Any modern-day religious leaders thinking they are doing God a service by blessing what he hates are as good as an example as any of rank apostasy and moral depravity in our churches.

A new religious development to be aware of:

The headline goes like this: “Priests hold ceremony to bless child offerings to Moloch, Baal and other deities.” The story in part says this: “Liberal priests have taken to ‘blessing’ child sacrifice sites to signal support for those who choose to offer their babies as sacrifices to pagan gods.”

The story continues: “Various leaders of an interfaith group burned incense as part of a ‘ritual blessing’ in order ‘to show that religion could be a source of support for child sacrifice rights’.…Religious leaders run what is called the Religious Community for Child Sacrifice Choice (RCCSC). The organization aims ‘to end religious stigma around infant sacrifice.’

“A spokeswoman for RCCSC said it is ‘a multifaith, intersectional, and antiracist movement for pagans offering freedom and dignity.…We reject the shame and stigma that religious conservatives have long attached to sex, sexuality and reproduction and child sacrifice.’”

Actual Story

OK, perhaps by now you might have gathered that all of the above is something I just made up—but only ever so slightly. It is actually a very true—and very diabolical—story. Except it centres around liberal religious folks blessing abortion clinics that was just reported on.

Part of the actual story goes like this:

Liberal pastors have taken to “blessing” abortion clinics to signal support for women who choose to abort their babies according to a Friday report from The New York Times. At an abortion clinic in Maryland, a Presbyterian pastor, Baptist minister and Jewish cantor burned incense as part of a “ritual blessing” in order “to show that religion could be a source of support for abortion rights,” according to the New York Times. The women wanted to counter religious opposition to the procedure….

“You all are blessings to those who come to you for care during some of their most vulnerable and sometimes painful moments,” Rev. Katey Zeh, an ordained Baptist minister, told the abortion clinic staff. Zeh leads the “blessings” at abortion clinics through an organization she runs called the Religious Community for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), the NYT wrote. The organization aims “to end religious stigma around abortion.”

“RCRC is a multifaith, intersectional, and antiracist movement for reproductive freedom and dignity,” the group’s website states. “We reject the shame and stigma that religious conservatives have long attached to sex, sexuality and reproduction.”

Hundreds of abortions have already been performed in the year-old Women’s Health Center of Maryland clinic, which serves many residents from nearby West Virginia which outlawed abortion in 2022, according to the NYT. “God will forgive me for my decision,” one woman reportedly wrote in a community notebook in the clinic’s recovery room.

So there you have it folks. God is supposedly now in the business of blessing those who kill the very lives he has created. God’s name and reputation is being maligned with the murder of unborn babies, and the sexual revolution that goes with the abortion culture.

One can see how what is happening today has clear historical overtones. Indeed, two decades ago I wrote on the obvious parallels about what the Bible describes as a heinous sin—child sacrifice—and modern day sacrament of abortion. Here is part of what I wrote back then:

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