Lev 20:1-5
2 Kings 23:10-11Jer 7:30-33
Jer 32:34-37
In the above references it seems pretty clear how God feels about child sacrifices. God says it is an evil in His sight. In Jeremiah, he says that He never commanded it, He never even entertained the thought. God uses words like anger, rage, detestable act, put to death, cut off from society. God does not mince words when He describes what he things about the sacrificing of children.
I would dare say that most people would cringe at the thought of laying an infant on the alter and stabbing through its chest with a sacrificial knife. All sorts of human rights organizations would immediately rally, protest, and demand action. However as a country we practice child sacrifice daily.
In the United States, according to 1996 statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.37 million abortions. That works out to be 3,700 per day. That is somewhere around 2.6 abortions every minute of the day and night. Even if we entertain the arguments of rape, insest and health reasons to the mother, this accounts for less than 7% of the total abortions. The other 93% were for "social reasons" (unplanned, unwanted, inconvenient).
According to the Guttmacher Institute the number is declining. In 2004 there were 1,222,100 abortions. This number works out to just over 3,348 per day or 2.3 abortions every minute of the day and night. Less than .5% were for reasons of rape or incest and 7% were for health reasons to the mother or unborn baby. That still leaves about 93% of all abortions being for social reasons.
We, as a society, rally under the banner of "a Woman's Right to Choose". We, as a society, choose political correctness so we don't offend someone who is wanting to run from the consequences of their actions. Yet we, as a society, fail to see abortion for what it is... Child Sacrifice.
True, we don't lay the newborn on a table and stab it through the heart, drink the blood while monks chant spells and blessings for harvest, prosperity, or healing. But that, in essence, is what we are doing. In 93% of the cases, we are sacrificing a child for our career, promotion, lifestyle, carefree attitude, body image, social status, or we don't feel as though we are ready to accept the responsibility of our actions.
How are we any different?
It is still done for the same reasons.
It still has the same outcome for the child.
Why does calling it a medical procedure make it anymore acceptable?
Does God find it any less detestable because we call it a medical procedure?
