The Sanctioning of Human Sacrifice Part 1

sac•ri•fice
an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy

“You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.” –Ezekiel 16:21&22

Why, as a nation, have we not fallen to our knees in agony at the horror and atrocities that we have committed? We have forgotten that we were once in the womb, and have commenced mindlessly slaughtering our own children for the sake of our own comfort. We have convinced ourselves that this special creation of God is nothing more than tissue and blood, forgetting that our makeup is the same, and ignoring even our science that says “embryos and fetuses are fully and individually human from the moment of fertilization on.”1

“The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking,2 responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human.” (John Piper)3

What is the difference between choosing abortion to cover up the “mistake” of an “unwanted pregnancy,” and placing our infant son or daughter on the burning hot arms of the brazen statue of Molech to pay for past transgressions? Whether we claim reasons of age, deformity, rape, incest, or even to save our own life; we are sacrificing our children for the hope of a more promising future for ourselves.

If there’s one thing I have learned from being a dad, is that parenthood is about sacrifice. Once the pregnancy test turns positive, a sacrifice is inevitable. You must either lay down your wants, your desires, even your very life for the sake of your child; or destroy the very life you helped bring forth.

What does it say us when 93% of all abortions in the United States occur for “social reasons”? This translates to roughly 3,400 babies being killed every day because they are “unwanted or inconvenient.” We have reduced our children to an expendable commodity. We should be echoing the cry of Mother Teresa who said, “If you do not want [your children], give [them to me].”

I can only conclude that we are so entrenched in selfishness that we would rather offer up the lives of our children to the abortion knife, than risk complicating or endangering our own.

Links
1. Abortion: unfiltered.
2. Proof that a baby struggles for his life in the womb.
3. John Piper’s Sermon on the issue.