will make their life easier or more pleasant. Their "god" is the human potential. And unwanted babies just get in the way.

The real problem is the deafening silence of the visible church. Not the real Church, but the one which either supports this idea or takes the "high moral ground" of not judging.

For too many, this ancient Canaanite practice is somehow a woman's Right.

Are We Taking Stupid Pills?

This week it was reported that four teen aged boys sexually abused one of their team mates, in the locker room, with a broom handle and a hockey stick. They did it repeatedly and they will be charged as Adults.

This is horrendous, but it is NOT news. Things like this occur every month in America. Children are used and abused by all sorts of people. Often it is by adults who are charged with protecting them. Not infrequently it is by sexually-charged perverts.

We are shocked when a child is abducted for sex or raped or otherwise sexually abused. But we laugh at the so-called comedy of TV shows which feature sexuallized situations and pay big money to see what used to be called pornography, in Movies and Stage Shows.

We pass laws to protect citizen's from this abuse. But we also pass laws to allow the protection of those who peddle it in Magazines, Books, Songs and Commercials. We protect the right to Free Speech, which now includes pornography, nudity and debauchery. And we market sexual fashions to children as young as 5 years of age.

We have come to accept that young children need to be exposed to sex in the classroom, even homosexuality in Kindergarten [Calif. School District just voted to do this].

If we really wanted to protect children (and others) from Pedaphiles and other abusers we'd get sexual content out of their world. We'd stop the Viagra and Sexual Lubricants Commercials. We'd stop legitimizing selfish, sexual lifestyles. We'd stop mainstreaming aberrant sexual behaviors.

We all know that if you don't want to get burned, you simply stay away from the fire.

It seems the sex-merchants have won. Under the guise of Free Speech, they make commercials that sell their wares and make themselves huge profits. Then use that money and power to convince us that video images don't cause behaviors.

And otherwise reasonable people believe it! Law makers and judges support it! Teachers' unions and medical professionals accept it! Does anyone have the courage to stand up and say this is wrong? For the childrens' sake?

Either stop being outraged at sexual atrocities, or stop programming the society to accept every form of sexual behavior, known to man. We can't have it both ways!