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35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
The name "Molech," later corrupted into "Moloch," is an intentional mispointing of "Melek," after the analogy of "bosheth" (comp. Hoffmann in Stade's "Zeitschrift," iii. 124). As to the rites which the worshipers of Molech performed, it has sometimes been inferred, from the phrase "pass through the fire to Molech," that children were made to pass between two lines of fire as a kind of consecration or februation; but it is clear from Isa. lvii. 5 and Jer. xix. 5 that the children were killed and burned. The whole point of the offering consisted, therefore, in the fact that it was a human sacrifice. From Jer. vii. 31 and Ezek. xx. 25, 26, it is evident that both prophets regarded these human sacrifices as extraordinary offerings to Yhwh. Jeremiah declares that Yhwh had not commanded them, while Ezekiel says Yhwh polluted the Israelites in their offerings by permitting them to sacrifice their first-born, so that through chastisement they might know that Yhwh was Yhwh. The fact, therefore, now generally accepted by critical scholars, is that in the last days of the kingdom human sacrifices were offered to Yhwh as King or Counselor of the nation and that the Prophets disapproved of it and denounced it because it was introduced from outside as an imitation of a heathen cult and because of its barbarity. In course of time the pointing of "Melek" was changed to "Molech" to still further stigmatize the rites.
In the debate over abortion, one aspect that receives little attention is the question, What happens to the bodies of babies who are aborted? When a woman walks away from an abortion clinic, she leaves behind the dead body of her pre-born baby. The abortion clinic must dispose of the body. Legally, abortionists must treat aborted fetuses as medical waste. This is regulated by the California health and safety code. The code is specific as to how aborted fetuses, under 20 weeks, are to be disposed. Code section 7054.3 cites "a recognizable dead human fetus of less than 20 weeks uterogestation not disposed of by internment shall be disposed of by incineration".
From 1995 to 2000 the U.S. Congress repeatedly passed, but President Bill Clinton vetoed, a bill that would ban a rare late-term method of abortion called by its critics “partial-birth abortion.” Subsequent attempts by many U.S. states to ban this method were contested in the courts, and in 2000 the Supreme Court voided such laws that do not include an exception when the health of the mother is endangered. A federal bill banning banning the procedure was passed again in 2003 and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The law was quickly challenged in the courts, and a federal judge declared it unconstitutional in 2004 in part because of its lack of a health exception, but the Supreme Court, with two new conservative members appointed by President Bush, upheld the law in 2007. U.S. opponents of abortion have used more militant tactics at times in attempts to disrupt the operations of facilities that perform abortions, and some extremists have resorted to bombings and assassination. In India, the abortion of female fetuses by couples desiring a male child led (1994) to criminal penalties for prenatal testing when done solely to determine the sex of the fetus; such tests have been banned in parts of China for the same reason.
Abortion
15 May 2005: there is a big mass-murder forgoten in your lists: abortion
it's now 50 million killed a year, let's take 25 as a mean throughout the century, that makes 2.500.000.000 killed for the complete century.
You may think that there weren't real people being killed, but then again, neither the nazis thought the jews were humans, nor Apartheid with blacks, nor communists with capitalists.
If you don't think so maybe a sidenote would be enough, maybe then when the "moral standard" increase in the future they will have the numbers to judge us.
Originally posted by Nineteen
If the soul of a person leaves the body at death with the last exhalation of breath, when do you think the soul enters the body?
Each female is born with their full complement of ova of which at most 20 may reach fruition as a live birth, although as a median more likely 2 or 3 - do you think that the woman is responsible for murder when she menstruates?
Originally posted by kerrichin
ok so if the woman keeps this child then weres the father does he not have a right to look after this child, why is it always the woman why should she suffer while he goes on as normal.
28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
It is my belief that the soul enters the body at the same time life begins; at the moment of conception.
I hate abortion. It is murder of the innocents.
And for those who can't believe in the concept of a soul, consider this. We have aborted the generation that would have saved social security. We have aborted the doctor who would have found the cure for Lou Gerhig's Disease. We have aborted the mathmatician who would have worked out the formula that would have allowed us to work out the mechanics of faster than light travel.
And these were not done for the health of the mother. It was done for convience and birth control.
God's wrath and judgement are soon to come......
Originally posted by whaaa
God's wrath and judgement are soon to come......
Helios, Pretending to know the mind of God is a very dangerous undertaking.
And I don't need your help in telling ME what to think or do or believe.
Mind your own business is my advice.
[edit on 12-12-2008 by whaaa]
Originally posted by heliosprime
Originally posted by whaaa
God's wrath and judgement are soon to come......
Helios, Pretending to know the mind of God is a very dangerous undertaking.
And I don't need your help in telling ME what to think or do or believe.
Mind your own business is my advice.
[edit on 12-12-2008 by whaaa]
How about the several books of the bible all saying God's wrath is to come at the end-of-time? Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Revelations, Mathew, Mark, Luke, etc, etc, etc.....God has told us many times what is on HIS mind. How to DO his will.............
I am not telling YOu of anyone else WHAT to think or DO, Only what God says to DO and how to think............pretty much that is the whole idea of the bible........it's your choice to ignore HIM........
Originally posted by heliosprime
How about the several books of the bible all saying God's wrath is to come at the end-of-time? Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Revelations, Mathew, Mark, Luke, etc, etc, etc.....God has told us many times what is on HIS mind. How to DO his will.............
We have also aborted Murderers, Rapists, Thieves, Child Molesters etc.
Originally posted by bigbert81
We have also aborted Murderers, Rapists, Thieves, Child Molesters etc.
A quote that should be repeated; however, I will go one step further. A belief in psychology is that childhood stress helps lead to mental disorders, and extreme childhood stress is a precursor to Antisocial Personality Disorder (Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Gacy, Manson, the worst of the worst), so to force millions of people to have children they cannot support or plain old don't want is a welcome mat for more societal problems.
See, pro-lifers only always consider the QUANTITY of life and not the QUALITY of life. There are over 3 million abortions PER YEAR in the U.S. alone, while only between 1 and 2 million people waiting to adopt, so how long would it take before we have a mass orphanage problem on our hands? Compare it with the overpopulated prison population of which there are only 3 million people.
Forcing people to have children they don't want or cannot support would cause all kinds of problems, and adoption obviously is only a VERY temporary fix, but the pro-lifers out there, once again don't consider any of this, only quantity.