Abortion as Pagan Sacrifice

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Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Archives Abortion & EuthanasiaReturn to: Home > Archives Index > Abortion & Euthanasia IndexAbortion as Pagan Sacrificeby Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
We know what the word “sacrifice” means. It means the surrender of something precious to the god in whom a person believes. Sacrifices have been part of world religions since the dawn of recorded history. Without exception, the deities of all the religions of the ancient world demanded sacrifices in their honor. The Egyptians and Babylonians, the Greeks and Romans, the deities of pre-Christian India and of the continent of Africa required that their adherents offer what we call sacrifices in their name.What is less well known, however, is that these religions also required the sacrifice of children as an oblation and even as a condition, for obtaining blessings from the gods. We read in the Office of Readings for today’s Divine Office that the Lord spoke through the prophet Jeremiah, charging the Jews of imitating the pagans in their practice of child homicide. Said the Lord, “They have built high places for Baal to immolate their sons in fire as holocausts to Baal: such a thing as I neither commanded nor spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind.”As we read statements like foregoing, we ask ourselves: how could human beings be so deluded as to seriously believe that their gods required human sacrifice as a condition for receiving divine favors? The key word is “deluded.” Thirty years of teaching comparative religion has taught me that there is no limit to the irrational, indeed insane, practices that religious mythology will not put into practice as a mandate from the deities in whom they believed. Thus we read in the history of the Aztecs in South America before Columbus that they would kill up to ten thousand children on a major feastday in honor of one of their gods. Although seldom mentioned, infanticide as a religious ritual was practiced in India before its colonization by Great Britain.We return to the theses that should be explored far beyond the time we can give it in this conference. Abortion as the widespread practice that it has become today is incredibly a religious practice. It is inspired by the evil spirits who, in Christian terms, were and are the malignant deities of paganism. These deities, often goddesses, demanded the sacrifice of children to be propitiated. Unless children were killed and offered to these gods, they would avenge their anger against the people in the most devastating ways.As believing Catholics, we know that behind the murder of unborn children is the superhuman mind and malevolent will of Satan and his minions. To know this is to also know that only divine power is a match for the demonic power behind abortion. This divine power is the power of the God who became man in order, as He told us, to conquer the devil as master of the world.How did Christ provide for the conquest of Satan and his agents? He did so by dying on the cross. The one who died on Calvary was man, but this man was the living God. On these premises, Calvary is the divine sacrifice because it was God who assumed a human body and a human soul which could separate in a human death on Good Friday. Except for this divine sacrifice of Jesus Christ there would be no hope for the human race.However, let us be clear. Christ did die for our salvation. He shed His blood on Calvary. In that sense, He completed the mission given to Him by His Father. But really that was only the beginning. By His sacrifice on Calvary, He won for us the title to the graces we need to reach our eternal destiny. But this same Jesus Christ made sure that these graces would be communicated to mankind until the end of time. The principal channel of these graces is the Sacrifice of the Mass.The graces which Christ pours out on a sinful world through the daily offering of Mass are the graces which a homicidal world needs to return to its worship of the one true God, and cease committing the crimes of abortion which are really acts of worship of the evil deities who we know are the evil spirits.The Sacrifice of the Mass, therefore, provides us with the light and strength we need to live sacrificial lives. But we must use these graces and really live lives of sacrifice. If we do, and in the measure that we do, we shall obtain for the agents of death the miraculous graces they need to abandon their idolatry and return to the worship of the one true God.Our faith tells us that the Sacrifice of the Mass is at once the sacrifice of Christ and our sacrifice, too. Christ has done all that He could by dying on the cross. We must do all that we can to follow in His footsteps and die to ourselves out of love for Him.
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ANCIENT AND MODERN HUMAN SACRIFICE--EVIDENCE FOUND OF HUMAN SACRIFICE IN EUROPE14/06/07 06:53 Abortion, Infanticide --Killing BabiesMolechFlame-1
Recent investigations into pre-historic burial sites reveal that human sacrifice and even cannibalism may have taken place in Europe."The large number of multiple-burial sites, some containing skeletons of dwarfs and deformed children accompanied by ornate grave goods, suggests that human sacrifice was a custom in Europe between 28,000 and 10,000 years ago, says biologist Vincenzo Formicola of the University of Pisa in Italy."These findings point to the possibility that human sacrifices were part of the ritual activity of these populations," writes Formicola."Elaborate burials, selected individuals, rich ornamentation, and site of inhumation continue to raise questions... and stimulate reflections about social organization, conceptions of life and death, and the perception of diversity," writes Formicola.Housley said that evidence of cannibalism has been found at sites 12,000 years ago in the same area, so if Formicola's conclusions are correct it could be part of a pattern." CBSnewsMany may be shocked at such findings, however, Christians should not be. Such atrocities are the rule and not the exception for man without the grace of God. "Left to itself, human nature tends to death, and utter apostasy from God, however plausible it may look externally." Card. Newman.Historically, it was only Christianity that elevated human life, and man from the depths of such evil. Lest we doubt the veracity of such a claim, one can look at the fact that post-Christian Europe (and most of Western "civilization") has come full circle and is now once again engaging in human sacrifice on many fronts.From the woman who kills her child for the sake of her career, to the scientist who disobeys the laws of God and nature and advocates the destruction of the unborn to save life, these are indeed human sacrifices. Clearly these modern-day acts of human sacrifice are not for the benefit of some alleged "spirit in the sky", and are not performed on a literal altar, but it is nevertheless idolatry--"Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God that is the god of his idolatry." Archb. Ullathorne.
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To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=57117Sunday, August 12, 2007MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH'Kill the babies to save doctors'Hospitals give lethal injections before abortion to avoid legal charges under partial-birth banPosted: August 12, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
How are abortion clinics protecting themselves against charges under the partial-birth abortion ban?By ensuring unborn babies are dead by injecting them first with lethal drugs before aborting them.The practice has been adopted by many abortion providers across the U.S. in the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, reported the Boston Globe.The banned abortion procedure is particularly grisly. It requires the abortion doctor to partially deliver a live baby, then kill it by inserting scissors into the base of its head and using a suctioning machine to remove its brain.Other procedures, employed in earlier-term pregnancies, kill the unborn child in the womb and the doctor removes the body parts afterward. But even with this procedure, live births have occurred.The federal ban, upheld in August, does not specify the age of the baby and mandates a two-year prison sentence for violations.(Story continues below)In order to avoid any chance of a live birth and prosecution, three major Harvard-affiliated hospitals – Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Beth Israel Deaconess – have made lethal injections in the womb a standard operating procedure for abortions at 20 weeks gestation or later."No physician even wants to be accused of stumbling into accidentally doing one of these procedures," Dr. Michael F. Greene, director of obstetrics at Massachusetts General, told the Globe.In some facilities, patients are given the choice to use lethal injection. Generally, it is believed the risk to the woman is slight, although critics of the federal ban say they should not have to be inconvenienced. Some case reports suggest a danger to the woman if one of the common drugs used, potassium chloride, is accidentally injected into her.Prior to the actual abortion, the baby is injected with either potassium chloride – one of the drugs used for lethal injections of criminals – or the heart drug digoxin.But Dr. Mark Nichols, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University, does not give women a choice if their baby is over 20 weeks' gestation – the injection is required."I guess I'm a little bit more concerned about the risk for the faculty and staff here," he said.So concerned over possible prosecution is Nichols, he will no longer allow medical and nursing students to observe late-term abortions at his clinic, fearing someone might lodge a criminal complaint.The National Abortion Federation has been impressed with the effectiveness of the lethal drugs and has developed a protocol for using digoxin for its members and is providing them with training.
 

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Why does everyone see this sin as any different to any other?God hated the sacrifice of human children, but the gods they sacrificed these children too, did not exist. There was no wonders or signs but power assumed by men over people as they have done for thousands of years the same with Hitler to make people do as they wish them to.What it shows is the real evil men and women are capable of when life becomes worthless and evil becomes prominent in them.How many of those adults if they had to be sacrificed would of allowed it to continue. So they chose the young, weak and infirm anything with blemish would of easily been got rid off.If Christ shows us anything then it is this. Love does not murder the innocent nor does it condone it, those who love would lay down their lives not take someone elses. We have not seen anything yet. Sodom and Gomorroh is very real in the world now. It looks quite legal and modern to be accepting everything God hates. The beast has the right setting to stage an appearance with the anti-christ teaching being adhered to everywhere.Anything that does not consist of loving God and your neighbour is anti-christ. In the 60's homosexuality was made legal in such a way it has become rife. But no one thought about the truth of the condemnation this brought to the people who did these things, or the fact it was a lie to say it could ever be right in the sight of God. Men commit the most horrendous acts when they lose sight of God and wrong and right in favour of their own bodily lusts. Abortion is another product of people losing sight of wrong/right for the sake of their bodily lusts. Can the outcome of evil unrepented sow and produce anything but evil?
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Abrortion is murder, and the bible told us not to murder...Every person has a right to live, at the same time, no one has a right (in God's eyes) to murder anyone.Psalm 97:10 - Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.Proverbs 8:13 - The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Amos 5:15 - Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
 

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Abrortion is murder, and the bible told us not to murder...Every person has a right to live, at the same time, no one has a right (in God's eyes) to murder anyone.Psalm 97:10 - Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.Proverbs 8:13 - The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Amos 5:15 - Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
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Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082704.htmlLifeSiteNews.comMonday August 27, 2007Over 1,300 Illinois Citizens Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic
By Elizabeth O'BrienAURORA, Illinois, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday over one thousand pro-lifers met to protest before the recently erected facilities or what is said to be the nation's largest Planned Parenthood center in Aurora, Illinois, just outside Chicago.Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Scheidler told LifeSiteNews.com that at least 1,300 pro-lifers participated in the protest. About 900 formed two large picket lines on York Street and another 250 were at a prayer vigil sight next to the new Planned Parenthood center. Another 75 people participated in a Face the Truth Tour, holding graphic abortion signs at street intersections. Warning signs were posted in all four directions so that the drivers were forewarned of the images.The event also put on a Life Display with huge posters of babies, both born and unborn. There was a large picture of Jesus with the words "Jesus forgives and heals". Protestors also held signs with the titles "Keep abortion out of Aurora," "Moms for Life," "Dads for Life" and "Planned Parenthood kills babies."Mainstream media present included the Chicago Tribune, Fox News Chicago, the Aurora Beacon and the Daily Herald. Scheidler told LifeSiteNews.com that between 12 and 18 pro-abortion counter-protestors also showed up, but they left after newspaper reporters talked to them.At the end of the rally, Eric Scheidler and his father, long-time pro-life activist Joe Scheidler, offered some rallying words of encouragement before the protestors dispersed. Young participant Philip Keppel played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes, and the crowd joined in singing the hymn together. The day concluded with a deacon's blessing of everyone who was present.Scheidler described how the crowds were joy-filled and well organized. A shuttle bus operation ran from a nearby Church in order to prevent people's cars from clogging up the parking lots of surrounding stores, and a crew of rally captains directed people to their positions.Scheidler told LifeSiteNews.com, "From the police on down to the reporters there was great appreciation for how well organized the event was, and the mood of the crowd was just invigoratingly enthusiastic. People were so pumped. Many people told me that it was the most exciting rally that they'd been to."He said, "People left there just filled with blessing. There was grace in the air that day. It was everything we'd hoped for and went way beyond that. It was really wonderful."The Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League launched a full force campaign to stop the Planned Parenthood center from opening ever since it was discovered that the building was going to be a large-scale abortion clinic. Pro-lifers enthusiastically undertook an intense, "40 Days for Life" prayer campaign, a 24-hour/7days a week prayer, fasting and vigil before the abortion site, begging God to keep it from opening.Tomorrow at 6 p.m. pro-lifers are requested to come to the Aurora City Hall and voice their opinions. The council holds semi-monthly meetings that the public is free to attend. At the end of each meeting, there is an open comment time. Calling on pro-lifers to pack City Hall this Tuesday, Scheidler said, "We need to keep the City Council of Aurora up late Tuesday night, listening to the many reasons that we do not want Planned Parenthood to set up shop here in Aurora.""I'm counting on dozens of pro-lifers to do MORE than just show up Tuesday, but to address the City Council for three minutes and demand a formal investigation into fraud by Planned Parenthood, and the impact their presence would have on the community."To contact the City Clerk to speak:phone: (630) 844-3615Location:City Hall44 East Downer Place2nd Floor City Council ChambersTime: Tuesday August 28th at 6:00 p.m.Information about participation in the 24-hour prayer vigil outside the Aurora abortion clinic is available at: http://familiesagainstplannedparenthood.org/View Slideshow of rally event:http://generationsforlife.org/2007/0827/huge-pro-life-turnou...
Read previous LifeSiteNews coverage:Chicago Pro-Lifers Launch Massive Effort to Stop New Abortion Clinic from Opening - 40 Day Vigilhttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081801.htmlLargest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicagohttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082209.html
 

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I was at the fair volunteering in the Concerned Oregonians booth. I was collecting signatures for a referendum to put two bills on the ballot. Those bills were for homosexual unions and rights. And we were against it.Anyhow, to get on topic. Directly behind our booth was the Planned Parenthood booth. And I walked up to it and a teenage girl. Probably younger than I am, told me, "We believe women have a right to control their parenthood." And I replied, "I believe babies have a right to live."Yeah,... it was worth it.
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I was at the fair volunteering in the Concerned Oregonians booth. I was collecting signatures for a referendum to put two bills on the ballot. Those bills were for homosexual unions and rights. And we were against it.Anyhow, to get on topic. Directly behind our booth was the Planned Parenthood booth. And I walked up to it and a teenage girl. Probably younger than I am, told me, "We believe women have a right to control their parenthood." And I replied, "I believe babies have a right to live."Yeah,... it was worth it.
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No Doubt!!!
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Some of them are proud they murdered their babies and have T-shirts to display their pride!!!:eek:
 

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I was at the fair volunteering in the Concerned Oregonians booth. I was collecting signatures for a referendum to put two bills on the ballot. Those bills were for homosexual unions and rights. And we were against it.Anyhow, to get on topic. Directly behind our booth was the Planned Parenthood booth. And I walked up to it and a teenage girl. Probably younger than I am, told me, "We believe women have a right to control their parenthood." And I replied, "I believe babies have a right to live."Yeah,... it was worth it.
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Some of them are proud they murdered their babies and have T-shirts to display their pride!!!:eek:Which is really sad...Everyone has a right to live. Nobody, (in God's eyes) have a right to murder anyone, even the babies. I think, they don't care about their own soul or anybody's soul.Wakka what did she say after you told her And I replied, "I believe babies have a right to live."Lovest thou in Christ Jesus (Yahshua) our Lord and Saviour.