The Molech worshipers of ancient times used to put their children for sacrifice into a red-hot statue of Molech that was heated by fire. While the children died they beat drums to drown out their cries. These women having abortions today might as well take drummers along to their abortions and at the time sing a few joyful songs. Its no wonder that Yahweh tells us in Scripture He's angry at this wicked generation.
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First of all
Fetus != Child
And that is an example of the evils of RELIGION, not the evils of abortion. Those people weren't making a rational decision to terminate a pregnancy because of any real life inability to raise the child. No, they were offering up their children to appease a diety.
Not the same thing.
"The Molech worshipers of ancient times used to put their children for sacrifice into a red-hot statue of Molech that was heated by fire. While the children died they beat drums to drown out their cries."
So the Molech worshiping civilisation only lasted for one generation?
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
Last time I checked the bible didn´t mention anything about our generation in the 21st century.
The old testament has, however, a lot to say about killing children.As Narwhaleman mention, there there are a lot of passages where god orders to kill children (of israels enemies).
Abortion is (probably) always the lesser of two evils. Not at all a reason to sing a few joyful songs. Nobody is HAPPY to have an abortion.
Here in Sweden, if the pregnancy is more than 12 weeks you have to go to councelling before the abortion. Not to be persuaded to abstain, but because it's recognized that this is a very hard decission, that will weigh heavy on anyone with normal feelings. The councelling will help you make the best possible decission, based on your circumstances.
The only way I can see this as a defensible practice in the long run, is IF those children given to the fire were defective. After all, as late as Roman times, it was an accepted practice to abandon malformed newborns beyond the city gate.
yahweh's angry all right -- he hates the fact that healthy humanity is depriving him of the company of his own defective kind.
Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Is this the reason why Yahweh is pissed off? No blood sacrifice in his name?
[Its no wonder that Yahweh tells us in Scripture He's angry at this wicked generation.]
Yep. It seems God misses the days when we would kill them with more sadistic methods, like bashing their heads against rocks (Psalms 137:9), or disemboweling pregnant women with the sword (Hosea 13:16).
But you do have a point. A fetus in the womb is still a sacred life and therefore should be treated as such. Unless of course the mother is athiest. God made it very clear through Moses what should happen then! (Numbers 31)
The Bible says sacrificing to Molech is forbidden. Where does it forbid abortion? The story of the red-hot statue was made up out of thin air by medieval rabbis. They had no idea what the sacrifice, if there was one, actually involved. The Bible never describes it. Archaeologists have found ritually burned children and animals in some parts of the Mediterranean world, but whether they were sacrifices to Molech or even sacrifices at all, as opposed to cremations of the already-dead, is unknown.
Because clumps of non-sentient cells are the same as born babies, and abortion is a ritual sacrifice to appease (a) god(s).
Also, just curious, what is your source?
When I got my abortion
-- Amanda Palmer
Oh, I remember that fable. It's one of those where yahweh was so angry about another tribe sacrificing some of their children that he commanded the jews to go and kill everyone in that tribe - including said children. Yep, brillant way to save the kidlets.
But, seriously, we all know that child sacrifice is wrong. I mean it's not like god would allow his own son to be sacrificed ... oh, wait. Never mind.
Book of Revelation:
Last verse...
22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Oh, and you fucks in 2009 are totally screwed...
I know it's not there, but wouldn't that be fun?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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